Warfare & Tactics

Thank you to everyone for the excellent tips in this thread.

I've actually narrowed ship locations down to something as close to exact as possible without actually being able to warp to them.. By repeatedly scanning the same direction and raising or lowering your scanner range you can get a pretty good idea of where they are at. Unfortunately, without probes they're almost impossible to get to... Furthermore, most of them are just POS'd up anyway, so even if you could warp to them you'd get smoked.



On the topic of the OP... I am rather new to the game and the Rifter is my favorite ship to fly.. I also have an anti-frigate Thrasher and a Fleet fit Cane, and plenty of money to throw around. My Corp is more Fleet oriented and frowns upon illegal pirate activities...such as ransoming neutral freighters. Fortunately they look the other way if that freighter happens to have a red [-] next to it's name.. Unfortunately, finding a freighter in low/null that isn't POS'd up or sitting with a Tengu or other dangerous escort seems to be downright impossible for me.

Every day I try to get a few friends with a variety of ships (mostly Rifters with a dessie/cruiser thrown in on occasion.), and I search through various systems looking for a fight. Normally we wander/roam somewhere around the lowsec systems near Hek and Dodixie.

What I've observed from these areas so far is that there are usually a few carebears who are either sitting in stations, anomalies, or POS'd, while there are a few (if any) inexperienced pilots looking for fights, and AT LEAST one (or several) extremely experienced pirates who take whoever they wish.

Furthermore, I VERY RARELY will see Rifters or other Frigates. In fact, the smallest ship I have personally fought was an Anti-Frigate fit Thrasher, who absolutely wrecked me. This is, to my credit, the only legit solo-kill someone has gotten on me, and it was resolved with a "gf" by both parties. My "pack of roamers" has managed to take down two Ruptures.. One was totally noobish as she was fit for long range, had no web, and no drones. She jumped in on us at close range which was immediately responded to with webs, orbitting, and the rather drawn out process of eating through her tank before finally getting a well deserved kill.

The other Rupture was baited into a 4v1 situation, and due to his web he dropped 2 Rifters before he blew his proverbial load (capacitor), and was taken down by the other 2 in my party.

Ultimately, I would like to become a good pilot.. Especially a good Frigate pilot. I know I have potential, but I am fully aware that I am still new to this game and have a LOT of things to work on. That said, I am out there every time I have the chance, fully prepared to lose ships. I look for the pilots who want a fight, and the pilots who only fight when it's unfair; then giving them a taste of their own medicine.

This thread has been useful, and I have been fortunate enough to get some help from some very experienced players in my corp... but I really need some additional guidance in finding the right hunting grounds. Also, a method of actually making money that didn't involve PVE would be useful.

Anyway... If you're interested in joining my Rifter Roams, or you want a duel, or you think you can give me some advice/pointers, or if you just want to chat, please hit me up in game!

Thanks for this thread.

Don't listen to people telling you to go into null-sec. It's all bubbles and blobs over there.

Don't listen to people telling you to go to low-sec. Unless you're camping a gate, you'll die of boredom.

Find a 50+ corp in empire, track their members and their movements for a bit and then declare war on them. Empire is ideal to run around solo, picking off targets of opportunity and hiding in the crowd when the carebears blob you. Ofcourse all the l33t PvP-ers will look down on you, but who cares.

Another good option are wormholes (also a GREAT way to get past the camps at chokepoints, though you don't know where you'll end up). They can be a bit tricky to navigate, require a bunch of supporting skills like scanning and the inhabitant usually fly very shiny ships. But plenty of solo-fights to be had, especially in the lower holes.

Confirming that going Lone Wolf in Highsec is awesome.

Faction war plexing is bringing me more great solo fights than anytime before. The minor changes ccp made are making a big impact.

I fly a pilgrim and it helps

I can choose who i fight and that is everything.

roigon is absolutely spot on.... dont expect to live, dont expect to make isk on it, do it cheap as you can and just go out there and be super renegade.

Confirming you can't solo in nullsec.

Confirming FW is best way to solo ever.

I have recently started solo-ing in low and 0.0 and loosing lots of ships but got a few memorable fights.

I 've been flying lots of types of ships from BC's to frigs but from now on I'll be using simple T1 cruisers. Nice and cheap untill I get some skillz and actually know what I am doing^^.

Sticking to 1 type of ship at the start to get a feel for it and understand how to fly it is a good idea I think.