EVE General Discussion

You can get a lot of good solo PvP on your own time. Learn scanning skills and set traps in those sites in lowsec.

Also running through gate camps in low is a lot of fun. Learn the mwd/cloak trick and set up a cruiser or BC for ratting and misioning with a cloak on.

Whatever you do don't get sucked into the rats as a full time challenge, they are just there to get the ball rolling. Learn how to evade other players and try to accomplish you goals in spite of them.

what is the mwd/cloack trick?

what can you teach me about evading other players? because I bought a skill book that took me into .4 space. Got me killed today.

Can wormholes be solo PVE?

are t3 the best choice in other peoples opinions for Solo PVE?

Just some thoughts for you to ponder ... I also have a wife and kids that limit my EVE play time significantly.

1) Depending on your prior experiences you might want to start with high sec missions/mining/exploration ... the advantage being that stations are plentiful and if you have to go afk the odds of losing your ship to other players are generally less. You can make reasonable isk and have a good time and make some friends depending on the corp you are in.

The rest of EVE content divides into lowsec/nullsec and WHs. I've spent more than a year each in both null and WHs but have only gone on lowsec PVP roams ... I haven't actually lived there. (As for PVE content there are also incursions which can be found throughout EVE and move around ... these can be highly profitable but require a fleet and are not done solo).

( A ) WHs are more skill intensive since you have to add scanning skills to the list of things you must do. You have to develop the habit of using dscan and realize that you WILL be ganked at some point. WHs are also a lot of fun since they typically blend relatively profitable anoms and scan sites with mining at grav and gas sites ... and typically small gang PVP. However, you must be able to loot and salvage since all of the isk from sleeper NPCs comes from drops that must be shipped out and sold to realize a profit. You also will be operating out of a POS that will generally involve trusting the other corp members with access to whatever ships or loot you have stored. For operating "solo" in WHs ... there are Class 2 WHs with both high sec and Class 1 static exits ... the C1 and C2 sites can be soloed with no problems ... the statics will change daily. However, the chances of getting visitors from high sec are also greater than with a lowsec static. Class 3 WHs can also be solo'ed with high end ships (the Tengu is popular).

( B ) Null sec PVE is different. It is probably the top end of ISK earning (other than incursions and C4-C6 WHs which can also be quite profitable ... but incursions and C4-C6 WHs are a fleet and not solo activities). In null sec you can constantly run anomalies which respawn continuously. There are also DED complexes that can be scanned down which can drop faction loot and pirate ship blueprints (7/10 to 10/10). These can be soloed in the right ships but can take a long time to do so. However, in order to obtain access to this you must be part of a 0.0 sov holding alliance, a renter or a pet. Each of these organizations has varying obligations and requirements. Many will require participation in PVP as part of their membership agreement ... of course you can always join and lie about your intentions to participate but keep in mind that some corps may just kick you out if it becomes clear that you lied and are just taking advantage of the PVE opportunities ... in which case you will find it very difficult to get your stuff back to high sec unless you have your own carrier, an alt account and can light a cyno chain to wherever you are located. The challenge of 0.0 is logistics ... unless you don't care and are willing to leave whatever assets you have when you move ... you need to either have friends int the corp or alliance or hire a service (Red Frog (?) if available) to move your stuff. ... so your best bet for null sec PVE is probably to join a renter corp, which will often have lower PVP requirements but will often have significant taxes to cover the rental costs on their 0.0 system. Keep in mind also that 0.0 stations are owned by players and unless you are an alliance member or a related organization with special privileges ... you will not be able to dock at stations.

( C ) Lowsec has some good exploration opportunities in PVE ... there are also pirate faction missions in some areas and Level 5 empire faction missions. Level 5 missions are more challenging and although some folks run them solo are quite difficult to do so. In addition, in low sec there is the constant risk of being hunted down. You can operate solo in lowsec since you can dock at any station. A better arrangement would be to join a corp that has "claimed" some lowsec region ... they will be based out of a couple of systems and may have set some neighbours blue. This will give you friends to call on, an intel channel and some security since folks who are blue should not be hunting you ... anyone else can be expected to be looking for a kill :). In my opinion, lowsec is a good place for small gang PVP ... PVE is not so much better than high sec as to merit the additional risks of either mining (this may be changing in the next patch as they reallocate resource production) or mission running ... but the gate and station guns in low sec tend to mean cruisers and battlecruisers are the standard PVP ships ... friagates can be too easily blown up ... while in 0.0 small gang PVP you may see more frigates since they are fast, can hace decent firepower and don't have to worry about NPC guns if they are the aggressor.

Last comment ... high end PVE ships include T3 cruisers (Tengu is a favourite) ... as well as the pirate and some faction battleships (at the moment the machariel is particularly good but we will see what changes are made in the June 4 patch).

Hope that helps ...

1) You will regularly find 7/10 to 10/10 sites in nullsec. Of course most of these will be in systems that have sovereignty claimed and have been upgraded (the sites are there permanently - when one despawns another spawns 2 minutes later). This is how most of the disposable income of nullsec inhabitants is made. Of course, expect sovereign space to be defended. If you're seen in someone's systems you will be chased out. You can find sites in unclaimed systems, but they're more of a random thing and you'll only find a decent site every 5-6 systems you scan.

2) It depends very much on the rat type. Lots of people like the Ishtar because you can just swap the drones and pretty much deal with any rat type (except angels, angels are hard to do in an ishtar). People also like the Rattlesnake, as it has the best passive tank in the game. It might be too expensive for your tastes though. And you will get many people ratting in T3's - lokis, HAM legions, tengus. Pick a cheap ship at first until you get confident. Most of the difficulty in nullsec is traveling back and forth to your destination.

3) Most cloaky ships are terrible at PVE combat. Sticking a cloak on a regular ship usually handicaps it in some way, making it take longer to lock, filling up a high slot, taking up too much CPU, etc.

4) The scorpion is great to get killed in. Seriously, it may look cool but it's an ECM support ship meant to operate as part of a large fleet. They are hard to fit properly for PVE, and would die quickly if you were caught by a player. You should be choosing a ship based on both your in game skills and your experience with EVE as a whole. Not looks.

Geezus just frakkin google everything. You are not returning player anymore, after 3 weaks you are just trolling.

1. By potentially interfering with your cloak if your ship emerges close enough to an object (2,000 meters).
2. Because they can't be anchored in low-sec.
3. Yes, as long as they're in-line with the ship's warp vector (with some degree of margin).
4. Visually. You completely disappear.
5. Not sure how mission AI is now. Sleepers will target drones though. I know that "elite" rats go after drones all the time.
6. That really depends on player skill and innovation. What can you think of pulling off with a ship that can move cloaked relatively fast, but can't warp cloaked?

1a. If you are ship that relies on cloaking then it makes it much more likely. You can't cloak when there is an object less than 2000m from you and/or are targeted by someone.

2a. Arbitrary restrictions. Empires don't like warp bubbles. CCP wants to distinguish 0.0 space from low-sec (see: make it harder for groups to "control" space in low-sec).

3a. Yes... as long as the bubble is "on-grid" (can be visually seen) with the warp destination and is aligned along the inbound and outbound path.

4a. Nope. It's total. Can't be seen visually or by sensors.

5a. You used to be able to do sometimes like this. But the NPCs will still switch aggro. Better to just sit with your drones, apply Ewar or logistics (NPCs HATE those things), and pull them in whenever they get aggro.

6a. Nope. As with anything that is cloaked, you can't do anything until you decloak. This is especially so with the Widow and Black-ops ships in general as they can't warp cloaked like Covert-ops or Force Recons.


I think the latest average is 1.7 or 2.2 accounts per player... but someone might want to fact check that for me.

Black ops ships can jump bridge covert ops ships.

Yes, you can get through gate camps... but what they actually do is help players pick and choose what targets they wish to engage and launch "surprise attacks"... which is important as ships that "specialize" in cloaking are slower, squishier, and/or deal mediocre damage.

As for getting in close to warp disrupt targets... only certain cloaking ships are good at/recommended for doing this. The Arazu (Gallente Tech 2 cruiser) and Pilgrim (Amarr Tech 2 Cruiser).


4a. When you first jump into a system you have gate-cloak for about 60 seconds. Once this is over or you move (whichever comes first) you decloak and can activate your mods (including your personal cloak).
So yes, there is a 1 to 2 second period where you can be seen are are vulnerable... but given that it takes a full second for a player to see you and react to it... and that it takes about a second or longer to actually achieve target lock... you are pretty much safe (unless you are extremely unlucky).

5a. Pretty much.

6a. Game balance. Black-ops ships are potentially powerful ships. And covert-ops cloaking devices are powerful modules. By themselves they are okay... together they can create something bordering on overpowered.
You'll hear lots of arguments going back and forth on this subject.


- NPCs can be Ewar'ed... it just isn't recommended as there are so many NPCs to kill in a mission/plex/anomaly... debilitating one or two of them won't make a difference.
(NOTE: The exceptions to this are Stasis Webifiers and Target Painter... the former helps in slowing things down at close range (to kill/outrun them better) while the latter helps in applying damage better.)
Logistics modules are anything that remotely repair ships or drones. Remote Armor Repair and Shield Transporter being the two big ones.

- Black-ops ships have the distinction of being one of only two ships in the game that can "jump bridge" (see: "teleport") groups of players to another system (along with themselves)... often on top of an unsuspecting group of soon-to-be-victims.
There are restrictions and catches with this ability but it is extremely powerful.

Stopped reading here. Grammar ftw...