Warfare & Tactics

I'm a fairly new player, about three months in. I've been playing Eve with a buddy from work, in our own small corp mainly just running missions, mining, building and selling hulls. Currently based in central Amarr space, and most of my combat skills are with Amarr hulls and weapons. I feel like I've seen and done about as many L4 missions as is interesting, and so I bought and fit a half dozen Punishers with what I felt was an OK set up and went looking for people to blow me up in a Null Sec pocket in the south east of Amarr, near the Amattar region. Place was empty. Poked around four or five systems, not a soul. Shot a few belt rats, drooled over the juicy planetary resources, but nobody in sight to pop my PvP cherry.

Is there any place an independent pilot can go to look for a fight? I'd rather remain with my corp so I can continue to cooperate with the industry and face roll some NPCs when I'm sozzled, and I don't really want to tank my security status. I feel like all the skill points I'm earning from here on out are in excess to my needs as a mission runner.

Thanks, I'll try that tonight.

The fit I'm using:

Punisher

Regenerative Plating II
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Damage Control II
Heat Sink I

Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
Empty Mid Slot

3x Medium Pulse Laser II w. Scorch
Small 'Knave' I Energy Drain

Small Ancillary Current Router I
Small Targeting System Subcontroller I
Small Algid Energy Administrations Unit I

How important is a point module? I'm pretty heavily CPU bound at the moment. Is it worth dropping the heat sink or the NOS?

Abusing ship bonus resistance doesn't necessarily mean to put a tank module in every slot of the ship. It could also mean that the bonus frees up slots for damage instead.

I think poster should look at some battleclinic fits, look at rating and read the discussion to get an idea what is strong sides and weak sides.

Punishers

And yeah, the go to pvp is usually found in militia lowsec. As a newbie it is a good idea to actually join a militia, you get to shoot the other guys without difficult sentry rules of engagement (hint; they shoot!), and it will be easy to join some fleets to get that aspect of pvp also.

Just go where all the leet pvpers go.

SISI

I hear Aedald (specifically the Muttoken gate) is a lovely place to be right around 8pm US Central time.

Good day:

http://brutorbullfighter.blogspot.com/ has a number of articles on where you can find fights.

Keep some things in mind:

* Always fly what you can afford to lose.
* Never ever think that a fight will be 1v1. It might be, but don't count on it.
* Always check local (local should be separate from all other tabs) to see who might be working with one another.
* Always watch dscan.... and when in a fight, shorten the range so you can see who might be coming in.

As you learn the various areas, you'll learn who groups (they don't have to be in the same corp / alliance), who solo's, what is flown most by whom, and who will honor a 1v1 (arranged or otherwise).

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/wensley/The_Rifter_Guide_Solo_PvP.pdf is an awesome guide no matter what you fly.

Thank you.

Thanks, all. That Flight of Dragons blog is excellent!

If you really want a fight just join RvB, yes there are a few rules that you have to follow (no midslot ecm or podding except against 3rd party WTs, etc) but basically, it is on demand PVP. You can log in, and almost always join a fleet, if not you can always make a fleet, if you don't like fleets, you can usually get a 1v1 in battlecruisers or below, don't see too many 1v1s in high ship classes though. Also, no one will rage at you if all you have is a t1 frig, and want to join a fleet which is nice.

Failing that, amamake top belt in a frig generally results in a fight pretty quick, or just hang around the pf-346 gate to highsec, there is usually enough traffic to keep things interesting.