Crime & Punishment

Start here.

High-sec pirating is a pretty loose description of what you want to do, can you be more specific?

If you have the patience, the real booty is in ganking T1 haulers, I would start with miners so you can keep it really cheap and engaging until you get a stronger understanding of the mechanics. Also, ganking T1 haulers requires multiple accounts and/or friends.

Ransoming in high-sec requires baiting someone into attacking you, ask Ralph and/or read Feyd's blog. You can also get creative.

You can still try to trick them with tactics like inviting them to a duel and hoping they are stupid or click the wrong button, but yes suicide ganking gives you more control over your targets assuming you don't mind losing your ship and is more the norm now.

Yes we just kill them before CONCORD kills us. Also freighters, it's a lot of fun.

Check the ganking section on the minerbumping site for more information about how to do it (We also have a ship replacement program), and this for CONCORD response times. Check our killboard for the latest fits

Being a highsec pirate generally boils down to a few different play styles.


Wardecs, Declaring war on another corp, allowing you fire freely on them without CONCORD

Ganking, Ganking is applying enough DPS to a ship that generally has low EHP, (Mining barges and T1 Haulers) before CONCORD

Suspect Baiting, making yourself suspect and allowing people to shoot at you to get a limited engagement timer with them, then allowing your timer to run in a away that you can kill one our two targets without other people intervening.


Mission loot theft, can flipping, scanning down a missioners room, and taking a vital part of the missioners loot, usually a gate key or such, this will make you suspect, but since its just and the mission runner, you don't have to worry about all of local. If mission runner shoot at you in his leet battleship, you can now either quickly run to a station and switch ships. Or B, take him on right there. Usually done with assault frigs and such,

Don't can-flip mission loot, just steal it. IIRC if you drop a can while having a suspect flag the can is marked as abandoned (blue) by the game, which means anybody can take from it without being flagged for combat.*

Offer to sell them the loot back, for a small handling charge or if your mark takes a potshot at you, kick their arse.

*Someone correct this if it's wrong, I haven't can-flipped anybody since crimewatch 2.0 changed the mechanic.

Thank heavens no one ever told me that. I could have saved a lot of iskies.

If you want any moar info about solo pirating in high sec, and cant find anything else, then drop me a line.

oh hi der.

Op.

My advice is read the blog.
specifically this post.

Not to fob you off but everything you need to start flipping bears is in there,
I frequently refferance it.

The only thing needs saying is you will need to be patient, about 1 in 8 ish will agrees (sometimes none though)

great fun if you're looking for combat probing experience, which is never a bad thing.

Theirs something magical about it when you hit their hull and they ask for a random,
you know it's going to be an expensive loss.



Feel free to open a chat if you see me online if you have any questions.

While the above info is good, it seems they have forgotten one classic method of piracy, to wit, infiltration/awoxing.

Even with the changes coming in the February patch (corp safety switch), given the usual lack of intelligence in most hisec (and sometimes low/null) corps/alliances sneaking in and making off with the swag (or ransoming their shiny Orca at the weekly corp mining op....) is still completely viable.

Also, remember to save the chat logs, especially if they give you director roles in under 30 minutes.

There are pirates in high-sec?