Crime & Punishment

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This one was fun but probably not good reading. Sorry about that.

Lowsec kill: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=20451957

I jump into the system, hit d-scan and spot a Kestrel in a plex. Not much else is going on here so I warp to the plex, activate the gate and land...just in time to see him warp to another site. Well, at least he wasn’t cloaked so let’s see if I can play some games with him. I give chase but he is just bouncing straight back to the first plex. So, of course, I follow and manage to scram him before he warps out.

He loses my scram on a slingshot (or should that be a reverse slingshot?) and warps away. Good move. And local informs me that he doesn’t really want a round 2. Oh well, it was my own fault for not watching his ship closely enough. I try a couple of neighbouring systems but nothing doing so I start to head home.

Jump, d-scan, Kestrel in a plex and not much else going on in the system. I warp to the plex, activate the gate and land…just in time to scram him! This time I watch closely and am ready for the slingshot. I overheat my afterburner and manage to keep him at optimal until he melts.

GF? The silence in local says otherwise but catching him after all that was very satisfying!

I remain yet to be entertained, please remedy this.

I approve! Death to cowardly plexers who dont want to fight!

<3

Time to update some market orders. Oh joy. Charges at 250, projectiles at 400, charges at 475, missiles at 700, rockets at 95, charges at 150, Adaptive Nano Plating II at 650, go away stupid warning message, oops. There should have been a few zeros on the end of that one.

2b gone in the blink of an eye. Filled almost all the buy orders in Jita. Oh well, enjoy everybody!

Its pretty funny, really. You get quite a lot of cloaky warp core stabbed ventures in FW these days.

The land of hardcore low-sec pvpers indeed.

Lowsec kill: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=20517548

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMzRCcNq27A

I warped into the plex and saw the Rifter sitting at 60 off the beacon. I bet he is spying on my shapely rails. And that’s fine because I recognise Crake from this thread and I like the things he said. So of course I really want to fight him.

He warps away. I bet he is going to change his fit to deal with my rails. So I warp to the station to quickly slip into some blasters. On the way, I start to think. Maybe he KNOWS that I am going to refit and will be waiting for me with a kiting fit. So maybe I shouldn’t change after all. But maybe he knows I’m thinking about being clever and will be ready for my rails.

Now I’m confused. So I refit into blasters anyway. Stupid brain.

I warp back to the site and there he is! But by the time I land there’s a blob on the short scan (ugh, how boring) so we both warp to safes. And back to the plex now that they have gone.

Web, approach, melt, melt, better scram now. But I am melting too… That’s just not right against a Rifter these days. Repair! Faster, dammit! Why the hell aren’t I hitting him harder? Oh, maybe I'm too close and not tracking? Probably due to my poor skills.

It’s nice to have worked that out but it is too late to do anything about it now since I’m already well into structure. So I align to a random celestial in preparation to save my pod. And… pop. But not me! Ironically, aligning away allowed my guns to track better as he chased. And so he popped.

Good fight and a nice chat afterwards. Props to Crake Gaterau. And CCP, please give the Rifter a small buff.

An Incursus! Let’s fight! What else?

Lowsec kill: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=20535476

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N91spXLRgs

This character has a strong killboard history. Just too bad she was trying out a double rep Incursus when I had my gank Ion fit on (I can’t do a proper Neutron gank fit yet). Gank over tank every time!

This was a very straightforward fight: land on the beacon, scram and web, blasty time. Uh huh, double reps I think. Just a matter of time. I really like watching the damage being applied to an active tank fit. The reps peak just a bit lower every time until the hull starts going down. And then, all of a sudden, pop!

Edit: this fight was before the local repair buff in Odyssey 1.1. Double rep fits are considerably stronger now (OP?)

But gf anyway and a nice chat afterwards. When I saw her in station I traded her loot back. Convo (accepted of course) and I learn that she has principles! My loot, fairly earned.

I give loot back quite often. I really don’t need the isk and I appreciate a good fight. I figure it is good to encourage people to keep coming back. This time we shared fits instead (much more valuable) and I flew away with a nice Tristan fit ready for when I get my drone skills up.

Props to Thorin Matarielle. GF.

I remember that fight. It was one of those where both ships were hanging on to a sliver of structure and no matter the end, it was well worth the experience. Keep bringing those good fights

A Condor somewhere in system. I hate Condors.

Lowsec kill: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=20535477

Let’s warp to the novice plex and see if he wants to play. I doubt it - Condors don’t tend to join an Incursus in a plex too often. But this time the Condor suffers from very unfortunate timing and lands on the plex at exactly the same time I do. Ha! Tackled and webbed, the fragile kiting Condor just fell apart. Good stuff.

“GF, unlucky timing”, I say in local. No response. How rude. I will enjoy your loot.