The Fight:
So I finally had some time (30 mins :P) to go on a bit of a roam. I decided to check out a little of 0.0 thinking, "no big deal, I blow up, I blow up." Well, come to find out, after flying through about 10 systems, there were a couple other people in each system, but DAMN, I couldn't find anyone. After getting a bit bored, I flew back into low-sec, ran D-Scan and lo and behold! A navitas pops up on scan.
"Hmm" I think to myself. "This thing has gotta be bait." Well, after days of not finding anything, I figure any action is better than none and, who knows, maybe this guy's backup was going to be a juicy cruiser that I might be able to kill.
So I quickly get him pinned down to a belt and warp to 100, see him on scan, bounce back to my safe I just made at a few thousand km away and then bounced back over again to 0. "Crap" I think to myself, "He's 17 km away!" Really regretting at this moment that I slapped a cheapo Warp Scrambler I on my frig, I throw on my afterburners and take off after him.
Looking around, constantly pounding D-Scan, I wait for an indication that someone else is warping in...nothing yet. 14km....crap crap crap...CMON BABY....10km...."Why didn't I put one of the 9k scrams on my ship!? ><".....8km...POINT!
I set my orbit to 500 after looking at the ship info and realizing that this is a mining frig and that he hasn't even responded yet. "Crap" I think to myself, "I really wanted a good fight." Firing up my Autocannons and Rocket Launcher, I watch his shields and half his armor evaporate. One more hit and he was Kablooey!. Not really a spectacular fight, but at least it's another kill on the board. Meh.
So I lock up his pod and scram it and invite him to a conversation. Heh, I ask him flat out "How much is your pod worth to you?" He responds with "A lot". "WOOHOO" I think to myself, a payout! Seeing as how my wallet is sitting just below 5 mill, a nice payout would be really sweet. I tell him "Make me an honest offer and deposit it into my wallet in 30 seconds."
I starting counting down for him to be helpful, in case he loses count. "10 secs or I blow up your pod"...."Wait" he says, fed up and not willing to give his backup anymore time to get here I tell him "50 mil or I take you down now." He responds with "25 million". "Hmm" I say, "35 and it's a deal". Ok he says..."transferred". I look at my wallet and theres 35k that was deposited. I laugh, "Lol you gave me 35,000; not 35,000,000". He starts arguing with me and then says, "Whatever" so poof. Ah well, maybe next time I'll have better luck. His ship didn't even have anything in it, which was kinda sad. Thankfully I didn't waste a lot of ammo.
Afterward, killing my GCC in a safe, I see 3 ships, a Hurricane, an Absolution and a Loki all pop up in D-Scan at once. Almost immediately I see Sisters Combat Probes on scan. "Aw crap, he's back with friends" I think to myself. Looking at the pilots, it appears that he is not one of them, however, you never know if someone logged off of their alt and onto a main to get retribution. Not willing to take the chance, I start hopping between safes and making new ones and then jumping to 100 on my current ones. GOD 15 minutes takes forever lol. Once my cooldown expired, I docked up since it was time to go to the store.
Looking Back:
Not a ton to look back at and figure out what went wrong. I pinned him down fairly quick, I do think that I should have bookmarked the Asteroid he was working on so I could warp in at less than 15k, but I also wasn't willing to waste any more time with him finding out I was there.
I didn't see any minerals in his cargo, so I think not sticking around was a good idea as it very well could have been a bait ship. My only real failure was using a 7k warp scram instead of the 9k version.
Hopefully next time I can get a real fight. Also, for those who ask where I am and where you are at, I like the hunting aspect, knowing where someone is or staging a 1v1 is just not near as much fun to me. I really appreciate the help finding fights, but if I can't find them myself, I need to find something else I do better at. :)
0.0 isn't a real place to look for solo fights. You could probably gank someone there, but I won't say it'll be a real fight in most cases. Low sec is likely the better the option. Also depending on the area of 0.0 there may not be anyone at all. It'd probably be good in that case to use dotlan to find ratting systems and try to find kills that way.
ReplyDeleteLearning how to find targets is half the battle, so don't worry if you are not getting "real" fights at first.
ReplyDeleteIt's not all technical skill either. Learning your "patch" is also important - and not all regions are created equal either. That may be part of the reasoning behind asking location, people wanting to suggest better locations or tips about your location.
Personally, I've found regions with faction warfare to be excellent.
I plan on moving all my stuff to Raneilles soon through red frog. I just need to get a hold of the 7 mill to do it. I think I am going to have to burn to L4 missions to support my PVP habit once I get RL straightened out and I have more than an hour to roam every couple/few days.
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