EVE General Discussion

Firts:
Yes i'm an alt so what, just dont read this if you cant guess why i'm posting with an alt.


And for those who still reading...

Hello, i'm a carebear, you know the true carebear who never left high sec and have the whole map in avoidance list but high sec systems. Yes i am one of those.

Last week i had a friendly (no ! it was not) chat with some low sec pirates, they insulted me (carebear no balls ect)
So i said to myself well YOLO get yourself a pvp ship and grow a pair (like they said)
Then i ended up enlisting in FW.


Here we go, i wannabe a badass screaming YARRR whenever i appear in local.



Finding myself in a tristan pvp fit heading to Cal/gal FW warzone...


Day 1:

Roaming since 1h30 mins smashing Dscan to find a good target....
All systems i came trough were too busy to expect a good fight.
Only players from same corp / too many pirates in local / too many ships on Dscan
TWT (Totally Wasted Time)


Day 2:

I had have to go deeper in my "grow a pair" plan
Roamed for like 30 mins or so...
Found a condor at novice plex...interessting...
Checking Dscan...Nothing on scan, good, let's warp to this plex
Caught that condor scram web and starting to blap the little ******...
Condor on hull and i'm still on half armor YaY.
Not even 20 sec after the fight started a dramiel shown up on Dscan at 1 AU
And indeed got me.

Obviously a bait...


Day 3

I was sitting at a novice plex in an empty system waiting for targets to come...
Wow a wartarget pop'd on local...a merlin...he might come to fight me...
Smashing Dscan on 1 AU, YaY he's coming to fight !
I took a deep breath, overload all modules and prepare myself for the fight of my life.
Caught him as soon as he landed and as soon as i did...
Huge spike in local...8 WT
Ok they obviously coming for me...

Once again I've eaten the bait...


Day 4

I was sitting at a novice plex for like 15 mins after a roamed for 30 mins to find a good fight...
Neutral appeared in local...in a Neurus
Smashing Dscan...
Wow he's sitting on Planet 4, probably doing PI stuff...
Let's start the chase...
Finally caught him at poco @planet 9
WHAT THE HELL !!! A neurus is scrambling/webbing me??? WTF my drones are not even scratching his shield??
Then 2 more neutral pop'd in local and soon after landed right on me....

This bait was strong...


Day 5

Roaming through the warzone...
Found a quite system...1 neutral in local in a npc corp, 1 WT in a rifter on novice plex
After my paranoïa told me to check the whole system for active ships. I found that neutral docked in the station.
Ok let's got catch that WT on novice...
Scram/web blap blap blap...that fight is tight ! that's a good fight.
WTF an inquisitor landed on grid and is starting to repp that rifter...
after few mins i finally got blown up, indeed.


Day 6

Headed back to high sec area, unlisted myself from FW, click'd on "make active" my Gila pve carebear fit.



Conclusion:

PvP'ers tend to insult/blame carebears but in fact the true carebears are those wannabe a "GoD DaMn TrUe LoW sEc TeRrOr"
who are fighting others on when they can outnumber / use logi / links.

At least i dont need to blob NPC to win :)

What you want existed 2 days after the server went live, then the spaceships banded together to hunt lone spaceships.
Eve Warfare evolved over more than a decade, so don't expect to solo pwn lowsec and conquer the universe in your frigate.

If you start doing something , odds are everybody doing the same thing has been doing it for a lot longer than you - so if you give up after failing a couple of times (even with the understanding why you failed) you might want to rethink your attitude.

Don't blame others for your failures.

Grats on having a go! I must say u sounded like u did better than expected, it's pretty sad that ppl would go to lengths to bait by offering what seems a fair fight, then when they are losing they call backup jus too they don't "lose" to some new pvp'er.

Your post reflects more on the sad life of fishermen than that of great captains of starships!

Well done!

In all honesty you seem to have lost a few cheap ships learning some very valuable lessons about pvp ....I say fair trade as many don't learn and assume pimp = win and lose a lot more ISk

Would like to hear you giving it another try one day hopefully soon as its sooooo much fun when u do win but it is challenging and you will lose ships as you learn unless you wanna just learn on the practice server

Anyways gl

Good effort trying to get out there. I support that. +1

Post with your main, and I'll send you 100 million ISK to keep at it.

OP

Get back out there and enjoy yourself.

It sounds like while you may have lost a couple ships you had fun doing it.

If I might suggest something a stint with EvE Uni, Agony Unleashed, or Pandemic Horde might give you a leg up.

And if it makes you feel any better I lost a 3/4 billion ISK Loki trying to be a smartass and solo kill an Astero.....his buddies showed up eventually

Solo frigate PVP is pretty much what the OP describes but it's not necessarily a bad thing nor a good thing "made bad".

It's just "tactics" and everybody is using them.

I don't see what the problem is. Before even reading the OP I expected to see what was posted. Why are people still complaining about it?

And there never was a "Golden age" of solo frigate PVP. Don't let the past glory of the Rifter fool you. The Rifter was a "pirate frigate" and used as such, the better PVP incidents resulting from that happened by accident.

Hence to go about "looking for PVP" is a failed aspect from the start. The game is designed around self-advancement where PVP happens when you want it to, and when you don't want it to. It's always been one of the selling points of the game and much cherished by those who "get" Eve.

Did you have fun?

I guess by reading your whiney post that answer is no.

I hope that there was some fun in it even if you lost, the hunt, the chase.. the D-Scan that pops up his rescue on the way.

These might of not been the outcomes you were looking for, but they were outcomes. Would of it have changed if you popped one or two of those targets as their support arrived? A few hit points this or that way and it's death or a kill.

After3-4 days of this, it doesn't seem you changed your tactics at all to get fights. Just D-Scan find target, check quick for no back up next to him and go "yolo" as you put it.

You have to change your tactics and approach if you expect a change in the game play. no?

The other option is to keep grinding at PVP and you'll start to notice more and more targets popping before support can get to them.. you'll learn tactics to drag them off from support, cross jump the list is endless in tactics.

Mark each of these Linking, Remote Repping 3 alt using pilots so you can identify those people next time.

If you think PVP is fitting a ship and looking for the first frig to fight your wrong. Just like a good miner, production specialist it takes time and experience to get to different levels. Being able to use different resources at the same time using other tactics to advance your chances of a win.

The crappiest part or tellingest(not a word) is that you didn't have fun. It didn't even sound like you enjoyed the hunt. Maybe PvP is not for you?

Hit me up sometime. We will kill stuff.