Warfare & Tactics

Can probably put it in one word: Experience

Ability to post ascii art in local.

You should ask chessur

Show me where the TESTies touched you

Completely honest? KBstats. They are everything.

Killmails and enjoyment. Oh, and I'm obligated by being in QCats to say BC points, as well.

Keep 'em coming.

Thank you!

I have a blog post on this toipc exactly. For the TL;DR its basically this: People who are good at PvP generally fly ships that have a large engagement profile. Flying ships like these, speaks to the pilots ability to play the meta- and allows the pilot to engage many of the fleets / ships he or she comes across.

http://evestealthbomber.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-makes-good-eve-pvper.html

Know yourself and the enemy. Always have situational awareness.

Very difficult question, because normally when we say 'good' at something we think of it as being high skilled/having high proficiency at and deep understanding of the activity concerned.

So normally we measure how 'good' someone is by how much they 'win' (e.g. the best team in a league is the team with the most wins).

But as you may have anticipated already, even in football league you often hear fans say 'team X won the league but they were not the best team'. Quantitatively this is wrong, but such is the sentiments of football fans at times - win/loss ratio and numbers don't tell the whole story about quality of someone/team.

And now, think about EvE. After all, it is a game. What is the purpose of a game? For some people the purpose is to win, for them, the kill/loss ratio or isk won/lost, or territory gained/lost, strategic location control won/lost and all these things would define a 'good' pvper and be a measurement of one's matery of the game.

However, of course there are people who think the purpose of a game is 'to have fun'. For them, a 'good' game is where you had your fun & enjoyment, although you may have lost that game (like a football team can play a really good game and still lose the match).

So a 'good' pvper can be someone who 'wins', regardless of methods used, or someone who had 'fun' regardless of win or loss.

It is difficult to compare two players' abilities if they are each going for different goals.

I guess at the end of the day though, it all boils down to how successful you are at achieving your goal. For someone who enjoys a good brawl, win or lose, is a 'winner' if he gets the fight he wants and goes down in flames. But if the same person got blobbed and jammed to death without a single shot fired, then that's definitely a fail - he did something wrong to be in that situation and didn't get the fun brawl he wanted.

Long winded story cut short - maybe this means a good pvper is someone that has a knack for finding kind of fights he wants?

Ability to achieve mission objective.