Warfare & Tactics

I fly solo allot with no ogb.

I do pay for the best mods I can fit, meta 5 or below. So my ships aren't what I would call cheap but they mostly aren't bling. I really don't recomend using the very cheap ships unless you are learning the absolute basics. Figure out an income source. 100 million isk is like $3. So You can get about 10 t1 frigates that cost 15 mill for $4.50 if you just pay out of pocket.

My loss kill ratio is about 2-3 kills per loss. Not great but its not bad. I can go on rolls where I lose 5 ships with no kill. But you have to learn to trust in your fitting and piloting skills to get through those streaks. If I lose ships due to gate camps I don't take that into account when evaluating a fit. I take allot of fights where I know I will get killed but just hope I can get a kill before I die.

I don't care about my isk ratio very much. Being in a blob for a while will get your isk ratio high if you care about that. If you are on a 2 billion isk kill with 20 other pilots, all 20 get credited with a 2 billion isk kill. Solo pilots should not expect to have a great isk ratio.

I tend to look at my overall battleclinic points per kill versus my battleclinic points per loss to see how I am doing. But this is not perfect. If I fly a destroyer and kill 4 t1 frigates this will lower this ratio but its still a good result and likely a fun fight.

I also tend to look at how many bc points I gave or took in a fight. But again this isn't perfect either. E.g., assume I am in a destroyer and fight 1 destroyer and a t1 frigate. Assume I kill the destroyer but the t1 frigate finishes me off. I will typically just get 20 bc points for the dessie kill. That frigate will get a killmail worth about 40 or 60 bc(depending on the type of dessie) points because it will show he killed my destroyer with the help of a pod. There I say Battleclinic points be damned I love lossmails with pods on my kill.

I have been known to use some expensive implants and lose my pod due to dumb mistakes. IMO Low sec pilots should learn to avoid these mistakes so they can use better implants. I think implants are just a part of fitting ships in low sec and can make a big difference. Not as big of a difference as booster ships but definite edges. I imagine I view my implant sets like some null sec pilots view their cap ships. They are very important tools for what I do (low sec pvp) and I consider the isk I spend on them well spent.

Sorry for the long answer that went way beyond your question. But these are the loose standards I use to mark my progress.

Battleclinic is actually great to determine if someone has a lot of quality kills.

Look at kill count, compare it with ranking, skim over kills to see if there is any bullshit going on (frig station camping, high sec pvp that kinda thing)

And you can get a pretty good idea.

It's probably right around 1:1 when I'm flying around solo. I'm too lazy to get a second account for OGB and never have implants because I get podded way more than anyone should be. If I'm smart about it and have time to be patient I can get a pretty good ratio going until I run into someone who has OGB or insane implants but that's just part of the game. Generally I'm just goofing around though and try to win against the first thing I see on dscan (I've got some pretty ******** losses due to this).

As long as you're having fun your k:d/isk ratio doesn't matter too much I think.

OGB free frigate pilot here. \o/

When i started i was losing way more fights than i won just because so few people actually take 1v1 fights. These days i specialized in one ship, i know what i can take, i know what i can't, i'm used to quite a few of the pilots i encounter and i pick my fights a bit more careful. Also i can keep calm in fights these days and know when and how to bail if things go bad.

I'm probably averaging 5 kills per loss now.

It's great for your kb if you care about points and ranking, not isk efficiency.

If you avoid risky fights, it is. But the fun is in risky fights...

i fly solo most of the time and refuse to use mechanics like OGBs, ECM or dampening on the ships i fly since i also don't like them when they are used on the other side. I do it mostly for the challenge so i don't always use general purpose ships with high success ratios. (for example i don't think i ever piloted a minmatar ship - even back when rifters where cool).

I can recommend two things for soloers:
- try to record your fights... its the best way to learn from your mistakes if you can watch it again later.
Thats actually something i should have done from the beginning but i haven't.

- and don't switch ships all the time ;) get used to one and fly it a few times... otherwise very stupid mistakes will happen (at least in my case)

k/d ratio? no clue, probably quite bad.

Points do not decay - they favour active pilots only in so much if you're not pvping, you're not accumulating points.

Why do all the "cool" people dislike the Battleclinic killboard? I find the points system quite useful for evaluating progress.

But most importantly, you can copy/paste a pilot's name directly into the URL to get their details quickly.

GODDAMN SOMEONE PUT THE EDIT AND THE QUOTE BUTTON FURTHER APART FROM EACH OTHER.