More tears to come?

It has been awhile since my last entry, mainly because I haven't had any tears to share. In the interests of creating more and more interesting tears I have decided on a new career path along with my 0.0 exploits. To that end I have assigned my high sec mission alt mission ganking duties.

Mission ganking I have found is extremely lucrative. The concept is pretty simple, piss off a missioner, get aggro, proceed to ransom or pop them and get either the isk or the phat lootz. I began last night by probing out some mission runners in a smaller hub. My reasons for using a smaller hub being that they encounter far fewer ninja salvagers and gankers then people in the big hubs do, which could lead to more rage aggro. Of course the flip side is that there are fewer targets in system, but this strategy is of course going to be constantly refined.

Another note, I do not quite have the hang of probing yet, and it kinda sucks. I am able to probe out the mission runners pretty regularly, just not all that quickly. Also, quite often when I finally get a good signature and am about to get them at 100%, they are gone which is also frustrating. But hey, no one said it would be easy, and the payoffs look to be pretty high in tears alone, much less isk and fat faction mods.

So I fitted a heron with some faction probes, passive targeter, a ship scanner, and a salvager and head to the sun to start to probe. My first target, a CNR, would not aggro, neither would my second, a Raven. Then I found a Nightmare. I warp in to the mission and in the first room is nothing but wrecks. I steal from one and gate to the next room where the Nightmare happens to be. He immediately targets me and shoots me so I warp out and get my Vexor of doom, but by the time I get back he has wisely left to wait out the aggression countdown.

After that I went to be, and I went actually pretty satisfied. If I can get aggro from 1 out of 3, I think that I will be raking in the tears and isk pretty quickly. Hopefully more to come soon.