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Here let me help you out: Add damage modifier x100 to your skill queue. Problem solved!

I realized you hit the nail on the head for me. Yes, I never have had a kill. But my solos fights, they are so much fun. I've taken on 4 ships, had 3 down to the hull before dying. Someday, I'm gonna kill some of them before I die......Someday...



Frankly, I think this post is brilliant, simply brilliant...

Hanging out in wormholes doesn't count?

One suggestion from the many threads of how to be a solo bomber.

"If you are looking for large numbers of potential kill mails i would take my bomber to fountain and wait for some big battles to erupt. Right now there are 2100 people in PNQ fighting each other. Get a nice little bomb into the middle of that blob while they are fighting and you might find yourself on hundreds of kill mails.

I once did that in the middle of a fight between blast and panda team years ago and ended up on dozens of blast capital kill mails. It can work if you get a good perch set up on the battle and wait until they are engaged. As long as you are nuetral to everone on the field it can be entertaining. "

It is way more fun if you're blue to one side and your bomb hits them.

There are so many corps that take and teach nubcakes, I can't believe they won't take you just because of excessive SPs.

Brave, E-Uni (which has Low/Null/WH divisions and you can dive into at least first two right off the bat), RvB... They should take you if you want to join. OUCH (aka Open University of Celestial Hardships) kinda positions itself specifically as learning corp. Those are ones I know.
Then there are many less known newbro-friendly corps, I'm sure you can find them on EVE-O or E-Uni recruitment boards. Use common sense while applying, but hey, that goes without saying.
Then there are open communities like Spectre Fleet and Bombers Bar who occasionally offer training fleets. Agony does open lessons as well, as far as I can tell.

Just go ahead and try if that's what you're looking for.


This is why anybody who suggests actual flight recorder to be implemented in the game gets instant +1 from me.

I'm a PvP nub, and what I do is record every fight, and take any fight I don't know I can't win.

Once you have recordings of a few different people killing you with the same ship, you'll have an idea of what to expect from that ship.

Also, accept that it is going to be a while before you remember to do even all the obvious things like launching drones.

OP, I've been playing for about 6 and a half years, with breaks. Started PVEing with friends, my first taste of PVP was flying to meet some mates in my very first Hurricane, and taking a shortcut through Rancer. Guess how that turned out.

6 and a half years later, I still suck at PVP. I'm ok when I can fly a logi or recon in a fleet, but when it comes to Solo I'm freakin terrible.

On the other hand, I don't mind losing lots of cheap ships, and would rather fight and die than run away. So don't worry about whelping ships, its really not the end of the world, and can still be a lot of fun. After a few times, the "shakes" will drop to more handle-able adrenalin rush, and even when you die you can still have fun :)

I blame TV and all those Rambo and Gladiator style movies. In real life even the best solo "gladiator" tended to do poorly aka die when outnumbered by as few as 2 simple badly trained conscript soldiers with pointy sticks lol.

Or, you know, chess, tennis, or any other competitive endeavor that our society actually places value on because they are measures of acute skill, talent, and training, instead of a mere willingness to throw an inordinate amount of time at assembling a gang in an online game.

Yes, I understand what EVE is. It's perfectly nice to like the game.

It doesn't make one a higher class of gamer to like unstructured games over competitive ones, which is a sentiment I see repeatedly in this post and elsewhere on the site.