Warfare & Tactics

Looking at your losses you seem to be using PVE fits for pvp.

You're amarr it seems.. If you want to do pvp i would recommend using the tormentor > Coercer/dragoon/ > navy aug > Harbinger

Don't solo pvp in a battleship if you don't know what you're doing. Also stop trying to pvp in high sec.. Most of the guys fighting you will stack things so heavily in their favor that you don't have a chance no matter what you do.

I like men.

One tip I give my new guys is to fit a fast frigate, and roam the customs offices once they detect a hauler is active in the system. Quite often these guys do PI and you can kill them solo when they make the rounds. With some luck and planning you can catch them after their pickup, netting you some potentially valuable goods. Sure, you are going to lose solo against that Black Rebel Rifter Club dude or that Faction Warfare guy. But that's why you need friends! You and another guy in a T1 fitted ship will beat the T2 solo-player.

You need a lot of experience.

PvP in eve it is not classical pvp, who win determines before battle. STATS determines who win and who lose. Knowledge about enemy STATS and enemy NUMBERS (health, speed, agility, health regen, shot range) can save you from losing your gear.

Try to FW farming, you learn how to smell how large hostile blob/camp.

Go to test server and lose thousands ships, this give you knowledge about combat mechanic.

And also pvp in 0.0 much easy than in losec/hisec, because of less number of OGB and another kinds of micro-transacted favors.

Just start a new topic in an appropriate section on the forums that makes a call to arms to all the people that are bad at PvP, and we can all start a new small corp and blow each other up in cheap frigs for a few month.

either:

* We all get better, or
* we keep laughing so hard we don't actually even care.

Win-win ether way.

1. Check my character age
2. Check my killboard
3. Beat yourself senseless for not just being young and bad at PvP, but being bad at PvP and trying to convince young pilots that it is futile

EvE is amazing because the youngest player can make a huge difference in a small-gang fleet, can take down the oldest player, etc in the right circumstances.

To be good at PvP, you need a plan....

When I was a very young player, I was killing interceptors in cheap, low meta fit tristans, merlins, and rifters (long ago, during a time of very different ship layouts, no small rigs, etc). I did this because I had a plan on how to engage them, and specifically fit to enhance my strengths and negate theirs! To elaborate: Inties were very fast, but fragile. So I fit 2x webs & a scram + tank so I could hold them down long enough to kill them. Later I learned and implemented fits to solo kill vagabonds and hurricanes in frigates, by negating their dps by orbiting closely, using a nos to counter their neut, killing their drones immediately upon tackle, and then slowly dwindling them away. It took time, and losses before successfully implementing them. Last year, about this time, I got a big kick using a helios to solo assault frigates, destroyers, and sabres. I would hold them in place with scram and one or two webs, neutralize their dps with a track or two, and slowly kill them in what is generally considered a non-combat ship.

If you just fit up a ship, jump through a gate, and expect to find a bunch of engagements to win, your sadly not-understanding the beauty of this game. It's not about big ships and tons of skill points. It's about understanding the game mechanics, understanding your ship's strengths and weaknesses, and importantly, understanding what you can successfully engage and how to successfully engage that makes you an excellent PvPer. This is why a new player can beat an older player. It is not the skillpoint advantage older players generally have to enables them to win in solo combat, it is the experiences they've had that often gives them the edge.

Add to this the fact this is an MMO, meaning you are more likely to find a one vs many situation than a solo situation (which you can still prevail if you understand how to engage).

Sorry you are having troubles in PvP'ing, but keep at it, and you'll probably gain some quality experiences that keep you addicted to EvE!