Crime & Punishment

Well, I found a new way I hadn't been aware of to get my butt blown out of my ship in a speedy fashion. Was wandering at random through hisec and came upon a system that had a bunch of abandoned rookie ships floating around. They didn't have any id, or show any connection to any pilot. The system even asked me if I wanted to board one that was close by. Not thinking to clearly (long day, little sleep), I decided to shoot one. Boom. Hello Concord! Goodbye nice shiny ship I was piloting! Should have seen it coming, but the fact hat the abandoned ships had no player reference threw me - I thought concord would only intervene if you acted against someone else, not abandoned property . Is this a common way to sucker those who aren't thinking straight into getting concorded for salvage? Seems like it might take quite a bit of waiting for somebody who's trigger finger is too itchy...

You were flying a shiny Drake?!?

Did you have your safety on Red? If not did you not notice when it warned you about engaging something you shouldn't?

Red safety is always stupid in highsec unless you are in warp to a gank target.

You just learned an expensive lesson that I learned for free.

Pfff, never not fly with red safety.

You never know when you're going to come across something that simply must explode, and might lose the chance if you have to change safety settings.

Confirmed, red is for naughty people.
And unexpected accidental concord is the best kind of. wtf concord

Red is for silly people (outside intentional suicide ganks).

I'll add one more situation where you might consider red safety in high - you have already committed to a jump into lowsec and have smartbombs fitted. But if your route is Odotte (0.5) - Stegette (0.5) - Ravarin (0.4), you should undock in Odotte with your choice of yellow or green safety, jump to Stegette, then select the Ravarin gate, hit 'jump' and while in warp change to red.

Then if you do get a red card in Ravarin, don't jump back to Stegette without waiting 15 minutes....

It's not an if. If you shoot something in highsec that you need your safety set red to be able to shoot you will get concorded. Subsequently unless you intend to get concorded having your safety set red doesn't help you in any way, it just enables you to kill yourself by pressing the wrong button.

Lowsec hard men often explode hilariously because they insist on having their safety on red for no reason when in highsec. Whenever I find myself dealing with people who normally operate in lowsec during my highsec escapades I make a point to count how many of them die to concord because they shot the wrong thing, last time was Brave and there were 2 of them, plus 4 with killrights that died to neutrals as did two logi pilots that didn't understand what the definition of "neutral" is.

Good times.

Reminds me of a guy in a t3 cruiser, who engaged me right after suspect ran out.

For 250 Million isk I didn't make his next 30 days a life full of paranoia and fear ....
... well, just less paranoia and fear, but I keep my word. :P

Red button, best button. :D