Thursday, June 9, 2016

Not a bait

I spot a Rattlesnake starting with the farming activities. The pilot seems to be experienced and know what he is doing. He dropps a mobile tractor unit and a mobile depot and is now prepared for the unexpected. I must admit I hate mobile depots and mtus. I want my gank to be over fast and killing additional deployables can be quite distracting, especially when multiboxing 4 ships. That's why sometimes I even ignore them.


Machine Delta is a part of Hole Violence corp that is a part of Goonswarm Federation. It has over 250 members, which is quite huge by wormhole standards. I will need to deal with this fast.

I pre-align the Nestor fleet and enter warp. It's a normal practice I do whenever my target has a mobile depot nearby. By the time my ships are spotted it will most likely be too late to refit to wcs and escape. Despite the sense of urgency, I do try to inhabit good practices and focus fire on the mobile depot and, when Rattlesnake approaches death, also an mtu.


The Rattlesnake goes down. It had wcs in the cargohold as also ballistic control systems. Lows were fully fitted with shield rechargers. I do not know if he refitted to them in hopes of tanking me or it was his normal setup. If it was, it's quite an overkill tank for a c3 if you ask me. Nevertheless, I get an almost 900mil kill.


I was quite surprised it broke without much struggle. I've had a bad experience breaking passive Rattlesnakes in the past. I scoop the loot and warp out to safe. It's time to wait out 15 minute aggression timer and go to sleep, but what's this? Not even 10 minutes pass and I see another Rattlesnake at another site.


Different guy, same corp. You've got to be kidding me. Who on earth does sites in the same system your corp mate was just ganked? Bait, that's who. I wonder if I would see a fleet sitting on any of the active connections? But I'm in no mood to risk it and it's too late. If by one in a million chance this guy is legitimately farming, he's got balls and deservers all that loot. Instead, I get an interesting idea.The Last Chancers were in this system earlier today. I convo a random pilot that I spotted flying around.


Unfortunately The Last Chancers were already disconnected from the chain. Well, maybe that's not a bad thing. It's a shame though. There's nothing more entertaining than baiting the baiters. If it was not so late, I would give a shout out in Wormhole PVP Channel, but perhaps another time. I safe log off and let the Rattlesnake farm in peace, hopefully wasting time of his fleet mates.

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  1. So, funny story. Dod Kalm has an alt. Goes by Roggle. Roggle used to hang around The Maythorn. We were a newbie corp and this guy applied with like 100mil SP. We were 95% certain he was going to rip us off first chance he got so we gave him his own tower. Strangely he was never super active.

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    1. Maybe it was too much effort to steal anything? :)

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  2. What's the WH PvP channel? Sounds like something I'd like.

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    1. Wormhole PVP Channel, if you find content and need extra muscle it's a good place to ask. I have used it once when suspected a bait: http://cloakybastard.blogspot.se/2016/02/who-you-gonna-call.html

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    2. Wormhole PVP Channel is an in-game channel that offers support, tips, advise etc... Check us out, you won't be disappointed :)

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  3. Wormhole PVP Channel ran into them a while back. We jumped two of their ratting rattlers and games soon ensued.

    https://zkillboard.com/kill/52077480/
    https://zkillboard.com/kill/52077420/

    They did the same thing but then decided to roll their static in our faces. We jumped the scout in and soon discovered they had a battleship and marauder fleet waiting for us to take the hole rolling bs bait and they would have easily collapsed the hole on us. We came out with no losses...they know what they are doing ;)

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    1. What kind of fleet they had? Sounds like I dodged a bullet, but it would be marvelous to get that marauder fleet.

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  4. Nice writeup. I am Machine Delta. To be honest you completely surprised me, I had just dscanned not 10-15 seconds before your proteus popped up on me. I have been a long time EVE player but that was maybe only my 2nd or 3rd time flying a snake for ratting. I switched over to shield as we had 4-5 others forming up 1 jump away. Alas, we were just a bit too slow. Maybe another 30 seconds and we would have had the dictor land on us with several of the gang in tow. Nice job on the kill!

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    1. Thanks for the sharing the details. It's good to know that my "get this over with as quickly as possible" attitude is not unfounded :).

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