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Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#21 - 2013-12-10 02:24:27 UTC
Ohm's Law's wrote:
The amount of posts that get posted in these threads that are wrong and only serve to disincourage people more…
1-low sec is not full of battleships and battleships. Most are in cruisers or below.
2- low sec gates are very rarely camped. And usually easy to evade.
3-solo pvp is very much a valid play style ofc u need to stick thru the bad times while u get to knw your engagement profile and how the locals operate in the area of your choice. Fw zone provides best opportunity for solo.


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TharOkha
0asis Group
#22 - 2013-12-10 07:31:11 UTC
There are few solo capable low sec constellations. But its not constant. You need to roam through various ones to find solo fight. Its rare nowadays but not impossible. Try to find dead ends, low jumps per hour systems, there you can find your lone souls to fight hiding/mining in belts. Oh and i recommend cloaky hunter ship.

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Baali Tekitsu
AQUILA INC
#23 - 2013-12-10 09:34:41 UTC
TharOkha wrote:
There are few solo capable low sec constellations. But its not constant. You need to roam through various ones to find solo fight. Its rare nowadays but not impossible. Try to find dead ends, low jumps per hour systems, there you can find your lone souls to fight hiding/mining in belts. Oh and i recommend cloaky hunter ship.


Which isnt exactly a fight but rather a gank of some poor ratter. How I understood the thread is that OP is looking for fights, not ganks.

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Baali Tekitsu
AQUILA INC
#24 - 2013-12-10 09:37:53 UTC
Speedkermit Damo wrote:
Baali Tekitsu wrote:


Molden heath is FW pretty much. Real lowsec is full of hotdrops and battleship gangs and stuff like that, not an interesting place for solo. What youre looking for is 00sec, thats fun.


I live in nullsec, the pvp there is terrible. 99% of potential targets are either cloaky, nullified or both, and no-one wants to fight. what I wanted was a place to install a clean clone for solo low-sec frigate roams. Lately I have been re-reading the following blog.

Flight of Dragons

Reading this first inspired me to start playing Eve over a year ago. Is this sort of gameplay dead these days, or is solo low-sec roaming in frigates or cruisers still viable.


If youre looking for your standard frig action thing you need to go FW, thats where you gonna get your griffin permajammed frig fight fastest.
For sizes upwards every region is as viable with the difference that non FW ls is pretty dead or blobby and that 00 is pretty blobby too but the pilots are ********.

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JackknifedII
The Congregation
RAPID HEAVY ROPERS
#25 - 2013-12-10 11:27:59 UTC
You can get good fights in 0.0 as long as you don't hang around too long. A couple of kills then move on before the blob forms. Typically go out and don't return until you are in a pod, even if that takes weeks :D

Unless ofc you happen upon some hauler carrying expensive stuff, then return via the shortest possible route as non solo as you can manage.

Minmatar....we are generally unpleasant to be around....

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Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc
Shadow Cartel
#26 - 2013-12-10 14:22:00 UTC
Sapporo Ichiban wrote:
Just join RvB and stop wasting time trying to look for fights


RvB is pretty much just FW for people who are afraid of low sec.

The war setup just emulates lower secs without any of the inherent difficulties of that..

Just go fw lowsec (but don't join FW)

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Speedkermit Damo
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2013-12-10 14:29:29 UTC
Thanks everyone for the good responses.

Although I am primarily looking for good fights, I'll also accept ganks Big smile

I have tasted FW, and although it can be fun it's not really what I am after. I want to roam further afield. I have taken to jumping through wormholes to other nullsec regions, as there are often good kills to be had amongst the AFK ratters and miners in deep null.

But I have spent 95% of my eve career in nullsec, specifically in the south. providence, Catch, Stain. I would like to explore low-sec, and hope to find like-minded people to fight, gank, get blown up by.

I think I'll install a clone near to Hevrice, Aeschee area. I hear that's an active area?

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Baron' Soontir Fel
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#28 - 2013-12-10 16:19:40 UTC
Looks like you're looking more for the gank than the fight. You'll find more of that stuff in nullsec as the active PvP regions of FW greatly discourage most types of PvE.

Hevrice is home to the Tuskers, a good solo/small group pirate organization. You'll find them roaming around that area and you'll have access to both FW warzones Cal/Gal and Amarr/Matar as well.

The majority of your fights will come from people who are connected to FacWar in one way or the other though. The militias will provide plenty of fights, and then the pirates who play with the militias will also come to fight.
Speedkermit Damo
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2013-12-10 18:01:41 UTC
Baron' Soontir Fel wrote:
Looks like you're looking more for the gank than the fight.


Not especially. Like most players, I'll happily take on any target I think I stand a chance of taking down. If that happens to be a hauler or something that doesn't shoot back, then fair enough, however winning a fight against a combat ship is far more satisfying than ganking a retriever.

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Ciba Lexlulu
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#30 - 2013-12-11 11:15:49 UTC
Speedkermit Damo wrote:
Thanks everyone for the good responses.

Although I am primarily looking for good fights, I'll also accept ganks Big smile

I have tasted FW, and although it can be fun it's not really what I am after. I want to roam further afield. I have taken to jumping through wormholes to other nullsec regions, as there are often good kills to be had amongst the AFK ratters and miners in deep null.

But I have spent 95% of my eve career in nullsec, specifically in the south. providence, Catch, Stain. I would like to explore low-sec, and hope to find like-minded people to fight, gank, get blown up by.

I think I'll install a clone near to Hevrice, Aeschee area. I hear that's an active area?


I live around that area. Check out Tuskers and Stay Frosty KBs. There are plenty of solo/small gang fights around the region. Most of us in STFR fly solo or small gang. There are no shortage of targets - in particular during weekend and US prime TZ.
Meditril
Hoplite Brigade
Ushra'Khan
#31 - 2013-12-11 16:41:15 UTC
If you are looking for solo or small scale PVP fights with cheap ships (frigates, destroyers) then Faction Warefare space is perfect for you. You just need to take care of the following things:


  1. Don't enter low-sec via the "usual" pirate camped systems... e.g. Amamake.
  2. If you are in enemy space where there are 20 war targets in your system... then don't expect that if you engage any war target this will be a solo fight. His friends will come sooner or later. So either you are DPS gank fit and kill him fast or you simply don't engage him at all.
  3. You will have best chances for solo fights in back-end systems, but be careful and avoid enemy roaming fleets.
Ginger Barbarella
#32 - 2013-12-12 00:54:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Ginger Barbarella
Speedkermit Damo wrote:
Baali Tekitsu wrote:


Molden heath is FW pretty much. Real lowsec is full of hotdrops and battleship gangs and stuff like that, not an interesting place for solo. What youre looking for is 00sec, thats fun.


I live in nullsec, the pvp there is terrible. 99% of potential targets are either cloaky, nullified or both, and no-one wants to fight. what I wanted was a place to install a clean clone for solo low-sec frigate roams. Lately I have been re-reading the following blog.

Flight of Dragons

Reading this first inspired me to start playing Eve over a year ago. Is this sort of gameplay dead these days, or is solo low-sec roaming in frigates or cruisers still viable.


Gatecamping in places like Uaedama, Niarja, and Jita are the places for fights. Given that the nullies don't like to fight, FW is supposed to be dead, and low in general is pretty much stale non-sense, the only thing left is high sec and wardec'ing one-man indy corps.


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Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc
Shadow Cartel
#33 - 2013-12-12 05:30:39 UTC
TharOkha wrote:
There are few solo capable low sec constellations. But its not constant. You need to roam through various ones to find solo fight. Its rare nowadays but not impossible. Try to find dead ends, low jumps per hour systems, there you can find your lone souls to fight hiding/mining in belts. Oh and i recommend cloaky hunter ship.


Rare?

You can get 5+ fights an hour on a decent day in lowsec. Your mileage may vary but all in all its not hard to get.

Also dead ends.. low jumps per hour, cloaky hunter? You seem to be looking for bears in low sec.. While that IS possible really, if you want to do bear hunting you should go 0.0

low sec is mostly about pvp vs other pvpers.

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Ciba Lexlulu
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#34 - 2013-12-13 04:28:07 UTC
Garviel Tarrant wrote:
TharOkha wrote:
There are few solo capable low sec constellations. But its not constant. You need to roam through various ones to find solo fight. Its rare nowadays but not impossible. Try to find dead ends, low jumps per hour systems, there you can find your lone souls to fight hiding/mining in belts. Oh and i recommend cloaky hunter ship.


Rare?

You can get 5+ fights an hour on a decent day in lowsec. Your mileage may vary but all in all its not hard to get.

Also dead ends.. low jumps per hour, cloaky hunter? You seem to be looking for bears in low sec.. While that IS possible really, if you want to do bear hunting you should go 0.0

low sec is mostly about pvp vs other pvpers.


+1

but to add

low sec is mostly about pvp vs. other pvpers and vs. cloaky and stabbed FW farmers
Crake Gaterau
Doomheim
#35 - 2013-12-13 22:22:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Crake Gaterau
Like a lot of the other posters have said, it's fairly easy to find 1v1's and fights in general around the FW areas. I usually roam between the different FW areas to get a change of scenery and to find targets outside FW space. It's not a target rich enviroment like FW, but it does have some odd surprises that you rarely find in FW areas, like PVE fit Battleships ratting in a belts. The added bonus is that it's more common that you're alone with your target in those types of areas.

So my suggestion is to not get too attached to one area of lowsec. Travel wide and shoot all the things Cool
Speedkermit Damo
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#36 - 2013-12-16 12:06:57 UTC
Crake Gaterau wrote:
Like a lot of the other posters have said, it's fairly easy to find 1v1's and fights in general around the FW areas. I usually roam between the different FW areas to get a change of scenery and to find targets outside FW space. It's not a target rich enviroment like FW, but it does have some odd surprises that you rarely find in FW areas, like PVE fit Battleships ratting in a belts. The added bonus is that it's more common that you're alone with your target in those types of areas.

So my suggestion is to not get too attached to one area of lowsec. Travel wide and shoot all the things Cool


I like this reply.

What ships do you tend to roam in? Personally I favour assault frigs, although perhaps T1 cruisers and frigs are better?

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Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#37 - 2013-12-17 09:40:58 UTC
Resident of Metro lowsec here... I have no trouble getting some pew pew going in this region. There's a shortcut through The Forge I regularly use to get into an FW space 5 jumps out to look for fights. Outside of these areas there are enough people doing lowsec PVE or solo/small gang PVP stuff.
Garviel Tarrant
Beyond Divinity Inc
Shadow Cartel
#38 - 2013-12-18 10:18:29 UTC
Speedkermit Damo wrote:
Crake Gaterau wrote:
Like a lot of the other posters have said, it's fairly easy to find 1v1's and fights in general around the FW areas. I usually roam between the different FW areas to get a change of scenery and to find targets outside FW space. It's not a target rich enviroment like FW, but it does have some odd surprises that you rarely find in FW areas, like PVE fit Battleships ratting in a belts. The added bonus is that it's more common that you're alone with your target in those types of areas.

So my suggestion is to not get too attached to one area of lowsec. Travel wide and shoot all the things Cool


I like this reply.

What ships do you tend to roam in? Personally I favour assault frigs, although perhaps T1 cruisers and frigs are better?


t1 is generally better for getting good fights. Its not a rule but its a definite trend

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xxsmokealotxx
Megacorp 5000 Pro XL
#39 - 2013-12-18 10:41:16 UTC
For learning to find fights, check kil2 vids from youtube. He has some nice guides that are still relevant.
LUMINOUS SPIRIT
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#40 - 2013-12-20 22:58:52 UTC
I just had a 1v1 in null sec, in some jump bridge transit system.

I was in ishtar, and the other guy was in Omen, scythe navy, osprey navy, crow, stabber navy, and something else.

So i mess around with that guy, we are having a good 1v1, then I feint a retreat, abandon my drones, warp to gate like im running, other dude follows, we all jump.

then my ishtar, ishtar, loki, vaga, talos, keres catch and kill the guy.

man, that was a good 1v1....

but seriously, lots of small-scale action in wormholes. e-honor matters here more then in null-sec, so if you roll into a big known c5 or c6 corp and ask for a duel, you will get one fair and square more often then not, with spectators and everything.
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