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Astrid Stjerna
Sebiestor Tribe
#21 - 2011-11-28 15:58:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Astrid Stjerna
Velicitia wrote:

if it's at a gate ... i'll usually go for some other ratio (60/40 or so, whatever's really easy to come up with) so I'm not out quite so much if they do decide to pod me after getting the iskies...


I just had a Farscape moment:

Quote:
John: Yeah, well I don't! (the Vorcarians go silent again) Not my own. How good are you two? 'Cos I might be willing to cut you in. You help me capture the prisoners and I'll split the bounty. 70/30.

Rorf: (lunging towards John, weapon drawn) 70...40.

John: (without batting an eye) 80/40. You in or out? (Rorf grunts)


-- John Crichton discovers that alien bounty hunters can't count.

I can't get rid of my darn signature!  Oh, wait....
Toshiro GreyHawk
#22 - 2011-11-29 03:41:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Toshiro GreyHawk
Sir Substance wrote:
Quinnie Huang wrote:
Titania Hrothgar wrote:
I have never been offered a ransom. Every time I've ran into a pirate or gate camp it's been shoot to kill. At times they even destroyed my pod. I came to the conclusion that pirates aren't the most chatty bunch.


Actually, the non-chatty ones don't even consider themselves pirates. It's true.


I think you are trying to be sarcastic, but thats not an unfair point. Proper pirates in eve are people who make their money from low sec PvP. You can't make much from module drops, since most people dont bring blingships into low sec.

Thus, real pirates will ransom at every opportunity, because they need the isk.



Which is of course - the best reason for not paying ransoms.

If you're in a situation where pirates could hold you for ransom then you are in a contest with the pirates. If you can blow them up or get away - you win.

If they catch you - they won.

Suck it up - lose your ship and get podded - and try not to let it happen again. Getting blown up and podded - is part and parcel of playing EVE. People get blown up and podded all the time. It's not like it's going to be the end of the world if that happens to you. All that will happen - is that you'll lose some fictional money and end up in your clone. If you're losing RL money because you funded your operations with plex ... well then ... that's what happens when you do that ...

Paying them the ransom just helps keep them in business. If people don't pay ransoms - then pirates have to support themselves some other way - and while they're doing that - they just might not be spending their time being pirates.

Paying ransoms encourages piracy - so the real problem here (for non-pirates) - isn't the pirates - it's the people who pay them ransoms.

If you can't afford to lose your ship - then THAT is your first mistake. You shouldn't be flying something you can't afford to lose. After all - the guy who catches you might not have any interest in ransoms and may just blow you up for the hell of it ... whether you pay him a ransom or not.

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