I may be a bad pirate, but at least I’m not a stupid one
Does this make any sense to anyone else?
First, some background: My ‘main’ character is a trader, he has virtually no PvP skills, and almost always flies either a frigate or an industrial with cargo expanders. His whole purpose in life is to make trades and ferry goods around. I don’t think this is all that unusual. His bio states this fact, amongst others, and even specifically mentions that I’ll ransom him.
A few days back, I had to drop a shipment of some minerals off for someone in a .4 system. No big deal. I’ve got a industrial with some cargo expander II’s on it, it’ll hold what I need to carry, so I take a trip. I get to the station in question and notice some fighting going on outside between two cruisers. I dock, drop off my stuff and then undock. This is where the stupid stuff begins.
I get notification that a lock is trying to resolve, but I’d already started trying to line up to the gate for warp, and I know that I can’t get back into the station for about 20 seconds anyway, so I just sit. The pirate locks me, and scrambles me. “Okay,” I think, “how much is this going to cost me?” I’m carrying no cargo at all, the only fittings on my ship are 3 cargo expanders, and my industrial isn’t worth a lot of ISK. The only thing I have of any value at all are the implants in my head. A set of +3s, a couple of high slot mining and exploration type skill boosters. All in all, about 130M ISK or so. I’m willing to wire the guy 100M ISK to leave me and my ship alone.
I start typing in local, and then my ship is into structure and he’s still firing.
‘aw, crap’ I set the autopilot and get ready to warp my pod away, but it seems that the fabric of the universe is collapsing and things are happening very slowly. By the time I execute my pod warp command, I hear that I’m already scrambled.
Again, I’m expecting a ransom demand, and none comes. I wake up in my clone, many systems away, sans implants, and slightly annoyed.
Maybe the pod killmail is worth 100M ISK to this guy.. I dunno.