EVE New Citizens Q&A

I solo PvP quite a bit actually.... although I'm by no means a new player...

Here's a few comments:

1.) What are you doing this weekend? Agony is having a PvP basic course, that teaches the basics of PvP. If you can be on for the class (& ideally the roam too), I'll pay your entry fee and help you get setup. This is a frigate based course, and details can be found here.
Class: October 20th, 2012 starting at 08:00 hrs Eve time (~4 hours)
Roam: October 21st, 2012 starting at 08:00 hrs Eve time (4+ hours)
PM me soon if you are interested.

2.) Solo PvP exists in EvE, but it's not exactly readily available everywhere. The most readily available Solo PvP is in FW plexes, although you can definitely find it throughout nullsec and lowsec (Note: Some exists in highsec tradehubs, but I don't recommend playing there). Solo PvP is common in FW because the FW plexes allow a controlled arena that only lets in certain classes of ships (like frigs and dessies, or cruisers and below). The biggest drawback to FW solo'ing, is many FW soloists use Fleet boosting alts to give them an advantage. You will also find this in highsec! In nullsec, you have to deal with bubbles and bubblers, which make traveling much more dangerous.

When out solo'ing, realize, people will gang up on you everywhere. Frigates and dessies are the most common solo ships because they are hard to catch unless you want to be caught and the fights typically end fast enough that backup isn't a big issue. I personally like setting up a Small Mobile Warp Disruptor in nullsec pipes and trying to kill ships that land in my bubble. This is a very successful form of Solo PvP, that allows you to find lots of targets (many of which you cannot solo successfully, and many of which you can surprisingly solo successfully despite being in a frig/dessie hull). Stealth bombers or not very common for solo PvP, except for camping nullbear systems and trying to kill ratters in battleships. This form of SB PvP is come and go, where you get lots of hate mail by people that don't know how to deal with a stealth bomber, mixed in with hours and hours of waiting for someone to get up the cahonnes to actually PvE in a system with a cloaker, and then you get a brief fight. A competent PvE-PvP'er can destroy a SB before it destroys them, but nullsec is full of incompetent players!!!

Quit looking at battleclinic, KB whoring will only lead you to FotM and that's way off of "adapt or die". Besides, if you look at it, look at it right, Lukka has no kill since february and there's been some rebalancing in the meantime.

Solo PVP is possible in EVE, but involves picking your fights because everything in EVE has a counter. There usually isn't any end-all be-all über-ship and when there is, nerf-bat strikes.

The best way to get into PVP is to find a fairly active low-sec system, get a bunch of T1 frigates and go play with people, you will lose your first ships (likely many even), but most people will be chatting with you if you don't whine and complain but keep hitting on them and ask what you could have done differently.

Best way to make friends in EVE is to shoot people and remain casual about losing.

Wow. Terribad posts abound.

Solo pvp is viable. Don't listen to people who tell you that it isn't. They are either lying to you or are idiots.

That said, although solo pvp is probably one of the most rewarding experiences in EVE, being a part of a good corp and going on big fleet runs is also a heck of a lot of fun. The two are not mutually exclusive. You can fleet up on Fridays and solo on Saturdays. Its your game, play it how you want.

Bombers are great ships and can be used in solo pvp. Their engagement profile is somewhat limited due to their lack of tank and weapon types but they also have the potential, when flown and fitted correctly, to wipe out much bigger ships very quickly.

It is usually recommended that you start out experimenting with pvp in frigates or other T1 ships, simply because you will lose a lot of them and at least with insurance you won't go broke overnight.

I wholeheartedly recommend the Agony courses - if anything is going to kickstart your pvp learning curve, its agony's pvp basic.

Fit a bunch of the new rebalanced T1 frigates and go (try) to kill people in low sec. Fw plexes are good for this.
You don't need T2 ships (or even t2 fitting) to start kill people.
T1 frigs with t1 fitting are cheeeeeap, you can lose lots without caring :)

No CCP should not release one.
You should not make assumptions until you know how the game works.

Why does the OP's face make me think of Michael Jackson??

I'm kind of chuckling about the 25 mil at days end. I can make that in one ratting tick in a T1 fit Talos/Naga.

Mining for money is really a crap way to go about things.

^ This, completely agree with Petrus about the join a PvP corp to learn stuff. A corp doesn't mean you are forced to fly with others (at least, not if you are in the right corporation), it just means you CAN fly with others when you want.

Heh heh heh. Indeed. Technically that was two frigates, but it was also a battleship and a battlecruiser.

The nice part there is, even if we lost our frigates, it wouldn't have been any real loss, since we were both in fits only worth about 1 mil ISK total. That's why frigates are so awesome, and one reason why they are far better than any other ship class for learning PvP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97DjUru5Xw0

If you absolutely must go cloaky, do not discount the Combat CovOps.

PS: Solo PVP is indeed alive and well.