I’m a terrible pirate
I think I need to try to find a pirate corp or someone to train me for a while. Even the more unsuspecting of folks seem to be running away or getting away.
I was recently tooling around in a rifter in Caldari space, moving from one belt to another in .4 space and trying to find anyone in a frigate that might look like a mark. I found one, a Merlin.
“Good, I thought - he probably feels well matched to my Rifter.”
There are no rats in the belt, and he doesn’t warp away as soon as I arrive so I thought. “I’ve got a fight!”
I move to engage, push the MWD to get me inside 20KM and then, zooot! Off he warps. I didn’t lock, I didn’t deploy any drones (obviously), and I didn’t see or make any chatter in local… that’s the closest I’ve got to a fair fight this week. Maybe I should use a passive targeter, or maybe he thought I WAS using a passive targeter. I guess I need to start locking before I get into scram/web range.