So much to ransom, so little time....

So today me and a corp mate were out hunting in Dal. after about 10 to 20 mins we locate a rifter.

my corp mate Kalreck warps in to confirm his location and upon arrival i am told to warp to his location. I warp in to find Kalreck already engaged and i join him. the fight was easy with just the basic tacticts of orbit at 500, scramble, web, and open fire.

upon taking his shields and armor down in seconds, we are now at his structure. keep in mind we have angels attacking us AND him. so we continue firing at his structure to finish the job...here is where things get funny...well funny to me and Kalreck at least. at 10% structure he sends the convo invite... he is at 10%... between latency and actually opening the convo, it was not enough time for me to cease fire AND tell Kalreck to cease with out blowing him up.

i ceased fire and opened convo, but like i said, not enough time and his ship popped. as his ship blows up he says cease fire he will pay ransom, obviously not noticing it is to late. as he notices what has just happened, he proceeds to call me a dipshit and immiedietly leave convo.

we get point on his pod and Kalreck opens convo for another attempt at ransom. at this point he says in local he was willing to do a ship ransom, but the pod ransom isnt worth it as he has no implants and "orders" us to pod kill him... we obliege and kill him...guess he has a new body to brake in now....

we then loot his wreck and wait for our cool downs to end... his loot sold for a little over 40k.... sigh... so the moral of the story is, 10% structure is not enough time to open a convo for ransom when you have 2 pirates, a npc, and latency against you... and dont call someone else a dipshit for your own mistake...

overall i found the whole thing funny and was glad to add another kill to the killboard :P

until next time, fly safe :)

a pirates life is the life for me!

I started playing this game about 2 weeks ago, after two days of the trial i was already sold and bought a full account. after about two days of carebear mission runs and mining i decided to look into the pvp side of EVE.

after doing a little research and seeing what it had to offer i found pirating, it looked so cool! hunting down your prey and opening fire on them with no remorse, taking their cargo and holding their little egg for ransom, seemed great!

so after looking up some of the most recommended guides, i was sold, i was going to play this game as a pirate. YARR!

i then went to the EVE forums to find a corp willing to take in a learning pirate, and help me in the event that i need it. i had a few offers, but the one that looked the most friendly and promising was Pyrotechnics Inc. i jumped on the offer and was off to amamake to throw in my application.

upon joining i realized i made the right choice, lots of good guys willing to help and have a good time hunting for prey. since then i have been learning at a rapid rate, between reading all the guides and info i can find, and the help my corp has given me.

right now im mainly training my skills, but i make sure to get in on what ever fleet roams i can.

I already have a few kills on our killboard, and also a few deaths, all but one of them being because of a stupid move on my part lol.

at any rate i really enjoy this and will be keeping at it.

untill next time, fly safe. :)