Warfare & Tactics

Hello,

I'm back in EVE after one year break and i'm pvp oriented. But I cant set my mind on wherever i would live.
I used to live in 0.0 for few months, and I was involved into low sec piracy and FW as well for few months.

However i would like your point of view on what is the best place for fast paced pvp action, mostly solo & small gangs.
From my little experience here is what I remember:

Null sec:

Pros: fleets, more stressy, good good isk income
Cons: can take hours to find a target, "who will blob who 1st", can be boring at times, cant solo

Piracy

Pros: fast paced action, lots of targets
Cons: gate/station camps are boring as hell and its pretty much the only way to find targets

FW

Pros: Lots of targets, good opportunity to 1vs1 or small gangs, good isk income
Cons: Brainless militias, nobody plays the objectives, lots of spies


I'm open for suggestions and different point of view.
Thanks for reading :)

Not true at all

In over a year of being a "pirate" i have not gate/station camped once.

Whether you're FW or pirate in lowsec, use FW plexes to find your fights. Learn what corps have members who usually run away and which ones don't. The only con to this is the plex rat with make your killmail look a little less cool. But I get most of my pvp in plexes by a long shot.

See the bolded part where I am conflicted. A couple of archetype targets for piracy would be:

+ Haulers + blockade runners (at gates and POCOs)
+ Poorly defended carebear POS or POCOs (sieges / extortion rackets)
+ Ratters (belts + anomalies)
+ Covops Explorers (counter-probe and kill them with creative Covops fits)
+ DED Explorers (shinier ships with shinier loot, plus chance for faction PVE drops)
+ Rival pirates (pretty much everywhere)

Sure, it can be slow at times to find targets. ISK making oppurtunities are somewhat less then null/wspace but since the introduction of security tags, I'd say it depends on how greedy you are for pod kills. From a purely NBSI standpoint I'd also say your locale is less important then the group you fly with.

Just gonna say, W-Space best space. We get to fly in every space, and never have to worry about gate camps.

Low Sec.

Null is terrible, unless you like waiting 2 hours for fleets, and then roaming for 2 more before finding a fight.

Sorry there is no such thing has being a pirate in eve, most people who call them selves pirates are gate camping 24/7

NPC Null and FW lowsec remind me of the good old days of EVE, where what you can control and what you can claim directly depended on how much work you were willing to put in on a regular basis to secure it.

Constant fights, constant content, no waiting around for some bigshot to tell us where to go and what to do. Just get out there and make it happen.

FW Lowsec, hands down.

As if. I spent 3 days trap-assed in a C4. Fast paced PVP action it ain't. Though I did nearly lose a billion ISK Proteus due to a misjump. EXCITING!

Nullsec
Pros: No, we call them sex workers. Seriously....ISK is meh, you make more in incursions, C5's and scamming Jita with "zomg look who screwed up a buy order on flaming arkonor! lol!" or whatever.

Cons: The guys running the show, who've inherited a broke-ass system of rent collection and Q.Q hard on the CSM every time there's a serious idea threatening their "drop POS collect cookie" cheques. Though now they've got siphons, so...pff.

There is a reason Black legion bases out of Sendaya. There's a reason PL bases out of NPC null. That reason is boring as batschnitzels sov grinding. I would rather be teabaggged by a rabid babboon than hump RF timers, only to be hotdropped and bubbled.

Lowsec piracy
Pros: You shoot everything.
Cons: People think you are a Bad Man. Also, the eyepatches.

Faction Warfare
Pros: Now you get to be in a nullsec alliance.
Cons: You have to hand around with idiots from Reddit fighting idiots from their mother's basement, over meaningless butanz while listening to the bittervets call you a scrub and throw hissy fits on coms when their home system is at 96% and "no one of you scrubs is coming to deplex! halp!". Then you mute Baha and it's not so bad.

Wormhole space
Pros: It is where real men go to coat their scrotes in yak sweat and yeti grease and fight over the carcasses of the frost giants, before Blood union comes and evicts them summarily.
Cons: its war, man. 99% boredom, 1% pure terror.