Warfare & Tactics

Soloing regularly in a BC without scouts/links is totally not viable unless (Racial expletive removed. - ISD Cyberdyne). Even the really good players that do this hardly manage to break a 50% isk efficiency doing it.. Even a cruiser is difficult. I would just go all the way down to frigs and dessies for 90% of the solo and bringing out bigger stuff for an occasional change of pace.

Less frustration, less isk cost (LESS DREADED PVE)

Its fun.


Edit: Stereotyping is no silly joke on this forum, it is simply not allowed. And do not discus moderation. ISD Ezwal.

I agree with this. You can have loads of fun in a Frig. My favourite ever kill was when I was solo in a Taranis, I spotted a Geddon in a belt in D-Scan and was convinced it was bait but I went for it anyway. I warped in, got under his guns and proceeded to hammer away at his buffer tank. His drones had me in structure as he finally popped. Throughout the whole engagement I was spamming D-Scan expecting the blob, it never came. We both had a chat and a laugh afterwards.

It was just good fun, but I admit it was a few years ago and finding solo targets is becoming harder and harder.

I'm new to PvP and I solo almost exclusively, as I'm not on very consistently.

1st - Get out of the BC's...unless you still need to learn that there are people in frigs and dessies that are going to lock you down and wreck your day.
2cnd - be sure you can properly fit at least t1 frigs and dessies.
3rd - while you are doing the above - take a look at some youtube PvP vids. I think there is one that is called eveiseasy or something like that. In any event, look and see what other PvPers do to win. You might not be able to kite well enough to split up a small blob and pick off the weaklings, but you can at least see what they do and you can both have something to emulate and you know what to avoid.
4th - be prepared to loose lots of ships learning. You should be able to walk away from every fight and reflect on something that you could have done better. I have noticed, personally, that most of my losses have very little to do with my ship or my ability to fly it. Rather, almost 100% of my losses have been because of a mistake I made personally before combat was ever engaged. To facilitate this, when possible talk to the person that popped you. Not everyone will want to talk with you, but if you are amiable and good natured there are plenty of folks that are happy to tell you what they leveraged against you to score the kill. At least, that has been my experience.

I hope that helps.

Fly Dangerously and With a Vengeance!

- Kobalos

I'd recommend checking out FW space , preferrably in a frigate sized ship , plenty of opportunity for fights.
Also , use the map setting that allows you to see average number of pilot in last 30 minutes , makes it a lot easier to get fights.

Join FW, fly frigates or dessies. Plenty of one-on-one fights to be had; you just have to choose carefully and not be afraid to run or not engage if too many reds appear.

I fly true solo.

I use faction war plexes to get fights. It is better then ever in my 4 years of eve.

I mainly fly frigates but some cruisers and destroyers.

I am not in faction war that way I can shoot both sides. Since leaving fw I have had a very substantial increase in the amount of pvp I get at plexes.

Faction Warfare is the new sexy.

And by sexy, I mean awesome small-scale PVP, be it solo or small-gang. Most of the fights you find are frig+dessie, but a lot of times fights escalate up to BC's and whatnot, which makes a lot of fights a lot more enjoyable and emergent. Plus, if you plex offensively while you go a'roaming, you can not only get yourself free ships (relatively speaking), but you can also find constant PVP.

Just keep a weather-eye on dscan while you do it though, it's not fun getting gangbanged by your enemy's fleet.

The main thing ruining solo-pvp in this game isn't blobbing it's ECM. I honestly have no idea what CCP was thinking when they developed ECM. It makes you unable to fight back. A mechanic that's preventing fights is a broken mechanic in my opinion. Solo-PvP was the only thing still giving me satisfaction in this game. It was the only thing giving me intense fights and I still get that occasionally, but most of the time I end up being permajammed and dying with only a few seconds of me fighting back. I've died countless times with my main being permajammed while me frantically trying to lock something before dying, unsuccessfully. Even just a frig can take out pretty much anything when he's got a friendly falcon 70km away. You won't have time to kill anything if he miss an ECM-cycle until you get jammed again the next cycle.

Sure I can stop whining and fit a couple of ECCM-mods (because only 1 doesn't do it, believe me I've tried). This will totatlly nerf whatever ship I intend to fly. Or I could just stop paying the subs I've been paying since 2006. I recently had a 3 month break from the game and just came back. Blob-warfare isn't fun to me. I only get satisfaction from skirmish and solo-roaming. If I go on another hiatus from EVE I fear I won't find the motivation to return. Small scale and solo-pvp has been neglected for too long. Like I said in the opening ECM is the number one reason preventing good fights when solo.

CCP should remove ECM from the game entirely. It's a broken mechanic which is preventing fights.

It's still possible but it's the hardest thing you could hope to do in the game. Dying 'unfairly' is common and more or less unavoidable.

Singularity gives me my pvp fix because as has been stated above engagements are just too random for me.