EVE General Discussion

See my most recent post.

The frequency is the problem. People don't want to be participating in a game for hours in order to get a chance at five minutes of fun: we want fun all the time. That is just how people work. If you enjoy it, then great! I didn't, and a lot of other people also do not. People are risk averse, and the only way outside of arranged duels you get a 1v1 fight is to find and exploit an instance of the risk-averse prey being sloppy. Those are few and far between by definition. Yes, you can rack up hundred of such kills over a long span of time; but, each of those kills represents a long time doing nothing while you either log off to play some other game (or some other character), or sit AFK cloaked on an alt waiting for an opportunity, or roam around being not really threatened by pursuing defense fleets inasmuch as their awareness of your presence lowers the chance of you finding a target. As stated, that is fun for some; but, for many more people it's boring and they either uninstall the game or find something else to do in EVE.

Eve is going the route of Lowest Common Denominator experience. Not because players will unsub and Eve will die, but because dev's get attacked when they try something new, and potentially very interesting, that does not work as "players" think that it should. There is player outrage and 20+ hate threads and rumblings of Jita riots as average players polish their epeen at the expense of creative expansion.

Screw the "average guy." I came here to play Eve.

If you want to PvP in null, you need to know a whole lot more than simply how to fight.

You need to get very good with Dscan, and able to identify where people are using it quickly. This vastly improves your situational awareness. Using the ship's on-board scanner complements this as well.

You need to be very good at creating multiple safespots rapidly, so that once a gang you don't want to deal with shows up, you can bounce between them and be impossible to catch.

You need to learn how to scare people into safing up while in a probing ship, then finding their safespots and bookmarking them without them knowing for later use in a combat ship.

You need to know how to avoid drag bubbles by warping to celestials or safespots out-of-line with frequent warp paths before warping to the destination you dientified as having a bubble via Dscan.

You need to know how to get out of a bubble you jumped into through tricks like the MWD+Cloak trick or raw speed.

You need to know what the ship you are flying can beat, and what it should simply avoid.

And if you're flying alone, you need to be in a very mobile ship that can win brawls against the ships capable of catching it.

Theres a lot to know when you're PvPing in null, and very little of it has to do with the "activating modules to do damage to your opponent" part. That stuff is simple, and the least important aspect of the hunt. Figure all this out, and it is very easy to get 1v1 or 1v2 fights while avoiding the gangs and fleets passing through.