Crime & Punishment

perhaps you should get your finances in order before going on pvp operations mate

Throwing ISK at the problem sounds like a bad idea. A surefire way to quickly burn through your remaining assets and escalate your frustration exponentially, until you go broke and quit the game. As the frustration builds it will negatively affect your decisions in combat, more so the more expensive ship you are flying, resulting in its loss. To be frustrated less, you need to care less.

Grab a cheap ship you like, stick with it for a while and pick your fights. Keep the bling for when you get your groove back.

Edit: Stick with it as in, replace it and fly the same fit instead of jumping to a different hull/fit every time you get blown up.

I had been having a completely **** streak then I decided to just get back my roots and started flying rifters again. simple fits not much more than 10mil a pop for T2 and just went out and engaged stuff I thought I had a 50/50 chance against.

Got more kills than I lost as so far going ok....not stella but better than before.

Relax, take a breath and go find out why you have fun and do that

Interesting forum choice. That being said remember frigate combat is far and away the most technical PvP there is. The fights are over almost before they start. Any mistake in range control or transversal and you are dead. Tiny defined engagement envelopes. And so on. They all add up to far more ticks in the L column before the muscle memory and instincts click into place.

On the bright side, losing 10-20m in frigs a day is easy to finance. So much so that a lot of us lose them by the hundreds over the course of a month.

For my two isk, buy and fit up 10-50 identical T1 frigs of your choice. Then go out and try to lose them in a different way each time. Sticking to one frig let's you identify what you need to change without complicating the issue. Also having a bunch ready on hand let's you get back in the fights while the last fight is still fresh with you.

Are you using

- a booster buddy?
- Implants? (even cheap ones)
- drugs?
- an ace in the hole? (like a Falcon waiting in the wings)

because in a lot of cases the guys you are fighting will using all 4 of those especially if they're well established in the area and out *looking* for PVP.

And that last comment is what you need to remember. If you're out looking for PVP and you find someone else out looking for PVP then if you don't have your 4 bases above covered then at least assume tha the other guy does, even if he looks like he's solo.

You'll have better luck (albeit at the cost of a lot more patience) by hunting around for people who are NOT out looking for PVP. Use a prober and look for people running sites and engaged in other forms of PVE.

I know how frustrating bad streaks can be but the good part about them is that they always end. :)

When i am facing a bad streak, i generally go back to a ship that's cheap, and which I am comfortable with.

What you have to avoid at all costs is hurrying back into battle, to break that %§?$£* annoying series of losses. If you start doing things too fast, you will not notice the wildcards, the alt(s), the backup gang waiting behind the gate, etc.

So take that ship, study your target, try to make him show his hand, in other words do it nice and slow, baby.
After you will regain confidfence, you can go back to chain-welping your ships until you get bothered by losses, then rinse and repeat what was written above.

Everyone goes through a bad spell. Ive been there. It took flying with a good PVP corp to get back on track, recover my killboard, and get back into the swing of things.

I spent years training up for Carriers and Battleships, but you know what I have ended up flying the most in the end?

Frigates and interceptors.

Pick a hull or two and get really good with that hull. I became the go to tackler for all of my fleet roams, and as a result I got really good with the hulls I chose to fly. Once you become familiar enough with your own ship, start making a mental list of what you can and cannot take on. Successful PVP is largely about having the ability to choose your fights, and not letting them choose you. (Not always possible).

I love my Taranis and Tristan. I may not always win, but I have fun flying them.

Fly what you enjoy.

THIS ^

Suicide ganking is always a fun way to blow off soms steam, and maybe pad your KB just a bit. :D

Cheap ships can be just as affective as the expensive ones. Just ask my corp mate that lost a loki to an Atron several months ago. >.>

I know how you feel man. I suffer from sorry winning streaks, buffered by long lists of fail. I pay for all my pew with loot so things get tight fast. To make myself feel better I like to grab a dessi and hunt down a few rating-frig-noobs.

I don't have any advice, just comisseration.