EVE General Discussion

What are you planning on doing solo if none of those activities appeal to you?

Short answer is: EVE is a multiplayer game. It will never be balanced or iterated around solo play.

Use DOTLAN to find a remote, quiet lowsec system, drag BPO's with you to make your stuff and mine your own minerals, rat for isk and modules to build ghetto ships with (Or refine for more minerals ), and build dessies to do PvP in!

Definately possible if you like this type of alone gameplay.

a class 1 wh will give you solo play options, you will get pvp chances, pve, mining, exploring, raiding.. etc. be warned, if you solo a wh there is a higher chances of getting booted. but it can be a good place to fiddle fart around

There are plenty of empty systems out in NPC null where one can make a living and be alone if one wishes.

1. As I understand it, mining is only a solo activity in highsec. If mining is something you want to pursue outside of highsec, maybe a C1 wormhole will suffice, but you'll obviously be hunted there too.

2. Solo manufacturing is best done in highsec, for the most part, and for obvious logistical reasons.

3. Exploration doesn't require more than one character really, perhaps two gives you the firepower to run any combat sites you find while not neding to refit from the hack/analyzer setup on your scanning char. Obviously, you can explore anywhere.

Currently I do a lot of soloing. I left a corp that based out of a lowsec border system because they were a newbie-centric crowd that seemed to be forever "about to do something," and never actually got around to it. Presently I base myself out of a deep and sleepy lowsec system and make periodical jump-clone trips back to dodixie to sell the goods I have shipped their by a third-party transport service. This cuts into my profits a little, but I still make good isk. I should mention that I only build small amounts of stuff and the majority of my wares come from trading (eg. buy orders for regional stuffs I found plentiful) and PI, which I do without much fuss.

Personally, I find mining to be a special kind of boring and tedious. If you want to keep pursuing it, to each his own, but I would reccomend ditching the rock-sucker and focusing your attention on exploration, trade, pi, and other solo-friendly do-anywhere activities. Perhaps you can put the miner to use by flying a venture or expedition mining frigate as a gas-site assist and scout.

In any event, I reccoment the sleepier systems of lowsec as far as good locations go for solo pilots. Traffic is minimal, being camped into station is rare, exploration and PI are fairly lucrative, and you can pretty much count on having something or other to do without worrying over politics (though you should take some care not to **** off local pirates too much as they'll be the ones who make your life miserable if they are so inclined). Aside from an early run-in with some unpleasant Russians, I haven't lost a non-pvp ship in weeks.

I realize that you said you didn't like Teamspeak but my recommendation requires it.
There are a bunch of small corps located in the Drone regions of Null.
Those areas controlled by the BOT alliance which rents systems to corps.
There are some very nice low key folks out there who do a lot of mining/manufacturing, etc.
You will have to learn to defend yourself and/or run as needed.

That being said, most of my efforts to enjoy Eve truly solo have failed as they should.
The best experiences of this game are with others.

You can always try W-Space. Weeks could pass before you see another living soul in your particular system. Just one tip: if you meet someone there and you don't speak his language, name him Friday and accept him at your POS. Trust me, he will save your pod one day.

Seriously tho, if you are really looking for a tight smaller group of players with manufacturing/mining/exploring and doing combat anoms, W-Space is perfect for you.

EvE is also a sandbox game, which means EVERY playstyle is just as valid as every other playstyle. You come across as the typical EvE-ite: "Play how you like as long as you play the way I say." I agree it will never be balanced around solo play, and so it shouldn't be but that is no reason to dismiss the OPs playstyle.

@OP: There are a few corps around Providence (I think it is called) that hang out in 0.0, you don't have to be sat on vent talking though listening is probably a good thing because that is where sentries will be telling you were the attacks are coming from giving you the choice of heading for a station or fighting it out.

Solitude or highsec pockets like the Enka constellation etc.
Peace and quiet (relatively ofc).

You didn't mention ever operating from a highsec island, might be something in that for you. Including a little more challenge to logistics, yet while being quieter than highsec contiguity.