EVE General Discussion

I've always primarily been a solo player. Missions are fun sometimes but can be extremely boring as well. Have you tried PVP at all yet? Get yourself a stack of Rifters and go run around lowsec belts. :)

I am usually solo... and while nobody talks about solo play much it's how I roll.

There are SO many ways to go.

• Solo gate-camp for haulers. In 0.0 litter your drag bubble with cans (50 should suffice) and start drinking in blockade runner loot. See this for legality
• Scam. 'nuff said.
• Ninja Loot - follow around big fleets in a cheap destroyer w/ a cloak and nab the loot from their kills. I hear Tama is a good time
• Rat in Null Sec... no one is there anyway.
• Missions up to level 4 are manageable solo imho
• Start a corp and wardec a bunch of corps. It sounds suicidal but it's not. A one-man corp won't show up on the leaderships radar, but you will have carte blanche to kill their haulers in high sec. They won't notice you... but you will notice the loot

I could keep going but I gotta run. There's a lot of solo opportunity is my 2 isk...

The best way to play Eve solo is to go it alone.

That made me laugh right there.
I've been a solo player ever since I started in 2005. Corps never really ammount to anything much apart from getting wardec and then your ships being blown up. I'm not much of a pvp player and I don't like robbing people of their stuff. So I don't do that. But what I do do is everything else. I mine, use the ore for my factory, during times of hulkagadon I then missin run level 3 mostly for the loot which I refine with scrap mettle 5 for more minerals for my factory. I also manage planets as well. Got them set to dailey cycles. So I have to pop into them every day to keep them ticking over. As a solo player I just created my own company which only I'm in it. But hopefully I might be able to build it up later souly for mission runners and mining ops. But I play this game as I like to call it. On the cusp. I play it to keep my skills trained. I like to set things in motion so that I'm making isk whilst I'm not there. So I can go off and do other things. Just come on now and again to set skill training, manage planets, set off new install jobs, or if I need some isk ASAP like to buy the next skill book, ship or materials then I'll do a quick spot of level 3 mission running or mining.

What are you looking for?

Do you want to get rich? Start by building a nest egg of ISK and studying the market. identify a commodity that you could make a big profit from moving around or producing / reselling and start on your path to becoming a market tycoon.

Do you want to get real, bona-fide thrills and adrenaline rushes from the game? Start learning the game's combat mechanics, buy a few dozen rifters, fit them cheap, and go to town in low or nullsec. You'll die a lot, that goes away. So does the shaky hands. The thrill doesn't, though.

Do you want to learn as much as you can about EVE? Join EVE University or a comparable corp specializing in something, like Agony does for PvP. You'll learn a lot, and probably make a lot of friends in the process.

Do you want to watch and take part in epic fleet battles? Ships blasting away at each other en masse? Run level 4 missions or join a nullsec alliance. Either way, you'll find yourself shooting at a few dozen to few thousand ships. One is particularly more thrilling than the other, but missioning can be very fun for a little while (before you burn out on it, they get repetitive).

You can do pretty much anything you want to in EVE. All that is necessary is setting your mind to it, and working towards your goal, just like in real life. Expecting things to come to you only guarantees boredom and stagnation.

I feel you on the long corp history. I have the same problem finding corps that I feel comfortable hanging around for longer than a few months due to my limited play time now. My solution was similar to a few others above.

I keep a tall stack of Rifters fitted and ready to go in a few key lowsec systems in the event i feel like a bit of piracy and drinking cause that's how I lived when I did the corp thing. Most times though I live with my alt in null sec doing exploration sites and occasional WH expeditions. With both alts in Tengus, one combat and one combat / tackle / data salvage, I can make several hundred mill in a few hours on a good night. This works for me and keeps things from getting stale as you never know what you are going to run into, good or bad, out in the black.

-Tau

If you want to play solo then you're going to require alts to do it. I find that the more "solo" players usually have between 3 and 8 alts (accounts) to suit their needs.

Many people are going to disagree that one requires more accounts to play solo. They would be correct to an extent. WIthout an army of alts and depending on which area of the game you're interested in, your efficacy will be extremely limited.

This is not true. I have one alt only... and with the exception of gate camping the alt is more trouble than he's worth to fly in support. It takes one account to play this game. Only one. You want to branch out go ahead... but to speak of 'efficiency' requires a goal and with regards to mining or something stupid that may be the case. However, nothing is more efficient imho than only having to split the loot one way. If the players are who you play against... it only takes one. ...unless they bring friends... then it only takes one to run away!

YES, this and this....I'm playing solo with 5 accounts...

Playing solo can be loads of fun...

Don't sit here and tell everyone you only need one account to do whatever you want to do. It's not true unless your idea of playing the game is sticking your thumb up your bum for most of the time you're online. The man is talking about solo play. Having a lot of friends around to help you achieve your goals is not solo play.

For example, w-space. You might need to close your outgoing/incoming wh's for security reasons. If it happens to be a busy day that could be as many as 6 wh's. Now, you're going to tell us that you're going to solo close 6 holes that at best will take you about half an hour for each? Or go solo an anomaly for 45 minutes and see how many you can abandon in a row when you see someone on dscan, if you're that lucky. Raise thumb, insert into anus. When the warm fuzzy sensation is gone you've had enough Eve solo with one account, mmm'kay?