Warfare & Tactics

Good day:

See http://brutorbullfighter.blogspot.com/2011/01/solo-combat-pilots-guide-to-good.html and the related guides for learning places to hunt.

I've found solo in eve to be like hunting... you need a lot of patience, you need to properly select the targets... and you have to realize sometimes the buck gets you, and sometimes you get the buck.

Suleiman Shouaa was out in Amamake the other day getting kill after kill in his Vengeance; but he knows what to look for in terms of targets. Personally, I avoid Amamake, because I'm still learning to tell what's bait. And even in Suleiman Shouaa's case, there were a number of times the target called backup, and Suleiman Shouaa was either able to take out the backup or get out.

How is http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=14474222 for a solo T3 kill in a frigate hull?

Thank you.

o/ Mara how is Tuskers going?

You just need to roam, I got around 10 solo kills yesterday. FW is your friend whan it comes to pilots active in low sec.

Metro is probably better for solo work. Try to find the Black Rebel Rifter guys, although they often fly in packs they die easily :)

Use your imagination Unimaginative Guy

See bob, what did i tell ya. FW may need some help, but it is doing just fine. glad to hear you got some good hunting. I myself got quite a few kills on friday, including 3v1 on my slicer (killed em all xD)

*Edit: I guess i should contribute. So, the deal with solo is a bit of a mix and personal style. IMO there are three kind of targets for a solo pvp'er at least in low sec.

1) unexpecting noob. They haven't been to lowsec, they don't use local or the d-scan. easy to find or trick.

2) other pvp'ers that you trick in some way. Using bait, non-traditionally fit ships paying someone else for help, lots of ways, probably the least common for solo pvp.

3) Both sides are looking for a fight. This comes in a lot of flavors. Asking for 1v1's goes a long way, especially if people in the area are familiar with you. A lot of times if you are hunting someone iwth a decent pvp record in a system, they probably are hunting you too. If you get a fight, even if its not explicitly set up, in all odds both of you wanted a fight. Take note of that when your cruising around.

Other than that, using guides to find targets is moderately stupid imo. People who post guides about areas to hunt are going to probably gank you if YOU try to hunt there. Mara's tusker area for example. While it is good for them, without backup your probably going to run into a case of (3) except they will have friends if they expect a chance of losing.

Honestly, if you are havign trouble finding a fight, get in a t1 frig and stay away from everything but noobies and otehr t1 frigs. Its safer, your fast, and usually people will ship down to fight you if you set up a 1v1 in a safe.

GL out there

This is generally what i do...except ive yet to see a t1 frig in a week. All i see are dramiels, really expensive stuff, faction cruisers, or BCs. Never any t1 cruisers or T1 frigs. I occasionally see an AF, but rarely.

Any Thanks for the link you posted Mara, it helped a bit =)

The introduction of faction frigs that completely outclass all T2 frigs really ****** up soloing in the last year and a half.. I ended up on break from eve for close to a year after my old playstyle of roaming a crusader, taranis, and the like, evaporated. Having come back, I've reluctantly bought into Dramiels Online and got me some faction frigs, but I still try to make destroyers and AFs work.. and mostly fail. There are fittings that will win fights, but can't dictate range.. and the ones that can dictate range get stomped. You can try baiting with active reps, but that depends on your opponent being drunk or stupid and taking the bait.

Which is not to say that you can't get some good 1v1 fights if you spend a few hours roaming, but when people say it's nothing like it used to be, they are right. You can roll pimped-faction and fight other faction ships and try to cheese everyone else (who will try not to engage you at all costs), or be everyone else and try to find fights while avoiding the ubiquitous faction faggotry. Probably the best middle ground are AFs that can fight factiontrash but not kill it, and get GoodFights with everyone else.. stuff like the Vengeance and Hawk.

Solo Fights?

Join Red vs Blue.

You dont need to fly faction ships to fly solo.
Sure you see many doing it but think of the downside.
How many fights do those guys really get? I mean as long as you are an experienced player you can 90% of the time (in a frig sized hull) dictate how/who/when you fight.

I've had plenty of idiots in drams/cynabals come chasing my AFs/Intys and I simply ignore them and warp off.
Even if my AF could beat them in a fight I know that they will probably out speed it and get away anyway.
You also come to learn that many of these people flying such expensive ships are not always alone and will just be flying expensive bait tackle for their gang.

I also fly in the Auro- caldari fw- Oulletta pipe and there are many fights to be had there no doubt but large parts of it are infested with T3 gangs and ofc the FW fleets.

Frig fridays are still on? I abandoned going over to amamake pretty much after PL moved in. I have no desire to die of laughter when my slicer gets cyno dropped.

Good day, Neaon Sadari:

Correct on not needing faction ships to fly solo.

A lot in our corp, including myself, fly t1, non faction, frigates on a regular basis.

Thank you.

the weaker you seem the more likely people are to take the chance and engage solo or with limited support