EVE New Citizens Q&A

Lets put it this way. I'm an almost perfect frigate pilot in terms of SP. Perfect gunnery skills, near perfect fitting skills, high navigation, electronics, targeting, and tank skills. My number of solo kills can be measured on my fingers. My number of solo attempts is easily four times that. My character SP doesn't mean **** without knowing ship matchups and remembering to overheat my reps.

As someone that does not PvP I can not speak from personal experience but what I can say is that there are plenty of stories from blogs and even in the forums here if you dig for them as well as youtube videos of people in very young characters racking up incredible killboard histories. There are also plenty of tears here on the forums from new players that have purchased high skill point characters and are still having trouble with basic PvE even not to mention PvP.

Further in Eve each ship has it's counter so if you go up against the wrong ship you will loose regardless of how well you do and if you go up against the right ship you can win regardless of how "good" the other pilot is. Also small ships have advantages over bigger ships that make it possible for a frigate to take down a battleship solo so bigger is not always better. Additionally small ships train fast so a few months into this game if you focus on one race's frigates and maybe even destroyers you can get pretty well skilled in that short time and since many skills carry over from race to race you can then cross train other races much quicker.

I think another point worth noting is that here in Eve there are no queueable battlegrounds or arena matches. Fights between equally geared "max level" characters do not exist. Eve combat is all about gaining the upper hand or turning the odds in your favor not so much winning or loosing an even up match. Because of this and other factors a lot of the time winning in PvP can be about faking out your opponent to make them think they have the upper hand when you actually have an "ace in the hole". Of course sometimes he's playing lame duck as well.

I think this is probably just a more detailed explanation of the knowing which fights to engage in that the actual PvPers in this thread have mentioned or hinted at.

First you need a good idea of how eve pvp is working,
afterwards more SP are beneficial but only up to a certain point.
If yuo're in some sort of mirror matchup kestrel vs. kestrel, sp can easily be the deciding factor.

Else, knowledge what your ship does, what their ships are doing and what's going on in general are big steps forward already. Clahim (youtube) can suggest this channel for his commentaries.

There is a thread on Reddit today about a heavily tanked Burst with a mighty 73 DPS at max skill, destroying a untanked Garmur.

As a Garmur is a difficult ship to catch, having no tank isn't really surprising. The surprising part is catching one at all. In any normal engagement, the Burst pilot wouldn't stand a chance vs. the Garmur.

The Burst pilot was sitting in a FW complex, on the warp-in beacon, where all ships are forced to appear, and enabling the Burst to tackle the Garmur.

This is an example of strategy winning (heavy tank and positioning) vs. a much more advanced ship.

This video is an example. You cna pvp solo at low SP, but you -have- to know what you are doing and have very specific skills trained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOB4KXYk-o

Here is a guy in a T1 ship with 20 days of training simply WRECKING nullbears.

Laser Shield Tanked Nano Thorax tbh

Thanks everyone on your input. I am starting to get a very small understanding of how PVP works in this game. Mostly it involves me running away at the moment lol

I would join with an alt....just to sp...uhm...learn stuff.

I actually have one of those armor blackbirds from the thread.
I'm waiting for the perfect moment to use it.