EVE General Discussion

oh very interesting. . .

Actually when you sign up for the account, that's when consent happens. One need not be logged in to be PvPed.

but we do have consensual pvp. you agree with it when you press the "log in" button.

If you want PvP just jump into low sec. Use the map set to show active pilots in system and pick an entry system with a low count and then look for systems with 3-5 people in them, there's a good chance you can get a fight out of someone there. This will require a higher skillset than simply flipping a can in high sec. Most notably you will need to learn how to use your d-scan, so if you don't know how, there are videos and guides that can help you. You will need to know what your ship(s) are capable of and what something on scan is likely to do to decide whether to engage or avoid it.

There are multiple survival techniques you can use to avoid fights and the fact there are no bubbles greatly simplifies things. With a little experience it's fairly easy to avoid fights you can't win. Always remember to fly only what you can afford to lose so you won't get angry if (by which I mean when) your ship dies and if all else fails just say "to hell with it" and go for it. Learn to treat ships you buy for PvP as living on borrowed time from your first undock and have no intention of keeping it forever and you'll have fun.

The best choice is rarely the intuitive one and only reading/watching guides and experience can tell you what to do in a given situation. If you feel like you are inescapably caught just fight as hard as you can manage. If you've got 10 hostiles on grid and you're scrammed and triple webbed in a battlecruiser you're not making the gate. Just overload everything and go crazy while moving as fast as you can manage away from the enemy and try to clear tacklers as fast as you can, it's amazing how often weird things happen and you get to warp out in low armor or even structure. Always remember too that aggression flags are indiscriminate. If you do fight in such a situation you're better to fly away from the gate, your enemy are probably sitting on it and they'll do less damage as you get farther away and even if you did manage to clear scrams and webs and make the gate before dying aggression will still prevent your jump even if your enemy had to take gate guns to attack. You will just never be hit by gate guns in that situation.

Last but not least make a GTFO tab in your overview setting that just has any and all celestials on it and nothing else, if you're about to hit structure and you're reasonably sure you're about to die keep fighting the guys you have locked but just align and keep spamming warp to anything at all on that tab. Very rarely the hostiles will lose point and you will escape (happened to me more than once in deep structure) and if all else fails your pod will instawarp away when your ship explodes. Once you're off grid figure out where to go but for now you're in a pod right beside the guy who just killed your ship, ANYWHERE is better than where you are.

Best advice I can give you if you're looking to get started in PvP is to just undock and fly around where CONCORD won't intervene and never give up, far too many people lose ships without even trying hoping to make it out somehow. Don't be one of them, enjoy.

Hey OP, try the PVP button.

No getting Love and PvP take about the same effort.

Consensual PvP and Love however are more difficult.

Lowsex around Huola and OMS are full of small ships looking for trouble.

Consensual pvp is neither fun, realistic or meaningful, just forget it.