Crime & Punishment

Hello,


Back in the 2006 ish 2009 ish area you had alot more pirates that tended to reside in low-sec. It was less about killing ships and more about the ransoming. Since then, I have not seen ransoming as much. Mainly for 2 reasons. I went to live full-time in 0.0 and stopped pirating. Plus I feel that people care more about KB stats these days than isk potential. Now I fully admit that there are probably still some outfits out there that ransom but I definitely do not see it as much or hear about it as much.

I have seen it all in Eve. I have done mining, worm holes, 0.0 alliance PvP, FW, and low-sec PvP. Right now I am at a state in the game where if you come into my system of residence or if I see you . I, my alt, or my alliance will over take your ship and put to good use whatever we find. I don't care who you are or what your agenda is. If I see you running sites I will scan you down and take your site. If I see you in anoms, I will stalk you and pounce when you least expect it.

Although I no longer ransom people, live in low-sec, or have a -10 security status. Nor do I gank scrubs in empire. I do consider myself to be more of a pirate and less of a "PvPer". I guess they are one in the same in the grand scheme of things but I feel a PvPer is more of your typical Eve sov veteran that x's up for fleets and follows the masses. There are also the small scale solo pvpers but again I do not classify those types as pirates.

So I must ask, what defines a pirate in Eve-Online in your opinion?

Piracy? This is more the definition of honorable PVP.

What has honoring 1v1 fights, or escorting orcas out of lowsec to do with piracy?

I'd define piracy as attacking other ships with the intend of getting ISK/items from them. Doesn't matter if you do it via ransom or looting their wreckage.
If you just do it for the killmail/tears and the loot is only a nice bonus for you, you're not really a pirate.

Ganking industrials/freighters in highsec for profit is a good example for piracy.

From Websters: Pirate is someone who attacks and steals from a ship at sea (space in this application). Nothing about honor or such. That is up to each pirate. It is the attacking and stealing that defines.


In EVE can really only be practiced in Low or Null. Suicide ganking in High Sec is just terrorism.

You're wrong about suicide ganking in highsec just being terrorism, I've highlighted the part of your own post that proves it to be piracy; although in some instances it could be considered to be an unscrupulous business practice if the suicide gankers are being sponsored by people who produce ships.

I live in low sec, and I consider myself a pirate.

I shoot people for profit,
I shoot people for fun,
I shoot people who don't want to be shot,
I shoot people who do want to be shot,
and I'll occasionally shout "Yarr!!!" in local when doing so. While I haven't found a suitable occasion to be yelling "Avast, ye mateys!" yet, I'm pretty sure that cry will come along at some point.

I rarely accept ransoms (offer too low, I just shoot you, offer too high and i start wondering what you're carrying, so I shoot you...) but when I do I honour them. I don't think honouring ransoms (or any kind of honour, or lack thereof) is a defining characteristic of a pirate though.

My definition of piracy is in line with Mag's.

Basically if you support yourself by way of taking other's things you are a pirate.

Where it is done is irrelevant.

It has nothing to do with honor or how you conduct your business.

"Remember when" is the lowest form of conversation.

Whether or not my opinion matters to you is irrelevant.

That statement is the "proverbial throwing in the towel".

Why even comment if your not interested in the responses?