Posted - 2007.02.19 14:51:00 - [3]

 

I'm bad at that. I just do it for the explosion and opening the can of goodies that gets left behind. OH and there's no greater shame than seeing your poor widdle ship that just got blown up by Nyl being salvaged.

Posted - 2007.02.19 15:30:00 - [5]

 

if its a sheild tanked ship do it when he hits armor and his tank is broken if its an armor tank ship do it when he hits 75% armor. if they dont pay or dont pay your price dont negotiate with em its either your price or their death. i dont ransom that much unless its a teir 3 bs (nice 100 mil right there) or a freighter really. or if i know he has **** on the ship and i just need some moneh.

you can ransom him he pays you let him go. if you catch him in another belt you can try to re ransom him if you want. thats always a kick in the ass and a great rofl if they pay.

Posted - 2007.02.19 16:08:00 - [7]

 

If its worth at least a mill ransom it unless its a hauler in which case you pop.

If its a shield tanked ship and the guy agrees to a ransom keep shooting every once in a while to keep their shields from getting back up but make sure he knows why your shooting him in your convo

Always ransom Exhumers but always pop t1 barges (gets em all angry and such)

Posted - 2007.02.19 17:05:00 - [9]

 

Originally by: Asatas Torino

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As it stands, I've only ever been routinely smashed to bits and podded in a matter of seconds in my defenseless little frigate without a word of acknowledgement... that's rather pointless and boring, gains the person responsible nothing at all, and just wastes another half hour of my life.

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No one ransoms frigs except maybe Verone back in the day

Well I rasomed a frig once back before the Pirate Coalition reformat when we were getting owned by CVA but thats another story

Posted - 2007.02.19 17:21:00 - [11]

 

Originally by: Asatas Torino

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Originally by: Marcus TheMartin

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No one ransoms frigs except maybe Verone back in the day

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That's fine... just let em go then. If there was a proper system of piracy and justice in place, a good pirate wouldn't want to unnecessarily lower his security rating/raise his bounty and potentially get more heat from bounty hunters for the sake of pointlessly wasting a passing frigate.

This would all invariably add to the experience of being a pirate anyway, it can't exactly be fun being a pirate when its practically legal and completely without consequence... You'd get a much greater sense of satisfaction when you actually turn a profit from your ill-gotten gains and have the wits to avoid getting taken out by them bounty-hunter types.

Also, people wouldn't whine nearly as much about being podded if they felt they actually had some means to stick it to the pirates that were responsible. Everyone would be happier, everything would be a lot more fun...

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,...And everyoen would start transporting their expensive **** in frigates, knowing that the pirates wouldnt engage them.

Posted - 2007.02.19 20:26:00 - [13]

 

I personally ransom when I get almost to hull or when I hit it , they can then see they are in the palm of you hand , occasiobally there are some accidents but if that happens just give the ransom back if they have paid already .

I usually convo the victim mid fight as not to alert the rest of local although these days just being in local is enough for people to notice , a quick xxxxx amount yes or no , give em' couple of seconds to answer then another few or 5 to actually pay it , any longer then to hell with them . Sounds long winded but is over pretty quickly , apart from the actual fighting to make them want to pay

Posted - 2007.02.20 04:57:00 - [15]

 

Ransoming is ftw as often as possible. If you're lucky and get a lucky ECM jam you can bluff a ransom and they might pay. Once I came into help a corpie out who was in his wolf fighting a tempest. I was in my thorax with 5xec-600s. I let those bad boys loose and they got a jam. Convoed him and he accepted the ransom. Scooped my drones and we left - I never even had to worry about breaking his tank.

Pod ransoming is where it's at in the end. Big iskies.

Posted - 2007.02.20 09:50:00 - [17]

 

Personally I ransome everything I hit unless its a even or a fari fight.

Meaning I dont go around popping or ransoming t1 frigs ratting in low sec, but I do with cruisers and bcs for sure !

Newbs pay alot ALOT to keep there ships alive :P even if its just a normal cruiser, I useally let them drop into 75% hull even lower if I dont see any npcs around and then fire up a convo ask for special ransom, give them 30 secs to transfere if not in my wallet after 30 sec say bye in the convo close it and kill him, all his smacks dousnt matter since yougave him a time limit he didnt do it within the time limit poof his ship go's :P

In 15 mins I managed to ransom a hurricane, thorax and a rupture for the total of 100 million isk...

as I sayd newbs pay ALOT :P and even better if you manage to set up a deal "I will never shoot you again if you pay me some sum of isk" Useally something with in the reach of there wallet but reasonably high, Ive managed to get more then 50 mill from one guys corp with this, why would I do this.. well I like to travel, I dont stick around the same low sec system again and again, and well same with newbs taht get shot so the changes that you will meet him again are very low meaning take the isk you can and leave him alone :P you probly wond encounter him again in anything worth more then he payd you not to shot at him for.

So yeah ransoming is a art you will learn, as stated before in the post, if the fight is acctually even, going badly for me, going badly for him, going well for both, you arent sure who is going to win and then boom you get the upper hand I usealy just blow them up for the sportmanship :P

Hope this helped thanks

Posted - 2007.02.20 12:22:00 - [19]

 

Never really ransom, unless the person talks smack, but I always find their pod being scrambled an NOSed helps with capicitor so I can repair myself quicker XD. Than I let them go on their merry way without their ship.