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So I had my first experience with a ninja looter/can flipper/griefer
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Disastro
Wrecking Shots
#21 - 2013-09-10 11:43:29 UTC
Ichi Takiwa wrote:
So I had my first experience with a ninja looter/can flipper/griefer. Was runnin a L3 mission in my Drake and was just starting my cleanup by deploying salvage drones when another player warped into my mission deadspace. He made a beeline towards something I didn't notice while I was salvaging.

It was a small command frig, so I wasn't worried. It was suspect flagged from whatever he took, but I refrained from shooting him, even as he trolled behind me, and occasionally bumped me or sent a duel request.

When I finished my salvage rounds I headed back to turn in my mission, but noticed the mission item was missing. When I warped back to see I had missed something, the frig was still there suspect flagged. More bumping and duel requests ensued. At that point I realized what the jerk had done, and that there was no recourse but to quit my mission and take the standing hit and no reward.

I have a feeling that if I had fired, I would have shortly been swarmed by a fleet ambush. So I guess I'm the one who "won" EVE that night by denying them carebear tears?


When a guy steals something from you in a mission he knows that:

1. You are in a PVE ship with PVE fittings and are probably tanked specifically for the rats you were killing
2. You have no warp scrambler/disruptor fit on your PVE ship
3. When you agress him he will fly away in his frigate and get a PVP ship which will own your drake and since you cannot scramble him he will have no difficulty in doing so
4. He still has 15 mins from when you aggro him to find you and kill you in your next mission
5. He can have his logistics alts rep him while he kills you if he manages to find you again during that 15 min window

So, yes you made the right decision. Friends of his couldnt shoot you since you commited no crimes even defending your item but they can rep him (making them attackable as well). Its kind of a lose lose situation for you but in the end you are better off taking a minor standings hit than losing your mission boat.
Ichi Takiwa
Perkone
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-09-10 14:34:42 UTC
Praxis Ginimic wrote:
I may be biased but I really think you should have gotten your corpies together and reverse ambushed him. Fight fire with fire


Might do that if I see this guy trolling again. He's on my watchlist now.
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