EVE General Discussion

It is possible to solo pvp on a 2 month old character. As most here said, there is a limit to how much skills matter. If you're flying a kiting frigate against a brawler that can't hit you with it's range, it doesn't matter how many skill points that brawler has. There's much more to this game than skill points.

As far as solo PvP goes, get into low sec faction warfare areas. They tend to be full of frigates, and you can get a lot of 1v1 by just roaming around and checking the complexes for people. Sometimes they will run, sometimes they'll fight, but it's a great way to find fights. If you're in a frigate, then you can concentrate on Novice plexes and be certain that they won't have anything bigger fight you (just watch out for gangs). The other plexes are just as viable if the system is less populated.

Now I will say that this won't make you a ton of money, but if you're just flying T1 frigates, then it's only 10mil a loss and you can buy a lot of figs with a single plex until you get things figured out.


EDIT: Of course if you just want to build your piloting skills and learn how to fly without the whole "piracy" bit, you can join Red vs Blue and learn a lot that way and have the frigs paid for.

Drones will not "auto agress a player for stealing from a can,"

And Can flipping is dead because a retriever can hold 25km3, there is no reason to jet can anymore.

Op, yes, I'm a 4 year 'vet' of Eve. But here's some good newbie advice:

No you don't need a gazillion Sp to be effective. As solo, it's a bit more restrictive, but player skill is all that really matters. Along with Cohones. Player skill you get by doing your homework, researching, theorycrafting, checking sites, gaining information. Either about someone you want to molest, or how to molest people in general.

I killed my first 3 battleships in a single engagement as a 3 week old noob. Yes, I had help in the form of a couple of fleet members in battleships, but they were long range, I was the 3 week old newbie, in a rifter with no guns, only a couple of small neuts, a web, a scram and an afterburner, that was crazy enough to fly over to the enemy battleships, pinned them down, and kept holding them down until my fleetmates killed them. Without me, those battleships would have simply warped off. Without them, yeah, I would have been sushi. ( in fact, when I tried this on a 4th ship, didn't know what it was except it was some kind of cruiser ( a Loki ), i got splattered all over the place )

Anyway, you want to be a pirate, dare to lose some ships, you will have to get used to doing that anyway, it's part of Eve.
Go down into lowsec, see if there's a miner in a quiet system, and try and take him out.
See someone in a similar sized ship, who is also a pirate, but he's probably got friends nearby, dare him in a 1 on 1. Cooler pirates that see that you're a newbie with a bit of spine will probably honer it, then smack you around all the corners of the solarsystem before sending you home in a pod. If you win, be gracefull and tell them it was a goodfight. if you lose, man up that you lost, and ask what you could have done better.

This is Eve, do what you want to do, as losing is simply a part of the game, and helps you learn. Your options are only limited to what you dare to do.

Someone should probably tell the miners then. I keep seeing people jet mining into Freight Containers, now that freighters have a jet tube.

not sure, but I believe it only gives you a big standing hit with whatever npc corp the NPC is affiliated with, along with their guns firing at you if you're shooting it at their station. probably also a faction hit, so eventually the navy might come looking for you, possibly also a suspect flag for being naughty.