This weekend was very busy both with real life and EVE related activities.
Friday evening I did not spend playing EVE Online. In stead, I took my wife to see a show at the theater that she had been wanting to see for over a year now. I took her to see Wicked (http://www.wickedthemusical.com). Now understand, I am not real big on musicals. I was tortured as a young child to sit and watch the “classic American musical” all the time. Well, torture is too rough a word. Exposed to the point of not liking musicals would perhaps be a better choice of words.
Getting back to Friday night, I was entertained. The story, I will not ruin it for those of you who have not seen this show, is engaging. Filled with references to the original story of the Wizard of Oz, you gain an interesting insight into the character of the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’. Strong performances from all in the show, I do recommend that you go see this if you can.
In game fun was mostly on Saturday. It was a good day for gate camping. We spend a lot of time with our friends in Rancer, catching a lot of battle cruiser traffic. Needless to say, we made some isk on ransoms, we had a lot of pew-pew. Me and a corp mate did something that was rare, we actually caught a falcon (http://www.eve-druid.com/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15615). How did we do it? Well, the cloak was not fitted, so, the good ole cloak and align trick or warp cloaked didn’t work for this guy. The ’stick in your mind’ moment of the weekend however is a toss up between the falcon kill and the poor soul who lost his ship and then wanted to get his stuff that dropped back. Yup, we ransomed the dropped loot back to that poor soul.
That’s right, you did read that right, we ransomed the dropped items. In case you have never done this, let me explain how it works. On occasion, we get convoed by the victim that has fallen prey to our trap. They loose their ship and make it out, either by being pod killed or they escape. Anyway, the convo with the victim usually involves either they are abusive and want their stuff back or they are actually very pleasant. In this case, the poor fellow was very polite and patient. He simply wanted some of the stuff that survived the encounter. He was willing to pay for the items and safe passage. So, what happened? He got his stuff back and was able to safely take it back to high sec.
Yuppers. That’s how you do a ransom. There is nothing that says a ransom has to be for simply letting someone go through a gate camp. You can ransom some-one’s items back to them if they are worth a lot of isk. You can ransom some-one’s pod for a simple joke (usually reserved for newer players). Heck, I’ve evened ransomed a miner back the ore I took from him. He was very happy to get the past 4 hours of secure jet can filled work back.
Never underestimate what people are willing to pay for a ransom. My favorite of all time, was a funny joke, once a week for 3 months. No, I’m not kidding. I ransomed a fellow over a year ago. He was a new player, only 2 weeks old. I got him stealing loot from me and I locked down his pod. The original ransom was for only a single joke, but HE talked me into jokes every week for 3 months.
I tell ya, this game has some serious lolz moments.
Tags: Gate Camping, Neo Spartans, Out of Game, PvP, Ransoms
