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Ninja Salvaging
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Reader Submission: Duselduzi falls into my trap and drops faction loot!
Our first reader submitted story is from player AKeeFa , who writes clearly and concisely, with tears, loot and betrayal. Well done! ---- I don't get much time to grief these days so I quickly scan down a noobish bear… -
An All-In-One Guide to Ninja Salvaging
So a lot of the time I spend online, I see newer players coming into the SN public chat looking for advice on how to start up with doing ninja salvage. MLYT has hosted many guides, on how to scan, find a system, and… -
Ninja Salvage and Bait Is Dying
This is an opinion piece. I expect a lot of disagreement in comments; please do. Both Paul and I like to see the blog as a place where people can freely express opinions, even when we don't agree with them, or you with… -
CapVerfex and Zylien Luzifer Give CNRs, Deadspace Loot, and 500M to Paul Clavet
So, it had been too long. RL concerns have been keeping me from spending much time plying my ninja trade. Today, however, I was home with a sinus infection, high on medication, and bored, so I figured I'd see if my… -
Roofman's Tengu: Not as Winsauce as Khalia's Worm
Short entry, because I'm lazy. Doing the usual work in Ruvas, and come across Roofman in his Tengu. I don't even steal and he locks me up; so I give it a few and then grab from him. He gives it a few and opens fire on… -
Taildust Gives Paul Clavet a Loki
I was talking with Khalia out of game and announced that it was time for me to get my ninja on. He had been doing his ninja thing in Ammold where I was based at the time, but was frustrated that he wasn't getting any… -
Sometimes the Bear Eats You
"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you." - Elwin Charles Roe, major league pitcher Paul and I have never made any illusion that we are invincible, amazing players. His best line on this was, "We… -
Limbizquit Loses Faction-Fit Vargur, 500M Ransom to Paul Clavet
(HD up to 1080p available!) Killmail . I'm pretty proud of this gank and the associated video. If you're a ninja who hasn't trained your scanning skills up, take a look and you'll see why they're crucial. -
From the Mailbag: Ronin Noble's First Gank
Hey Paul, I wanted to thank you, over the past couple of months i have been a avid reader of your blog. I always loved the way you would gank mission runners and its something iv always wanted to do, but never really… -
Gunbuster Rono donates his Apocalypse Navy Issue to Jerks
Three hours of ninja salvaging had gone by without a single mission runner shooting at me. I was getting desperate. When I scanned down an Apocalypse Navy Issue, I grabbed a gank Hurricane I had sitting around and… -
Boomer2674 and Po Mofo Have a Bad Day
I'm poking around Taru last night looking for some careless carebears, and up pops a Nightmare, Maelstrom and Raven all in one mission. Boomer2674 is by himself in the first room, slowboating to the next gate. I swipe… -
Graaatch: Working an Hour for Paul Clavet
So I had a couple of hours, and felt like ganking a carebear. I logged onto Eve and launched probes, finding a Rokh and two Golems within a minute. Knowing that a marauder would be clearing as it went, I held the Rokh… -
Snipehamster downs a Raven, reaps tears
I've been slowly getting back into Eve. So today I'm logged on and Snipehamster in The Ninja Alliance is having some trouble finding a Raven wreck on d-scan in Balginia. I offer to warp down with my pimp'd covops and… -
Wolfjack13 has a terrible name, and even poorer decision-making skills
Kiritsubo told me to update my blog , so I did. Don't ever say that I never did anything for my readers. -
Blog Banter #20 - Griefing in EVE
With the recent completion of the 3rd installment of the Hulkageddon last month, @CyberinEVE , author of Hands Off, My Loots! , asks: “Griefing is a very big part of EVE. Ninja Salvaging, Suicide Ganking, Trolling, and… -
CCP: Lose your ship to a ninja? Here's your ship back.
Carebear loses a CNR to aggro extension from a ninja. Carebear admits that he saw the aggro timer and undocked anyway, but still petitions his loss. A senior GM gives him his ship back . Since aggro extension has been a… -
Pirate Invasions
Today when I logged on in Ruvas to look for carebear targets, I saw some strange purple chat in local. Further investigation revealed that this was a pirate invasion live event. I grabbed an interceptor from my Orca and… -
Nitnargimmi's Faction Golem Meets JerkTengu
Ruvas doesn't have many bears, but the ones that do live there are fat and stupid. Nitnargimmi shoots, I score . I had a chance to make this a Golem+CNR kill, but I got spooked by some logistical issues and underplayed… -
Tokhein and Moonshots: Racist Bastard
Scene: I've warped into Tokhein's World's Collide and salvaged a few wrecks out from under his CNR in the first room. Moonshots is there in a Hurricane. They both warp off. Tokhein > bye bye paul, not stealing my shit… -
Paul Clavet's Comeback: Qhuashimides' Golem and 600M Ransom
It's been far too long. For a while there I had quit salvaging and was thinking about a long break from Eve altogether. Talking to Khalia the other day, I decided to just grit my teeth and salvage until I got a kill, to… -
Living The Dream: CNR and Rattlesnake kills
The Eve universe does not stand still, and neither do ninjas (or jerks). With the rise of interest in ninja salvaging - helped by this blog to some part - mission runners have become more aware of our presence and… -
Burime Learns the Price of Revenge
I only had a couple of hours before I had to return to work. The great thing about the Jerk lifestyle, however, is that you can get good gameplay in even if you only have a short period of time. I launched my probes,… -
Saelii Loses Rokh, 100M ISK
In Ichoriya, I find a Rokh running faction missions. After taking a dozen 1M ISK tags, Saelii locks and fires. I warp off to the Orca, grab JerkTengu, and return. I open a convo with Saelii just as my warp disruptor… -
Suck it, Crigga
I moved up to Umokka in Lonetrek to do some salvage-and-bait. Dodixie is the traditional ninja home, but it's fun to terrorize and annoy the runners from other parts of the game - who are hopefully not as jaded as… -
Fightin' Dirty
If Honorless Internet Jerks has a corporate motto, it is "Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose." The battle I had with Telendra Korrh of Grayson Space Enterprises was a perfect example of… -
AmonWarr Doesn't Learn from usmcjeramy, Loses Navy Mega
I'm scanning along in a new time slot for me, and it's like Dodixie is reborn and repopulated with idiots. I scan down a mission with two Navy Megas, piloted by usmcjeramy and AmonWarr. usmcjeramy locks and fires when I… -
U [M-A-D]? Faction cruiser kill and excellent tears
It was late and Paul had just signed off to get some shut-eye. I was considering doing the same, but figured I'd spin the scanning wheel and give it one more chance to provide me with someone foolish enough to open… -
Three for the Price of One: Brotherhood of Two Nations
It's been too long since a MLYT post. The following isn't amazingly exciting, but amusing enough that I hope it will keep you satisfied until we get back to full-speed. =) As usual the location is Dodixie, and I warp… -
Three Kills, One Night: Hilaway, Tamiden, Firemaster
From the evening of 3/30/2010. Note the superb video quality in fullscreen. Also note that YouTube imposes a 10-minute limit on videos, so screw them. Thanks to Khalia for help on the first two kills and for letting me… -
Push the big red button, WT's, and Hulks.
Hello again, :) Over the last few days some funny events have happened, first off, Khalia got his wish of a faction kill, which has been long in the making. Yesterday, I had something rather interesting happen. I was… -
Tactical Errors and Delicious Tears: phalanx warriorll
It's just a typical day of salvaging mission runners in Dodixie. The Drake that I'm pulling loot from targets me but holds fire. Eventually all the NPCs are gone and he warps out of the mission. I figure either closing… -
Night of the Fail-Fleets, Part II: Mando'a Navy
After helping Khalia and Charismatic down a fleet earlier in the evening , I was out Ninjaing and came across a Typhoon piloted by Grymmstorm, running what looked like a level 2 mission! Of course, as soon as I looted… -
Night of the Fail-Fleets, Part I: Twilight Labs
When it rains, it pours. On this Sunday night in Dodixie we had the pleasure of ganking two entire missionrunner fleets. This is about the first - the pilots of Twilight Labs. As it usually happens this began with some… -
Achievement Unlocked: Mission Runner Flees Dodixie
I'm just hanging out in station while doing other things on my computer, and talking with some of the other ninjas. Ninja kiki mo says she has a mission runner who left, can someone come pew the battlecruiser rats for… -
How To Scan For Mission Runners - Fast and Easy
Update, 9/11/2011: Due to changes by CCP to the scanning mechanics, this method is outdated. The basics work, but you will instead want to use EIGHT probes: 7 on north-south-east-west-top-bottom-center, and one more… -
MR Greyy just doesn't know when to quit
Dodixie is the home for ninja salvaging, but the locals have mostly learned to ignore us - which is good if you want free stuff, but bad if you want blood and tears. I decided to set up shop in a less picked-over… -
JerkRaven Downs Four: Always Bet on Stupid
I was salvaging a mission that had just been completed which at varying times had been home to a Kronos, Dominix, Raven, Cormorant, and Damnation. Conventional wisdom is to not attempt bait-and-gank on multiple… -
The delusions of the e-honor crowd
I found CadetBoot in his Hyperion and started eating up his tasty loot. A few minutes later, an Evemail arrives. What follows is the entire back and forth, edited for clarity. I find this a perfect example of the reason… -
JerkTengu Goes Down: An Important Lesson for Ninjas
Tonight I warped back to a mission bookmark that I had salvaged/looted at a while earlier. It had been closed and cleared, but just as I arrived in my Dramiel, the MR, Soban Vuex, landed in a Vexor and locked me. He… -
Tyr Anasaze should have stayed in Andromeda
[See Tyr Anasazi for the title reference.] Captain Charismatic probes out a Dominix, loots, and gets shot at. He calls in backup and Zarago and I respond. Using the full advantage of our fleet, I go to the mission site… -
Patience is a virtue, as Outlaw5tar discovered
My security status dropped to -3.00 over night, from an event which I'll post up here after the video footage becomes available. Because of this I've moved operations to Emolgranlan until I am able to bribe CONCORD into… -
GR3VER's Vagabond meets NinjaFleet
A great Sunday afternoon for some mayhem and tears in Dodixie. I was all set for some solo salvage and bait-gank, but an impromptu fleet formed out of members of The Ninja Alliance channel. After a successful but boring… -
PQLSEHUNDEN Loses Dominix, 50M to JerkTengu
Yawn. I enter the mission and steal a T1 1MN afterburner. The Dominix shoots. I retrieve JerkTengu from the Orca and, after selecting the correct damage type, start knocking big chunks of carebear armor off. Paul Clavet… -
Suddenly Ninjas Recruitment Video
Freaking awesome. If you like what you see on my blog and want to commit similar capers, consider joining Suddenly Ninjas. -
Tsunayoshi Sawada: Tasty Tears, No Domi
I can't blog these fast enough. The day, the day the Domi died. tl;dr: Two Domi's in World's Collide. They shoot. I shoot back. One warps off, they other pops after I get no ransom. Note: Thanks to Cyras DeValera for RR… -
For the Hat Trick: Fabian Akbar loses a Domi
Yes, this makes three kills in one night: Nighthawk, Megatron, Dominix. Too many Dominix in Dodixie. They're like the Ford Escort of mission running ships - everywhere, everyone uses them. And they rarely shoot. But I… -
EvilArt: One mega down, and he owes me 300m
I'll let the chat log speak for itself, along with the killmail . I warped in to this no-gate mission and started looting. He fires and I warp off. [ 2010.01.10 04:40:19 ] EvilArt > ты кто? [ 2010.01.10 04:40:21 ]… -
Sungi Verto Shoots, Scores (One Lost Navy Megathron)
I have raw video of this fight, but the software I was using is flaking out and I haven't time to work on it any more before I head out of town for the week. Sorry about that. The scene is a large single-room Serpentis… -
Dr Resurection discovers Command Ships aren't invulnerable
Out scanning in Dodixie today and got a Nighthawk hit. Command Ships usually either assume they can take anything, or they won't fire a shot. I warp in and start grabbing loot and salvage. I think he was AFK, because on… -
fydeg Meets JerkRaven, Dies Boringly, Threatens Doom
So I'm salvaging a Mission Generic field. Actually, I'm just looting. Metal Scraps are a pain. There's a Raven there, but the mission is complete and it's just hanging around. I get a convo: [ 2010.01.09 15:35:49 ]… -
Teh Dizzle Charges and Fails, Twice.
So I'm salvaging along in Dodixie when I come across a Catalyst salvaging a room. I follow him, flying to the wrecks he is tractoring and salvaging them out from under his nose. This is usually something I do purely for… -
I'm Not a Dev, I Just Play One on TV
I'm on a vacation from my wormhole, thanks to a two-day event in which we held a POS from ransom - and then killed it, of course. Off to Dodixie I went - months since I did any salvaging and gank baiting. Paul joined me… -
Goldangel and Luckyduce Shoot at Paul Clavet, Pay in Blood
Upside: I figured out what was causing the stupidly poor video quality, and have fixed it. Downside: I seem to have had some issues with the final compilation, probably related to having to use intermediate steps in the… -
Naeleros MKII Meets JerkRaven
This is a no-frills Hyperion gank, but I wanted to make sure that everyone knew I was still alive and playing a bit. The quality should be improved this time around, but I feel there are still improvements to be made. I… -
Akemi Mifune's CNR Meets Paul Clavet's JerkRaven
Killmail here . The video is still fuzzy, I know. I run Eve at 1080p and when it gets squished down for distribution a ton of detail is lost. I may well end up running it in windowed mode a bit smaller to boost my… -
Mahna Mahna: A Ninja Scanning Demonstration
This is my first attempt at a YouTube video. What do you think? If feedback is good I'll start recording my carebear ganks and post them as well. -
Guild Shout-outs. Killing spree!
I've recently installed a Sitemeter widget (wow, averaging 175 unique IP visitors a day!) and have been seeing lots of referrals coming from corp and alliance forums that I can't view without a login. If someone in your… -
Voxeltree learns: Never turn your back on a Jerk.
You know what they say about Megathron pilots. They always shoot ninjas . I don't know why, but a significant percentage of Megathron pilots will shoot at ninja salvagers, then stick around to have their ship aerated.… -
Joa'har falls to NinjaRaven, cries about it
So the fail-dec from the carebear alliance continues, but I continue to salvage in Dodixie, even when there are a half-dozen enemy pilots trying to track me down. They haven't caught me yet. Today I scanned down a… -
Ninja Tip: Ship's Crew and other mission objectives
Tonight I was salvaging in Emol under the noses of WTs from the fail carebear alliance that has us under wardec, when I came across an Angel/Sansha Worlds Collide mission being run by two Ravens. Long story short, I… -
Ironical learns: Shooting at ninjas causes unfortunate events.
Well, the fail-war from the fail-alliance is still on, which means that my salvaging operations in Dodixie are still... proceeding as usual. They tried to work with a missionrunner to trap me in a mission last night,… -
I made a carebear quit Eve. Yes, she gave me all her stuff.
That email in french from Ju'Ane d'Ellenarile that I got after killing her Hyperion? I should have looked at it more closely: 2009.08.29 03:54 embrassez mon âne à fourrure.. Babelfish translates it to "Kiss my rear with… -
Ju'Ane d'Ellenarile falls to NinjaRaven
(Author's note: I am posting this from a cellular-connected netbook moving at 75 MPH down a highway in the Southern US. If there are glitches or errors, they can be attributed to either a small keyboard or an unreliable… -
Alute learns about shooting a ninja.
I was beginning to feel like all I ever did was fleet work, so when I logged on yesterday I politely turned down fleet invites from other ninjas and struck out solo. I pulled my Helios scan ship out of my Orca, scanned… -
From Michella, presented without comment
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NinjaFleets, Shooting at Them, Ransoms, and You
It seems that a pattern is developing for Saturdays in Suddenly Ninjas: Paul Clavet logs in to check his market orders and see what's shaking with the corp. Multiple ninjas beg Paul to start a salvage op. Paul states… -
Mythicon learns not to shoot at ninjas
Hello all, my Eve name is Khalia Nestune, and you may have seen me mentioned in some of Paul's earlier posts. Paul has invited me to contribute some occasional stories of loot, tears and gank to My Loot, Your Tears. The… -
In which Paul Clavet is a moron
So last night's NinjaFleet Salvage TearOp was a success by attendance standards, and we even killed a T2-fitted Drake! It was at a high cost, however. Early in the op, we were salvaging and looting the field of one… -
JeepGeneral and jasia: You'd think they would learn.
Don't shoot at ninja salvagers. Bad things happen. One of my six or so scan hits is a missionrunning duo of jasia in a Megathron and JeepGeneral in a Dominix. It's a very large-single room mission with lots of waves of… -
Tearful Taste: Hiko Seijiro
(This is a new feature, where I present a short conversation log without comment. While not as epic as Tears Features, I do find snippets satisfying enough to share.) Paul Clavet > o/ Hiko Seijiro > hi, why are you in… -
NinjaFleet TearOp Report, July 3, 2009
Also titled: Don't shoot at NinjaFleet. Also titled: Don't make RL threats on Eve. Also titled: NinjaFleet gets rich. I'll keep this short and sweet, because it's very late and I'm tired. We had our regularly-scheduled… -
Tears Feature: D3vastator
I was out today doing my normal Sunday afternoon solo ninja salvaging. I scanned down a missionbear finishing up a large single-room Angel mission. I warped in with my Firetail and got to work. For context, here's what… -
In which Drucore learns a valuable lesson
As the new Director of Salvage Operations for Suddenly Ninjas, I figured that it was important to get a team salvage operation going ASAP to fly the colors. Sometime I'll go over the mechanics of such operations, but…