Warfare & Tactics

Subject says it all. Looking for some pro tips to make this dream of mine a reality. I have disposable funds but no alt and short intervals of playtime. Thanks in advance.

Faction Warfare, find a plex. Shoot whoever is in it. You won't always get 1vs1 but you will be able to get quick and decisive pvp.

Lowsec FW space. Use FW plexes to make yourself a 1v1.
Use aggression mechanics on a gate to split up potential targets
Use speed and kiting to split up gangs.

I had a glorious 1v12 the other day that was essentially 9 1v1s in quick succession. Using my speed advantage I strung them out over about 150km and had my way with them. It's not as hard as you might think.

If you know what you're doing getting a 1v1 through fw plexes is quite easy

Thanks for the great ideas everyone. Seems like FW is where it's at. Seasaw has me inclined to check out sisede too.

You will get true 1v1 if you join RVB. That's it as far as I know.

Join RvB and come to our FFA system, Nomaa. Not strictly 1v1 but it's more established residents will usually leave a fight alone if it is already running, usually. Regardless, they will always be up for a 1v1 if you ask. T1 frigs only and fleets are banned in this system to so no OGB's. If you don't fancy joining rvb you can still come, set yourself suspect and you'll probably get a fight as long as you're not being a d1ck.

I understand your situation with limited playtime, I'm in a similar boat myself. That has been the main reason that has kept me in rvb, well that and they are a bunch of good guys after the good fight.

I never want to roam 30 systems without even a locked target ever again, ever

90% of my encounters in Small and Novice FW plexes have been 1v1s.

Lots of 1v1 if you go out and find them. How many freaking threads are there from people who play an MMO looking to....solo? No shortage of people on their own out there. Those of us with friends and fleets call them....easy targets.

Dueling is lame. It's not PvP, it's not even useful in teaching PvP since it specifically skips all the stuff that actually matters in PvP far more than skills or shiny ships. Rack up a thousand KMs dueling, and still die in seconds the moment you cross into low sec where PvP isn't arranged and 'safe'. Where a D-Scan is more important than guns and you avoid 1v20 by KNOWING THE GAME- knowing that the lone miner in low sec is friggin bait. That one frig tempting your 10 man fleet to fight is carrying a Cyno....that's how you 'ensure' a fight as fair as they get in Eve. Not lame mechanics to hide behind.

Kill mails should not be issued for duels or at least marked as such. KM's are a reward for PvP, not newbs boxing around trade hubs. Anybody that's not a newb at a trade hub certainly doesn't need a girly game mechanic to find a fight.

CCP should make a mechanic that gets newbs into real PvP, not some pretend version of it that has no resemblance what-so-freaking-ever to how PvP happens beyond slap fights in Jita.

<--bittervet....mourns the loss of PvP in Eve. Dueling is just another mechanic to keep people in high sec, playing at PvP rather than actually doing it where it matters. Eve was unique in that combat actually meant something once. You fought over space, you disrupted trade lanes, it was warfare on a grand scale, not just a mass of individual, pointless pew so miners can claim to have a kill board.

If dueling had a point. If it led to something. If it in anyway prepared people for real PvP in this game...I'd be all for it.

/end rant

FW is just low sec. It's no more likely to be 'fair' than anywhere else. While it IS the home of newer players so your chances of finding other inexperienced players is higher- it is also the home of the AWOXer and blob fests. A 1v1 in FW is more a matter of happenstance than design.

If you want honorable 1v1, go find my former pirate corp, Black Rebel Rifter Club. We favored solo flying, and were adamant about honoring duels and ransoms. Despite the 'pirate' label, they're really more a fight club and will welcome and honor any combat you offer. You will still lose, they're pirates and not weekend warrior PvPers, but they WILL honor a duel without CCP's faggoty mechanic needed.

When players click on the Duel button, the game should open a WoW client. That's where it belongs. (/really end rant)

Confirming that everyone should play the game the same way he does. Only thus can the sandbox be saved.

Actually, I'm not a fan of dueling either but I do like 1v1 in lowsec. Fight around FW areas, use dscan and you can usually find it without being blobbed by a gang.

My game time is limited and irregular. I don't always want to fleet up. Simple as that.