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Metangela Usafa
Doomheim
#1 - 2016-09-11 22:53:55 UTC
My main has been asked to pod some gankers that hit him a few weeks back. I have an alt account that can fly freighters. His idea is to name the ship 4BillionIskBaby and put a double contracted courier package in it with 1000 Reports in it. If they take the bait my main in a smartbomb battleship blows as many as he can. They are all red at this point but I fully expect to get Concorded and some neg sec status for collateral damage. No problem there. Losses will be paid for in the contract. I haven't been playing in forever so I wanted some input. Is it feasible?
Faylee Freir
Abusing Game Mechanics
#2 - 2016-09-11 23:20:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Faylee Freir
This is a stupid idea. Their pods are empty and are 100% expendable. In most cases you are saving them the time of flying their pod back to their staging station when you pop them. Dont waste your time.

Edit: Just read that you said it was a contract... In that case your client is dumb. So just follow them around in your bs and warp in on them when they go to gank. No need to sacrifice a freighter for them.

HTFU
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#3 - 2016-09-11 23:21:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin
yes but 1) you will need to be good to pull it off and 2) you just outed the tactic.

also what faylee said

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pushdogg
relocation LLC.
#4 - 2016-09-12 00:21:53 UTC
Considering that the powers that be can down a freighter in 15 seconds or so.....you would need to have timing that the gank squad have already mastered.

Really, podding them does nothing. This how gankers get their kicks, they enjoy this stuff, so you doing this only feeds what they enjoy.

If you want to take the gankers out of the variable list......buy a permit, and stop afking through high-sec.
Shallanna Yassavi
qwertz corp
#5 - 2016-09-12 01:28:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Shallanna Yassavi
Gankers fly disposable ships. You can't seriously hurt them by shooting at them.

Edit: Except a bumper mach. Those would hurt if they got popped.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#6 - 2016-09-12 01:30:27 UTC
Shallanna Yassavi wrote:
Gankers fly disposable ships. You can't seriously hurt them by shooting at them.

Edit: Except a bumper mach. Those would hurt if they got popped.

^^ this is hilarious when it happens

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Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2016-09-12 06:03:56 UTC
Meh machs are cheap these days. And even a bumper mach can be tanked to over 100k making it pretty annoying to gank

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Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#8 - 2016-09-12 09:40:52 UTC
smartbombing aint as easy as it sounds

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#9 - 2016-09-12 11:10:37 UTC
Just follow the gankers around with a fast locking ship, wait for them to gank then pop as many pods as you can. That will effectively fill your contractual obligations while costing you nothing and having about the same effect on the gankers as any other method.

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Salah ad-Din al-Jawahiri
Dreamweb Industries
Novus Ordo.
#10 - 2016-09-12 11:16:15 UTC
Just make a deal with the gankers to let you shoot a bunch of empty pods, then split the reward.

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Estuary Algaert
Petulant Luddite GmbH
#11 - 2016-09-12 18:43:28 UTC
Should you do this smartbombing style please record and put up on YouTube.

Also, what Salah said, because isk for little/no trouble is good isk.
Fiddly Pop
The Conference Elite
Safety.
#12 - 2016-09-15 18:36:24 UTC
we are reasonable, we have made plenty of deals with AG about not killing our ships or pods until after the gank. I sure we could come to an agreement with you.
Rawmeat Mary
Empire Assault Corp
Dead Terrorists
#13 - 2016-09-15 22:58:26 UTC
The OP biomassed.

Won't be eating pork rolls for the next week.

'If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins onto their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.'

Yeah, we're like that.
Lady Ayeipsia
BlueWaffe
#14 - 2016-09-16 15:06:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Lady Ayeipsia
Also, you can't smart bomb too near a gate as I recall. Also your freighter and BS pilots may need to be in the same Corp or you could end up getting yourself concorded for smartbombing the freighter/it's pod with your BS.

And given pods warp near instantly, it would be very tough to warp in, smart bomb and catch the pods.
radkid10
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2016-09-17 02:07:57 UTC  |  Edited by: radkid10
suicide vs suicide if you know they're going to try to do that to you why don't you do it to them first they're not expecting that

have another character built to kill them
Henry Plantgenet
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2016-09-23 09:53:53 UTC
I have successfully smartbombed freighters before and gotten all the catalysts! (only works on destroyers) and most of the pods killed with a battleship (rokh probably best so you can fit more heavy cap boosters for when concord neuts you.)
To prevent being bumped by machariels orbit the target freighter @ 500m with MWD running. (works most of the time)
And then you watch them going for another freighter because there's 5 other targets they could be going for.

The freighter was afk autopiloting so CODE. Bumped it offgrid and ganked it later (back when grids were
Jevatoxa
Amandla Legion
#17 - 2016-09-24 20:00:59 UTC
Metangela Usafa wrote:
My main has been asked to pod some gankers that hit him a few weeks back. I have an alt account that can fly freighters. His idea is to name the ship 4BillionIskBaby and put a double contracted courier package in it with 1000 Reports in it. If they take the bait my main in a smartbomb battleship blows as many as he can. They are all red at this point but I fully expect to get Concorded and some neg sec status for collateral damage. No problem there. Losses will be paid for in the contract. I haven't been playing in forever so I wanted some input. Is it feasible?


It's been a while since I've seen Nitshe's nefarious scheming on here. Biomassing was the appropriate action to take here, until next time...