EVE General Discussion

I'm just wondering how everyone made the jump from a relative peaceful existence to a more voilent one that we see in low/nullsec?

What were you focusing on? How long did you focus on this before you decided to make the jump to PvP? How old was your character and did you feel like you were ready to make the jump?

I'm asking this because I'm trying to get into PvP but as a pretty new player I don't stand much of a chance with my low SP. I understand I need to pick my fights but I feel like I need to round myself out before I go and start getting blown up over and over.

There's an important lesson to be learned from Bubanni - specialize.

Don't just specialize in terms of where you spend your SP but specialize in terms of gameplay: pick one role, one ship class, even one single ship type and use it every. single. day until you are good at it.

Each ship and each role has a learning curve attached to it and most players give up long before they become effective at using it.

If you just put in the time to become really good at one thing then those without the patience to learn will regard you as a miracle worker.

Bubanni in his Stiletto, ShortySVK in his Slasher, Mark Hadden in his bomber, ... look at the top of class waffle grads and you will find many examples of focus & specialization paying off ten-fold (of course your focus doesn't have to be one certain shiptype, it could also be FCing one type of gang, ...).

there was a time....

EvE was a different world years ago (back when we walked to school 8 miles in the snow etc ) I had done the trial and gotten blown up in a reaper in a 0.4. I tried hauling and got ganked by Tiller trying to slowboat the 15km to a gate in low.

Then i moved to derelik. I stumbled upon someone mining which seemed like a good way to make some cash, got talking to him, joined his corp.

At the time you could realisticaly get away with mining in low sec and we struck an agreement with local pirates in a 0.3 not far from Doril to let us mine in peace.

Some pilots were outside the local sphere of influence however. I forget the guys name but he was in a corp called Ascendo Tuum with 2 other pilots one of whom was called 'Helen'. This guy would occasionally show up and blow someone up.

At this point in (well certainly in my) EvE history a battleship was an expensive bit of kit. I got sick of this dude and engaged him during a mining operation. We had 2 mining fit battleships and a mining fit battlecruiser. It went the way you would expect.

so I decided: if you cant beat em join em.

I pestered my way into Ascendo Tuum but they folded days later as its plots moved on to bigger things.

I returned to my birth system and one jump over I found miners. I flipped their cans. A pilot from a corp called 'suicide girls' engaged me and I blew it up. The buzz was unreal.

I then solo roamed low sec in various crap fit caracals and Feroxes picking fights. The multispec ECM was a massive help in this as you could take on maybe 3 pilots solo and cycle your ECM to escape or limit damage, break webs and scrams. I won a fair few fights. During all this time EvE was changing. Fights in low sec invariably ended in 5 or 6 ships arriving to take on my 1

Eventually I stumbled into Bosboger and started a fight with a local pirate from a corp called Vale Heavy Industries. The name was misleading as Vale were pirates. He won the engagement but asked me to join his corp which I did. I spent many happy years with Vale.

We formed one of the first pirate alliances - the Molotov Coalition.

Steadily targets in low sec dried up. Vale moved into mercenary work and also did a stinit in TDE as part of a null alliance.

Eventually i sent a emo message to Vale along the 'thanks for all the fish' lines. That was an epic corp.

Ever since then I have largely operated solo trying to recreate my hayday in EvE. I find it ard to see the point of doing anything except player vs player combat in EvE but my niche disappeared a long time ago.

There was a time.

I'm just wondering how everyone made the jump from a relative peaceful existence to a more voilent one that we see in low/nullsec?

What were you focusing on? How long did you focus on this before you decided to make the jump to PvP? How old was your character and did you feel like you were ready to make the jump?

I'm asking this because I'm trying to get into PvP but as a pretty new player I don't stand much of a chance with my low SP. I understand I need to pick my fights but I feel like I need to round myself out before I go and start getting blown up over and over.