Crime & Punishment

I was complaining a while back, gilas, tengus and cynabals doing angel refuges in highsec fit to murder them as fast as possible. I can't compete in a destroyer. These sites aren't worth it for that kind of ship.


So I made a topic asking for advice on how to kill them.

Well anyways now in the future I took a catalyst with polarized guns and tried to kill a gila, because you can't wardec an NPC corp. Let's just say I didn't even take 1/10 of his shields off because he had a huge buffer.

The only thing he looted was the 4 polarized guns, figures he is Russian after all.

Maybe I should just quit EVE. I go after scammers and farmers attempting to gank them and just end up giving them ISK because this happened the last time I attempted to gank a killright scammer without activating the killright. I just ended up giving him a 15 mill killright.

It's high security space. It is very easy to make yourself nearly impossible to kill, to say nothing of the scammers and other trade hub denizens with their almighty station tank.

You are not going to be able to kill a risk-averse farmer in a buffer tanked cruiser without devoting massive resources to the task, or being extremely creative. You would need multiple players or alts in Tornados or thrashers firing into his resist hole in a .5 system, or you'd need to stalk him relentlessly until he gets a valuable escalation, follow him in and see if stealing his deadspace loot is enough to make him aggress you. Whilst having a solid plan in place to take down a buffer tanked Gila dishing out 600 DPS from medium drones alone.

Awesome killmails don't happen every day, nor should they. Patience, creativity, effort, and some luck is required. Participate in regular low/nullsec gate camps and a sufficient dose of patience and luck will suffice.

The desired safety level of highsec is hotly debated here but my own opinion is that you should be able to make yourself nigh impossible and extremely unprofitable to gank, and also immune to wardecs. If you find that state of affairs unsatisfactory, leave highsec. A Galmil corp I fly with on a regular basis frequently catches multi-billlion ISK targets while gatecamping in frigates or T3 dessies. Expecting to solo gank everything you can't wardec or bait in highsec is not realistic.

TL;DR version:
WAH C&P I AM BAD WAH EVE IS HARD WAH I QUIT EVE WAH I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WAH

Wait!

Do you have any of those polarized guns left? Don't hesitate to send them my way first. Along with everything else.

Its all risk reward for them. High sec sites have a very low payout

Sounds like you need to learn the game a little more before giving up.

I imagine if you jet around highsec running dozens every day you can make a dime or two off the ones that escalate to 3 and 4/10s. I've thought about trying it in something fast and hard hitting like a cynabal, but popping legions of low payout frigates and destroyers gets boring really fast.

You did good trying to gank a Gila.

You did bad by trying to gank it alone........

Next time......bring friends....:)

Also, with friends you don't need polarized guns....bring enough friends and you don't even need t2 guns...;)

The question should really be: 'where is the reward?'

Hisec isk is ass outside of incursions, and the risk there is the possibility of developing a mental illness from chronic boredom


The risk is where the reward is, in low and null.

Can i have your stuff? (Isn't that the appropriate "quit " response?