Crime & Punishment

2 million??? And you're here asking if it's enough??? Build one and try it, then come back and let us know.

JUST DO IT!!!

I recommend meta 3 guns for more dps while still beign dirt cheap, and some hybrid rigs. You'll have quite a bit of lost dps against a venture, so don't start firing until you are at your optimal. You have more than enough to kill it, just don't engage it if its moving.

Small damage rigs are pretty cheap.

You seem more pennywise than determined. Just hit him and see what happens. If he never ever ever undocks again - win? If he does undock again - round 2 (win).



DOOOOOOOOOO IT!

Go forth my son and gank.

Consider tracking rigs rather than damage rigs if you expect the mark to be at the keyboard. You can't fit a web (as a Venture requires two warp scramblers).

Also consider electron blasters if you are confident you can get into range (better tracking than neutrons by quite a bit, but at the expense of even less range and less damage). Also, the Gallente Destroyer skill matters on ganking ventures (for the +tracking%).



This is a post I made on the Minerbumping forums a while back, as a fit for Prospect ganking. You'll need to drop the webs for double scrams, and you might want to use cheaper magstabs.


"I've been doing some theorycrafting on how best to gank the Prospect when it is introduced. Our current fits are weak against it due to the extremely low sigrad (which makes it much harder to track). Lots of people will no doubt use them when they are new and so we should learn to pop them and prepare now.

Note that because of tracking penalties on tech 2 ammo (Void S and Null S are both -25% tracking), tech 1 ammo is preferred, unlike almost all other ganking. As such we will use faction variants of Antimatter S (both faction versions are the same as each other).


Here's the thought behind the fit:

Guns: Meta 2 or 3 electron blasters (these have the best tracking). Meta 4 are also pretty cheap but we will run supplies out fast if we buy a lot up. Faction antimatter for ammo.
Note that unless you use tech 2 ammo, tech 2 blasters are strictly worse than Meta 4 (and meta 4 are cheaper).

Mids: 1x cheap web, 1x cheap warp scram. (Medium to high skill option: Upgrade to a tech 2 web for 60% slowdown; meta 4 is easier to fit but costs too much to warrant wasting).
These are both critical - the Prospect is hard to track so -55% speed is a big deal, and it's an agile little ****** so you need to scram it to prevent it getting away (unlike slow aligning Retrievers).

Lows: 3x magstab. Magstab II is so much better than the meta versions that it isn't funny, but the meta versions are a budget alternative if desperate.

Rigs: 3 Small Hybrid Metastasis Adjuster I. (Our normal rigs add about 5.5% DPS because they are stacking penalized with magstabs; these add about 40% tracking which is better for this task).

Rigs, lowskilled: 2 Small Hybrid Metastasis Adjuster I, 1 Small Processor Overclocking Unit I. Still get 30% tracking, but also allows more CPU for the midslot good stuff.



So the whole fit:

High skills:

8 Anode Light Electron Particle Cannon I, 160 charges (total) Caldari Navy Antimatter S
1 Stasis Webifier II
1 Initiated Harmonic Warp Scrambler I
3 Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
3 Small Hybrid Metastasis Adjuster I

Cost: ~5m


Low skills:

8 Limited Light Electron Blaster I, 160 charges (total) Caldari Navy Antimatter S
1 Patterned Stasis Webifier I
1 Initiated Harmonic Warp Scrambler I
3 Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
2 Small Hybrid Metastasis Adjuster I
1 Small Processor Overclocking Unit I

Cost: ~4m"

All this theorycrafting is unnecessary. Unless he is 1) at the keyboard and 2) pre-aligned, you should be able to easily blap him in one or two volleys. He will have very low EHP and the venture is "heavy" like a stealth bomber so he will be slow to align and warp out. In the suicide ganking world this is pretty low hanging fruit.

you can suicide gank ventures with a gank atron, pretty sure even a velator can do it in .5 just make sure to fit two scrams

Two scrams or none, this is a Venture we are talking about so you need 3 points of warp interdiction to lock them down, and it's a suicide gank so 3-point scrams are totally out of the question.

You should really beg for his forgiveness as you don't really seem cut out for this ganking lark.

It's been over 24hrs. If you haven't amassed the stones to do it by now - I would recommend admitting defeat. Send him an appology mail for thinking bad thoughts in his direction and move on.

This isn't rocket science and it does not require a great deal of planning or complication.

Buy ship
Fit ship
Load 4 rounds of ammo per gun
Warp to belt
Shooty shooty
Bask in happiness

The whole process should have been less than 20 minutes from start to finish.