Hands Off, My Loots!

Ok, I can’t explain how stupid I think this idea is in a few words, so I have to respond with my own post.  Astral, over at Eve Trial by Fire, just posted an idea about how to mess with ninja salvagers.  And…since I’m rather experienced on the topic…I can say without a shadow of a doubt that it’s a fucking horrible plan…as well as pointless.

Isk is usually a side-effect of Ninjaing…it’s not a goal.  Our goal is Tears, and kills, and kill mails…so read on…

Recently I have been thinking about running a small sideline buisness in eve..now bear with me, because I havent trried this yet so im not 100% sure it would work, but if it does, it would be a fun way to piss off ninja salvagers.

This would not piss us off, it would make us laugh (specially when you fail…because I can guarantee you’ll never manage to kill a ninja that knows what he’s doing before concord pops you).  I’d also thank you for providing me with a killmail since I’ll shoot you before concord blows you up and whore the killmail for myself. (as will many other ninjas)

I would pick a region know for ninja’s, then advertise my “anti ninja service” for 10 mill a mission, if anyone decides they want me i buy a cheap t1 frig insured (a punisher most likely), fit it for speed and DPS then get them to fleet me so I can warp straight to them.

Another error here.  Do don’t fit suicide ships for DPS, you fit them for max alpha…which is why a frigate wouldn’t work.  Concord shows up quick enough that you won’t have a chance to do many volleys…therefor one big volley is normally better than one small volley.

I would then sit by a station away from the fleet while they run the mission..should a ninja show up, i get them to lock him (stop’s them cloaking) and get within 20 km i then warp in drop fleet and pop them before Concord pops me..basicly a suiside gank with morals!

A suicide gank with morals?  Really?  This is a game, and Ninja Salvaging is an approved profession…nothing wrong is going on technically…so there is not moral issue.

As most of the ships people use to ninja have paper thin tanks I think I could pull this off, while it would cost me about 3-4 mill a time (i’d use good guns) i could be popping ninja’s saving the mission runners 2-3 times that, and if im poping covert ops ships with nice probe launcher’s ..it will really upset them.
you could even offer 5 mill back if your not needed and make 5 mill for nothing..

This will not save anyone anything…except a mission runner wasting their isk for you to die, and if you succeed…for the Ninja to simple dock up, grab another ship, and go back to the mission knowing you can’t undock for another 15 minutes.

And popping Sisters Launchers?  If you manage to do that, then you have found a noob…not a ninja.  Ninjas do not salvage with their scan ships.

If anyone has tried this or has any veiws or advive id love to hear from you as i think this would be a LOT of fun and am seriously thinking about giving it a go next week.

I agree, this will be a LOT of fun.  I get free kill mails, I get to watch someone pointlessly kill themselves, and I get to salvage their wreck.  All the while knowing the Mission Runner paid 10 Mil Isk to watch it happen.

Seriously man, throw this plan in the garbage and realize you can’t do anything to a ninja to piss them off…we are pretty immune to caring about our ships dieing