Crime & Punishment

Especially after last night. So last night hoping to take part in a kill before I had to hit the sack came Manna from heaven. A war target enters system. Well get this he is in a Retriever, and goes straight to a belt to mine. Well there was eight of us in system Did the idiot in question even bother to check local. Obviously not. He gets pointed and we wait for everyone to get the chance to join in. Splat goes the barge. He logged so the pod instawarped away. A corpmate scans it down. We all then hop in to rookie ships to add insult to injury to kill the pod. Oh and I finally laid my first final blow. God sometimes I am ashamed of my mining past.

That was probably his first time making that mistake. You've taught him a valuable lesson that he will probably not soon forget that will go on to save many of his future ships.

There is a big difference between stupid and new. New is not yet understanding how the game works and not knowing what actions do and don't get you killed. Stupid has the knowledge and chooses to ignore it. I'm afraid you killed the former.

That being said, we all learn somehow, usually at the receiving end of someone else's volley.

So, maybe *this* miner is slow or a bit dim.

From both sides of the coin, I can say that most miners learn how to avoid being an easy target. It's just that there are SO MANY of them! If the percentages of idiots mining is similar to the rest of the population of EVE, the sheer numbers of miners will mean that the absolute numbers of dummies remains quite high. Same applies to missioneers, haulers, industrialists, etc., too...

I've been working a single 0.5 sec system for about a month - when I log in, most of 'em dock-up. But there are always a few who either think they're tougher than me (and some really are), or just don't know the drill. I've not yet nailed the same one twice, so clearly some miners can learn.

I'm getting an 500 - Internal Server Error message on those - Are they mirrored on EVE-Kill?

Edit: Nevermind - found my way in.

How did you lose your pod + a full set of crystals?

I've heard of some bot scripts that just logout when faced with aggression. Perhaps you killed a botter.

lol so funny.

hey guys ill mine in my crystal set because it helps me tank rats in high sec.

You should really just look at yourself at how stupid you are for mining with a crystal set.

Heh! Truth.

Just popped a Covetor that was AFK in an Ice Anom... Motored about the place looking at targets, most were tanked pretty solid... But this guy? Pop! Was almost ten minutes before he popped up in Local to acknowledge the kill.

Hello? There was a miner in Local spamming solid anti-gank builds... some folks just can't take good advice, I guess.

Implants aren't stupid, but losing your pod in highsec to a gank (excluding smartbombs, limited stock and time offer, exclusions, terms and conditions apply ) is. You were either asleep or AFK if you failed to get your pod out.

But flaming miners for "being stupid" when you've been equally (or more so) yourself is somewhat lawl.

What he said