EVE General Discussion

I left in 2012 and returned about a week ago.

I used to roam around in low sec in a frigate, destroyer or cruiser, mostly flying solo, looking for a good fight. Now and then I caught a miner to ransom. It was fun and relaxin at the same time!

I have yet to find a single fight. Perhaps I'm in the wrong regions, I don't know.

So, is it possible to find fights flying solo in low sec anymore? Do people mine in low sec?

Yes and Yes.

Much of the LS content has moved to the faction warfare areas, although some can still be found along the pipes to null-sec and trade hub shortcuts. what this also means though is that there are fairly large areas of low that have become quite quiet and some industry does go on there, either HS dwellers doing day trips into low for better ore, drug manufacturers gas huffing, or cap builders taking advantage of the thukker arrays (which are thankfully getting converted and nerfed) or people hunting for clone soldier tags.

if your looking for the gud fites then head to the FW areas, particularly the gallente/caldari warzone (the amarr/minmatar one has always been the quieter of the two and is seeing a noticable lack of activity lately)
If you are aiming to hunt for miners etc then take a look at the map and find areas with lower numbers of ship kills, but higher numbers of rat kills.

If everyone is roaming in lowsec who are you hoping to find? Other roamers? That depends how many there are. Better to find yourself a system to be a pirate in, and kill the people who come through.

I just returned recently as well. No one is around basically. I see 30k players are on, but beats me where they are. WHs are mostly dead as well. I have been though hundreds with barely an engagement....

My experience in Minmatar FW is as follows:

In the area there are a lot of very skilled and knowledgeable players (mostly pirates) and a lot of LP farmers, but little in between.
Right now, my experience suffers a lot, because I tend to fly around for an hour trying to get a good fight, which usually doesnt happen because either they want to blob me or dont engage. Everybody just wants to play it safe and only engages if he has a good chance of winning. There are also some fair fights on paper, however many people have extremely good knowledge of ships accumulated over the years and how to engage them, along with bling on their ships, implants and boosters. If you dont have all of that, youre in trouble.

So in the end I usually end up losing my 1v1's, because I engage a ship which is either superior to mine, or I do not have enough bling fitted or I simply do not have enough routine and make a mistake, because I returned after a long break just a couple of weeks ago.

So yeah, it is extremely hard to find good 1v1 nowadays. I have a feeling that a lot of the average players either have given up or cant be bothered anymore hunting around or patiently wait for hours just to get a kill. It is slowly but surely starting to **** me off.

Either you are a vet with lots of experience and money and farm kills, or you blob in a gang - but there is little in between.

I don't look for PvP but sometimes it just happens. I bailed on a guy a few weeks ago (in a worm hole) 'cause I thought he was part of a gang but as it turned out he was solo. I was multi-boxing three Skiffs and he was in a Nemesis, I could've took him but it simply looked too easy so I carried my three half loads of Arkonor, Crokite and Bistot back to the gate which was (luckily) still there and dialed down the drama on the way home.

Update:

I have actually managed to find a few fights. A good 1v1 and caught a miner mining in low sec the other day. I've also lost a few fights.

And this is without going to the FW areas yet! But from the sound of it, it might not be a bad idea to continue roam the non-FW areas either. But I'll check them out also.

Well, I did some FW fights like 2 weeks ago. I roamed between Mara and Tama. Generally... you can only find some fights during weekends, and still not much. But they surely still exist.

Power creep has killed the solo game. Best tou can get is small gang in npc nul