Warfare & Tactics

I beg my pardon for that.

But I guess you realise how enraging it is to see people mixing cause and effect: 'pros' (or w/e) fly expensive ships cause they're confident with their ability to get good fights with that and surely not the other way around; idea of getting good fights because of expensive gear is probably the most stupid thought any PvPer can ever come up with. If you don't belong to these folks, then it's great

Someone eve-mailed and asked me few days ago about my way of PvP and I guess I can copy my last reply:





So getting back to initial question, I'd say flying with people better than you is not the only way to progress. Mere flying without post-fight analyses will hardly do anything.

1. Buy a thrasher
2. Fit it like http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15237013 this.
3. Face **** stuff


Keys to solo;

High DPS and being fast - no one is solo these days, but that doesnt mean you can't get a solo fight. Being fast and having a lot of DPS is key. Go for quick fights, gank and bail. Spread them out by being fast, then about face, **** and run.

Fit cheap until you learn - nothing wrong with flying a baller fit, but when soloing its best not to. You will die often to blobs. If you want to get something shiny get a snake set. It doesn't die with your ship and in low sec losing a pod should be quite rare. More expensive does not always mean better in this game.

Tactics, use them - Learn aggression mechanics and how to use them to split a gang up on a gate, use FW plexes to limit the ship sizes you want to engage. Use smack talk to get 1v1s. be persistent when hunting, learn behaviors common to those you hunt. etc

Have balls - Try crazy ****, that's how epic killmails are made


Most important, do not get discouraged. Die often, to this day I still learn something every time I die in a small gang/solo fight.

Good luck!

Find a ship/ship class you like. I, for one, strongly enjoy soloing in Minmatar Battlecruisers. And SFis.
Work out a couple of fits for them. Ensure your fits are flexible - I can not stress the importance of utility enough. Pure Gank n' Tank is extremely weak for anything but frigates and destroyers. Make sure it synergises - whether it be ECM, scram+Web, TDs, TPs, neuts, SeeBos or anything else of that ilk.
For cruisers+BCs: Ensure you fit can reliably take out frigates, either by jamming their scram and burning to 5K away, kiting them for long enough to tear them into dogmeat, or holding them down with prop disrupt and WTFPummelling them. Frigates are annoying little bastards.
Go out and look for fights.
Don't get disenheartened when you get blobbed or otherwise faceraped.
Feel free to gank miners and mission runners. Anyone dumb enough to have not at the very least aligned out has everything coming.
CHECK D SCAN.
In null, make savespots on the side of the gates.
Check intel religiously.

Buy 100 merlins (or other frig/destroyer of choice but you obviously have caldari frig trained).

Troll around for 2-3 good looking fits around (look at KB of folks who solo a lot, FHC, BC, etc.).

Buy 5 of each of those fits.

Lose them. Analyze why, adjust.

Optimize the fits you liked a bit, buy 5-10 more of them.

Repeat until you run out.

You'll spend ~1 bil ISK or so for 100 T2-ish fits. By the time you're done, you should be better.

Please bring said ship to nullsec.

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A sabre pilot.

1) Be hungry for killmails - solo pilots are predators not prey. That shuttle killmail is just as important as the T3 killmail.
2) Know all the cookie cutter fits and their counters - then know the local pilots and what variations they use from a killboard.
3) Have reships available for any likely situations.
4) Always be undocked and moving.
5) In the end, experience is most often the deciding factor.
6) Always count on stupid - when you add drunk then you get some good mails.

Have fun throughout, so make sure you find some people with similar views to chat with whilst you are stalking the spacelanes.

Nice discussion/thread (sometimes it happens even on EVEo forum).

To the OP:

-Fly solo is hard and you will probably lose as much as you win (if you re lucky). But that' s not the reason why you fly solo right? You already had some good advices, the only thing i can add is:

-**** efficency
-**** K/D ratio
-**** scout alts, alt booster, alt faclon.

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-About video and youtube:

-as someone else told you they maybe can misguided you, since for have that great 1v5 fight they probably have lost much more ships in the process, but that s what all video (the good ones at least) are for: show what a ship is capable of in determinated situation if flown by a pvper committed to the fight.

If you wanna look for some good videos without any kind of alts involved, i'd suggest Prometheus exenthal and Kil2.
Usually i have stopped watch anything that involves alts, except those were they really risk something. See a video were 1 boosted nano ship kite from 50km a BC is not very much entertaning, same for overtanked BS takin on a couple of BC.

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