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When was the last time you were held for ransom?
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Ihrodir Commerciante
LootDepot
#1 - 2013-10-08 11:08:59 UTC
So it seems to me that piracy in eve has gone rampant, i don't oft hear of people being ransomed anymore, and I see more -10's than ever before..

So here's a question in regards to all that:
When was the last time you were ransomed and NOT destroyed once the ransom was payed, either in null or lowsec?
gobbybobby
Negative-Impact
#2 - 2013-10-08 11:13:37 UTC
never, and I have lived in null for years,
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#3 - 2013-10-08 11:43:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Seven Koskanaiken
When in eve uni I was pod ransomed in lowsec, it wasn't a real ransom though coz he let me go without paying at all lol. I came back in another ship and we has some practice pvp.

The last time I attempted to ransom someone was when I was in a merc corp a few months ago, he was noob so it was a silly ransom like a million isk, he didn't understand what was going on though so I just blew him up. I would have honoured it if he had a clue.

I think ransoms are called permits now. And pirates are now just glorified traffic wardens. Sigh.
Ka'Narlist
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#4 - 2013-10-08 11:44:16 UTC
Ihrodir Commerciante wrote:
once the ransom was payed

lol
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#5 - 2013-10-08 11:49:29 UTC
2 weeks after I started playing...

Never happened again...

...
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#6 - 2013-10-08 11:58:37 UTC
Maybe three and a half years ago, walked into low sec with a Raven without realizing what low sec was. Didn't have enough isk to pay the ransom though, so lost the Raven.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-10-08 12:02:41 UTC
gobbybobby wrote:
never, and I have lived in null for years,


This

BoBwins Law: As a discussion/war between two large nullsec entities grows longer, the probability of one comparing the other to BoB aproaches near certainty.
Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#8 - 2013-10-08 12:16:32 UTC
Ihrodir Commerciante wrote:
So it seems to me that piracy in eve has gone rampant, i don't oft hear of people being ransomed anymore, and I see more -10's than ever before..

So here's a question in regards to all that:
When was the last time you were ransomed and NOT destroyed once the ransom was payed, either in null or lowsec?


That was back in December 2011 in Crielere or Rancer.

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l0rd carlos
the king asked me to guard the mountain
#9 - 2013-10-08 12:42:30 UTC
I just ransomed someone today. Got 250m for a pod \o/

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Kery Nysell
#10 - 2013-10-08 12:50:27 UTC
Sometimes back in 2006 ...

The kind of pirates I see these days are "ganker-griefers", that will blow you up for the lulz and the smack talk in local.

Two days ago I was looting a mission in my defenless Noctis, got scanned, scrambled, ganked by a Catalyst, and he got my pod with my (last) full set of +5 implants, never said a word during the action, and only "that was a nice pod" in local afterwards.

Had I had the choice, I would gladly have paid a ransom.

Oh, and all that was in hi sec too, in a mission hub in Lonetrek.

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Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#11 - 2013-10-08 12:54:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Inxentas Ultramar
I have never ever been ransomed. I hear to many people say "...and then I blew him up anyway HURR HURR HURR" so I would imagine the profession is dead, and thus I have never tried ransoming ships or pods myself. Ransoming undefended POS works to some degree though.

EDIT:
I just realized I in fact have been ransomed once but it was my first ship loss ever, and didn't catch on the message in local in time to even respond. I guess the pirate saw I was less then a week old and figured I'd not be able to pay anyway Lol
Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#12 - 2013-10-08 13:00:02 UTC
Ihrodir Commerciante wrote:
So it seems to me that piracy in eve has gone rampant, i don't oft hear of people being ransomed anymore, and I see more -10's than ever before..

So here's a question in regards to all that:
When was the last time you were ransomed and NOT destroyed once the ransom was payed, either in null or lowsec?


Unfortunately I've never had the isk that was demanded for a ransom to test it.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#13 - 2013-10-08 13:03:27 UTC
2007 in npc nul

even back then there was no guarantee that paying the ransom was going to save your ship
so I didn't pay

I didn't lose my ship either.
Johnny Marzetti
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#14 - 2013-10-08 13:06:34 UTC
Truelee the profefsionne hath loste alle honoure.
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#15 - 2013-10-08 13:18:27 UTC
I honor all ransoms if I catch you out in low or null.

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#16 - 2013-10-08 13:23:42 UTC
Ihrodir Commerciante wrote:


When was the last time you were held for ransom?


Teach me how to upload my wedding pictures, that will be your answer.
Maaaaowm Ogeko
Pandemic Horde High Sec Division
#17 - 2013-10-08 13:23:43 UTC
I've never been ransomed on any of my characters. If I am ever ransomed I won't pay. Space money isn't that important to me.
Bischopt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2013-10-08 13:31:18 UTC
My pod has been caught maybe two or three times so that my captors have started a convo and asked for a ransom. Unlucky for them, I never have any expensive implants in my pods so I just tell them to shoot me for the quick trip home.

I've ransomed maybe 3-5 people myself and I never kill them, assuming they pay. One time I killed a pod that I was ransoming because the guy had difficulty paying the agreed sum. Kept sending me too little isk either trying to fool me by sending something or trying to buy time for his backup to arrive. Or maybe he was just too upset to function properly. Either way I gave him a full refund after killing him.
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#19 - 2013-10-08 14:21:57 UTC
Ihrodir Commerciante wrote:
So it seems to me that piracy in eve has gone rampant, i don't oft hear of people being ransomed anymore, and I see more -10's than ever before..

So here's a question in regards to all that:
When was the last time you were ransomed and NOT destroyed once the ransom was payed, either in null or lowsec?



Ransomed a couple times, never payed. Rather read yellow laughs in local because they killed my tralala then loud laughs because they killed my tralala AND scammed isk out of my pockets.

Plus loosing ships and pods it's all what this game is about so, no big deal at all. Pirate

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Metal Icarus
Star Frontiers
Brotherhood of Spacers
#20 - 2013-10-08 14:37:25 UTC
Once in HED-GP 2 years ago.... I lol'd in local and told them to go plug their anal cavity with something sharp.
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