My Loot, Your Tears

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 mostly small and medium Angel NPCs with a few larges thrown in. The first time I warp in, there are only a few wrecks, so I figure they are either just getting started or are salvaging as they go. I make a notation on my bookmark to check back later, and go hit my other results, making about 15 million ISK in salvage and loot.

I return at just the right time: They are popping the last battlecruiser. I drop my calling card (A can containing a bookmark to Dodixie M20, labeled "Yoink! Suddenly, Ninjas!"), engage the afterburner on my Firetail, zoom out to get a feel for the layout of the field, and get to work. Both missionbears target me, but that's not unusual. They're waiting for me to loot and hoping that I won't be able to get away before they can pop me.

I'm working my way through the field, about 40 klicks away from both idling missionrunners, when suddenly jasia goes red! I throw the cat off my lap to free up my left hand and assess the situation. Did I loot earlier and not remember it? No. Surely he didn't... he did! I start grabbing screenshots.

Without a word, I stop what I'm doing and warp back to station, retrieving my loot Kestrel. As I'm powering toward the Megathron's wreck, I open a convo to jasia:

Paul Clavet > o/
jasia > ?
Paul Clavet > Zbikoki's Hacker Card
Paul Clavet > Do you need this?
Paul Clavet > I got it off your ship
jasia > its for a mission
Paul Clavet > 2M and it's yours
Paul Clavet > Why did you shoot at me without aggro? Didn't you know what would happen?
jasia > no thanks. i said its for a mission. it was completed long ago
jasia > and yes i did
jasia > i was hoping i could pop you before i got popped
jasia > a risk i was willing to take for somebody like you
Paul Clavet > well
Paul Clavet > thanks for the T2 loot
Paul Clavet > I'm gonna go finish salvaging your field now
jasia > see you in the very near future
Paul Clavet > I look forward to it! I'm always up for angel loot and T2 missionrunner gear.

I collect his mostly T2 equipment and drones, totaling maybe 30 million ISK, and go back to get my firetail. When I arrive, JeepGeneral has returned in a Catalyst. I scoot over next to him and salvage every wreck as he tractors them to us. After about five minutes of this, he realizes that he hasn't gotten a single wreck and warps off. I salvage the entire field, and loot it for good measure.

Look, people. This is not WoW. Just because you're in the spaceship equivalent of a level 60 pwnwarrior of doom doesn't mean you can one-shot any little salvaging bunny that crosses your path. No missionrunner who is fitted for the L4 missions I salvage is equipped to one-shot a Minmatar faction frigate going 2km/s. If you carry webs, and warp scramblers, and tiny drones, and fast-tracking guns you MIGHT kill me before CONCORD comes in to gank your very expensive ship, but you won't get much done in your missions. You still lose your nice ship, and I go back to pick up one of my three spare fitted Firetails.

When you shoot at ninjas, things happen. Bad things.

This entry was posted on July 6, 2009 at 2:36 PM by paul and is filed under Delicious Tears, Duffers, Ninja Salvaging.