Crime & Punishment

Some of the best times I'd had in this game were losing ships while making bad decisions while doing something ill advised. I wouldn't worry about it :)

shouldnt be long, you can always post them yourself.

also, dont link them here. you need to goto the pirate story sticky at the top to do that.

i will say go ahead and update us when you post/api post those mails.

When I saw the New Order mentioned in the OP I had a sinking feeling that this was going to be just another thread about how awesome we are. Left pleasantly surprised.

Nicely done.

You're not too shabby of a writer either, I was avoiding your post due to most WOTs being not worth the time or more importantly the effort but once I found the time I was pleasantly surprised how well it flowed.

The pirate story thread has been so lackluster lately I wasn't sure anyone still read it.

that was a good read, friend. clearly you ar eas good in fighting as you are in writing short stories.

Have I mentioned that my corp focuses on PVP and is recruiting?

+1 would read again

Also looking for friends with logi alts in the Hek area. Because sometimes they undock things that have scrams and prop mods.

+1, you get a space like my friend - great read and sounds like a fun time. As mentioned before you're not bad at EvE, you are clearly winning at it.

I would generally plug the explosive hole on any armor ship but with the DCU and EANM I was getting about 40% explosive resist; when I lost an Enyo to this guy some days earlier he was using Hornets and hobs so I wanted to max out those resists. One thing I confirmed with that loss is that without a web, it is nearly impossible to eliminate drones at close range with a blaster boat, unless you have your own drones, which is why the Ishkur is popular for mission baiting.

It's just not possible to tank 200 DPS with near perfect application, in a frigate, while under dual webs, long enough to kill off 10 light drones. Or at least difficult to the point of not worth pursuing.

Random faction mods on cheaper ships is the product of a player community that spends alot of time stacking ISK and doesn't really know what to spend it on. Which is why the ship scanning doesn't seem likely. This guy fit up his barge specifically to kill suspects cruising around in frigates. I'm actually pretty sure he'd seen me poking around the ice in that system awhile back. So he had a basic idea, like alot of these guys, of how to approach the very specific problem of an annoying flashy frigate, but beyond that the lack of wider pvp knowledge and experience showed up quickly.

They knew I had docked up a Gila and they'd seen people swap out ships before so they were expecting me, and clearly planned to have the procurer web and point me while the propless, titanium brick tanked Ferox opened up with blasters. But they didn't understand the situational differences between long and short point and that there's no law saying I HAVE to fight you from a 500 meter orbit. If the barge had just fitted a scram, I'd have been screwed despite them not understanding how dangerous the Guristas ships currently are. Dual web + scram would have my ship do 40 m/s against 8-900 combined DPS from two ships I couldn't break quickly. But mistakes were made.

And the Vindi I suspect was just anger combined with "he's already damaged, surely my pimpfit faction battleship will automatically win." Alot of these guys you see mining all day have pvp ships, sometimes expensive ones, laying around that they rarely use and don't really understand. It creates an opportunity to do something besides trade a catalyst for a barge killmail.