FoH guide to EVE Online

[Fog]

Originally Posted by Tirinal

Everyone universally loathes them since Jita is so essential to selling certain items and being forced to use npc corp alts to transfer goods is a massive pain in the ass.

That's not true, I like them.

[Cedric]

I think most goons find the privateers and the effect they have on people to be pretty funny, but then again goons actually have a sense of humor unlike the rest of eve.

[merkur]

Originally Posted by Manticore

they cancelled it because e-uni had their 3th anniversary celebration the next week and were asked to put the wardec down or delay it

Well, I know that, but didn't wanna leak info out if it was hush hush or somthing.

*edit*
nvm, saw the thread in the eve forums, where the PA tells why they cancelled, so it was outta the bag anyhow.

[merkur]

I also don't loath them. It's pretty fun puttin patrols and stuff together to find gatecamps.

[Dildo Faggins]

Privateers are carebears with guns. Their gate camps only harass noobs. Our alliance's Industrial haulers are all in npc corps, and effectively immune to their harassment. I cant think of a single major loss we've had to the privateers. Their gatecamps on top of that just arent dangerous unless your flying something really big and really slow without checking your path before going. Such people are stupid, and deserve to lose their ships. If you think the stupid little gatecamps the privateers have are dangerous, you havent been to 0,0. There are gatecamps there which you only need to experience once to realize how laughable what the privateers do is.

[FoghornDeadhorn]

Originally Posted by Cedric

I think most goons find the privateers and the effect they have on people to be pretty funny, but then again goons actually have a sense of humor unlike the rest of eve.

There are a lot of non-goons who find them amusing but I think 'respect' is a little hard to find. What Privateers do that some people enjoy is marginally disrupt Empire for some carebears, who tend to be disliked by a lot of low/nosec types. However it goes without question that Privateers are in general spineless. They steer well clear of low/nosec because they don't get to pick their targets out there, they don't get to run around with obvious alt spies, and if they attacked someone at a gate who wasn't wardecced they might actually have to deal with sentry fire. Instead they prey on the weak in Empire and typically steer clear of a challenging circumstance of any kind.

Amusing I guess if you consider that it either takes someone aggressively going after them with a significantly inferior force or a complete retard to lose a ship to them, and this sort of Darwinism goes over well with the EVE community (even non-goons!!!klsoasdkl) but most 0.0 types tend to think they're a bunch of pussies whether they find them amusing or not.

[Rotanee]

^^ you said my own inclinations on the subject better than I could.

[Tolanin]

privateers are only annoying if you for some reason dont put your hauler alts in npc corps like a sensible person... i dont think anyone respects them at all

[Hal2005]

A good squad can kill a PA camp. Most of them lack funds to afford replacement ships and gear (due to their constant wardec status and stigma in lowsec). They're only an annoyance around Jita, but that can be routed with simply waiting on a school night till 11:00.

[Dildo Faggins]

Originally Posted by Hal2005

A good squad can kill a PA camp. Most of them lack funds to afford replacement ships and gear (due to their constant wardec status and stigma in lowsec). They're only an annoyance around Jita, but that can be routed with simply waiting on a school night till 11:00.

Privateer ships are really juicy too. Killing you average 0,0 idiot typically nets you something on par with a BS rat in droppings if your lucky, but not so with privateers. They tend to have shit like full faction fitting tanks, or even fucking plex gear. They tend to also be utterly clueless to getting scouted out or leaving scouts up to watch for incomings. Take a NPC corp noob frig with a passive targetter and ship scanner, and you can find some ships which are worthy of ganking in their camps. Everyone drops out on top of gank target. Burns him down in tech 1 fitted cruisers an shit, grab yourself the loot and scatter away . Got my self a domination webifier from one particularily bright bulb. They are pretty slow too, so you can setup a system out and move into system and gank them before they know what the hell is happening.

One privateer we popped in a fringe lowsec system had over 2 billion in mods on his battleship. Not one of the damn faction pieces lived. So sad.

[Fog]

I hesitate to even call them "camps", since they have no bubbles, usually no scouts, and no way to catch anyone except a big slowboating ship with no stabs.

[Xequecal]

You can't drop dictor bubbles in highsec.

[Fog]

Originally Posted by Xequecal

You can't drop dictor bubbles in highsec.

Goodness, do you think that might be why they have no bubbles? Thanks for this revelation!

[Manticore]

holy hell I had no idea of how complicated T2 production can be after reading this guide
I knew that collecting materials from moons and combining them with the T1 item was somewhere involved in the process but the combining and reactions needed were new to me

[Lorrac]

Privateers are awesome.

Basically, they hold a massive amount of active wardecs - having a wardec active against a corporation or alliance allows you to attack members of those corporations / alliances in empire without CONCORD interfering.

In practice, means people have to use npc corp alts (who can't be wardecced) to do their logistics in empire, which is quite a nuisance.

Don't listen to what people say - it's quite a shame losing mllions to them but people do and do it often. They just will never accept it publically =D