Crime & Punishment

Lesson 86: Know the proper way to steal large loot. If you are presented with a large amount of loot in a can that you don't own that requires a hauler, your first impulse will be to grab a hauler, pinch the loot, and pray to RNGesus that you were aligned to something quickly enough to not get caught. While this can be effective, it does risk your hauler unnecessarily and someone with a sharp eye will figure you out and either bump you or pre-lock you, both of which will greatly reduce your odds of success.

The best way to do it is with a ship with a fleet hangar (Pilot A) and a friend in a disposable ship (Pilot B). You both pull up to the can, Pilot B opens both the can and the fleet hangar and then transfers the loot directly from the can to the hangar. Pilot B in a throwaway ship goes suspect, but Pilot A with the loot and the bigger ship does not.

Viola!

Corollary to Lesson 86: Can flipping is not dead yet.

Lesson 88: In the post-watchlist era, loose lips sink ships.

So I've picked up a contract to harass the mining operations of a small corporation based in Hahda. As is typical, I deployed to the system in advance of the wardec to do a little recon before going live. The target corp tends to be most active in the UK/Euro afternoon/evening timeslot, so when I logged on this morning just after DT and made the wardec official, I had no reason to suspect that any of their members would be online.

Within 10-15 minutes, I got a convo request from their CEO. The fact that they were online at a seemingly off hour was a critical piece of information that I wouldn't have had otherwise.

Now, I had seen said CEO with the mining fleets in Hahda on multiple occasions and runing goods back and forth from Amarr, but I had eyes in the area and they weren't there. I quickly ran a locator agent on them and found them 12 jumps away in Safshela, a dead-end hisec system in Khanid that's 12 jumps from Hahda with nothing of interest except a level 2 security agent, a lot of belts...and an industrial platform owned by the target corp.

Bingo! I had just found an alternative mining operation by my target corp. Had they not convo'd me, I likely wouldn't have run agents on them until after a few days of not seeing them in Hahda, so their casual misstep bought me more time to shoot at them. Now that I know that my targets operate across multiple times and multiple locations, I will change my tactics.

Thanks.

Corollary to Lesson 88: I do realize that by talking about Lesson 88 publicly, I am effectively violating Lesson 88. However, a post saying "Lesson 88: Redacted for OpSec." would be pretty damned boring, so I'm running with it.

Lesson 90: Killboards are meaningless.

Look at this kill.

By itself, it's meaningless. It looks like any of dozens of pod kills I have in Amarr on the trade hub station using my fast-locking ENI. Big deal? So what?

What sets this kill apart is the context, the information that isn't involved in the killmail. See, PIRAT, a highly effective Amarr-area merc corp wardeced me as I mentioned in Lesson 89, so to secure this kill I had to:

1) Have a neutral scout undocked and watching the station.
2) Have a target with a reasonably priced killright on the undock.
3) Have said target not have a inasta-warp udock bookmark.
4) Be able to undock my ENI, lock and pop the pod, and use my own insta-warp undock bookmark before PIRAT could lock, scram, and kill me.

This seemingly simple kill is one of my top ten most enjoyed kills in an EvE career going back over 10 years...and you'd never know it fro just looking a the killboards.

Good hunting my friends.