Warfare & Tactics

I've been working with markets and non-combat exploration (love wormholes) for a while. It suits my solo playstyle and limited game time. However, I'd like to learn to solo pvp. Quick questions.

• Is roaming in a merlin or variant viable? If so any resources on doing this? My tengu is too expensive to experiment.
• Can I do FW without premaritally losing access to other faction space?
• Any really good guides/video on solo pvp? I can't tell which are outdated and there seems to be disagreement on whether a frigate viable or not.

Solo is definitely viable, but it is playing eve on hardmode so you will fail alot.

Some great stuff on EVE Is Easy: https://www.youtube.com/user/eveiseasy

otherwise take a look at the "My EVE" section of theeve forums. Plenty of solo videos there.

Of course solo pvp is viable. Just make sure you bring your scouting alt, your scanning alt, your booster alt, and have the ISKflow to fly pimpfit faction frigates with faction implant sets.

I wish people would stop posting this kind of bullcrap, trying to scare people away from something they most likely didn't even seriously tried their hand at, low sec soloing.

I started soloing with 1.5 Millions SPs (of which a bunch in exploration skills) in a meta fit frig, with no pvp experience at all barring a couple times i been the suicide tackle in random situation i didnt understand at all. I just fitted a bunch of scram kite incursus and went for it, trying to prove my mettle to join the corp i'm in now. Two days in i got my first kill, against a guy with a pretty decent experience and an 80% win loss ratio in a t2 fit kestrel.

I never stopped soloing since, i kill more than i go blap, i kill ships from superior classes in t1 frigs, i get in fights outnumbered, i get blobbed and i come back, i explode and i come back, i got no links, no scouting alt, no expensive implant sets, no pills cause i can't afford them, my only income comes from loot, ransoms, and LP exchange from FW for the plexes i run while looking for fights.

"True" solo is perfectly viable. Is it hard? Yeah. Is it profitable? Hardly so. Is it exciting? **** yeah it is.

@ OP. Your sec status will most likely plummet, the majority of fights will come from neutrals, especially after the recent changes to FW plexes

Solo pvp is quite viable. Granted, if youre working alone, profits will not be amazing, however, if you get into fw, LP payouts can pay for your sub. I started in null, and null sec pvp and anoms suck in general to make isk and have fun. Plus i rarely wanted to run anoms because they were so mind numbingly boring. So more often than not i was playing skill queue online. Finally, once i got fed up with null stagnation i figured id try FW. Havent looked back since. Im a 3-4year player and im still having a ball with t1 frigs and dessies. Im able to invest a small amount and get quite a bit of bang for the buck. If i have some built up lp i may splurge on a navy BS to spice up my solo roam from time to time. Thats my preference though.

Youre going to die, often, normally from blobs or ecm. If your fits are well sorted and you have a good foundation on gameplay mechanics, you will be ahead of most of your opponents. I mean i kill people in shitfit AF frigs/inties fairly regularly in my t1 ships. So not everyone is pro.

One thing i forgot to mention. Look up eve pvp videos on youtube. You can learn a lot watching good solo pvpers. Might save you a ship or 2.

Yup , totally no solo frigfighters out there who are not using 5 alts in the process . It's not because a lot of people are using boosteralts because '' OMG bad k/d ratio '' that it is not viable to solo pvp and especially if we're talking flying frigs in fw space , if he is even a bit decent in the marketing he does he can make a ton of losses each day without a care.Allthough the guy who posted about his ''look at my friend owning in solo pvp did not mention that that friend VERRY obviously is using links''.


Solo frigpvp is there and it's fun , just expect the opponents to try and outgun you in the biggest way they and expect to make loss after loss after loss.But who cares as long as the wallet can handle it and you're having fun ...
Try and keep your market acitivities going and to get better at that part too , don't forget that your marketeering can pay for your pvp fun.Be decent at playing te markets and ll your losses can be laughed away.

Once you find a decent frigfit do stick with it for a longer period , it is easier to learn that way what you did wrong.With frigs the most important thing is knowing ranges and how to dictate them.

I've been dabbling in fw for the past months and of the hundreds of fights i had i only encountered a boosted opponent twice

Good OP;

The best way to start to learn PvP is with a 3 stabbed rifter or merlin. You will survive the gate camps, which means you can get to FW space with a ship to lose. Don't try to fight at first, just get away, again and again. You will see which ships are fast, which ones carry drones, which ones will kite you--all in the same cheap ship. You will also see which parts of space have the guys with the off grid boosters (seiside area for instance) and you will learn why its hard to win PvP without two accounts.

Eveyone hates people who fly with stabs, so you get lots of frustrated tears right off. The snarky insults are their own reward.

your humble servent
SeaSaw

Yes it is.