Journey to Nowhere

Journey to Nowhere – A tale of three cans

(tldr: Dudes find some immortal cans)

My Home

I live in a high sec system called Illinfrik. Illinfrik has been my home for….well…forever. I do not really move around a lot. Sure, I clone jump down to low for fun and exploration from time to time. However, my EVE existence really revolves around the Heimatar region. I trade, run PI, Ninja, PVP, PVE, explore, salvage, scam, manufacture, etc. I have a typical hi-sec existence. I have been doing this since ~2007. Since I live in one spot, you get to know the neighborhood. The people, the places, the planets, the stations - all peculiar to Illinfrik. My system is unique, however. It has three cans.

WTF cans

What the fuck are you talking about Sark? Three cans?!? Yes. Three friggin’ cans. They have been here forever. At least as long as I can remember my “forever”…which is only 6ish years. How do regular Large Standard Containers last forever in a .8 sec system? We cannot anchor in .8 sec and above. Sure, secure containers anchored have a 30-day limit, which is reset when you open it; thereby being “permanent”. But regular containers in a .8 sec system? I do not fucking know.

 

They Taunt Me

You can only see them on D-scan – Max Range. They exist. They are there – out there - somewhere. In addition, they call to me. They taunt me. They are named: :::::ninja:::::. All three of them! This is my system….fyi. Who put cans named NINJA in my system? How have they existed all this time? Who put them there? What is IN them? [drool starts now] They are not secure – I can haz da contents. Is it a game bug? Are they “supposed” to be there – a gift from clever Devs long departed? Who knows? Who the fuck knows!

“Shh…Out dare, past dem trees…you see it? I see you!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gb_gho1eGM

:::::ninja::::: cans…I see you.

Doldrums

I have been in the trough of a non-eve playing stint. I log in to keep my skills going. That is about it, though. My alliance withered away. My Corp evaporated in part to crimewatch changes/college back in session. My co-worker (IRL) who I got hooked into EVE (you are welcome CCP), bugs me incessantly…LOG IN Bitch! Sigh…I was not motivated to.

Make Your Own Content

My co-worker also needed a change of pace. The life of a merc can get boring too. As we were throwing ideas out like: “Let’s go live in a wormhole and suck gas, dude!” Or, “should we ninja in Null using the new Mobile Depot and siphons?” Black Ops kinda shit. Then it hit me. Those fucking cans. Could we find them? Do I want to find them? Fuck yes we can find them. This is EVE. I can do what I want. Challenge Accepted.

How do you travel to Nowhere?

How do you find cans in space? Not just any cans – magic cans. Cans that do not die! Immortal cans. Immortal Magic Cans. Unsecured Immortal Magic Cans…he he. Where are these immortal cans? They are in a placed code-named – Nowhere. What is this place? A long forgotten safe spot, perhaps, used by an early ninja before “Ninjaing” became vogue? Technical problems quickly mounted. You cannot scan them down using probes. I see them. I can get close to them (if you call 8 AU close). I just cannot get there conventionally.

And here we go…

OK…so my friend takes his first crack at getting closer. Lanac later informs me…”Dude, I’m 183,900,000 from the cans.” Yippee…we’re on the right track! A little over an AU. Most excellent. He does some rough math for a frigate flying 3000 km/sec…17 hours…and we will be there. I warp to him in a frigate and start AFK traveling. SOON.

Bad at maths…

After a day of afk flying, my friend informs me…”Ooops, I miscalculated.” It will take 709 days to get there flying 24 hrs per day. Hello, year 2016. Sigh. Not soon. Fucking Lanac. j/k

My turn

Wow…what a letdown. Sitting in my frigate more than an AU away from Nowhere, I felt dejected. I made a spreadsheet to do the calculations also. The numbers were daunting. Could we go faster maybe? What if we could go 10,000km/sec? That did not help much. Nowhere was a long way away. We have to get much closer BEFORE afk flying. Doh! My friend said he would help me later after he wrote a paper for school. He stated he would try again using the same celestial BMs trick. Eureka! “That’s how you did it? Shit, why didn’t I think of that!” I have BMs all over the place…I will take a crack at it.

To get closer, I will need tools. I haz tools. My eve toolbox looks like this:
• I have D-scan. I know in which direction the cans are down to a 5-degree angle.
• I have Bookmarks. These BMs I have accumulated over my life in Illinfrik. Not just any bookmarks, wild far ones that I kept after infiltrating Mission Runners’ PVE missions. Places far above/or below the orbital plane of Illinfrik. Places out in the far reaches of planetary orbits without planets/stations. You know, Timbuktu BMs. A lot of them.
• The tactical overlay. Finding cardinal direction in EVE is not easy. Especially working well above the orbital plane, it is hard to know where you are looking. The tactical overlay works on the map also. Bonus.
• The map. The map shows “You are Here” and where all your BMs are. It also helps with spatial direction finding.
• I haz ships.
• I haz an alt.
• I haz isk.
• I haz a friend, he haz ships, he haz alt, he spendz his isk on crap, he haz no isk.

A Game of Triangles

I spent the entire next Sunday using my plethora of BMs and celestials to get closer. After many hours of crazy back and forth warping, BM’ing, solar dead reckoning, spatial orienteering, and creative use of triangles, I was making progress. As he wrote his college paper, I gave constant status updates. We were getting excited as the day wore on…”Less than an AU!” Holy shit. D-scan did not lie. 97 million! Half hour later…34.2 million! Single fucking digit million! RAWR! Then the end result of a day of fruitful searching. A BM 1,900,000kms away from Nowhere. Wow. Just fucking wow. Open the spreadsheet – 4ish days of afk flying at 3000 km/sec. Nowhere is close. Very close.

We now have “Launch Point Alpha”…The journey to Nowhere begins.



The Ship

To travel the remaining distance we would need a ship. Not any old ship. We would need a fast one – very fast. The faster, the better. A fast, afk ship would also need to be cap stable. With Loki boosts, this ship would be our only hope of reaching Nowhere. [Commence EFT warrioring!] We looked at frigates and interceptors. The final choice was the Imperial Navy Slicer. A frigate with a cruiser MWD that’s cap stable. BAM. Now it is time to build the Speed Demon.

[Imperial Navy Slicer, Speed]

Low
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
Capacitor Power Relay II

Mid
Republic Fleet 10MN Microwarpdrive (uses less cap)
Cap Recharger II

[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Rig
Small Ancillary Current Router II
Small Ancillary Current Router II
Small Ancillary Current Router I

Implants (for the cap issues)
EO-603 Cap Recharge implant
HS-903 High Speed Maneuvering

She goes 8819 km/s with my skills and Loki boosts. That’s 2.7 days of AFK flying to Nowhere. [Muah ha ha]

AFK Flying

Now the boring part. The next day, I fleet my boosting Loki and the Speed Demon and travel to Launch Point Alpha. Links are spinning, Captain! I use D-scan to find Nowhere within 5-degrees. I then point the Speed Demon frigate in that direction and hit the MWD. Woosh…she leaves the boosting Loki in the dust – headed for Nowhere. And then I go to work… Slowly, but surely, I creep closer to Nowhere. Somewhere along the line, I lose client connection. Home for lunch, I have to restart the exploration team and begin anew the AFK flying. Downtime kills my journey again the next morning. Closer. Closer.

Overall, the client timeouts prove to be annoying and prolong the journey. I should cover ~700,000 Kms a day, but I do not obtain that result. Luckily, when I log back in, the emergency warp brings me back to the last place, so I just continue from there. I have to find the landmark to get the 5-degree lock-in again. I know my view of the Nebula by heart now. Just to the right of those three faint stars.

The fucking anticipation is killing me. I cannot sleep. I sit and look a screen. The “low capacitor” warning beeps as the Speed Demon is only 35% stable and repeatedly breaks the capacitor warning threshold. Beep. Beep. Beep. ….

Lanac and I, at work, gleefully surmise what is in those cans. [Chattering like little girls] “What if it’s an Easter Egg, that nobody has bothered to find!!!” “What if we are the first to discover something that has been in the game all along!!!” “We’ll be e-famous” “People will recognize us at conventions!!! – shhh…Those are the two guys that found the first space eggs! Do you think they’d give me their signature?” lol “What if they are empty?” “Fuuuuuuuuuck no! They have to have something in them!” “They are magic immortal cans, for Pete’s sake!”

The Event Horizon

On Nov. 19st, the night of the Rubicon Patch, Lanac and I log in for the final push. We’re 5ish hours out. Lanac made me swear they we would both “enter” the grid of Nowhere together and open the treasure box. I can’t wait to see the three little diamond icons on my overview and an actual range to the immortal cans on my D-scan. I soooo want to Show Info to see who dropped them. Who owns these bad boys? Does he/she still play? Can I convo the owner to get answers to all my questions? Lanac does some more “triangle magic” while I fly. He whittles the distance down even more, ever refining his BMs to get closer. He knocks our flying time down considerably. At about 50,000 kms, the Map/BM system cannot get you closer. We calculate the edge of the grid to Nowhere at about 9:15pm local. Anxiously, Speed Demon and Lanac’s Dramiel approach Nowhere. We are close, within 1000s of kilometers. Our speed now is a hindrance, we are so fast and the piloting controls are not precise, we clip off the trail quite easily. We have to correct trajectory constantly. D-scan clocks downward…ever so close.

Welcome to Nowhere

And…BAM, we enter grid of the cans! SUCCESS! There they are…three little diamonds, all clumped together. ”Show Info” on the cans - they belong to a toon named [redacted], a 2011 toon in a NPC corp. We look inside the cans…and nothing. WHAT?!! Lol. We add the guy to our contact list and take screen caps, etc. We also add a corp BM called Nowhere.

Epilogue

We both talked about the accomplishment and the techniques we discovered using BMs, D-scan and the map. It was like spatial orienteering and Geocaching rolled into one. More importantly, we had fun. Which brings me to a realization? Could this be a new sort of content for EVE that CCP could develop? Places you cannot get to easily? “Lost Sites”?!?

A treasure box that takes you days to hunt for and travel to. Could the treasure box get more valuable the longer it sits in space? Everyday it exists, at downtime, the loot table gets more valuable? It’s a space race…he/she who gets there first, wins. The only way to find it…D-scan, creative bookmarking, and flying. Opens up a whole new class of ship…Deep spacefarers!?! Fast little suckers that can micro jump 5000 kms maybe.

What could you find in these “Lost Sites”…

A belt of rare ore, ice or gas not normally found in your region.
A strange relic site with automated defenses. Hack the site? The weapons platforms now won’t shoot at you. To keep the weapons charged…you feed them human corpses.
A den of some new form of space life…A Space Monster. Kill the monster, you get a bounty from the “weapons R&D scientists”.
An abandoned Pirate base to explore
A wrecked ship of a long gone capsuleer…
A mine field…(chance of great wealth or destruction)
A warp gate to…
A working refinery
A working research lab
A working manufacturing site
A wormhole to…

I’m sure the EVE community can think up many more things to find that were “lost”.

Re-negotiation....squeeze 'em

When negotiating, information is power.

[ 2012.01.11 22:43:39 ] Urkal > tag you it :)
[ 2012.01.11 22:43:44 ] CJ Anderson > are you bored or something?
[ 2012.01.11 22:43:48 ] Urkal > yea
[ 2012.01.11 22:43:54 ] CJ Anderson > seems like
[ 2012.01.11 22:44:10 ] Urkal > just going to steal your mission item and sell it back to you
[ 2012.01.11 22:45:14 ] CJ Anderson > wow... never heard of this strategy before...
[ 2012.01.11 22:45:45 ] CJ Anderson > but when i dont shoot the guys there will be no item for you
[ 2012.01.11 22:46:02 ] Urkal > yea true ill get corpies to run it
[ 2012.01.11 22:46:07 ] Urkal > and take them if you log off
[ 2012.01.11 22:46:12 ] Urkal > so your stuck with me
[ 2012.01.11 22:46:44 ] Urkal > ill stop stealing when i get enough isk to buy a bigger ship
[ 2012.01.11 22:47:12 ] CJ Anderson > 2y old toon with no money?
[ 2012.01.11 22:47:26 ] CJ Anderson > congratulations
[ 2012.01.11 22:47:27 ] Urkal > yea i havent been playing straight just on breaks
[ 2012.01.11 22:47:45 ] Urkal > and stealing doesnt make much
[ 2012.01.11 22:48:07 ] CJ Anderson > so, why youre doing it, when its not profitable?[ 2012.01.11 22:48:21 ] Urkal > nothing else to do
[ 2012.01.11 22:48:24 ] Urkal > bordem
[ 2012.01.11 22:48:37 ] CJ Anderson > we had that already...
[ 2012.01.11 22:48:39 ] Urkal > its fun to not know if you are going to die or not
[ 2012.01.11 22:49:14 ] CJ Anderson > k, get your mates here, and do my mission
[ 2012.01.11 22:49:21 ] CJ Anderson > i'll take the standing hit
[ 2012.01.11 22:49:36 ] Urkal > alright you have to wait till they log on
[ 2012.01.11 22:49:43 ] CJ Anderson > lol
[ 2012.01.11 22:49:45 ] Urkal > thats why im bored
[ 2012.01.11 22:49:49 ] CJ Anderson > for sure
[ 2012.01.11 22:50:05 ] CJ Anderson > im sitting here for hours with you, waiting for your friends
[ 2012.01.11 22:50:08 ] Urkal > how about a game
[ 2012.01.11 22:50:17 ] CJ Anderson > tell me
[ 2012.01.11 22:50:36 ] Urkal > you get one shot, if you do any kind of damage at all ill leave you alone for the rest of the week
[ 2012.01.11 22:50:47 ] Urkal > if you miss i get to salvage everything
[ 2012.01.11 22:50:52 ] Urkal > and you get your mission item
[ 2012.01.11 22:51:42 ] CJ Anderson > 0.0997252 rad/s are unhittable for 1400mm's -> bad deal for me
[ 2012.01.11 22:52:25 ] Urkal > what if i get some distance
[ 2012.01.11 22:52:47 ] CJ Anderson > you just have to fullstop your ship
[ 2012.01.11 22:52:58 ] CJ Anderson > do drones count too?
[ 2012.01.11 22:53:06 ] Urkal > hmm well then thats a bad deal for me too
[ 2012.01.11 22:53:17 ] Urkal > how about you drop a can with a piece of ammo
[ 2012.01.11 22:53:29 ] Urkal > and i have 10 seconds to run from your drones
[ 2012.01.11 22:53:38 ] Urkal > if they can catch me ill leave
[ 2012.01.11 22:53:45 ] CJ Anderson > meh
[ 2012.01.11 22:53:47 ] Urkal > if they cant i get the salvage everything
[ 2012.01.11 22:53:50 ] CJ Anderson > not a good game
[ 2012.01.11 22:54:12 ] Urkal > hmm
[ 2012.01.11 22:54:38 ] CJ Anderson > other deal: you get the salvage an all the loot you can carry, and i get the mission item
[ 2012.01.11 22:54:46 ] Urkal > ok lets see if i can live for 15 seconds
[ 2012.01.11 22:54:59 ] Urkal > and ill just orbit you
[ 2012.01.11 22:55:07 ] Urkal > i need to test my tank anyway
[ 2012.01.11 22:55:20 ] Urkal > you have lights right?
[ 2012.01.11 22:55:35 ] CJ Anderson > yepp
[ 2012.01.11 22:55:49 ] Urkal > dam ive never had those things sicked on me
[ 2012.01.11 22:56:27 ] Urkal > lol small arms
[ 2012.01.11 22:56:37 ] CJ Anderson > .P
[ 2012.01.11 22:57:22 ] Urkal > ready

He bites and shoots...

[ 2012.01.11 23:05:38 ] Urkal > so you can pay me 30 million isk and ill release you
[ 2012.01.11 23:08:24 ] CJ Anderson > aha, and i should trust you
[ 2012.01.11 23:08:28 ] CJ Anderson > ?
[ 2012.01.11 23:09:12 ] Urkal > yes
[ 2012.01.11 23:13:45 ] CJ Anderson > :/
[ 2012.01.11 23:14:13 ] Urkal > well i just scanned you
[ 2012.01.11 23:14:20 ] Urkal > and you have very nice gear
[ 2012.01.11 23:14:31 ] Urkal > the price just went up
[ 2012.01.11 23:14:33 ] CJ Anderson > and you have 30mill
[ 2012.01.11 23:14:40 ] Urkal > lol not now i know what you have
[ 2012.01.11 23:14:45 ] Urkal > ill be needing 100 mill

He has shineys...and Urkal wants them.


[ 2012.01.11 23:15:20 ] CJ Anderson > and after that 100 mill ?
[ 2012.01.11 23:15:23 ] CJ Anderson > 500?
[ 2012.01.11 23:15:27 ] CJ Anderson > or what?
[ 2012.01.11 23:17:01 ] CJ Anderson > ????
[ 2012.01.11 23:17:23 ] Urkal > i meant 200 mill so 100 more will be fine
[ 2012.01.11 23:17:33 ] CJ Anderson > im broken
[ 2012.01.11 23:17:39 ] CJ Anderson > nno money anymore
[ 2012.01.11 23:17:55 ] Urkal > how much you have?
[ 2012.01.11 23:18:04 ] CJ Anderson > 2000000 left6
[ 2012.01.11 23:18:06 ] CJ Anderson > left
[ 2012.01.11 23:18:14 ] Urkal > ok that will have to do
[ 2012.01.11 23:19:00 ] Urkal > now you die
[ 2012.01.11 23:24:13 ] CJ Anderson > i hope you earn a lot of money with the loot

30 + 100 + 2 million ransom + loss of ship = sad care-bear.

A Voice of Reason is Silent...De Oppresso Liber

Your logic and words helped free the oppressed. I will miss you, Hitch.

To those who don't know of him...he was a great voice for logic and reason.

He helped coin the word "Hitch-slap". (When someone uses undeniable logic to crush the breath out of his opposing debater)

To see his brilliance, watch these vidoes in this youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrcartervonriedel?feature=watch

My favorite quotes:

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”

"The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species."

"Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way."

Miner Miner 49'er

Communication can be confusing is space...take for example the story of 36crazyfists. He was in a Drake doing a mission. I warp in and start doing the ninja thing...


Then this pops into local:


36crazyfists > Sarkor Nafaar: please don't take the miners
36crazyfists > thx


Well...you know me...I took some of the miners...not all of them...some. Just enough to assist him in failing the mission. He was thankful and warped away. (he didn't count them...obviously.)


I continue to loot....HOLY F&*$....looks what's in this can!?! A Miner I. Bad naughty ninja brain cells start a turnin'. Time for a trap. I clear the entire field of loot except for that lone Miner I module...I warp back to base to get the Rapier.


Incoming Message!!!!


36crazyfists > I left 4 miners out there
36crazyfists > did you happen to grab them?
Sarkor Nafaar > I left the Miner per your instructions... [See wat i did there....lulz]
36crazyfists > Cool I'm warping back out there. Thanks
36crazyfists > i'm gonna be grinding misisons and you are more than welcome to salvage them


I'm watching in my Rapier as he motors to the lone can in space...containing the Miner I. Classic.


36crazyfists > oh I need troubled miners
36crazyfists > 4 of them not the miner lol my fault
Sarkor Nafaar > you said miner...lol
36crazyfists > i know


I decloak and drop the 4 x Miners and warp away.

I warp back to station to get Ganka-saurus. Now I know this guy is going to take the bait...

[Newbie Logic Routine Start]

Ninja invades my mission: Check
Ninja steals everything in mission: Check
Ninja just happens to be back in my mission: Check
Ninja uncloaks in a Rapier: Check
Nice Ninja kindly returns my Mission Drop: Check
Ninja warps off: Check
All is well: Check

[End Newbie Logic Routine]

I have to guess where he's gonna go after he loots the miners. I pick Frarn gate. I warp there and jump through. Now I wait for my new blinky red friend to emerge...It's a 50/50 shot here. Does he mission out of Balgina or does he live in Frarn.


36crazyfists > thanks again
Sarkor Nafaar > kk


And boy oh boy is he surprised to get scrammed by a Typhoon...and yep...here come the torps. What's this? Ogre IIs....wow this is not really fun for him.


36crazyfists > why you have to go and do that
36crazyfists > now I gotta quit that mission
36crazyfists > should have know it be some crap like that
Sarkor Nafaar > cuase i'm a ninja....that's kinda what we do
36crazyfists > i don't mind the lose of the ship
36crazyfists > i'm just tired of missions
Sarkor Nafaar > yeah...missions suck
Sarkor Nafaar > pvp....much more fun
36crazyfists > don't have many sp
36crazyfists > would you be willing to sell those
Sarkor Nafaar > don't need sp for pvp...
Sarkor Nafaar > i'll put them up on a .01 contract
Sarkor Nafaar > stand by
36crazyfists > k
36crazyfists > I admire your tactics.
36crazyfists > being a ninja seems fun
Sarkor Nafaar > 12 miners dropped...how many for that mission?
36crazyfists > 17
Sarkor Nafaar > poo
36crazyfists > yup 17
36crazyfists > sure I can find some on the market
Sarkor Nafaar > kk
36crazyfists > anyways nice to meet ya


He got his precious Mission Loot. I got the Miner I back...plus all his stuffz.

The New CCP

I'm liking this new CCP. After literally getting the snot bitch-slapped out of their heads by the player-base, this new, freshly flogged CCP is certainly winning the hearts and minds of the players. The list of new & cool stuff coming is quite impressive. I, for one, am excited. CCP Soundwave just asked players for more ideas to implement... orly? Just "asking" is filled with WIN. +1 CCP...keep it up.

Ninja Resources to make isk

When new Ninjas come into my Corp...I find myself spending alot of time teaching them how to make isk in the game. Here's a small summary on how to make money as a ninja.

Ninja Resources:

Market Orders. Everyone in game can sell things from day one. I think everyone gets 5 market orders to start.(?) A ninja that doesn't understand the market is a dumb ninja. (I was one...then I taught myself how to use it) If you have a market order slot that is being un-used...(buying or selling), it's an isk-making resource going to waste. Learn how to buy/sell things. Ninjas end up with stuff...from stealing, salvaging, scamming etc. Learn to sell smart. If you blindly just sell stuff, you just got ninja'd yourself...maybe from me. Learn how the market works. I trade in my region. All my trades get 100%+ return/margin. Minimum! Yes...minimum. (I'm not station trading...I do have to haul) I basically steal/ninja from the lazy or dumb sellers in my region.

Security Status. Your security status is a pile of isk waiting to be unlocked. You can build/replenish your security status by...wait for it..."stealing" security status. I steal security status every time I'm in my ninja vigil. The vigil has a drone bay...which can hold the best security status maker devised: The Warrior I drone. I use the drone to do damage to nice juicy NPC pirates my MR targets are attacking. Score a few hits on the NPC BS, and when the MR kills said BS, you get security status. Now, that you have it, how do you make isk? Suicide Ganking! How much can you make? This much.

Contracts. Same as market orders...I think you get a few as a new character. If you have un-used contracts that aren't up...wasted resource. However, this money making requires capital. Contract scamming is pretty painless and free money from the lazy/dumb in the game. I always have contracts up. Whether they are for selling faction gear or scams...always have a bunch up.

PI. PI was horrendous...now it's better. Couple of clicks a day, harvest your P2 product once a month. Profit. ROI from the couple of days of training those skills pays off in the 1st month. .5 systems or less only. Requires "selling" on the market.

R&D Agents: Basically free money. Get RPs, Trade for Datacores. Sell. If you don't have an R&D agent, get one. Requires "selling"...see a pattern here? The market is your friend.

What's the result of all of the above?...I play for free. I trade isk for a Plex every month. And that makes me happy.

Ping Pong

Had a carebear shoot me in a Maelstrom. Instead of warping to safety in a station to wait out the inevitable 2 hour long extentions (I never tire), the brilliant player thought he could evade the ninjas of Sect Or by warping between two safe spots. This didn't work too well. I called for reinforcements from the local ninjas...everyone jumped into their Cheetahs to lock this guy down. Well, he evaded for about 40 minutes...until Urkal got a 100% hit and warped cloaked to see what was going on. Sure enough, here he came. Warped in - and then warped out. Just to check...Urkal stayed cloaked and watched him come back. Urkal called me in when he left. I showed up at his safe and waited. Sure enough...Dscan lit up with a Maelstrom. He landed right on my head. You can guess what happened. Scratch one Mael...yeah! for shipbuilders everywhere. No tears from said carebear, even tough that was a tears worthy event for him.

Back for the Summer

Well, I'm back for the summer. Took a detour for a couple of months on a competing MMORPG. What better way to get back into the game by depriving someone of their hard earned isk.

So I start scanning for fun people to play with...I find a mission with a Rattlesnake, a Hurricane, A Maelstrom, and a Noctis. The Noctis is the alt of the Rattlesnake Pilot...I know this because the stoopie named his Character's: MIBMatrix and MIB...something or other. The Mael and the Hurricane were in another corp. Lots of friends to play with. So I scoot around "borrowing" material that was strewn around the place. Plus I have to compete against the Noctis...which is pretty tough to do.

I follow these chumps into the last room...which is locked. (Always carry Angel Diamond tags in your cargo!) I scoot in there also. Over an hour of them not shooting and me filling my small cargo hold will their loot/unload/return. Finally, the mission is pretty much over. Then the Rattlesnake shoots. Lovely.

OK...7 Gates, they are in the last room, all rats are dead. This will be a bust.

I go get Ganka-saurus (put a Angel Diamond tag in the cargo) and return. A quick D-scan reveals...uh...they are still there. What the?

Now the slow crawl through the gates...each gate...I D-scan. Um...they are still there? Gate 5. Still there. Gate 6...Still there.

Is this a trap? I check local. Negative contacts. What the heck is going on? Surely this guy sees me coming...

Ok...last gate. D-Scan...um...really. This guy is gutsy.

Warp!

As I enter the last room, there they are. 120Km AWAY!. Gah. I hit the afterburner and head for the Rattlesnake. This will be painful.

Sure enough...the rattlesnake targets me and starts lobbing missiles at me.

Do you realize how amazing slow a PVP Typhoon is? Luckily...the guys is heading towards me...what is he doing?

Slowly my shields melt away and I dip into armor. The Rattlesnake pilot launches Ogre Is at me from 60km...they are slow too. This is the slow-mo battle from hell...[add JAWs Music Here]

I launch my Ogre IIs when his are close and...no more enemy drones. (But they do take out some armor of mine. The Mael and the Hurricane...target me, but they just can watch.

OK...the Rattlesnake pilot figures out I'm not leaving and turns away...prolonging this little disagreement. I figure he's aligned and just toying with me.

I creep ever so much closer...just a little more. And then it happens.

I get a point on him. Now I'm flabbergasted. Really...this guy had every possible opportunity to leave. I have no words here.

I crawl the final few KMs to get the torps in range...loose the Ogres on him and Neut the crap out of him. I'm still thinking to myself...Wow...I'm at 1/4 armor left and I'm gonna kill this dope...crazy.

Sure enough...boof. Scratch 800 million for him.

Thank you for the warm welcome back to EVE. Nothing like depriving the dumb of their isk.

Null Sec

Went on an Alliance Op into Null Sec. A gate camp. Now I know...I know...I've read they are boring. I wasn't bored. Nope...not even close. Before I knew it...2.5 hours evaporated just like that. It was very exciting...for me. Really-I tried to kill stuff in my Rapier...honestly...either they were too far away or cloaky or too fast...

Even though I felt as useless as a football bat, I learned a metric crap ton of information:

- Like how bubbles work...as opposed to how I thought they worked

- What a "rolling Safe" was and how it works...

- The value of scouts...

- How to set up my overview to avoid mis-clicks...great tips from Arden and crew.

- How to step-up relevant safes in the target system...and what the "it's gone to shit" plan was...

Hope we can do more of that.

The Mega and the Smartbomb

We Ninjas in the Heimatar region fleet up for our nightly shennanigans...it's good to have friends to come and help out.

One intrepid ninja has been toying around with a Looting Ruppy. (Made popular by Aiden Mourn) It has advantages...like grabbing a point and pew-pewing without having to leave the mission. Unfortunately...it will eventually need some RR to stay alive.

So last night in the top secret local Ninja channel...

Apoc > Boxed!

I align my Oneiros and my RR Battle Phoon toward the sun...every second matters when you are in a cruiser and you have an angry bear shooting you.

Same goes for other Ninjas in system...Orcas align, Exequerors align, Ospreys align, etc. 5-6 ships in all.

Apoc > WARP!

The ruppy is in trouble! Party Time!

Upon exiting warp....WTF! I'm getting attacked?!?! I just got here. The Mega is red to me? huh?

Then Concord shows up to melt the offending criminal...

Somehow...we all showed up at the same time...and got hit by the Mega's Large Smartbomb! Of course, Concord didn't like that so much and ended the engagement quite quickly. The MR thought this was going to be a good thing...it did kill the ruppy's drones. He just didn't count on a Ninja fleet warping in at the same time. Smartbombs ain't so smart in highsec...mkay.

End result...one dead Mega AND a whole bunch of negative numbers in the Security Status panel!!

He emoragequit 5 secs later.

I R bad at maths...but 5 x criminal acts in a .8 system equals a one way trip to pain.

Scamming

OK...I am enamored by the sandbox. I find that this is one of the main reasons I play this game. A pretty novel concept: I get to decide how to play the game I purchased. And the developers..."let" me play it that way.

RL isn't fair...MMORPG games shouldn't be either. I get it. Most don't get it.

One thing that makes this game so amazing is the brutality that is EVE. Part of the brutality is scamming.

I am fascinated by scamming...for two reasons. First and foremost: self preservation. I have to be up-to-speed on the latest scams so I don't become a victim. (My corp has an award called the "Special Kinda Stupid" award. You receive this if you do something really stupid. I hope to never get it...) The second reason is the mechanics of a scam. I find this soooo interesting. Whether is be social engineering, creative use of game mechanics, etc., this makes scamming such an unique way to play the game.

I have been 'collecting' scams on my corps' forums...a running list of scams and how they work. (Kinda like magic tricks and their secrets) Some of them are very ingenious and seem like they would work well. The list is quite long.

This weekend...I moved from pure fascination to actually putting a few into action.

And the results were nothing short of amazing! 1 Billion isk over the two days.

Crazy easy money...plus, extremely entertaining! (Shout out to my Sensei...Herr Wilkus!)

And the really amazing thing...two of my marks KNEW I was scamming them! That's right! They knew beforehand and still went through with it! I'm at a lose for words here...

well done
From: Red Ozy
To: Sarkor Nafaar

too fast :(

This guy^ was told in local that my spam was a scam. He bit anyways. -275m isk for you.

quick clicker
From: Texas Bamf

To: Sarkor Nafaar

i thought i could beat ya to it but ya got me quick clicker

This guy^ knew it was a scam also!?! and thought he could somehow reverse the scam and win. -350m isk for you.

Somehow folks think that the scam I used was about how fast you "click". They are...mistaken. And poorer for it.

The next guy I scammed immediately EMORAGE logged...no e-mail, convo, or anything. -250m isk for you. However, he miraculously showed up in my home system the next day. (I put my "marks" on the watch list for a few days. <-Notice scammer lingo...lol..."marks"...love it. I feel like a real grifter)

Local:

Sarkor> Hi

Elephantosis> o/

Sarkor> u my new best friend?

Elephantosis> Yes

Sarkor> Cool...well...back to buying Officer mods with your isk. Cyas

Gonna do a Ninja vanish for awhile and pop up somewhere else...with another scheme. Good times ahead.

Yawn!

Ninjas are soooo boring. We do the same 'ole tiresome things...we salvage, we steal, yadda yadda. B o r i n g!

Take this carebear...I warp into the final room of a World's Collide mission. He's just finished the last room and for some reason is 50km from the Heron. He's motoring back to get his mission item.

I, of course, start liberating ATBs from large Angel wrecks. Yummy, sweet iskies flow into my cargohold.

Then I get this this in local:

Unconcerned MR > Yawn

Yeah Yeah...I know. I'm the dust under a flea's ass. Shoo away, you boring pest. You aren't worth my time. You bore me with your antics.

I reply:

Sarkor >> Ship's Crew...double yawn.

Let's see how boring I am.

Now Concerned MR > Dick!

Aha...not so boring. I do have an impact. I am relevant. I do "enhance" other people's gaming experience.

Sarkor > Wanna buy?...I make you good price...G.I.

Well now...rejecting my private contract is sooo rude. The manners of these bears are atrocious.

I R DUMB on TRADE

In a recent post...I mentioned I've been dabbling in other aspects of the game. Trade being the most...well...profitable.

For a ninja...I think trade skills are pretty important...now.

You see, up until a few weeks ago, I have been a complete moron when it comes to selling the stuff that I...er...borrow.

My modus operandi was to load up the Mammoth and fly to a hub...unload it, and mindlessly right click; sell item; rinse and repeat. I did well selling T2 modules from my ganks, but not the day to day crap I was amasssing. (I only had like 5-10 order slots)

Um...not too bright in retrospect.

I have come to embrace the market and all it's wonders. The results of this revalation are quite impressive. I spent a few weeks training trade skills and now I have 93 orders to play with. As long as I keep them active, my wallet blinks incessantly...which is pretty cool. I figure that I'm actually making 50% more isk for my thieving work. Plus I am trying buying low/selling high orders and it seems like easy money to fund my extra-cirricular activities.

Bottomline...Trade is cool. I am a convert now.

I also created a "Buyer" Alt on another acct. He just sits in another region and buys stuff (more cheaply than Heimatar), collects it, and transfers it to my main and he sells it off.

I view this as safer than investing my free cash with the MD crowd. (I trust me!)

Culling the herd

One of my favorite ninja tricks is what I call..."Culling the Dumb." I use this whenever the odds aren't in my favor.

Like the other night. I scanned down a Kronus, a Claymore, a Maelstrom, and a Hurricane in the same mission. Ok...not the greatest odds for a lone wolf ninja. So, just like a real wolf...I try to exploit any opportunity to "pick" off the dumbest member of the herd while the others are not able to...erm...interfere.

I board my trusty Vigil and jet off to the mission. In this case...AE; a multi-gate mission. Perfect. The plan is...steal...then wait. This makes me blinky red and the clock starts to wind down. I usually use this time to just salvage nice Angel wrecks.

The essence of this trick is to let the corp timer wind down to about 5 minutes, then jet through the other gates to find the herd of carebears. Once you find them, immediately align to base and hover over the warp button. You are trying to get just one of the carebears to shoot you. If one does...instantly warp before the others join in. The result is: you have a 15 minute timer on the dumb one, and a less than 5 minute timer on the corpies.

This works great because when you return...the corp timer is gone and the shooter is the only one that is a threat. The carebears never see it coming.

In this case...the Mael shot and I returned with Ganka-saurus. His friends got to watch his ship turn into a slagheap.

Since this trick doesn't allow much time for ship scanning...imagine my surprise at reading this KM: Maelstrom

Quite the expensive toy.

And here's the Coup d' grace:

Sarkor Nafaar > Thank you for choosing us for your gank. Your business means alot to us. We know you have choices to get your face torn off, but we appreciate that you chose us. You are a valued customer and we want to deliver the best gankage we can.

Cozmik R5 > XD

Frankslayer1982 > anytime

Frankslayer1982 > kinda sucks you aint turn red to everyone tho but a guess shit happens such is eve

Sarkor Nafaar > sorry...i used a diabolical ninja trick on you. By design, i didn't want the others to...erm...interfere.

Frankslayer1982 > well good kill then

Sarkor Nafaar > tyvm

By design!

Maurader Kill - Hook, Line, and Sinker

Maruaders...very interesting PVE ships. They are tough to get killz on for a variety of reasons.

First...They are very expensive. So...pilots think twice, maybe even thrice, about engaging someone in high-sec. As I've experienced...9 out of 10 times they don't shoot. Smart move, I'd say. And if they do shoot, they hide in station for weeks.

Second reason...they are built to salvage while they go. Tough for a ninja to "borrow" something when they scoop up all the loot as they go.

Imagine my surprise when I warp into a Maurader's mission, I "borrow" a nice Meta 4 and the guy immediately red-boxes me. Sigh...this will be a waste of the next 30 minutes. He won't be here when I come back.

Deorton > hey sarkor leave my shit alone mate

Sarkor Nafaar > why u shoot me

Sarkor Nafaar > ?

Deorton > cause u stole from me mate

Deorton > if u flash red i`m shooting bud

Pretty standard SOP...warp back to base, get Ganka-saurus, warp back to mission, and curse knowing "they always dock up Marauders".

However...this time is different. As Ganka-saurus is slow turning and just about to warp back to the mission...here comes the Vargur warping to station. C R A P ! The jig is up...he's spotted me in my gank ship! Poof...there goes the "element of surprise". Instead of canceling warp...I jet off to his mission-cursing my big slow Ding-Dong looking ship.

The MR docks in my base. (I'm watching him with my Logi alt) Then, surprisingly, he undocks in his big expensive ship and sits right in front of the base @ 0km. Lovely...docking games FTL.

Oh well.

Deorton > now ur a target

Sarkor Nafaar > i'm hiding

Sarkor Nafaar > ha ha

Deorton > why if u had asked i wpould havce givben it to you

Deorton > what u too scared to come and face me lol

Deorton > u little pussy

Deorton > what is that the best u can do is steal

Sarkor Nafaar > yes

Sarkor Nafaar > preety much

But there is something different this time. This guy is...er...taunting me?!? orly? That's a new one.

Deorton > what cant u fight me after u aggressed me

How can I kill this guy?...he'll just dock-up if it gets hairy for him. Eureka! I know....I'll use his stupidity against him. [Always bet on stupid]

H O O K

So...I'm at this guy's mission. I burn through some gates to find a lone can. I extend. [taking away any threat from corp mates as the corp timer expires]

I then jet back to the front of the base...[I have a BM just for this purpose]

I land on his head and I start lobbing torps at him...I chose to load torps that would go against his strengths. [I know,I know...but wait for it] He starts pounding me with guns and drones. I'm not even denting him...by design. I enter armor; after awhile, mind you...this IS a PVP ship, ya know.

So...at 1/4 armor left, I dock up. Here come the taunts...

Deorton > you poor little boy is want i can show u how to play the game lol

Deorton > if the best u got is steAL THEN SHAME ON YOU

Sarkor Nafaar > why?

Deorton > LET US SHOW U WHAT CAN BE BETYTEWR

Deorton > why cause that earns you pittance man

Sarkor Nafaar > sometimes steal good things

Deorton > i earn more in one mission than u earn in a week mater

Deorton > do u really want to continue

Deorton > come on man see sence plz

Deorton > i dont want to kill you but i will

Deorton > bye then bud lol

Sarkor Nafaar > :-)

Hook set.

L I N E

Let out some line for the big dumb fishy...

I tell him that's all I've got...dps wise. Poor me...lowly T1 ship. More taunts.

Deorton > is that the best5 u got bud
Sarkor Nafaar > yep
Deorton > u need more than that to beat me lol
Sarkor Nafaar > i see
Deorton > dont steal unless u can take it

S I N K E R

Let him swallow the sinker as well...

I undock...at 1/4 armor left! Trying to act as dumb as possible. Oh look...I'm so irresistable and defensless - I'm a killable target! Please shoot me some more. Pretty please! with cap boosters on top.

And what do you know. He bites!...out come his drones. New timer. Oh noes...he can't dock!

OK sports fans...here's what you don't know. Never once did I launch my drones (Ogre IIs) or use heat. I was Neut'ing him...so i know is cap is low already. And I have my Oneiros hovering on the other side of the base at 72km....I'm not gonna die anytime soon.

Time to reel this fish in!

This time I have the "right" torps loaded and out come my precious Ogre IIs. And the Torps go bright red...H E A T, baby. Neut is sucking his cap dry...again. NO boosts for you...Paco.

OMG...what's this? The MR's shields start melting! Muah ha ha.

Where are the taunts now? [Crickets] Thought so.

More bad news for Mister "I'm so bad" Vargur. The Oneiros fires up three large remote armor repairers! My armor bar climbs like a howler monkey with his tail on fire. About this time, a big huge "pout" forms on the MR's face. [imagination ftw]

At 3/4 of his shields gone (tank cracked) and my armor skyrocketing...this guy starts thinking to himself..."Self, time to bug out!" In come his drones, and his cannons are silenced. Not so fast, Lumpy.

Now it's...race time. Can I vaporize this guy before the re-dock timer elapses? This is where Ogre IIs really shine! Big huge chunks of armor go flying off into space. And structure right behind it. The Ninja God smiles. Scratch one expensive ship from existence.

Check out that fit...lulz.

Here's but a mere sample of the tears that squirt from my little cupcake's eyes over the next hour:

Deorton > fuck you cant do one on one hgad to bring ur friends you little4 possy

Deorton > u poor ;ittle bitch cant do a fair fight cant cope with out ur mates

Deorton > ahhhhhh pooor you

Sarkor Nafaar > u mad?

Deorton > u pussy bitch cant fight without matess lol

Sarkor Nafaar > i like your tears

Deorton > u little bitch need help yerah cant do it on ur own lol

Sarkor Nafaar > was your ship expensive?

Deorton > too lazy to do it own ur owen or too little lol

Sarkor Nafaar > emphasis on "W A S"

Deorton > fuck you hey iu goty more bitxch not hartd

Deorton > what the beszt u got is t1 lol

Sarkor Nafaar > you're still dead....from t1

Sarkor Nafaar > i have to question your skillz

Deorton > y thjat

Deorton > come on 2 -1 takes the piss

Deorton > too pussy to go one on one hah ha

Deorton > have to have ur mates tyher cause ur a pussy

Deorton > oh no answer pusssy boy

Sarkor Nafaar > ur still dead...lol

Sarkor Nafaar > i'm alive

Deorton > and it took you to outnumnber me to do so

Deorton > bitch

Deorton > cant do one on one or is that too hard lol

Sarkor Nafaar > Let me dial 911 and get you a WAAAAAAAAAAAAA-bulance....for those big squishy girl tears

Deorton > oh your a dead man

Sarkor Nafaar > [Refueling Operation Engaged]....[Whine pumps operational]....[Transferring your tears to Warp Core]...[Your QQ fuel me]

Sarkor Nafaar > actually i'm still alive....your are the dead guy

Sarkor Nafaar > please try to keep track of current events

Deorton > deAD U SUR BUD

Galmarr > Deorton, shut up already

Deorton > fuck you too bitch or bring it

Later...

Deorton > Where are you dick

Sarkor Nafaar > [Out of Office} Sarkor cannot take your call right now. Please leave your name and number and he'll get back to you as soon as possible. If this is an emergency...try his cell @ 1-800-ura-tard.

Deorton > bring it bitch

Deorton > come on

Deorton > or is that the best u got

Deorton > oh pussy is that the best u got lo;l

Deorton > oh dear lol

Sarkor Nafaar > shhhhh...i can't concentrate...I'm selling your stuffz

Deorton > yeah what ever lol

Sarkor Nafaar > ok...done selling your stuff

Sarkor Nafaar > what do you need cupcake?

Deorton > come against me one on one or are u too scar3ed lo;

Sarkor Nafaar > after a billion isk loss...you still want more?

Dabbling

Been trying different aspects of the game...

-Exploration...flying around looking for Radar/Mag/combat sites. I found one site that gave me 48 million in stuffz. However...they are hard to find, as I have found out.

-Got a Research Agent going...making free stuffz.

-Trade...really starting to like this. I acquire tons of stuff through...well...theft. Now I can sell it smarter. I have also dropped some cash on buy orders (low)...then weekly fly around an pick it up and sell (high) in a mission hub. I put together a spreadsheet...I'm getting 50%+ profit. Some items are ridonkulously profitable. I call it Trade Ganking. Really...how lazy can you be to sell me something for .01 isk? Pretty easy money with little to no effort while watching T.V....filling my Mammoth.

-POS Scouting. Started flying around looking for offline, non-allied POSs for potential-bashing. First night...much success.

-My Security Status stealing is going well... have a comfortable status now...time to Suicide Gank for Profit!!!! But sitting on a gate; clicking passive targeter...cargo scan...rinse/repeat...suxxor boring. (Looking for that stoopie Plex hauler!!!)

Double Tap

What's better than killing a carebear?

Killing two carebears at the same time!

Double Tap. Pow...Pow! Pow...Pow!

I've gotten a few double kills lately...one right after the other. These are very exhilrating...quite the heart-pounding fun.

The first was a Tengu/Tempest combo:

Tengu
Tempest

and the most recent was a Abaddon/Domi kill:

Abaddon
Domi

In both cases, the second kill came from a feeble attempt to save the first carebear via RR. This, as you can see, turns out badly for the RR Hero.

There is a misconception among carebears that they are safe amongst friends and that they can win a fight against a PVP ship. Not often does that occur.

Next up...try to kill 3 carebears at a time!

Memory...it's kinda important

Pop Quiz Time!!!! Ready?

Question #1: What happens to a carebear that "forgets" that he shot a "ninja" two hours prior?

Answer: Badness. Like in..."you die, byatch"...badnesss.

So...this nimrod...AKA Carebear, shoots Van Drakk...then leaves the mission.

And the system.

And the region.

Time and distance = safety, right? (2 Hours + a bunch of jumps away = Hi Sec Bliss)

Van Drakk...however, relishes the "hunting" aspect of the kill. It's called "Over-zealous, Relentless Pursuit of the Gank." The Drakkster extends on the target for two hours+.

Um...like that's crazy sick. Demented. I mean...move on...look for easier prey. Extends for 2+ hours...gah, really?!? What warped "sicko" does that!?!

(Oh yeah...we do!!!!!)

While the Drak is busy using Secret Ninja Tricks...Urkal flys around looking for this guy.

And flys.

And flys.

And Flys. System after system.

Urkal finally locates him...many jumps away. Succcess!!!

However, Urkal can't zero in on this guy using his Cov Ops scanner (sooo many carebears). And time is running out. So he tries for a more direct...sneaky...approach. "Use the Carebear against himself."

Like hunting Elk...Urkal uses a "mating call" to bring the Carebear (they are dumb as a stump, don't ya know) into shooting range. No Carebear can resist this primal, in-grained urge to...MISSION...it's in their DNA!

Urkal > Hello Azzerone, i was wondering if you could help me with something m8

Urkal > I'm in sort of a pinch on this mission in avesber and i came looking for some help

Urkal > if you could help me finish this mission i'll give you some isk, i really need the loyalty points

Azzerone > what level&

Urkal > lvl 4

Urkal > id

Urkal > give you about 10 milllion

Urkal > its the gist extravaganza

Urkal > we can do the bonus room if you like

Azzerone > no need - lets go, ill c what i can do, but im doin 3lv now\

Urkal > alright sounds good

Azzerone > fleet me

Bah ha ha ....so Van Drakk makes haste to get to the target's system. All the while, Urkal stalls...

Well, as you can imagine...this doesn't end well for our intrepid, good samaritan Carebear. He gets fleet warped to Planet 1 where a salivating Van Drakk waits in a Gank ship.

"Come to Papa!"

Urkal > you ready for fleet warp?

Azzerone > sure

Azzerone > where r u

Urkal > im in my scanner ill put you there

Urkal > then ill get my battleship

Urkal > whered you go?

Urkal > :) thanks

Azzerone > ok

Ransom time....

[09:03:54] Van Drakk > 50 mil and ill let you go
[09:03:59] Azzerone > ok
[09:04:08] Van Drakk > pay and ill stop
[09:04:13] Azzerone > stop shootin im not even targetin
[09:04:19] Van Drakk > k i stopped
[09:04:37] Azzerone > how would i know
[09:04:45] Van Drakk > im a man of my word
[09:04:56] Azzerone > we ll see
[09:05:06] Van Drakk > hurry man
[09:05:09] Van Drakk > or ill shoot again
[09:05:12] Van Drakk > you have 10 seconds
[09:05:30] Van Drakk > fly safe

Oh noes...Betrayal!

Death ensues.

[09:05:39] Van Drakk > and my advice would be
[09:05:41] Van Drakk > to never
[09:05:42] Van Drakk > ever
[09:05:46] Van Drakk > shoot a fuckin ninja
[09:06:05] Azzerone > i hadnt
[09:06:12] Azzerone > u r a hore
[09:06:50] Van Drakk > tears nom nom
[09:07:28] Azzerone > i dont care really)
[09:07:34] Van Drakk > that's nice

Urkal...polite as ever.

Urkal > thanks for your help
Azzerone > sure dick
Urkal > well fly safer

Another notch in the Carebear hunting rifle...

Hi...Help me Gank you! KKthksbye

Edition IV of SECT OR's self help series:

How to kill yourself 101: (tuition free)

[07:44:29] KunoH > moin
[07:44:36] Van Drakk > don't worry van drakks got all the slavaging here
[07:44:39] Van Drakk > ill be the janitor
[07:44:47] Van Drakk > just tellin ya
[07:44:57] KunoH > okay
[07:51:02] Van Drakk > you wanna do me a favor m8?
[07:54:13] Van Drakk > i want to test my transversal velocity think you could stick your drones on my i wanna see if i can elude them
[07:54:26] Van Drakk > me*
[07:55:23] KunoH > first, i go to the other gate^^
[07:55:37] Van Drakk > what do you mean?
[07:55:39] KunoH > you can loot if you want
[07:55:53] Van Drakk > yeah i know
[07:57:07] Van Drakk > you gonna stick your drones on me?
[07:57:15] Van Drakk > i wanna test my piloting skills
[07:57:26] KunoH > jepp
[07:57:47] KunoH > 44 km
[07:57:53] KunoH > ist the range
[07:58:01] Van Drakk > kk put em on me
[07:58:23] Van Drakk > i might have to warp out if they almost kill me
[07:58:48] Van Drakk > geez they are fast
[07:58:59] Van Drakk > thanks man
[07:59:05] Van Drakk > seems i need to work on some zig zag tactics
[07:59:14] KunoH > you welcome
[07:59:49] Van Drakk > im gonna repair my ship
[07:59:54] Van Drakk > you gonna finish your mission?
[08:00:00] Van Drakk > so i can salvage some more
[08:00:20] KunoH > jepp

Really?!?...you freely gave a Ninja agro in Hi Sec? Kill meh, kill meh kill meh!

[08:08:29] KunoH > this way?
[08:09:38] Van Drakk > 30 mil and ill let you go
[08:10:04] Van Drakk > whats it gonna be?
[08:10:23] KunoH > you dreaming
[08:10:31] Van Drakk > well your ships gona die then
[08:11:15] Van Drakk > it's still not too late
[08:11:21] Van Drakk > 25 mil and ill let you go
[08:11:29] KunoH > no way
[08:11:36] Van Drakk > lol alright lowest ill go is 20
[08:12:22] KunoH > no way not for zhis
[08:12:26] KunoH > this

[08:12:54] Van Drakk > 10 mil final offer

Poof...he dies.

Thus ends the lesson.

This game just got more "Brutal..."

So I just realized the impacts of the latest content delivery...Tyrannis.

I just bought an Arazu so i could play around in Wormhole space...flew around, buying cool stuff to fit it out. Before leaving base, I hit the Insurance Button.

Whoa.

I mean...Whoa.

If this ship dies...I get squat back.

It didn't quite register in my pea-brain when reading the Patch notes that insurance was getting re-calculated - and the impact.

So, instead of wallowing in disbelief, I chose to rejoice in the fact that when I kill someone's ship in game - it's gonna S U C K more for carebears!!!!! [Like the guy I killed in the prior post]

I like this.

I like this alot.