EVE General Discussion

It seems to me, Proactive is not in a miners vocabulary, Deep Core Mining must be short of dictionaries.

Sometime ganker here.
When I set up a gank, I usual start with teh intelligence, fisrt - I don't just run out and blast the first barge I see. I'll scout the systems and belts, look for potential targets, see who's being particularly dumb today. I'll also check to see if CONCORD has been pulled anywhere - That alters my targetting priorities just a bit - I'll deliberately choose tougher targets if CONCORD is busy. I generally avoid Procurers and Skiffs if they have even a half-way decent tank, simply because I gank solo, and don't have neough time to monkey with those. I also deliberately avoid barges that look like they're actively flown; again, low-probablity targets. When I go a-ganking, I mean to kill, and don't want to waste my time giving target practice for CONCORD.

And yes, that means that one of those harmless fellow-miners out there is stealthily checking out your hull, and deciding if you're a potential victim or not.

So - For me, at least - the gank begins well before my blasters start spewing hot particulate death.

Generally, I don't pod - Most miners don't have enough implant to be worth the security status hit. But the really bad 'bots? Yanno, the ones who try to keep on mining with their pod? THOSE, I burn with savage glee.

I've sen all manner of siliness, including pilots who try to open conversations about innania whilst I'm busy locking them up. Really?! A Cat motors on up, parks right on your bow, and locks you, and you're asking about LOL-Cats and sports teams..?! BURN!

So - To answer a question up-thread:
No, you can't gank whilst AFK.

Also:
Ganking doesn't have to be hard, but the way I do it, there is some thought and research invloved.
Well-tanked hulls are fairly safe, unless a gang in is involved.
Untanked but actively-piloted hulls are also generally safe, unless the pilot is an idiot.
If CONCORD is busy elsewhere, the above two generalities are less-true.
AFK miners are cold meat for me, unless they're tanked.
More expensive untanked hulls are more tempting than bare-bones hulls.
Hulls actively piloted by hard-core bone-heads will be selected as top priorities - above and beyond all other categories - if I think I have ANY chance of killing them (and as they're piloted by idjiits, that's a good chance!)

Been a while since I last went on a killing spree, but this thread has made me want to barf just a bit, and I need some flaming death to get the taste out it out of my mouth... Someone out there is going to pay with their hull for the content of this thread.

Attention entitled Carebears!





































































Fly a Skiff.
/thread

I think this thread is concluded.

But why, you ask?

Why should we listen to Dead?

Well, I will tell you...

Yea it was. But I just woke from a nap, and that specific line was stuck in my head.

And since I seldom take anything seriously in a game of serious internet spaceships...

vOv

Why not?

Bad films are important.

That one, for instance, allows them to appreciate picking up a book more.

Damn savages.

SOME OF THEM CANNOT EVEN READ, JILL!!!!!!!!!!

It's a travesty.

So I will take this opportunity to roll out the next stage.

For only 1isk a day, you can sponsor a poor, uneducated carebear.

*queue heartwarming music*

You have good taste.

As for sponsorship...

Somewhere, across the interwebz...

A man is nodding in approval randomly at you, Jill, rubbing his hands together, saying...

"Something, something, something....Dark...side."

Don't worry....

There are cookies, candies, and rides.



And I was just speculating, is the worst part.

Now I fear for your safety.

Bolt the windows and doors...for protection!!!

WTF happened here? Wait wait. Let me...

It's like that L1 Mission. Furrier Fiasco, where you fly up about 20k off the gate and you see in Local:

Something happened here...

Then there are just two spectators having an extremely pleasant conversation completely unrelated to the shitstorm that just passed overhead.

Seriously, you two are cracking me up.

I wonder what the average attention span of a bear is and if it relates to the real world problems we all face

"Bears seem to have very short attention spans and if they are responding to a call and the sound stops, generally the bear will cease following the sound"