My EVE

Teach me how to give billions of isk to Mintchip and receive nothing in return.

1. In any chat window, type in Tippia, highlight and auto-link it to a character (select the topmost in the list).
2. Right-click the link and choose “give money” — enter a number in the billions (after making sure you have it available in your wallet)
3. If you don't hear from Mintchip, you will know it has worked.

Advice I'd like?

I guess I'd want 4 key topics, very important ones too.

1 ) Controlling your nerves. Seriously, I get the shakes from adrenaline pretty badly. My caffeine addiction doesn't help. A guide to keeping calm would be nice.

2 ) Good pvp practices, such as engagement protocols that will help tip things in your favour, even if only psychologically (tying back to number 1).

3 ) A leaders point of view. I'm considering training into Leadership, as fleet maneuvers, fleet management, and efficiency have started to interest me. I also wouldn't mind covering, again, the psychological aspects of leadership, from a fleets perspective. After all, nobody wants to die, even if it's inevitable, so making that transition from ship to pod to station instantly should never feel bad if the commander can smooth things out right?

4 ) Recovery of assets. Of course, don't fly what you can't afford to lose, but lose one too many ships and suddenly things can look very bad. A guide for making small sums of ISK rapidly (enough to dare going into null, to make more), to replace failed attempts and mend broken ego's and wallets because that EFT fit totally shouldn't have died that fast.

I'd guess that's it.

TL;DR: Write Sun Tzu's "The Art of War".

How do you combat blobs (fleet of lets say 7 guys but about 20-30 ships) of multiboxing several year vets?

One thing I would like to "learn" is how to decide, on the fly, whether to try to out track the target close up or try to kite. Because I've found doing the wrong one = almost assured death.

I use pulse, so either can be done...

Bumped for important content.

This just comes with more and more pvp, first time I pvp'd was my Merlin against a Ritter at a planet in otou, nearly blacked out lol, but somehow I won with both of us in structure. Get a load of t1 frigates/destroyers/cruisers and go roaming lowsec, try and get one or two to engage you on gate, that way you start with gate gun advantage. Ruptures I've found are an excellent little damage dealer and put up somewhat of a good tank.

Worked for me, in fact Mintchip sent me a personal mail telling me how she liked the cut of my jib and invited me to join her corp.

All I need to do now is purchase several Billions worth of useless clothes from her (got to look good and reprezent you know) and pay an anti spying deposit ( A few more bil but then It'll be worth it). Then I'm in, me a Mintchipian , OMG I'm so excited, me ma would be so proud of me

If anything; How falloff affects damage and how you can make use of this (range ammo, kiting etc) to take out ships that on paper have more dps/tank than you. Insights like that are a good way of explaining to newcomers how simple EFT stats don't necessarily mean anything, and realising that there's more to PVP than basic EHP and dps numbers is probably the best way to make them realise they can influence a fight and actively decide the outcome rather than it being "bad luck".

You've tried solo pvp right?
You could be like me. I dont get the rush from fleet engagements.
Usually I get the the rush when I'm the underdog. When I'm attacking a brutix in a crusader or three rifters in a taranis.

Also, my corp once war decced eve uni. We usually had about 5 people in their home system and they were coming out of their stations in 30-50 man blobs with lots and lots of ecm. We used fast ships (interceptors, vagas etc.) to dance around the blob and pick off people who got too far from the main fleet.
I wouldnt say I got the rush from that like I do from solo pvp but it was definitely fun.


As for controlling your nerves... I think you just need to get used to it.
If your nerves arent preventing you from fighting properly it's just a good thing. I like having shaky hands when I'm doing something crazy. Just means the game is exciting.