August 12, 2021

I should have known this, but podding someone in hisec or losec drops your security status…a lot. I lost 1.2 off my 5.0 status yesterday by nuking a capsule in losec. I can deal with the 0.2 loss after destroying a ship, but going after the capsule cost me another 1.0 status loss. It's a grind to get back to 5. While I'm not obsessed with maintaining a high security status, it provides a good buffer so you can hunt without concern about going negative. For more on this, see Eve U's article.

My first clue should have been that I could not aggro the capsule at first. I had to disable all safeties (set it to red). Oops. Great way to get criminal status and have a kill right put on you!

August 13, 2021

Got lucky today. First a DED3 escalation in my home system got me 25 mil. Then a data and relic site in nulsec got me about 29 mil. Then looting a guy’s wreck at a gate in that system got me another 20+ mil, including a covert cloak and a set of Sisters combat probes!

I was in an Astero and warped to the gate, intending to leave. Found a wreck there of a guy I’d seen in the system minutes earlier. Rats targeted me before I could loot it. I warped off and back a couple times but the rats were all over me. So I docked in the system and took out a Gnosis out which was right at hand. Killed the rats, gobbled the loot and destroyed the wreck.

After I docked back up, the guy comes back in and says “ef…came back for my wreck and someone beat me to it.” I said “That would be me!” He said the rats decloaked him as he went to put a kid back to bed. Then I looked at the killmail and saw the wreck was a Helios.

All this before noon. Good day.