EVE General Discussion

A little over a year ago EVE encountered a new terror, a new threat, something dire to the miners who

keep the economy running.....ahh who am i kidding?, it was just james 315 who started to demand miners pay him

for the rights to mine ore in systems that he claims where his. While an annoyance, he at first really didnt do

much other then bump miners in his quest to demand that "miners giev me isk or i teh bump" (His actual saying at

the time). Most miners, myself included, simply laughed off the crackpot he is, and would continue to mine,

suffering the occasional bump from him in his "invincible stabber".
This continued for some time, he would suddenly log in, apear in belts, and annoy miners, then claim

some mythical victory cause he "cost them isk" by stopping them from mining for a few minutes. Miners started to

develop some tactics (which worked for a short time), to avoid him while continuing to mine, which would only

annoy him to the point that he would log out to the relief of the local miners.
After some time he managed to rally a few pvp'ers to his side and they would occasionaly try to gank the

miners in the belts. Sometimes it worked, usualy it simply failed. For every successful gank, he would claim

another mythical victory over the miners, even thou for every victory there was a dozzen or more failures. A

short time after james and his gang started to use ganks as a way of "winning", miners started to organize a bit

more, even to the point of using throwaway toons to purposely draw concord ships to the belts simply for the

protection from gankers they gave. This reduced the responce time of concord ships to mere seconds when before

it could be 15 or even 20 seconds before a responce.
Ganking of miners took a nose dive for a brief period of time, and miners once more where busy at work

in belts, bringing in the much needed resources for everything from the basic frigate all the way up to the

mightiest of titans. After a few weeks, james and his gang (who was only a dozzen or so at the time), came up

with the idea of pulling concord from the belts just before a gank. Quite simply they would do something

elsewhere in system, far away from the belt, to pull the concord ships from the belts. As soon as the concord

ships would warp out, they where warping in and attacking miners, raising their time to gank from a few seconds

back up to 15 or 20 seconds, sometimes even more.
Once again mining fell, slowed down by the attacks, and james would claim victories in his disruptions

of the miners efforts. He combined this with several other tactics he developed, such as taunting miners to

attack him (causing concord to attack the miners), and dareing miners into duels (which they had to sacrifice an

expensive ship to him to earn the right to duel him). Typicaly after a miner would use up a ship in such a

manor, he would claim it wasent enough, decline to duel, and usualy log off, to the miners who where annoyed.
Again more tactics where developed by the bright miners, such as having bookmarks 300km away from the

belt, staying alligned to a station, and orbiting the roids they where mining, all to avoid being ganked. Most

of the time this worked, but the few times here and there it failed was enough for james to continue claiming

victories over the miners.
This entire time i had been mining, and managed to always avoid ganks (yes, i have never lost a mining

ship to james or his gang), simply because i was always careful and used tactics like i mentioned, and others

most people didnt know about. Let me give you a few of the tactics i used effectivly, that has still kept me

from loosing a barge or any other mining ship.
First, anyone i knew to be a ganker, or otherwize affiliated with james i had on my contact list with a

-10 standing. This had the effect of also placing a nice red flag on their names in local, so by simply paying

attention to local i knew when one or more where in system. Second, if i was expecting a posible gank attack

(i.e. some of them where in local), i would have my ship alligned either to a station, or some other location

that i had a bookmark of. In the first system i was frequently mining in, i typicaly had 50 or more bookmarks at

the ready incase i needed to vacate a belt. To keep from drifting to far from a roid while aligned, i simply

turned down my speed to 1 m/s effectivly keeping me alligned, and also keeping me near the roid i was mining.
Third, i had my d-scanner open the entire time i was mining, and had set the range for about half an

a.u. in a 360 direction. I then would ping my d-scanner every 20 seconds or so while mining. If set just right i

wouldent see any ships on my d-scanner, untill they where 10-15 seconds away from dropping out of warp into the

belt i was in. When i would see a ship on scanner, likely warping in to gank me, i would simply dock with a

station or warp to a bookmark i was already alligned to, jumping out of the belt either a few seconds before or

after the ganker arived in belt. No matter what i always managed to avoid the ganks by simply not being there

anymore. That was my working method, avoid the gank, tease the ganker over local, and yet still keep bringing in

ore the entire time.
The gankers scouted me out and would try to gank me as i undocked from the station, ild counter with a

bookmark 300km away from the station in the direction i would undock from. They would eventully get a bookmark

of where my bookmark was, ild change it to a new location 150 km away from the old bookmark. On and on the game

played, all the while i was annoying the gankers and james.

Jumping in at 10km from my friend i realized with a grin i had managed to suprise james, as in his

heading towards my friend i had jumped in right between them! Better yet, james was only about 5km away from me!

I locked him up as james tried to turn away from his planned bump, but luck was not on his side today, as he

still bumped into my friend even as he tried to turn away. As anyone who has been bumped by james knows, you get

bumped away from the roid, but usualy james gets bumped away from you and basicly looses a bit of control over

his movements for a few brief seconds as he basicly bounces off your ship. As all this happened, i had hit my

key to constantly be approaching james, and followed it by hitting my linked weapons to shoot at him. After

clicking on the warning that popped up that i was doing an illegal action, my guns started to fire on him. one,

two seconds, on the third second his shields where nearly gone. In the fourth second i started to vaporize his

armor (which didnt last long), and by the fifth second his armor was almost gone. Second six flashed by and the

last of his armor was vanishing, but i knew concord was probaly on its way already, i needed to hurry, i had

maybe 5 to 10 seconds more.
Since my ship was going to be killed by concord, i quickly overloaded my weapons, burning them up to do

more damage faster, as i saw him going into structure. At second 8 as james was starting to get deep into

structure, i saw the first of concord ships ariving in belt, i was almost out of time! I also noticed that he

was using his afterburners (or maybe mwd) to try and get distance from me. At second 9 i could see smoke coming

from his stabber, as i heard the ominous sounds of concord locking on to me, i had 1 maybe 2 more seconds to go.

With a final burst from my guns, just as concord was webbing, scrambling me, and starting to jam me, i saw a

glorious explosion as james invincible stabber finaly fell to my guns and exploded. I wanted to try and lock his

pod as it showed up on local, but alas concord already had me into structure and i knew podding him was not an

option this day.
Almost at the same time, james and i both jumped out of the belt, heading towards different stations,

but both in our pods. My friend, still alive in his retriever, quickly got in range of both james wreck and

mine, looting both of them of everything posible, then in turn he also docked up, all the while seeing me taunt

james over local. Other miners at first not believing it, where indicated to warp to the ice belt to see his

wreck, and upon seeing it promptly started to also taunt james over local. Within a minute or so after all the

action, james quietly logged off, and wasent seen for nearly 2 weeks time.

(To be Continued)

Somehow the formatting of this seems odd

Sadly the enter key can not be weaponized.

I didn't read this but if this is some alt of this james 2844728474 then he sucks at much at thinking of a name as posting a wall of text.

There are two bannable offences being used here.

i only see one? i suppose the first bannable offence is the one that matters, though

unless double-spacing is bannable which it really should be

Throwaway alts and exploiting the concord mechanics.

Spawning concord for protection has been deemed an exploit.

Yes. CCP deemed it an exploit when we did the second interdiction as Concord is not meant to be on grid protecting people. We got a good number of alt accounts in ibis banned for doing this.