If they have an active wardec there is no security rating hit for popping fellow militia members they're at war with. Gate guns don't aggro, and fellow militiamen can't help without taking a sec/faction hit and gate gun aggro. That's why I recommend joining the NPC corps if you're FWing -- less fucktard annoyance to deal with.
I'm once again doing the Amarr FW thing and remembering why I hate it so. It's sheer agony getting a decent fight.
Oh, Rad: you forget insurance. After insurance battleships are cheaper than free if you don't rig them. The difference between their price and platinum insurance payout can cover fittings so long as you don't go too crazy and fit a few T1 pieces. For example, the abaddon is 180M payout, 54M insurance cost IIRC. You can find them for 124M or less around empire. Which means 2M net income for every one you lose. The same goes to a lesser extent for almost all other T1 ships.
I bought a stack of over 100 abaddons a few days ago. Took me about 6 hours to gank my own alts flying them (damn that built-in 25% resist bonus) but now my epeen is HUGE.
Couldn't you just self destruct your ship to get the payout?
I just saw this on Impulse: http://www.impulsedriven.com/eveonline
You can get 30 days of Eve for $9.95! That is normally $20 to join including the startup fee. I was suprised to see that, considering the game seems to be doing very well with subscriptions.
Steam has Eve on sale for $5 right now.
I just did buddy invites from my accounts and in the end got 3 months of gametime for each of my accounts. Not bad for $30
Oh, Rad: you forget insurance. After insurance battleships are cheaper than free if you don't rig them. The difference between their price and platinum insurance payout can cover fittings so long as you don't go too crazy and fit a few T1 pieces. For example, the abaddon is 180M payout, 54M insurance cost IIRC. You can find them for 124M or less around empire. Which means 2M net income for every one you lose. The same goes to a lesser extent for almost all other T1 ships.
I bought a stack of over 100 abaddons a few days ago. Took me about 6 hours to gank my own alts flying them (damn that built-in 25% resist bonus) but now my epeen is HUGE.
Happy New Year everyone!
When I started in my new alliance, I made a few goals to get by the end of the year. None of them seemed overly difficult, but surprisingly I was on pace to miss all 5 goals until the day I became an outlaw. Since then, I have not only met the goals I have exceeded all five.
My goals were simple:
Attain 100 Real Kills (I got 182, and 200 total)
Kill 10B ISK worth of targets (I destroyed 20.33B ISK worth of targets)
Attain 10,000 total points [kill points minus loss points] - (I attained 13,809 total points and 14,757 kill points with 948 loss points)
Maintain a 90% or better efficiency ratio (I have a 95.71% efficiency ratio)
Maintain a 10:1 kill ratio or better (I have a 13.33 : 1 kill ratio)
http://www.nawti.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=39347
All this sounds like bragging, but to be honest none of this is particularly impressive. Even so, I am happy to have attained all my goals and wanted to share!
Happy New Year everyone!
When I started in my new alliance, I made a few goals to get by the end of the year. None of them seemed overly difficult, but surprisingly I was on pace to miss all 5 goals until the day I became an outlaw. Since then, I have not only met the goals I have exceeded all five.
My goals were simple:
Attain 100 Real Kills (I got 182, and 200 total)
Kill 10B ISK worth of targets (I destroyed 20.33B ISK worth of targets)
Attain 10,000 total points [kill points minus loss points] - (I attained 13,809 total points and 14,757 kill points with 948 loss points)
Maintain a 90% or better efficiency ratio (I have a 95.71% efficiency ratio)
Maintain a 10:1 kill ratio or better (I have a 13.33 : 1 kill ratio)
http://www.nawti.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=39347
All this sounds like bragging, but to be honest none of this is particularly impressive. Even so, I am happy to have attained all my goals and wanted to share!
Heh, some guy over in the Eve forums was saying something about being safe making ISK in hi-sec and rolling in an officer fit faction BS. I wrote, "You really think you're safe in hi-sec? Where are you located?" Then he told me and he's right next to me! He seemed serious, but I hope for his sake he was just trolling or posting with an alt. If I find it again I'll post it here. Maybe I'll waltz around with a ship scanner
No place is safe although it wouldn't be easy to kill an officer fit faction BS before Concord nailed you if you tried it in high sec space unless you had a wardec or a fair number of friends with high DPS ships. The wardec would tip him off though and he would likely leave the ship docked, best bet would be friends and high dps ships.
Oh, I wouldn't try it alone :twisted:
And he was naming low-sec places too
I've been playing EVE on and off for quite a while, and I've finally decided to swear off my carebearish ways and start having some real fun in 0.0. For now I'm trying to learn to rat safely in nul-sec & have had several Caracals & pods shot out from underneath me, guess that'll teach me to keep an eye on local and on the directional scanner. Anyone here interested in doing some nul-sec ratting in cheap cruisers?
A lot of my losses were because I did stupid things. For example, I'd rat in the 0.0 system that was closest to low-sec space rather than going deeper into nul-sec. Once I was there I didn't keep an eye on local, didn't use my directional scanner, warped straight to belts rather than 50km away, etc etc. After a little more practice I'd like to fit a ship that would be good at surprising and popping interceptors that are tackling. I'm guessing something with a nos, rocket launchers and a webber would be the way to go?