EVE New Citizens Q&A

The knowledge you need to solo is not to be underestimated. But it's very doable. Other people, other problems

I never troll in this forum section. I very much doubt the OP will enjoy solo pirating as an alpha clone even if he does manage to kill some things. I would love to see him prove me wrong, however.

"you might not enjoy it but yes it's well possible" is a very different reply from "Solo / Alpha / Successful Pirate, choose two"..

I don't know.

Can you?

OK so many people already said it but I will reiterate two EXTREMELY important facts here.

First. you CAN solo play the game. You can utterly forget about communicating with other players, learning from them in good or bad way, having fun on comms together, you can be a lone wolf absolutely without any problems. This also means that at the beginning you will fail A LOT, simply because, as was pointed out, you don't quite know how the mechanics of different security systems work, how fast the players would response to your threat or which ships are defenseless. All these things can be learned and there is a lot of solo players who learned them on their own.

The reason why majority of people would try to push newbies into corporations is that newbies coming from other games are simply not used to the fact that corporations CAN BE actually useful.

However, all of this is valid ONLY if you want to play EVE. It doesn't look like you want to play EVE, it seems that you want to play League of Legends in EVE environment, which absolutely doesn't make sense. It's the same thing as if you want to play League of Legends in Solitaire or Minesweeper. It doesn't make sense.

So, to sum it up: you can indeed be f2p pirate/ganker in high/low/null, providing you understand you're playing EVE Online, a game that is completely different from what you've played so far. If you insist on playing LoL in space, you will fail no matter what you want to do, no matter if you're alone or in a corp. And if you think you will PWN ZOMGLOLOLZ without any research whatsoever then you're also wrong.

Hope that helps :)

You're under much more pressure as an alpha to pick your fights carefully and rely more on luck than an omega. If the omega is also a PvPer it's pretty much a given that they'll have some T2 weapons and tank, and higher levels of at least the core skills and skills that alphas can't access. That much is obvious.

But there's still a rock-paper-scissors aspect to any battle that could turn the tide in favor of a player who on paper would be outmatched. Like for instance:
- alpha brawler ship scrams and webs down an omega with rails/arty/beams
- alpha kiter that can't be caught by omega brawler
- alpha RLML cruiser catches omega T2-fit frigate/destroyer

And then there's just pilot skill, and also the fact that alpha an omega status doesn't matter much if the omega just recently subscribed. An alpha with PvP experience will always have at least that advantage over an inexperienced pilot caught in a PvP situation.

That last point is important. Go out there and shoot stuff. Everyone dies plenty unless from day one they're flying in huge fleets, or if their only experience is small gangs that prey on single FW frigs or something. Don't take me to mean I don't approve of those methods, but for the rest of the PvP community there's gonna be some exploding going on along the way toward the victories yet to come.