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New to eve and I wanna be a pirate
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Corbin Blair
Doomheim
#21 - 2013-02-10 06:54:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Corbin Blair
Psychotic Monk wrote:
Wardecs, mission invasion, suicide ganks, safaris, scams. You know, just being a belligerent undesirable.

Everything except the first one sound too nonviolent and the first one involves me paying my money for the target to stay docked.
Psychotic Monk
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2013-02-10 07:18:34 UTC
Sometimes they stay docked, but sometimes you get awesome fights, sometimes they pay you to go away, or sometimes you contact them on an alt and offer to be mercs and take their money and laugh and laugh and laugh.

There's all kinds of people making all kinds of bad decisions.

Belligerent Undesirables Selling Griefer Immunity
Diesel47
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#23 - 2013-02-10 10:11:29 UTC
Psychotic Monk wrote:
Sometimes they stay docked, but sometimes you get awesome fights, sometimes they pay you to go away, or sometimes you contact them on an alt and offer to be mercs and take their money and laugh and laugh and laugh.

There's all kinds of people making all kinds of bad decisions.



Your first steps should be betraying a corpmate by killing them in an expensive ship with their pants down. (Very noob friendly, just make sure you consult somebody experienced before doing this for epic lols.)

Then you post about it in the pirate story thread and make a name for yourself.

Whatever you do... Don't give in to the blob. ;)
Karrl Tian
Doomheim
#24 - 2013-02-11 06:55:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Karrl Tian
Corbin Blair wrote:

Sadly, I'm not sure if there are any real pirates left who actually make a living that way. I was one once upon a time, but jump drives pretty much killed my income. Nobody uses gates anymore except the occasional random newbie and other PvPers. The former never has anything expensive and the latter isn't a profitable target.



Once upon a time I decided to make a guy who would live solely off others via theft or killing/ransom and I managed to pull it off as a can crook. I began with just stealing the ore, then I moved to flipping. As time went by, I went from the standard rifter to a PvP-fit burst and my success rate went up 100% because nobody thought a mining frig (at the time) would ever fit a scram and guns.

While I didn't end up in T2 cruisers or BCs, I still kept going as a pirate in industrials/mining barges with pvp skills. I even had a pirate retriever before it was all said and done and killed another canflipper in a taranis with a double web-neut-scram 1600mm played scythe (pre logi).

Then came orebays and crimewatch and that particular chapter ended. Still, you can do just about anything you set your mind to in EVE if you have the drive to succeed and get good at it; it's the real reason why I play.
Valleria Darkmoon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#25 - 2013-02-12 09:43:36 UTC
The great mother Amamake eagerly awaits new sacrifices. So hit us up or have a go.

Reality has an almost infinite capacity to resist oversimplification.
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