Crime & Punishment

Hey guys!

Before I start explaining my situation I want you guys to know that this is not a whining thread but a true attempt to understand the reasoning behind some ganks.

So, I outfitted my venture for some gas harvesting (without the actual gas harvesters) and was just moving my ship to another location in order to actually get those gas harvesters. I broke rule #1: I pressed autopilot. Sure enough i saw myself in a pod (which somehow reached my destination). The whole route was high sec which meant I was suicide ganked . Losing a venture was no biggie...if anything it made me more aware but the situation was comical to me (I mean, who would suicide gank a venture which barely had 3mill in fitting?). To be fair though, I was embarassed by losing a venture under these circumstances, I broke the rule, and I deserved that loss. However, I decided to find this guy and see how he works maybe even get back at him . I saw exactly how he did his ganks (witnessed one actually when stalking him). Classic gank, nothing to it. He used a thrasher, warped to gate, locked a victim, volley -> kill, then Concord comes in and destroys him. His alt comes in, salvages and loots everything. His victim was a reaper this time.....i mean..cmon. Can anyone explain the logic behind killing a reaper (it makes less sense than killing a venture lol). Does the amount of fun you get killing a reaper or a venture outweighs the loss in standing + a thrasher? I just dont see it. Do pirates usually do that ? Wouldn't it be more fun killing a nice iteron mark V with good loot?
If its just for fun, then why would you even salvage the wrecks? Again, I understand if its a newly made character and for him any profit is good profit, but this was a 2010 char.

If I am missing some obvious benefit out of this, please point me in the right direction! Maybe I will start doing it as well.
Sorry for rambling a bit, the whole situation just baffles me really .

Some people move dozens of plex in these...

yes, this is exacly why in low, we try to kill everything even the pods, often it is barely worth 1 trit, but sometimes, behind the poor impairor, is a 2B full slave pod, or a bunch of plex / officier mods in the cargo....

It's a community service, just like the time I found some criminal sitting at zero on a highsec anom, criminal, in his pod.

I'm guessing he was tabbed out trying to figure out why smartbombing someone else's wrecks had gotten him concorded, but yeah.

It's a teaching moment. The loot and killmail is purely a tertiary benefit of our job cramming wisdom into the skulls of the unenlightened. Most important is the sense of well-being at helping those in need, and of course, the juicy payments of tears.

yeah, already did that a few time, and once, i saw a big bounty(not usual, cause let's face it, most of those are just scouts with no cargo no implants), and he was autopiloting AFK in low sec, in a shuttle, with a 2b+ pod.

lucky me

Batman?

There are a couple gankers that specialize in frigs and pods and they just do that all day. They don't particularly care if it's a good hit, although they're pleased when it is, but they just love the work.