EVE General Discussion

This.

Thanks for the link OP, I lol'd

I agree guys, I think any player that doesn't want to play with other people and ignore the majority of Eve's content should be awarded with the "solo module" this module will take up a rig slot (so yeah, technically it's a rig) and what it will do is the following:

Passive buffs:

Make the user immune to Ecm

Double speed

Double tank

Make blasters reach over 100km

Artillery's rate of fire is trippled and can now hit frigates for 100% damage.

If you're flying with a cloak equipped you can now shoot while cloaked.

Active:

When activated it forces all enemy units currently on grid to be propelled 100km in random directions with an added -100% speed and inability to warp for 5 minutes, which will allow you to solo pvp blobs on your terms.

If overheated you will automatically start filming a montage while spamming "Nerf ECM" "Blobbers are cowards" "L2p" "This is MY sandbox and I should play it how I want" in local and all coalition hub-systems.

In all seriousness, blobbers aren't killing solo pvp, it's whiney little scrubs that fail to adapt that are killing solo pvp.

Black ops fail

pvp in eve

watch ms paint lasers

ship explodes

you pressed 1 button


pretty sweet

Definition of solo PvP?

A player who wants gentlemanly agreed upon one-on-one?

Or is it a player who wants to be able to sneak upon unsuspecting victims, hit them quickly then run off before his buddies show up?

The former is a matter of trust (heard something about a new feature which would allow for one on one fights, dunno what happened to it though)

The latter? Yeah, it is definitely very EVE-like...in theory. Too bad reality is something entirely different. You know, instant information being the same old issue and all.

The fun thing is that this is commonly done in other MMOs. On WH we'd call them "boisbands" but I have also done it in GW2. It's about small (2-4-6) groups of players going against 30-50-60 other players baiting and slowly killing them one by one.

It really gives some adrenaline rush to go 1 vs 10 and still farm them. Gotta use all the experience, less known skills, (in some games) time potions, line of sight, all sorts of bait tricks, experience about how collision works, deep knowledge of the terrain features, knowing how to GTFO in case of emergency, being able to stay alive till somebody "resses" the fallen guy(s).

I wonder if EvE got some squads playing like that.

It requires an actual understanding of the game, mechanics, ships, fits and strategies. Something which most people severely lack whether they're fierce 0.0 pvpers or not. In fact most people who pvp in 0.0 are quite clueless on things, all they're good at is following orders (and even that they manage to mess up). They act all brave and shout a lot but when push comes to shove they're just as clueless as the average high sec bear.

Where does one get that EVE being an MMO = Solo PvP was never intended?

EVE is a Sandbox. If I want to kill something and someone is willing to fly solo -- should we cross paths, there is a possibility one of us may die. This scenario has been repeated more than a few times, me thinks.

Solo PvP in my mind also includes (some) solo kills within the larger scheme of PvP be it FW, war, etc. Albeit it is often defined as roaming and camping for targets.

Then there is this ...
http://eve-kill.net/?a=home&solo=true

It's not a particularly exciting page, isk-wise, I admit.

(Ninja Edit) Killboards only tell a partial story: missing those who warp off in structure, the hunt etc.

To be fair, not everyone is lucky enough to have the Solo Channel...so quit rubbing it in.

Dead and effectively dead are quite different. Effectively solo pvp is dead. Time commitment + chance of being blobbed to death = effectively dead. Technically, no it's not. But then even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. I think it's safe to say that technically, this wasn't even solo pvp otherwise this guy was blindly traversing lowsec. The odds are not in his favor of running into favorable or even semi-favorable fights. I would guess that he probably had a cov-op scouting his way and found something which looked favorable. Arazu's being what they are (I fly one) don't have a lot of tank and are not difficult to take down. Cudos to the pilot for his knowledge of combat to leverage the situation. But I highly doubt this is a case of a guy in a lone ship setting out to find pvp. Therefore, it's not technically solo pvp. At best it's a guy that knows what he's doing. At worst it's a very lucky pilot.