Ratting in 0.3
Took a shiny new thorax out ratting last night in low sec space. If
you’ve read any of my previous posts you will no doubt be aware that
my previous encounters with nlthis ship has ended in disaster and
while I can’t in all honesty say that I still have the thorax, it was
at least more profitable than my previous excursions and only tainted
with my own stupidity of ‘that one more rat’ syndrome that I’m sure
many have fallen into.
I found a nice quiet spot in low sec, no one on local and a dozen or
so belts to explore so off I went. Got a few BC spawns so was soon
pulling in nearly 200,000 a pop. Marvellous.
Then someone else popped into local, a quick look at their profile
showed them to be someone to avoid so I brought in my drones, aligned
toy exit Gate and waited to see what happened. After a couple of
minutes, he left local and I was on my own once more. Back to the
ratting then.
Ten minutes later, he popped back on to local and I was fced With a
choice… At this point, I know he has cone back for me so I can
either jump to my safe spot and see if he leaves again, jump to he
gate and call it a night or continue ratting and hope or the best. The
latter was my choice and was definately the wrong one..
The pirate jumps into my belt, so I spool up the warp drive for my
exit gate. But nothing happens. I’m confused as he is not yet in
webbing distance only to see that the npc I had ben ratting had webbed
my instead. Bugger. Nothin lef now but to kick in the afterburner an
hope I can break it before the pirate reaches me. No dice, he is on me
in no time and all I can do I spam the warp to 0 icon for when my ship
innevitaby goes pop. I get away clean and back to my home base.
Overall, I am up on the night even minus a cruiser but a valuable
lesson has been learned. If you are on your own and someone else pops
into local, it’s time to leave.
