EVE General Discussion

There is an article on themittani.com: http://themittani.com/news/alod-best-or-worst-burn-jita-2

In it, the author makes specific mention of this: "however, certain pilots were skilled enough to extricate themselves from the bumpers, kudos to you Red Frog)"

My question is how did they manage to escape the bumpers? Freighter pilots everywhere would like to know.

I chatted very briefly with a cagey (but nice) Locin Weeda. All he would say is that it doesn't take advantage of the "teleport" feature of a capped system and that there are no webbers involved. He did say they sometimes used safe logoff if they weren't aggressed.

Any ideas?

Red Frogs pilots were professional enough to actually pay the "hauling license" that our bumpers were offering to line their own pockets.


At a rate of killing 2 freighters an hour, it wasn't like we were short on potential targets. Serious freighter pilots just paid the fee and went on their way, while the "F U Goons" weekend haulers got ganked.

Actually if they came in this system while it was full, all they had to do was make it to 4-4 and dock. Then log off, wait a minute, log back on, and let the game move them to an outlying system because Jita was full.

I loved the one Nomad who on seeing the blob decided to just go **** this Im outta here and cynoed out.
And that blob got cut down fast.
I feel sad for the obelisk who did ask for help on realizing his mistake but I was the only one with hull reppers and that typhoon pilot was good. (Scorpion was stupid, like you were really going to waste the ship on my osprey)

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Or could have been something else.

From the general description given and the brief convo with Locin, they clearly were bumped. The enemy definitely made contact and the statement "if they weren't aggressed" seems to indicate some other set of circumstances than simply quick warps.

I didn't make anything off bumping, because I wasn't a bumper. But I was in fleet (check eve-kill, I was even on that Golem kill in the article) and I assure you, plenty of freighter pilots paid the bumpers to let up.

Again though, not a big deal because as soon as 1 freighter pilot paid up, another potential victim was warping in. And the lesson is, don't be a loud mouth punk, pay the bumper to go bump some one else.

it isn't a blog

but please keep crying whenever somebody posts a link to TMC, it's amusing when pubbies wail about the smallest things

I watched several freighters bumped into station alignment. Like it was a surprise when the freighters warped and docked.

I don't really get what was happening in these cases.

I especially enjoyed the bait freighters though. The Goons managed to get a lot of smartbomb kills of third-party bumpers, though I did also see this tactic backfire at least twice as it was used against them.

So it might have been counter bumping. It was one of my proposed solutions and, now that I think about it, the only one Locin evaded.