Nor is raucous chest-beating followed by shitting out on duels, but you guys seem to do quite well on it.
Shitters gonna ■■■■.
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This is not a pissing contest. You are simply bad at what you do. Losing ships to NPCs is not bad is disgustingly bad. If I were you I’d delete EvE from my computer.
You do not win anything you just struggle to stay on top of situations you do not control because you are too lazy and/or incompetent. You do not fit in any organized hierarchical group because you like to think about yourself as being a special snowflake.
As I stated before … this is not a pissing contest. You found something that you thought could make you look better and WHAM 
take that haha. How about I play on this toon with a 6 years handicap compared to you and I have 20 times the isk damage you managed to inflict in your entire eve career?
Points are useless, what matters to the both of us is how much you lost as my victim and how much you dropped for me to loot from your wreck.
Luxury Farts : try fielding Myrmidon | Seryz | Killmail | zKillboard this while under 150 active wars in an area with 3000 active people. In terms of risk taking ,compared to you, I do not even want to run the numbers.
You are better at writing stories than playing eve (PVP and PVE wise). Stick to that 
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Yao! Good response!
I am a snowflake and I’m ok with the idea that I suck at Eve. In an unrelated topic associated with the challenges in finding goodfights( and being ganked repeatedly by guristas)… I have unsubbed again… so we’re on the same page. I’m looking for a game I’m good at!
I’ve done the massive wardec thing… it’s not really my gig. I think I explained that. I found I to be “not challenging”.
Congrats on popping that myrmidon with a Vindi and broadsword. I take back what I said about risk aversion and winning through shiny ship/fleet activity. I’m certain that took a high degree of maneuver mastery.
I’m sure it’s purely your mastery of mechanics that’s got you where you are. I admire your merc-ness, the metal plate on top of your head, and the fact that your average points/kill is somewhere in the range of 5. That is much higher than I see in most null-sec badasses (the people you guys slaughter by the dozens).
I still judge fleet guys to be generally unskilled in maneuver mechanics because I usually beat them… because in 1v1 scenarios they tend to make lots of errors.
I bet you are better than what I’ve experienced. Your isk destroyed is a clear indicator of that.
You are cool, I like you, and I’m very pleased this isn’t a pissing contest.
Love,
Mo
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Dang. I wish my dick was as big as you.
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That must have been a close one. I’ve been there. I tackled a Punisher in a Legion once, and just as I was about to put him in armour two of my six Guardians disconnected. I shat my drawers.
I just managed to get out in 98% armor.
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Can you grasp the difference between fleet fights and small scale pvp? Leave those 1v1 scenarios. Every scrub in eve does that. Eve is not a single player game and there is no such thing as the 1v1 Fairy. You “piloting” skills are simply worthless. Those did not save you from the big and nasty NPCs. With a scram and a web on you can shove them up there 
If a group of people use top notch fits, logistics, plan and execute better than another group of people the scrubs of eve come screaming: 1v1 you suck!
I appreciate you forum enthusiasm and the fact that you would like to eat from the recognition cake but atm you deserve to watch and lick your fingers
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I’ll ignore the massive member waving we’ve devolved into and tackle (scram/web) the OP’s question.
- I don’t scam recruits or scam them during the recruiting process.
- I don’t steal or scam from corpmates or alliance mates.
- I don’t believe in fair fights and adhere to the “if you ever find yourself in a fair fight in EVE online, both parties probably f$%^& up” mantra.
- I rarely offer ransoms because I like explosions, but when I do I might just take the ISK and let the victim go, or blow them up. I’m sort of mercurial in that way.
- Real Piracy is not even remotely applicable to the Gud Fights playstyle. Therefor, I subscribe to the What Would Edward Teach Do school of thought as my moral compass.
- I don’t really give 2 little piles of poop how others choose to play the game. There is no such thing as Wrong Fun.
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So much this dude. Secondly if someone funds their PvP with a PvE account instead of stolen booty they aren’t a pirate.
Then why are you desperately trying to make us think you’re cool and hardcore?
Correct me if i’m wrong, but unless it was solo you have to divide that damage among everyone involved for an actual score. If i remember correctly 20 pilots destroying a 5B freighter will each get 5B added to their KB which makes it seem like they’ve done a HUGE amount more damage than they actually did.
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KI fecking love cake.
You know, I hadn’t noticed, but I think you’re right about the NPC thing. I think I need to bring this issue to CCP’s attention. I’ll work on a pitch for them and the CSM. They need to know about an imbalance such as this. A few well placed nerfs could probably set this straight.
Regarding our mictruation tournament:
As for my fights, you realize I’m not out doing arranged duels (thought I’m not above duel spamming)… usually I’m suspect and only one person engages. It’s not my fault there’s only one of them.
I went looking for risky fights on your KB (to extend our argument like that one you had with Dom A.) but could not find any.
I have T1 Frigate kills on 2 destroyers, a harpy, and a stiletto on the front page of my KB. Do you have any upwards kills or comparable events?
Can I have some of that cake? I fecking love cake.
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…massive member waving… hah
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In all seriousness, can we put the rulers away and keep our pants on? 
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I’ll honour ransoms, but I never offer or accept them. A high offered ransom usually means there is something worth shooting in the ship. (Well… if some newbie in an imicus asks “how much to let me go?” I might reply “100billion”…)
That said, almost all ransom offers I’ve seen where meant as a delaying tactic to buy time for backup to arrive. For example, a few weeks ago I’d just caught an occator passing through a wormhole. He asks how much to free him, but at the same time my scout alt sees a falcon and loki undock from his home system a few jumps over. (I declined the ransom, the falcon arrived first, so I let the occator go, killed the falcon and escaped from the loki and stratios which arrived a few seconds later.)
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If after 9 years of playing eve you are still dueling noobs in T1 ships then you are a just a goat with a disturbed vision over eve life.
“You’re having fun wrong.”
Duels are fun. Lowsec frig roams are fun. It’s not the only kind of PvP, but it’s incredibly appealing because of low risk and investment, its very skill based, and it can be done when nobody else is onlkne.
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I was ransomed once, a long time ago n 2004,
I was in a Thorax in a belt in low sec, I kind of knew that there were evil pirates but had not met any yet.
The two guys appeared out of nowhere it seemed to me (cant remember if I didn’t D Scan or if the old scanner worked differently, tbh it was a long time ago- but I had poor opsec).
What struck me was the fact these guys didn’t even need to fire a shot, whatever pressure they were really under to get the job done before others came to the system, they projected total power and control by remaining cool as cucumbers throughout.
I could not move. I could not target. I could not lock. I had 0 capacitor.
I was convoed thus:
‘Yarrrr’
‘Pay us x million or die’
They then slowly and cleverly managed the conversation so it felt like they had all of the time in the world, and I was under increasing time pressure to respond.
At one point, to bring home the point that I was utterly at their mercy, they turned on a few of their guns and took me just to the edge of hull.
Then turned off their guns and tried again with the ransom.
I did not want to pay and so was destroyed.
They then caught my pod, I did pay a small ransom, due to my age I believe they realised I was unlikely to have expensive implants anyway.
I was released.
Later on I tried ransoming people when I caught them in a belt, though usually I would rather take the kill as the rare occasions I caught something worth ransoming in my rifter, I preferred the kill.
I honoured ransom when I offered them, but not because of a code, but because those first pirates I met honoured my ransom, so I figured, it can be good for business in the long run, to stick to your word.
But really- if you make your isk from your crime, you are a professional criminal, I managed this for a bit not by being good but by being risk averse and by stealing from others wrecks I was not responsible for destroying, as well as killing myself.
Those who manage to fly nice ships and do this kind of activity daily, and who truly do not have another PVE isk source are professional criminals, they do not need a code, just to fund themselves, and if a code hampers them funding themselves through their pvp, what good is it?
Also- not all PVP is shooting, not all PVP is crime
but all professional pvp players and criminals must be the apex predators in this game
if any are?
And does the shark have a code? Or does he keep moving relentlessly to feed, that he may live to feed another day.
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I thought all criminals in Eve had a CODE. 
#trolling
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Or is it all CODE in Eve has criminals?
I get confused, I’m dislex… dyslex… I read letter in different orders.
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Interestingly enough, I considered myself almost true rogue(with just a thing for honesty) when I first read this question… but after reading this perhaps I do have a code.
I PLEX’ed for Isk once because I wanted to try a carrier and could not amass that much isk doing what I was doing. I found it distasteful not because of the money, but because I felt as though I had cheated.
I have always played a single character. Using an alt feels like an unfair advantage to me.
During the years before retribution, I didn’t PvE. I was broke to the point of comedy most of the time, but there was always a stack of stuff to sell if I decided I needed a ship. My ships, diluting that time period, were cheap. I can remember buying T1 ammo for pvp because I couldn’t afford faction. As losses got fewer and I learned to kill larger ships… that broke-ness got better.
I left Concentrated Evil over the use of remote reps. It’s not that I considered it cheating or anything, but rather just found it artless. I wanted to get them to focus on speed tactics and other finesse methods, the other leaders of the corp (who are great guys) wanted to keep running the same plays we had been running.
I didn’t know I had a code, but I’ve always hamstringed myself… perhaps I have one.
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I think everyone does, consciously or not
it might just be ‘kill the weak’ or ‘I come first’, but they are moral positions aren’t they
Also criminals are often businessmen, I mean they have to deal with each other, so they must have a code (even if it is just trust no one and carry a bigger gun)-
I felt dirty when I bought a plex in the sale recently as well, it’s funny isn’t it?
I actualy wasn’t bothered to restart the game with one in the ‘premium pack’ as I only used it tobuy extractors. to strip a char down, so as to plex my account upfront for months and make a nice new trader, I figured I had earned those skillpoints but I had just bought them each month with a sub, yet it did not feel dirty buying a few extractors to get the ball rolling.
But when I kept losing DSTs and BRs in low sec, because Occators and Viators look exactly the same ffs, have you ever noticed that.
And because they look so alike and because I was shall we say ‘enhanced’ on those evenings, I kept doing mwd/cloak with the BR, and trying to warp cloaked with the DST- I lost three ships I think.
And because I was ‘enhanced’ I bought plex in the sale to inject Amar Industrial to 5, because the impel was the most different aesthetically from the Viator, not even to buy the ship because I had the isk, in fact I just wanted to lie to myself that I was doing better than I was and not feck up my trader’s wallet balance-
Well lets say the next day when the enhancement wore off and I realised I had TRIED TO WARP THE IMPEL CLOAKED ANYWAY and lost that as well, to a guy who always sits on that same gate, who’s only comment in local was ‘I never get you guys, what were you thinking?’
Then I felt dirty. I also realised eve is Pay2Lose or perhaps Pay2Try, not Pay2Win, and that a fool and his money are easily parted.
So now I have code don’t buy Plex drunk ever, don’t lie to yourself because the killboard and your wallet balance will be there in the morning, along with chat logs and other evidence, and also have a designated driver and do not fly under the influence of alcohol and other drugs (‘in the game’ mandatory pg13 disclaimer), but if you do, JUST DONT BUY PLEX.
So that’s how I got my new code.
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I think a lot of people find Plexing distasteful. It’s funny, because I actually do buy plex occasionally, but I refuse to use it for isk. It’s either for cosmetics or for skill injectors. Literally sloth and vanity. Not sure if I could call it a superstition or anything, but I feel like isk and assets acquired through plexing will inevitably be taken from you in the most embarrassing way possible. It seems like that’s always the case. So if someone wants to use injectors because they’re impatient that’s one thing(within reason), but plexing for isk seems like a different story.
That said, plexing for injectors to excess is bad too. If you jump ahead you skip valuable lessons and your player skills may fall behind your character skills. Ultimately whatever people want to invest is up to them, but it does feel like cheating, definitely.