EVE General Discussion

If you're new to the whole pvp thing Red Vs Blue is not Lame.

If you can only find gate camps or complete emptiness in lowsec either you are a perfect scout or complete failure.

I hear a lot of people express almost exactly this sentiment.

PvPing is very much about learning to find targets and how to travel safely. It's about learning when and when not to burn back to the gate, about learning to use your star map to find targets and gate camps and all the little things like when to pull range etc. I usually go out either by myself or in groups of 4 or 5ish. We get on average 2-3 kills for an hour or two's roaming. We get a lot of near misses.

The last roam I FCed had us running from three different fleets and nearly killing some of their scouts on multiple occasions. Despite killing nothing over the hour we were out, that was probably the most exciting roam I have had in a while. The adrenaline was pumping for the whole roam. Our little 6 man gang got in confrontations with 20+ man gangs on a number of occasions.

In your star maps' options somewhere there is an option to show the average number of people in space over the last 30 mins as well as the number of kills in that system over the last hour. Five minutes browsing the map will find you a good area to roam around and show you where all the likely gate camps are at. You can really use this information to your advantage.

These are the kinds of things CCP should be teaching new players so they can get to grips with PvP. A good PvP fit will get you nowhere without knowing how to navigate the PvP landscape.

Don't play the game by yourself.

I would argue you need to find a good active corp, other people make EVE. Im biased but i would say Faction Warfare is a good place to start aswell. Find a corp to join in FW (wink wink) and get chatting making friends and shooting other people, you will soon learn that low sec is actually pretty safe most of the time if you know what you are doing and have a couple of friends. Then you will learn how to find find targets ect and fun will be had again.

nope. it's just skill training online.

I'm a carebear as well, heck I have been accused of being the poster child for carebears during past forum altercations, but pvp in high sec in a war is very fun (though I wont budge on my stance of gankers-they are idiots). Find a merc corp that does high sec pvp or a corp that does pvp roams into low. Going into low alone is just boring and cant end well. Like any MMO, the key to having fun is the people you meet in the game.

I prefer interesting to exciting.

Each to their own though.

To keep things exciting, I stopped scouting ahead. I stopped metagaming entirely. Playing EvE on Safe Mode is not for me.

To OP:
Although in 4 years I've seen and done most there is to do in eve pvp, there is still excitement, yes. For instance, the last real adrenaline rush was when my cap fleet got unexpectedly hotdropped and I managed to survive and get out by the skin of my teeth.