EVE General Discussion

Solo is alive,

You just need to look harder and there are lots of ppl flying around solo themselves for you to engage.

And possibly most interesting is hunting for other hunters.
I believe there is much greater emphasis on the "hunt" when soloing then what there is when getting around in a fleet.



Part of the solo game that makes it fun. In simplest terms, you're looking to find out if your target is going to bring rock, so you can catch him all paper.

For example, fitting out a Firetail to find fights with cruisers is very different to how you would fit out a Firetail to hunt Interceptors.



Indeed. The beauty of the sandbox is you can play how you want to play. Create your own fun.

Solo pvp is not and never has been about 1v1's. It's always been about ganking unsuspecting targets (miners, ratters, anom runners and so on) or fighting 1 vs many. Admittedly the "many" have tended to get quite a lot bigger in recent years and the unsuspecting are rarer, but it is still possible.

In any case, you have to forget about the notion of good and reasonably fair fights. Eve hasn't allowed for that since I started playing many years ago. The extent of honor here is the "honorable' won't outright lie to you. Beyond that anything goes.

My own solo pvp record is, depending on how you look at it, either 23 vs me or 12 vs me. In the 23 vs me I killed 2 and escaped. In the 12 vs me I killed half and held the field. That is solo pvp at its finest (curse flown in both cases). Typical solo pvp is more like me running out in a heretic and blapping a venture mining in a gas site in w-space. Is it fair or even much of a fight? Absolutely not. Is it solo pvp? Most definitely.

I am not sure solo PvP was ever really all that alive and well, ever.

Though solo losec roams can be a thing.

Rubbish. You have no idea what you are talking about. I have hundreds of solo kills, many of which were great fights. Lowsec faction warfare regions up to cruiser. Pretty dead higher than that from what I can tell.

The issue is that people have too much ISK.

Even for T1 frig pvp you get deadspace fits. off grid boosts and drugged and imped up pilots calling it "solo pvp"

Many people think that PVP is only about ~elite pvp~ where you have to max. your chance of actually winning which in my opinion is comparable to hacks in FPS games.

Of course you want to use every advantage you can get when there is specific goal you need to reach but usualy you dont fly a T1 frig doing it...

True Solo and therefore "skilled" pvp still is, and will always be solo, without any boosts and super expensive fits in my opinion.

Or lets say appopriate fits and use of implants/boosters.

I think that these so called "elite pvpers" are ruining PVP more than actual carebears which dont pvp at all.

But afterall its CCPs fault for bringing us near uncatchable and near unprobable T3 off grid boosts.

But a fix like a massive sig increase of activating gang links belongs into feautres and ideas.

Not totally, but it's pretty ******.

Try and avoid fighting anyone on their home territory. Look up the killboard's of potential targets - if all their kills are in two systems and involve the same 8 people you can be sure it's probably a trap.

For the majority of people, "PvP" means using offgrid links, boosters, blobs, ECM and hanging around the same spot for ages trying to find victims that can't see all that stuff. Very few people are interested in good fights. The best thing is to look for other roamers or randoms like yourself and not people that live in that part of space, and yeah that's pretty hard.

Even "solo" PvP videos these days often use links and boosters. Yeah it's a pretty ****** state of affairs but it's unlikely to change because CCP makes too much from people training booster/ECM alts.

Perhaps try some FW (or hang around FW Space) or Join RvB for a bit and see how you like that.