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Solo PVP is Easy
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Ocih
Space Mermaids
#21 - 2012-05-09 21:12:20 UTC
Karn Dulake wrote:
Everyone in EVE is a coward. We just pretend that we are not.


Not all of us. I have the losses to prove it.
Greyscale Dash
Doomheim
#22 - 2012-05-09 22:05:34 UTC
Andski wrote:
wow it's almost like working with other players in a multiplayer game is advantageous by design


Of course it is. However, it is not flying solo. The problem is people claiming to be solo when they have quite a bit of support.
Macks Artilius
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2012-05-09 22:57:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Macks Artilius
The problem plain and simple is gates and gatecamps.

A newbie wanting to go into lowsec for PVP without a scout alt is entirely at the mercy of whatever is on the other side of the gate. And if its several insta-lock BS/BCs then their T1 rifter is probably not going to have a very good day. But that's ok, the gate guns will surely protect them from that gang of Tempests.

I'll happily move my orca through lowsec, because I have an alt to scout for it. On one account, it would be suicide.

Solo PVP with one account is rarer than a unicorn fart.
Mathias Hex
#24 - 2012-05-09 23:17:47 UTC
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I recall one night in a nightclub called the matrix, there I was... Mother of god there I am! Holy f**k.
Dbars Grinding
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#25 - 2012-05-10 01:32:34 UTC
20 jump roam solo around lonetrek. not one fight GG. i could whelp myself over in EC- but 1v14 isnt fun.

I have more space likes than you. 
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#26 - 2012-05-10 01:38:06 UTC
Dbars Grinding wrote:
20 jump roam solo around lonetrek. not one fight GG. i could whelp myself over in EC- but 1v14 isnt fun.

Guess that was a lone trek.

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Marcus Harikari
#27 - 2012-05-10 02:15:19 UTC
i've killed so many sleepers and asteroids solo i can't begin to count x-D
Pertuabo Enkidgan
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2012-05-10 03:07:58 UTC
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
Dbars Grinding wrote:
20 jump roam solo around lonetrek. not one fight GG. i could whelp myself over in EC- but 1v14 isnt fun.

Guess that was a lone trek.


dohohohohohohohohohoh, give this guy a emmy
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#29 - 2012-05-10 06:51:32 UTC
Greyscale Dash wrote:
Andski wrote:
wow it's almost like working with other players in a multiplayer game is advantageous by design


Of course it is. However, it is not flying solo. The problem is people claiming to be solo when they have quite a bit of support.


okay so what's the problem other than people being ~dishonourable~

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Vaal Erit
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#30 - 2012-05-10 07:00:17 UTC
Andski wrote:
Greyscale Dash wrote:
Andski wrote:
wow it's almost like working with other players in a multiplayer game is advantageous by design


Of course it is. However, it is not flying solo. The problem is people claiming to be solo when they have quite a bit of support.


okay so what's the problem other than people being ~dishonourable~


No problem. We are just laughing at the "1337 solo PvPers" that post videos and think they are so awesome. They aren't solo at all. They are totally lame just like people with falcon/cyno alts. If they were actually ever in a 1v1 situation they'd die horribly.
Shogun Archer
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#31 - 2012-05-10 07:33:50 UTC
Only complaint I have is that I know for a fact that the OP has used his own alts in his "solo pvp" exploits himself.

If you run into more than 2 a**holes in a day, you should probably look in the mirror.
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#32 - 2012-05-10 08:58:23 UTC
Solo PvP has been dead for many years now. Now, it is PvPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP.
Andrew W-K
Doomheim
#33 - 2012-05-10 08:59:02 UTC
I am the lord of solo pvp.
Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#34 - 2012-05-10 09:04:04 UTC
Multiboxing 40 Drakes is a completely different feat to multiboxing four inactive alts while your main PvPs, so please don't compare the tw-

Oh, wait, masternerdguy.

Nevermind.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
Darius Brinn
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2012-05-10 09:33:28 UTC
Apart from the fact that I am pretty risk adverse myself...REAL solo PvP doesn't make much sense.

Most people just wants to shoot other people down and see the pretty lights. People definitely do not look for fair fights, which (allow me to say) shoud only exist in controlled environments like tournaments and such.

If PvPers were looking for good fights, noob ships and haulers would be left alone.

Also, real solo PvP means increased risk. NOT KNOWING what could be coming at the other side of the gate is pretty corageous...or pretty stupid: your targets will be cloaked and looking at you, you will be bored, and eventually you'll get blobed and killed.

So, alts and friends are the ONLY availiable way to increase your control over engages. Jumping into the unknown is a one-way ticket to your home station, a brand new clone and a shiny new set of implants. And nobody wants that.

If there IS a way of checking your surroundings for intel that might save you or get you more desirable fights, then people is BOUND TO USE IT.

If there IS a way of increasing your GTFO chances, then people will use it.

Because people wants to destroy your shinies while at the same time keeping theirs, and that's all there's to it. They'll use all the tools at their disposal.

All's fair in love and war, and in war games, doubly so.
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