Crime & Punishment

You easily find frigate fights, but for cruisers it's 4v1 or nothing.

While obvious mainstays like 'go to losec/null/fw' yield known-quantity results, pewgasms can surprisingly be found in qood quantity in...

Hisec.

...one just need be shown the golden path, spreading the holy word of HTFU to the heathens while doing so.

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If you are having a hard time finding fights in fw low sec, chances are you're being a scared a little pansy, and not taking the fights in front of you.

First of all, your example is hardly indicative of all the fights in low sec, so please don't patronize me with one so ludicrous (you might as well have asked "what can I do versus a destroyer fleet in my noob ship? this game is 2 hard.")

Secondly picking fights doesn't alway mean you get the fights you want, you WILL get blobbed, you WILL die, you WILL get outplayed, but if the fights you find result in people running away, or not willing to fight you, then you are likely picking fights that lean too far in your favor.

Finally, you can almost always bank on stupid, you can quite often hit above your weight class simply because a very high number of people are simply bad at this game and in particular at pvp. They rely on extreme numerical superiority to come out on top in fights and many times you can fight against these higher numbers because they are overconfident in there size. Obviously don't dive into a 20 v you blob but consider what you can kill before you succumb to the rest of them. Heck you might even escape after killing one or two, which is even better. Knowing the strength's and weaknesses of your ship like the back of your hand will go a long way in helping you achieve these things. On the flip side, knowing what the ships you're fighting are capable of is also important.

PS - back to your question about that Thorax, it can run away or it can die in a blaze of glory, the choice is yours.

Hey Triakis, IIRC we had a couple of good fights and a chat or two when I was still in FEDEF, 9 months ago.

I haven't tried solo roaming in cruisers yet, but this thread has some good advice.

Learning to engage 1 v many is an excellent way to a) find fights, b) have fun, c) feel very cool and l33t

I agree with Dun'Gal, many of the guys that only roam in small groups are terribad, a disciplined solo PVPer has higher chances than the numbers would suggest.


The old 'separate them' trick is always good. I once met a sentinel+merlin+harpy while I was flying a coercer.

After a few minutes of warping around, I managed to get the sentinel alone @ zero: blap blap. Shortly after, the Merlin+Harpy started chasing me but the Harpy warped out: blap blap the Merlin. I left the harpy alone (I didn't have a point on that coercer anyway).


By the way, have you tried destroyers? A typical 10MN AB coercer, for example, can wreak major havok on a small group of frigates. And since dessies aren't so common, in my experience (in and around Black Rise) you'll find several small frigate gangs that underestimate them.

Happy blapping!

Try Fua constellation in Domain. It's not FW, but it connects to losec in Sinq Laison and Kador so it's actually a decent pipe if you're in a fast ship. There's occasional gate camps in Naguton, but otherwise it's mostly 1-2 ships at a time*. Just quiet enough to avoid large gangs, not so quiet that you can't find a target.

I fly there solo pretty regularly. Maybe we'll run into each other....



*All info is US EST. No clue what it's like in other time zones.