Pirate Guide
Requirements (for beginners)
Quite a bit of skills, but since most of them don’t take too long and most of them are essential anyway it’s not too much of a hassle. Of course, you gonna need some cheap ISK as a head start.
- Speed
- Train Microwarp Drive. This way you can evade missiles and turret fire. In a frigate you can take down opponents much larger than yourself if you can rely on a speed advantage. This leads to…
- High Speed Maneuvering I
- Navigation IV
- Afterburner IV
- Interrupts
- Warp Scrambler (the -2 scramble is more likely to stop a target with a warp core stabiliser opposed to a Warp Disruptor), meaning…
- Propulsion Jamming I
- Navigation II
- Electronics III
- Capacitor Power Relays (since a Microwarp Drive and Warp Scramber are quite a drain…), which means:
- Energy Grid Upgrades II
- Science I
- Engineering II
- Slow Downs (optional)
- Stasis Webfilter (no additional requirements for this one), though not necessary in asteroid belts, near planets, etc.
- A ship (.. surprise!)
- Kestrel or Rifter. They allow lockdowns combined with decent speeds and fire power.
- The Kestrel should be outfitted with rockets or standard missiles, depending on your personal preference
- The same goes with guns and missiles for the Rifter
- The Amarr and Gallente versions of those ships are a little more difficult to master and are inferior in regards to ship design
Hunting Locations
- In general 0.4 space and below. Look around less busy areas since those are the ones where the miners are usually hiding and keep your eyes open in local.
- Use your scanner to look for haulers and mining cruisers
- Once you found one either use the scanner to narrow him down (recommended - takes some practice but much faster once you got the hang of it), or skim the belts manually
Fighting
- Orbit your prey at your optimal range and engage your warp scrambler and weapons
- Convo him once you got him down to structure to ask for a ransom. Base your eve online isk request on the value of his ships, modules and the overall amount he would lose if he went down.
- Don’t pod-kill your target as the security status hit will prevent you from going into high security space again buy eve isk