Althorn
Full Member
Last night, decided to have a break from my "main" thought I'd dust off my Amarr toon, but I had just progressed to a new agent, and needed to shift some stuff, 10 jumps in a ikkle ship, not fun.
So on my second (trial) account I fire up my mining slave and pootle over to the nearby mining field, might as well do sommat while I wait for Mining IV to train.
Well, I arrive in belt to see a big mining barge stripping the field, and a can under him.
Wondering why such a big ship is using a can, I fly up to it, I mean, I'm in a bantam, no implants, and in high sec space, he is in a dedicated mining ship, whats he going to do?
Well, when I open the can it's nearly full!!! WTF I say. I expect him to get testy, and I look around for a cargo hauler, none, I know the mining specialised ships don't have any weapons to speak of, so I lift a hold full and fly off, I do this about 4 times no response, so I'm confident it's a macro miner, I think wayhey, free minerals!
On the 5th run I spot a caracal in system, flying towards to miner, thinking it's just another curious player I ignore him and carry on my thiervery.
Lock on.
Heh, I think, if he wants to blow his ship up, nay problem.
I grab the minerals, engage warp.
You are being warp scrambled.
Hang on a sec, what if he's grouped with the stripminer, um, this might be the guys "other" account, or a corpmate, either way it's not looking good for the bantam or the 5th load of minerals.
Hmm, salvo of heavy missiles later my bantam is spacedust, glad I used plat insurance, get my cash back that way
Manage to warp out with pod, not that it would of mattered, wonder exactly how warp scamble works, do players need to relock the pod? does it have cool down?
I then wait out the timer in the station, but undock at 50s remaining.
I return to the field to see both the caracal and the stripminer guy, now in his BC waiting for me.
I don't stand a chance in my Ibis.
They both lock on and fire.
The missiles hit at 52s since I undocked ... agression timer expired, concord turn up and paste them both.
They both warp out before I can shoot at them with my one civilian rail
My main and friends badger2 turn up in system a few seconds later and haul away the phat loot after <censored> has "cleaned" the cans of any fingerprints
took 8 runs of a badger2 to shift all the minerals
Not a bad evening I thought
So on my second (trial) account I fire up my mining slave and pootle over to the nearby mining field, might as well do sommat while I wait for Mining IV to train.
Well, I arrive in belt to see a big mining barge stripping the field, and a can under him.
Wondering why such a big ship is using a can, I fly up to it, I mean, I'm in a bantam, no implants, and in high sec space, he is in a dedicated mining ship, whats he going to do?
Well, when I open the can it's nearly full!!! WTF I say. I expect him to get testy, and I look around for a cargo hauler, none, I know the mining specialised ships don't have any weapons to speak of, so I lift a hold full and fly off, I do this about 4 times no response, so I'm confident it's a macro miner, I think wayhey, free minerals!
On the 5th run I spot a caracal in system, flying towards to miner, thinking it's just another curious player I ignore him and carry on my thiervery.
Lock on.
Heh, I think, if he wants to blow his ship up, nay problem.
I grab the minerals, engage warp.
You are being warp scrambled.
Hang on a sec, what if he's grouped with the stripminer, um, this might be the guys "other" account, or a corpmate, either way it's not looking good for the bantam or the 5th load of minerals.
Hmm, salvo of heavy missiles later my bantam is spacedust, glad I used plat insurance, get my cash back that way
Manage to warp out with pod, not that it would of mattered, wonder exactly how warp scamble works, do players need to relock the pod? does it have cool down?
I then wait out the timer in the station, but undock at 50s remaining.
I return to the field to see both the caracal and the stripminer guy, now in his BC waiting for me.
I don't stand a chance in my Ibis.
They both lock on and fire.
The missiles hit at 52s since I undocked ... agression timer expired, concord turn up and paste them both.
They both warp out before I can shoot at them with my one civilian rail
My main and friends badger2 turn up in system a few seconds later and haul away the phat loot after <censored> has "cleaned" the cans of any fingerprints
took 8 runs of a badger2 to shift all the minerals
Not a bad evening I thought
