EVE General Discussion

I already fly in Lowsec, it's alright. Need people to run away less when being attacked solo, like really. You're in a Hookbill, man up.

Not really ran into many T3D's soon as they pop up on D-Scan I bugger off, don't care for it. But would not count it as a problem. (Contradicts first point, but as if i'm going to solo a T3 ship.)

There are a few people who have done similar things...but they tend to either operate in NPC 0.0 space where they can roam around picking off easy targets (which can cover a pretty wide area of space) and simply accepting the occasional gate-camp specifically for them because people know they are an easy target - or they tend to use high-sec trade hub undocks were they can use duel mechanics - and they generally rely on good relations with the resident merc corps to pop neutral RR that interferes pretty quickly.


The primary problems that I see with this being:

#1 - There aren't enough *worthwhile* territories like this to mark out for very many Solo PvPers to stake out a claim by roaming widely enough that the blobs can't camp them in consistently.
#2 - If you stay in too small of an area and you don't have friends locally (being truly solo), people *will* come and camp you with blobs - because they enjoy easy kills


Realistically - EVE has never particularly rewarded solo PvP. It has always been a bit of a battle against the "encouraged" and "expected" behaviour of the game - that was part of the appeal

Recent updates have shown a tendency in CCP to take a heavy-handed approach to try to *force* people away from playing solo and into operating as groups...and they've had an effect... Along with the simple fact that big groups are stronger so they keep getting bigger...

Even your suggestion is to form a *group* to carve out an area for *solo* PvP


Perhaps it is finally time to accept that EVE isn't meant to be played Solo, by anybody? So if we insist on doing it we need to HTFU and just deal with the challenges, whatever they are. Or maybe I'm just a disgruntled bitter-vet

In either case, I'm still doing just fine solo - and I'm not complaining about mechanics. I HTFU'd a long time ago. I unsubscribed months before I even realized how much the spirit of high-sec dwellers has truly been crushed and realized I'm not getting any "good fights" anymore...and it was back while I was still active on my FW alt happily living the life of a -10 pirate out there while funding myself with high-sec wars. All solo, or in the case of 1 alt in a 3-5 person war-corp (yes, I have essentially crafted a finely developed split-personality-disorder within the game and treat my alts as separate entities)...

I just can't recommend solo PvP for *new* players anymore as a way to start... It wasn't all *that* great compared to the alternatives of joining a supportive organization that PvPed as a group even when I started - which is why my first 3-4 years were in *groups* and I just did some solo work *on the side* for fun.

You are correct, it is (mostly) irrelevant - Just providing some relevant *context* for my own views.

So here are the relevant facts (in relation to *me* doing such a thing):

#1) There *is* no problem with the state of Solo PvP in EVE Online. So any effort taken to "solve" a problem that doesn't exist? Is Futile.
#2) Even if there *was* a problem - I quit for other reasons. I'm gone in 1.5 months. So it isn't worth giving up 1.5 months of my solo PvP to try to herd cats.

Case closed.

I'm not letting you go and you know that!

:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P:P

Turn it into hisec...

Actually that would be amusing...

It is my humble opinion that you should try enjoying doing what I once did after realizing that moving from one empty lowsec to the next, to do pve, wasn't a long term option. It made me realize "it's this or i quit". I realized that the best fun is being had by entertaining others. So i turned it around and seeked out resident pirates.

i went out there and started being a pest.

It's what I do best!
And it works! :D

Solo is in your mind. Not an actual thing. Its not even that desirable.

As i have to say time and again. Solo is supposed to be hard, its a single shard MP with no limitations on teams after all. The game should have no interest in coddling people who have this goal. They should carve out their own niche.

I got an escalation into low the other day.
There was a confessor poking around looking for me. It launched core scanners, thinking the cosmic signature had a slightly tasty naugoror.

He entered and left the system a couple of times, and another guy went poking around too.

I got back to high without getting shot at by anybody but some Blood Raiders, and had a look at his killboard. He mostly runs in tandem with a guy who can fly a Thanatos, and has dropped said Thanatos on someone before.

Note to self: don't engage that guy unless you want a Thanatos dropped on whatever subcaps you brought with you.