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True Solo PvP

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Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc
Shadow Cartel
#101 - 2013-04-27 16:06:31 UTC
HazeInADaze wrote:
I solo a lot without scouts or links and I'm usually in a cruiser. BC is too slow IMO. Frigs and dessies are good as well but I find the cruiser gives me a wide envelope of targets and enough escape ability to survive a lot of situations.

You will get blobbed. You will fight 'elite soloists' that use links, HG implants, chems, etc. You just get used to it and begin to recognise them by name or swagger.


Its very hard to get motivated to do BC pvp knowing that 95% of everyone you will fight will have links.

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Plato Forko
123 Fake Street
#102 - 2013-04-28 18:48:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Plato Forko
Commissar Veldt wrote:
been having and continue to have solo fights successfully without scouts and OGB and manage to find solo engagements easy enough.
Faction warfare is probably best way to get them, requires a bit of roaming but not much once you know which systems are good for solo.
Also BC's will usually attract a gang, try frigates, destroyers and even cruisers.
Most solo fights i get are against pilots who dont use OGB either.
My killboard has been slow this last month due to inactivity but the last year ive been spending most of my time honing solo skills.
Ship down and join FW! great fun!


tru dat. people who roll with OGB and/or super-isky implants don't have the soloer mentality anyway. I feel no shame running from someone who just wants to farm another easy killmail at my expense. imho few engagements are more rewarding than a true 1v1 at the ragged edge. heck, my most memorable fights have been ones where I can't even say I've won, like when both ships pop, or when we both burn out our guns because the fight was so close that neither of us wants to risk turning off overheat and losing the precious deeps that might mean coming out on top. it's tough to get fun like that when you're too risk-averse to strip down and brawl with nothing but a t1 frig and your own wits.
Ari Laveran
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#103 - 2013-04-28 20:53:42 UTC
As a new player this is one of the most interesting areas of eve I think, And I intend to lose many more frigs as i can afford to do so.
Dub Step
Death To Everyone But Us
#104 - 2013-04-28 22:19:35 UTC
Solo is viable, its just very difficult and you have to accept that you are going to die to blobs, ecm and other such things.

Don't give up though because it's super renegade and commendable.

You will also get people saying, lol honour or other crap but whatever. They can do what they want, so can you. Yes you will die more because it is HARD MODE, but you will have the satisfaction of knowing you are achieving what few others in the game can do.

Other than that. I always believe, whatever is fun for you, is the way you should play the game. I would never say that someone flying with links or mates is wrong. I've certainly taken part in small gang fleets myself and throughly enjoyed it, but for me, solo is the most satisfying way to play the game.

Dont feel you have to do what others say. Take on board advice and play however the hell you please! It's you game-time.
Taoist Dragon
Okata Syndicate
#105 - 2013-04-29 00:32:20 UTC
I have the key to 'true solo' pvp.

And here it is.



Don't give a F**K about losing you ship or your 'isk efficiency' or you BC rating.....


Simple as that. Accept that it is gone as soon as you undock and you'll have a lot of fun, even if you are blobbed, OGB'd and HG implants and generally shat on from a great height.


Sure there are people who are true solo with excellent isk efficiency and BC rating.....trust me though they are few and far between.


Fly rifters! They pretty much gauruntee lots of fights Twisted

That is the Way, the Tao.

Balance is everything.
Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc
Shadow Cartel
#106 - 2013-04-29 02:43:14 UTC
Taoist Dragon wrote:
I have the key to 'true solo' pvp.

And here it is.



Don't give a F**K about losing you ship or your 'isk efficiency' or you BC rating.....


Simple as that. Accept that it is gone as soon as you undock and you'll have a lot of fun, even if you are blobbed, OGB'd and HG implants and generally shat on from a great height.


Sure there are people who are true solo with excellent isk efficiency and BC rating.....trust me though they are few and far between.


Fly rifters! They pretty much gauruntee lots of fights Twisted


TBH having a decent isk efficiency is not that hard when you solo in frigs a lot

Even i managed it :P

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Taoist Dragon
Okata Syndicate
#107 - 2013-04-29 03:01:35 UTC
Garviel Tarrant wrote:


TBH having a decent isk efficiency is not that hard when you solo in frigs a lot

Even i managed it :P



True. But i bet you are not monitoring it or getting worried if it drops a few % points though.

It not actually about the numbers but the mindset that goes behind them.

That is the Way, the Tao.

Balance is everything.
Dub Step
Death To Everyone But Us
#108 - 2013-04-29 03:11:32 UTC
I'd rather lose an ISK war than give a **** and stop having fun.