Finally after a fairly hairy start to my pirate life I’ve started to settle down into the ebb and flow of outlaw life. I no longer risk expensive ships in fights just for fun. If I get even the vaguest sniff of a trap I just move on and live to fight another day. I’m earning enough ISK to keep myself in ships and ammo and starting to get some decent ransoms. I even know the systems we hunt in regularly and have a feel for the pilots that I see in the local channel.
Most reassuring of all though is that the “Chances of enemy survival” statistic on my killboard profile has finally dropped below 50%! Yay! Bring out the grog!
Uncategorized September 22nd 2008
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
You can always do what I do Wens, steal everything that’s not bolted down.
It may sound stupid, but taking the time to loot abandoned rat wrecks, as well as the occasional floating husk of a destroyed player ship and abandoned drones really helps keeping your balance in the black.
I made around 15 mil doing that over the past two weeks, just from the stuff I came across conducting my normal business (i.e. if i scan no players, I scan for wrecks in the belts as well and just check those out).
It’s not much, but it adds up over time.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
It is really hard to get into the mindset of not plunging into certain death every time a potential encounter pops up. As much FUN as it is to do so, it gets very costly very fast.
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I haven’t quite learned this non-kamikaze lesson yet…there’s always this sort of “WHEEEEEEEEEE and damn the consequences!” attitude that comes over me when I see any lone ship smaller than a battleship. I don’t give in most of the time (kinda depends on how in love I am with the ship I’m flying), but I want to. Probably explains why I’m such a crappy poker player.
Using probes, you can find a LOT of abandoned drones (often T2′s) in systems where folks run a lot of missions. Nobody seems to bother to go back for them. Might as well scoop them and sell them.