Crime & Punishment

You seem to be confused. Pirates pirate to make ISK. That's what makes them pirates, the act of piracy. You're a PvPer. CCP killed pirates years ago.

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Mmmmhhh.... salty.

I laugh a little whenever any of you scrubs call yourselves pirates. Pirates capture goods and may ransom people if they are important. What you fake ass "pirates" are now is psychotic killers. Scrambling and killing everything in sight isn't piracy, sitting at a gate shitting on reapers and wreathes isnt piracy, its the purge movie. I don't care either way personally, as my large rigs on my Nighoggur are older than most of these fake ass pirates, they never catch me (**** yo gatecamp). I'm just calling it what it is.

Before you ask yes I pvp https://zkillboard.com/kill/50923188/ but its not my primary reason for logging in.

Piracy is a dead game. Since the introduction of Capital ship's traffic in low sec decreased.
Why fly your new cruiser through low sec to get out to your new null home when it can be jumped from high sec straight into Null?

Solo pvp is virtually non exsistant because every man and his dog as a cyno fitted. Same with gate camping. Corp mate just engaged a tech I hauler expecting perhaps something nice, even just a killmail.
He got the kill mail alright, but a loss mail too after the 6 Black Op's then jumped in the moment he aggro'ed.

Unless your in a large gang, part of a large block, or have black op's capability or the means to defend against it, small scale piracy is dead.

Blame the advent of jump freighters for that.. the decline and change was so sharp and abrupt when they appeared that is not even funny.... I remember when drone regions opened, and their rats droped minerals (back then zydrine was 7k a unit... and there was a HUGE flux of haulers moving minerals down the pipes...

Problem is, I've tried the whole ransom route and it simply doesn't pay out. Smartbombing covertops and noobships does pay out and if taking assets from another player through force is not considered piracy, I'm afraid the definition is lost to me. And I love stealing from smug players that think that because they are an old toon in an Ares makes them immune to the Large YF-12a.

I approve of your choice of damage type.

This is mostly complete rubbish.

It was probing out and ransoming L4 mission runners in losec, 100 jump roams ransoming and ganking what was found in belts (yes folks mined and ratted in belts), running into nullsec and pissing off random alliances ganking lazy ratters (at least some things don't change), and of course the ever-popular fighting other pirates.

Never mind intercepting freighters inbound from nullsec and all sorts of fun and games.

Oh....and the joy of watching new corp members go from +5 to -10 in an hour or so blasting bot haulers off gates....and nuking the bot controller response fleet Ravens!

And of course....-10 was mandatory

High sec can flipping and silly station games pretty got one banned from "serious" pirate corps.

But times change. The pirates of old have become alliances, became cap heavy, or do whatever to enjoy the game. If newer pilots want to call themselves "pirate" while spewing stupid **** like "dank frags dooz 110011!!" and running around a la Counterstrike in Space...well...they are having fun.

There are a few old school pirate corps around....and I would venture to say the ones who really enjoy the thinking mans EvE game tend to spend a lot of time in W-space where no local and an extremely dynamic environment make it fun for the patient and skilled....not so fun for the instant reward types.

As far as psychology goes....getting inside the oppositions headspace is still valid. Stalking and just KNOWING the dude in the Golem is going to go do that last Sleeper site no matter what is no different that the old days of watching Ravens in .3 lo-sec missions ignore the brief instant a Cheetah is on scan....until it drops cloak within 20km and points/damps to the delighted glee of the DPS boys charging in for the ransom and kill.

Would the likes of Veto be successful today? With all the FW targets running around and WH space I would suggest business as usual.

Anyway that's enough greybeard rambling.

**Edit**Want to read about a pirate? Try here......http://cloakybastard.blogspot.com/

Guess you never heard of market pvp , wich reading your post actually makes sense to me.

I think most ppl confuse rl piracy with eve piracy. I concider me and my corp part time pirates. We jump at every oppertunity to kill shiny things in our area. Stealing sites an killing jfs/carriers/dreads on badly placed cynos. However, piracy by itself is hardly sustainable in terms of making isk tbh.