Crime & Punishment

Either that svipul was the first guy on him or they are OP. I kind of wonder why people don't attempt to make battleships that kill smaller ships.

I used to fit up BC's with small guns and webs to kill entire fleets of frigs.

Where do you see Jita scamming by yours truly, mister clown?

I use this thread to dump any and all logs, because CCP is oh so lenient to emergent content creation by the players. Forums died when CAOD died.

Scamming, market manipulation, .01 wars; it's all Jita to me.

Stop posting ****** scam logs. That's not pirate stories....

The crap you're posting is off topic. Please only post if you have something to contribute. This is a thread about tales of Piracy, close calls, and glorious victories against the odds.

Yeah man, but that doesn't mean post boring crap that nobody cares about. If I wanted to read scams (and boring ones at that), I would read Jita local all day.

But I don't.

Because I don't.

So stop posting your stuff in here unless its entertaining. Please.

Did he even try to kill one of you? 15k damage only! He should have buffer fit.

Derelik: Mistakes were made (a story in two acts)

I live in Gamis, and we have recently gotten a lot of new people moving in who don’t know the game mechanics very well. This has given me the opportunity to get some decent stories which may make an interesting read.

(since my writing style is usually too long, Tl:drs have been included for your conveinience )

ACT 1: Lowsec
After having some success in lowsec, I was rudely awakened to my low sec status when I tried to visit a trade hub in a somewhat expensive T3. I survived, but was a bit shaken up and decided to try to repair it. I went next door to Bekirdod and decided to try running some sites in my Zealot. After finishing the last site in system I decided to move on to a nearby highsec system. As I jumped the gate into highsec, and was aligning out when… wait, what’s this?

There was a providence sitting at 0 on the gate into lowsec.
He hadn’t jumped, and there was a stiletto orbiting him fast. At this point, I got very excited. I had never seen a freighter on a lowsec gate before. Without thinking, I burned back to gate in my zealot and jumped back into lowsec, determined to catch him if he jumped. This was foolish of me, but he didn’t seem to notice and I thought he might be afk. I realized my kite zealot couldn’t hold the freighter (despite having a point) because of gate guns, so I gambled. Gamis was 1 jump away. With any luck I could reship into something tankier before this provi decided to jump. For all I knew could could have been afking on that gate for hours. I rushed back to gamis and logged in my alt to provide some more dps.

My gamble paid off. I shipped into a legion and cloaked it on the lowsec side, relieved to not see him in local. The stiletto jumped in, clearly a scout for this providence. I kept my alt in a rattlesnake 1 jump out, to be brought in once tackle was confirmed.
I waited.
The stiletto jumped back and forth, waiting for me to leave local.
I still waited. This guy seemed impatient to enter, and he would hopefully make his move sometime.

7 minutes later, he did. The provi, stiletto, and a retriever jumped the gate all at once. I jumped my alt into local, and had him warp to the gate. I grabbed the provi, and all seemed to be going well. My legion could tank gate guns indefinitely, and the rattlesnake would bring 1500 dps.
Of course, nothing in Eve is ever that easy.

My rattlesnake lands, but in my haste I had clicked “jump” on the gate instead of “warp to 0”. I watch helplessly as my rattlesnake jumps into highsec, leaving my legion holding the provi on the other side. I finally burn back to gate and bring the rattlesnake on grid. I volley the retriever, and get secondary scram on the provi. This guy is going nowhere.
But I had made a serious mistake. I instinctively feared that the provi would have backup of some sort (Perhaps a cyno on the stiletto) and had my rattlesnake hug the gate, ready to de-agress if things turned south. As a result, I wasn’t bumping the provi, and had negliected to bring webs….

As the provi reached structure, it disappeared.
I was speechless. I had underestimated the speed of a slowboating freighter. So foolish. So bad at this game. I would never get another chance. The provi pilot would never try a stunt like this again… or would he…?
His alt in the stiletto starts talking in local.

[02:14:23] Stiletto > nice setup :)
[02:14:38] Lodestone Toyee > its actually makeshift
[02:14:54] Stiletto > well sure u couldnt beat my mach whith it lol
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[02:15:30] Stiletto > if i brght my mach id bring cynoes in case and u wouldnt like that so no
[02:15:38] Lodestone Toyee > wow, you must be badass

My retorts aren’t that great (I only have talking in local trained to 2), but I try to goad him into trying again.

[02:15:52] Lodestone Toyee > ill let you though for 500m
[02:15:55] Stiletto > i just play lowsec and null
[02:16:26] Stiletto > u can pay me a bil and i wont black ops ur ass
[02:17:33] Lodestone Toyee > yeah im a carebear
[02:17:52] Lodestone Toyee > ive never seen blops before
[02:17:56] Stiletto > lol
[02:18:05] Stiletto > PL :)
[02:20:43] Stiletto > so we can have a proper match if u want to play
[02:20:22] Stiletto > be back in 20

This guy is really haughty. His nullsec pvp skills are so good he jumps his provi through a gate in lowsec when he knows there is a gatecamp. Next level stuff.
The problem was, I actually took his threats to heart. Surely, nobody would try to send a provi into low without some form of backup. That stuff just doesn’t happen. His kb also indicated he flew in large fleets and often had lots of backup.
He moves to gamis, and it is clear that he will make his next push from there. I get my legion on the gamis gate, and prepare to hold him up. Blops or no blops, he shall not pass!

An idea strikes me. Even If I cant make the kill, I still want to see his provi die. He should pay for his insolence. I send my alt to another lowsec and convo a cyno alt from the #rekkingcrew. I lost my somewhat expensive T3 To them a few weeks back, and I know they certainly have the ability to make this kill. I tip them off to a freighter entering bekirdod, and return to my position on the gamis gate. I have surrendered this kill for the greater good.
Everything went as expected from there out. His provi jumps in, I make the tackle. A wild nemesis appears, and the fury of blops decends upon the provi. His last words are, “Make sure I look good on youtube”
Retriever

provi
I didn’t convo him afterwards, but it felt so good to see someone get what was coming to them Nothing else was said between us, but I could sense the quality of his day was somewhat reduced.

Tl:Dr. A loudmouthed nullsec blobber gets what is coming to him

His pod stayed on grid for over 20 seconds. Unfortunately I missed the opportunity due to the 35 second lock time of my nereus. (again, had I been a pro Highsec pvper I would have brought remote Sebos for the pod, since it was likely shiny)
Looking though the orca, the estimated value was 1.1 billion. I hurried my alt back to station to grab an industrial before the realization came to me: I WAS THE INDUSTRIAL! :D

Loot All. it fits!

After delivering a Gf in local, I tried to find what was making the loot so valuable. The only faction mods were two sisters launchers… Then I saw the word “harvester”
4 of 5 harvester drones dropped for me. Loot fairy <3

normally i dont mind dying
From: Orca Pilot
To: Lodestone Toyee,

cept in this case i had 90% of my mining assests in there, along with most my spare modules, i was asking to live cause i had a lot of stuff in there, so thanks for setting me back at least 2 weeks of work, have a nice day

He also added 10 million to his previous bounty, and made me contact with terrible standing.

Shortly after I was congratulated in local by CODE, and another shady character offered to buy the harvester drones off me for a generous price. Im not sure how people learned about it so fast, but I heard the kill ended up on reddit too.
Props to the orca pilot for fighting so long. It cost me 6 hobgoblin 2s, 2 conflag S crystals, and a warm dinner
The entire affair lasted over 1.5 hours.

Tl:Dr My nereus solo’d an orca who was carrying all his eggs in one basket.