My Loot, Your Tears

Reader Lazarann writes in:

Hey guys,
I love your blog, it's some seriously entertaining reading. It's great how you've made a career out of ruining the days of carebears. It's part of what makes Eve great.
My corp is currently moving out of Syndicate and while we find a new home, we're looking for something to do to pass the time. There's only about 10-12 actual people in our corp and a plethora of alts.
I thought it might be fun to take a page out of your book and see if we can't get ourselves some tears. I've got an Orca and it's easy enough to find the carebears. My concern is, I want to be able to involve as many of my corp as possible. Keep the pvp interest alive while we find something to do.
So my question is: What's the easiest way to get everyone involved? As far as I'm aware, they won't get aggression unless they actually get shot at so aside from some Logistics support, I'm hoping you can suggest some ideas. A few of our members are pretty inexperienced so I don't think they'd have much success on their own.
Thanks a lot,
-Laz

Great question!

I'll take a page out of Suddenly Ninjas playbook and suggest large fleet operations. Stage in a large mission hub. Get one or two people who are experienced with scanning to act as mission runner scanners. One person should be a scout to check out the hits and determine if they're worth going in and bothering the mission runner. Everyone else should be in a salvage ship. Then go and swarm over these missions like flies, stealing everything in sight.

Eventually you will get some angry carebears to shoot. Great! Let them rage at your fleet while the person or persons who got shot off go and get gank ships; the Orca is good for keeping these and for rapid-turn around. No need to dock/undock. You can have a few of your fleet mates keep logistic ships handy, but you won't need a lot of them. Then go and blow the mission runners up.

If you're brave, have your salvage ships fit points. You can point a mission runner, and if he doesn't have drones, you should be able to fly around him at high speed under his guns. Get a fleet mate to bring you a PvP ship. They eject, you enter it, take out mission runner. It may help to bump the mission runner if he's aligned to something. Use battlecruisers with microwarp drives, as they do excellent bumping.

Make sure you keep the scan-id of your targets. For added hilarity, scan them down over and over, and keep plundering their missions.

Hope this gives you some good ideas!

This entry was posted on February 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM by khalia and is filed under Mail.