EVE General Discussion

Try revolving cloaky alts that are ready to hot drop renters at a moments notice. Fill the renters systems will multiple cloakies and just sit there.


Also it mainly depends on the dedication of your crew.

Thats the first stage. There are others but its 3.30am

Gevlon Goblin has the master plan(s) to accomplish what the OP is inquiring about. Got milk?

Honestly, you don't.

It takes a SOV nullsec alliance to fight another one.

Without going into coalitions, just assuming an alliance...

The key to running in SOV space is logistics - not repair but the actual ability to supply and support operations in that space. You don't have NPC stations there. Without it, you can't do a lot as all the POS's and such would off-line, people would run out of supplies, etc.

Supply lines are just too long to keep any kind of force applied. Ships, ammo, med facilities when you get popped... It has to be close enough to the front-lines to support the fighting.

So your first step is to get down there into an area and get setup with your own spot as a support & supply base.

I looked into what it would actually take to do this a couple years ago - this is the weak spot but the slop in the time-tables are so long it's not really possible.

I found that you have only a few people that actually service each empire.

It's hard to find people who'll spend long hours running around to the POS's restocking/refueling. Example: 1 guy was servicing 80 POS's for an empire there. Just 1 guy.

So you might think "ok, find their supply people and camp them out so every time they log on, you hunt them down and kill them". That's a lot easier sounding than it is.

If any can get through across a solid week, at any time, they can resupply. Looking at the reality of that - alts, etc. It would take hundreds of ships "waiting" to close out all the paths that could be taken across all hours of the day -- *IF* the target empire didn't spend a day clearing a path long enough to get a run or 2 through each week.

As an SOV holder, you can potentially do it. From outside? Not possible beyond theory-crafting.

Well, now. This is pretty much what EVE is all about, is it not? All else is preliminary to being able to compete for null sec space, no? If you start delving into this "how-to" you pretty much gin-up all the material ever written about the game.

Some of these alliances you see today have players that have been working toward these goals for approaching, or over ten years. They may have monkeyed around a bit when they were new, but believe me, to get where they are now took a lot more than just grinding for gear. Though it did take the right "strat." In this game, that is way more involved than most other games out there.

If you want a "strat" guide, I suggest Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
(Notice that site is MIT. No dummies past this door.)

The next huge hurdle as many have already said, is enough of the right people. Ultimately "right" means "trustworthy." Skills can be learned, and taught. Organizational abilities would come a close second. THEN...TIME, DEDICATION, all those unpopular words in today's culture.

Interesting question, OP, "How do you play EVE, really?"

I read nothing.

My answer is:

Time
Effort
Money
AWOX.

Will power and probably around 1000 pilots spread out over the different time zones. Those two things are the two things that are going to be the hardest to find. After that you need funding and you need those pilots to follow orders, even if it means welping fleets. After the jump changes it should be easier than it would be now. Time, will power and following orders.

It can be done but no one seems to have the charisma to hold that many pilots together and keep the moral up long enough to show progress.

I'm growing clones of all the major alliance leaders. Soon I'll swap them out for the real ones. Queue evil laugh!!

Well I know who just won Eve in this scenario. I should get a hisec industrial alt.

Alliances exist as long as the people in the alliances still believe in the alliance.


Goons are a perfect example with as much as they have been through.

The best way? Build a beehive.

The most fun way? Kill Steve.