Crime & Punishment

urge to troll is strong, soo strong.

however i will give you a pointer <------read all of those

this is where having put in hundreds of hours scanning down care bears to screw with comes in handy

Don't shy away from a good troll m8...could always use a laugh even at my expence :)


Thanks for the link tough, completely forgot about Feyds blog

Wink to you 2 ;)

Thank you v much for your effort in making a constructive post .

I will cheerish this information bestowed uppon me

May the mother of the blesed ( what ever you like -- insert here ) offer you a good day :)

My shortlist is sebo, longpoint (I tend to wear a fednavy scam), and a neut or two if I don't have one fit.

This one in particular should be of particular interest to OP.

Developing a quality target list was always the biggest challenge, the rest is a repeatable-process of murders. You can go Marmite-style and just wardec half of EvE, but that can be...expensive...

For CEO's without a wardec warchest you will want to scout for potential targets by parking on egress points into the trade and level-4 mission hubs looking for dudes in loot-piniata's. Whenever a dude in a marauder, T3 or battleship goes by, examine his corp/alliance -- how old they are, number of members, and killboard for where they operate.

Merc's are also a pretty promiscuous lot, they examine other well-known mercs past war histories for good targets to harvest additional kills from.

I..did not say these things...I...was never here.

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Looks like I got to this thread a little late and most of the good stuff is covered by these fine respectable gentlemen.

I've just actually decided to take a break from the merc stuff for awhile to play with some other friends, but I've been doing it for awhile. On that note, when you are having trouble finding a target in a system this is generally my approach.

1. Double check the stations using your scout. I always bring up my agent finder ingame and check to see if there is a lvl 4 agent in the system and check that station first. then move on to lvl 3 stations. This is especially helpful when you get systems with 6-7 stations.
2. You should be D-scanning constantly incase you manage to find the idiot in a self named ship while your looking through stations
3. While doing 1. and 2. I open the map on my hunter and check the area and where connecting gates lead (if I don't know the area well). I am also checking where the closest lvl 4 mission agent is if its not inside the system the target is in. This process is to determine where he will most likely go if he happens to jump out of system while you are searching for him. Often you can loop around through a few systems to get in the path of where you think he will go.
4. Assuming he is not in a station, you want to know what hes most likely flying. Do a quick killboard search if you haven't already. I tend to do this on my way to the target though. I often find some useful info on what the target is most likely flying. For example if hes only got kills or deaths in Gallente and Caldari ships you start scanning for those first.
5. Probes baby. If you think hes missioning there, go and park your alt outside the lvl 4 station. He might just come back while your probing. Start the probing process and if you can multitask enough start noting the names of other peoples ships coming and going so you can quickly filter those out.
6. Pretending we have found one in a mission, I always warp my scout (cloaky probe Proteus) in at range. Sometimes you land on a gate but sometimes you land directly in the mission. If your going for warpins ensure you watch out for LCO's that may not be on your overview to decloak you. As it's been suggested already, sometimes its best to wait, sometimes not. I've had plenty of instances where waiting has meant the target docking and logging after finishing that mission (bad timing FTL) but also plenty where rushing in from bad positions gives them enough time to get out.

Overall just keep experimenting. You'll learn just through repetition what you should be looking for, which targets are alert, use scouts etc and get a feel for things. Remember to be friendly and professional. I've had numerous targets come back to hire us later simply because they appreciated the way we've interacted with them.

GL and fly dangerously!

Haha I'm going to 0.0 shortly. I've had an alt out there for 2 months now and we've been getting some great fights. I really want to brush up on my FC abilities and try out some nullsec hunting, but I fully instead to keep a jump clone down near lowsec so I can go out on roams with FA/Marmite groups and do some lowsec pvp too.

I'll always love merc stuff, but I find I need to switch main activities every year or two and seek a new challenge, and while I've been doing that with alts, I really wanted to bring Sahriah out to utilize her skill points properly. I'm really going to miss talking to clients and targets though.

I'm sure I'll run into you sometime ;)