Crime & Punishment

Yaaaaaarrrr..!

Got the pod this time.



Edit:
And enough loot to buy another fitted Cat!
Oh, plus tears. +1

I'm still learning to do it too:

Catalyst:

Regulation Light Ion Phase Cannon I : 8x
Warp Scramber : 1x
Magnetic Field Stabiliser: 3x
Small Hybrid Collision Accelerater I : 2x
Caldari Navy Antimatter S

310 dps overheated with my skills and only costs around 1.7 million ISK.

It solo killed a retriever and a covetor. I got a friend to equip the same and we almost got a Hulk together, but there is the fact that the Hulk was probably tanked (Weren't smart enough to scan his equipment.), and was on a character who has had enough time to skill up for more EHP.

Aaaand to prove I'm still n00bish at this: Hauling random loot, including my ill-gotten gains from slain barges, I promptly headed for a market hub. The wrong one.

Easy come, easy >BOOM!<


My Hoarder having been gleefully murdered by Faction Police, and all my lootz lost (most of it dropped - someone got lucky!), I need to rebuild... Which should be entertaining. Heh.




Nice! Ambitious and daring. I like your style.

Will need to do a bit of getting my act together, having gotten myself toasted, but yeah, that sounds like a literal blast.

I'm guessing I have a lucky setup when it comes to suicide ganking in that I can null rat easily.

About 15 minutes, because I'm slow and unskilled, nets me 2-4 catalysts worth of ISK; the sec increase from battleships, 0.2% every 5 minutes, is not too bad either. So essentially it's a cycle of

ganking carebears and losing sec + isk -> Carebear ratting for sec + isk -> Repeat

I don't know about how tags for sec works because I've forgotton most of it, but I'm pretty sure you can use it to get back to 0.0 sec status. Might want to look into that - but I don't even know what the prices for the tags are, even.



I only have Therodynamics II as well, but trust me, the longest you're going to live after you start ganking is around ~10 seconds. That's plenty of time. I have 30 less dps than you, and here is what I was able to accomplish:

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=19936876

I don't know whether he had the skills for extra shield + armour + hull, but since he was a relatively new player, I'm assuming not. I find it helpful to check the age of the character as well, but that's probably common sense.

Note that I don't know if this kill was due to if Condord was already spawned in the system.

Short of Tech-II modules I'm not 100% sure; for all tech-II mods if you were trying to fit a scram -and- a sebo, you would need implants. You don't really need the scram; however, yes eventually you will lose a target because he/she was able to warp out. Maybe once every 30 or so, unless you're extremely unlucky. But the pain just to fit both a scram and sebo isn't worth it, unless you plan on doing this for awhile. If you're worried about targets warping away, go for the scram. I always went dual sebo because I'm a pod whore.

Use meta 4 guns/mags. If that's too expensive try meta 3 or 2. Try to avoid anything below meta 2.

With OH your dps should be around 391 with your current fit. A fail fit Retriever has about 9.64k ehp vs therm/kinetic. That would take you 24.6 seconds. However, that's a Retriever with all V skills. As time progresses and you begin going after Exhumers, you're going to want to assume they have all V integrity skills. For fail fit (absolutely no tank) Retrievers, 6-7k ehp is probably more accurate. Stick to 0.5 for now, a "busy" mining system if you could, or a 0.5 system with a decent amount of people so that you could refresh targets and take advantage of slow-Concord. If you get called out in local and have to move around, don't worry about it.



I like your style! Take advantage of that while you can (I miss those days)! If targets begin to warp out more often, you can always try warping into a belt you've D-scanned in a rookie ship, or shuttle or something, BM the rock, or container theyre next to and use that as your warpin. This will take practice, trial and error. Sorry to hear about your loss, did you get my mail?

Thank you!
So long as my reputation hasn't spread, I intend to play 'bumbling and dumb' for all its worth. Just watlzing up to a target under passive seems to work for me very well. I did scare a couple barges out of belts I was investigating just by my very presence. i also managed to loot one of my wrecks right under the nose of another Cat. Made me giggle as he tried locking me up while I warped off with the goods.

I did receive your EVE-mail; i need to do a bit of status repair so I can move my stack out of Jita; Like the n00b ganker I am, I left my stack there without considering the consequences of reduced sec status. The loss of goods isn't that big a deal; they're all replaceable. Just a funny story to tell on myself.

I'm also going to be spending a bit of time bookmarking the hell out of the system I'm operating in (0.5); Turn points above and below the belts, along with target anchors inside the belts themselves. Not dissimilar to what a smart miner would be doing, if there were many smart miners.

You have Contracting trained to level 1, right?

Pay a useful idiot to move your stuff for you. Remember to add a high collateral, and if you are really lucky, you'll never see the goods again.

Ouch 1/2 a billion isks worth of faction strip miners on a 20 million isk hull, nice kill and nice drop by the look of it, hope you had someone grab that for you

These are the sorts of miners I'm quite happy to see in EVE. Nothing bot-aspirant about that.