EVE General Discussion

That is your opinion and your opinion only. You don't hesitate for a second to think that some people actually classify that system (I'm guessing that 0.2 system was Bersyrim, you're always in there when I see you, always cloaked too) as being their home and because that's their home, rougue miners are depleting thier resources or rogue ratters are ratting their plex's. Yes, lowsec technically isn't owned, but certain powers partrol and keep those systems for themselves.

Same with wormholes, if someone goes into a wormhole and starts running the sleeper sites or mining the gas etc, you can guarantee the residents (if there are semi competent) will kill the person or run them out with no questions asked. Again it's their home.

They have put the effort in to keep the system, to protect it, to call it home. Sometimes which is a logistical nightmare.

*Snip* Please refrain from personal attacks. ISD Ezwal.

Getting that first solo kill is going to be a combination of patience, luck, and as corny as it sounds a "can do" attitude. For myself it didn't take too long but things were different then, can baiting was easy, and managed to get a dummy in a hauler as a result of it. Nothing too amazing but it sets you on the right path. Just keep at it, it will come, you will learn what you can and can't fight - who's using links, who isn't, etc. etc. Also as mentioned already don't bother with high-sec the fights are always in favor of the other guy in some way, just go to fw low sec - you'll find loads of similarly SP'd players looking for people like you to test there mettle against.

PS - I highly recommend the minmatar/amarr warzone in particular.

Buck up little camper. First of all, why does it have to be a solo kill? Eve is an MMO, get some friends. The family that murders together stays together. Don't have any friends or are an introvert? No problem, google up some RvB Ganked. Go on their public roams. Although they have fits for each roam they do, you can literally bring anything. If you're not above wrecking your sec status, the New Order is always looking for gankers. Contact John E Normus and he will hook you up with a Catalyst and a non-compliant miner to whack.

But to answer your question, pretty sure it was about 6mo. I wardec'd a one man corp of a guy that annoyed me. Killed him on a gate. It was glorious.

The best one after that though is more instructive. I had already murdered some miners in another corp I dec'd. The CEO came in his Harbinger to the station I had chased one of them too. I let him shoot me a bit and then I docked without agressing. Why? Because I had no freaking idea what a Harbinger was or what kind of guns or damage it could do. Checked the combat log to see what he was shooting me with and Googled. Turned out my Hurricane was a good match so I undocked to give it a go. It was a little more tense than I would have liked, but the Harbinger died and the Hurricane still had a bit of structure left. Later a guy in that same corp taught me that a Dramiel will absolutely wreck a Jaguar. Probably should have learned that before engaging.

My one piece of advice: In hisec and lowsec* you can just about always opt out of taking a fight. So only take ones you think you can win (see above) and stay out of the others.



* Nullsec and wormholes both because of bubbles and whs because of polarization

If I ever get a solo kill I'm doing it wrong.

Looks like it took me 6 months from starting PVP to win my first 1vs1 against another combat ship. I quite enjoyed small gang PVP then when everything was new (coordinated action on voice comms was like the most awesome thing ever :D), and wasn't necessarily looking for solo in the beginning- desire to solo came along later, now I have probably +600 solo kills in everything from scanning frigs to battleships, majority in T1 frigs.

It's not easy until you figure out the most important thing- choosing your fights. Learn all the ships and their typical fighting methods and fits, and don't bang your head to the wall of picking difficult or impossible fights at first. Stick to one ship, or a select few and learn it's stats and how they compare to other ships. You need to know your range, speed and tank on an intuitive level and have a realistic estimate how it would handle against your target. Source the internet, and spend quality time with EFT. Test and practice with NPCs (or test server, if you prefer that), then fly out with a tactic that suits your chosen ship.

Go through your losses and think want went wrong. You can also look at the killboards of the pilots who killed you, and import their fits to EFT and examine them.

I took a quick look at your KB, and in general you seem to favour relatively light tanks (sometimes even no buffer modules at all?), but often complement that with smaller than the biggest guns- to fly Gallente, I'm afraid you need perfect or near perfect fitting skills so you can fit the biggest guns. Or adjust your fits for either more tank or more gank. (ie. always Neutron blasters with light tank, or heavy tank with Electrons). Don't worry about dropping a magstab or DDA for a resist module. Fitting implants will help until you get Advanced Weapon Ugrades V and IV rigging skills, but I still use them all the time.

Learn to warp your pod out when your ship goes down! You lose too many pods in low sec.

Don't be too hard on yourself, your losses are nothing to be shamed of (1vsMany, against veteran pilots in superior ships etc) and you seem to have a knack for experimenting with fits, which is good. Just keep at it, find a fighting style that suits you and become a master of it, and pick your fights a bit more carefully!

I was still rather noobish mining in Tash-Murkon when I managed to kill a can flipper with a badly fitted maller all thanks to my doing lvl 2 missions in it and having learned how to deal with frigates getting up close. Though he ejected and I didn't get a killmail.

My first solo kill? About 3 months after I started this charachter. Before that i was an out and out carebear that had never tried pvp, left high sec or thought beyond Lvl4's and industry for a good year and a half.

Best decision in eve I ever made was nearly quiting but on a spur starting this char to just shoot all the things. This became my main after about 3 months.

As for Dinsdale.... mate you really are a special snowflake aren't you.

I recently got my first solo pvp kill when someone tracked me down during a mission in low sec, I was in my drake with no intention of engaging in PvP.

Having someone just show up startled me and while I've played on and off since 2008 I've got very limited experience in pvp but I am not shy about flying anywhere ( if I got jumped I got jumped, more surprised it took so long to finally happen) and I'm not going to run away.

So 25 mins later with mission rats shooting at us both his tank finally squeaks out and he pops, warping off in his pod. I had no scram or Web so why he didn't leave I don't know but it was an interesting encounter for me.

Most folk I come across in low or null don't hassle me and I don't hassle them (you could probably class me as some kind of care bear) which works for me cause piracy or ganking just isn't my play style (but I have no problem with folk playing that way , it's thier game too).

So 6 years and I got a solo pvp kill and I'm on 58 mil sp ;)

Dunno really, guess i had about 2mill sp, flying a thorax. beeing a old school pirate was great fun back in the day.
If you have 50 losses and no solo kills, your doing something horribly wrong. Get in touch ingame m8.

Killing a cruiser with a frigate is actually pretty easy. Do a spiral approach, hold a tight orbit, and stay under their guns. My first and only solo kill was Frigate vs Cruiser. He got on shot on me on my initial approach, but once I scrambled him, and entered that tight orbit he missed every shot. Took almost a hundred rounds, but I got the kill. You just have to be sure to kill their drones before the ship. Drones and missiles are worst enemy in those kind of engagements.