Crime & Punishment

INB4 Cannibal Kane.

I would but the tears and the hunt is much more involving

I have no idea how you accomplish wardec's on a single account. And if I had a hat on, I'd eat it if Cannibal Kane uses only 1 account.

Without at least a scout alt, you'll just be leroying through gates with no idea what is on the other side. Without that same scout alt finding targets in system, you'll mostly be left with station camping because as soon as you enter a system the clock starts ticking until they notice you are there and scatter. Station camping is fine, I'm not slighting it, but it is a limitation.

Now you could conceivably camp trade routes and catch some things or be able to get away if they bring more than you can handle. But unless you have a lot of wardec's going, it seems like that would get boring real fast. No offense to the big groups like Marimite. But for the solo dude gate camping trade routes isn't much fun. Invading your prey's home system and killing them where they live is much more gratifying to me.

I do a lot of "solo" wardecs. But I always use a neutral scout alt on another account. Finding them in system, or combat probing , then sneaking up on them, is a ton of fun. Hearing the lamentations of the women in local is great too.

EDIT: I just reread your post and realized I didn't answer your actual question which was to provide some tips. Although its way more difficult with 1 account, it isn't completely impossible. Here's what I'd do:

1. Set up my "base" 2j or so from the targets main system;
2. Put ships for myself and my alt there;
3. Send alt to go find the target and make a bookmark of a good warpin;
4. Alt creates contract to trade bm to main;
5. Login main, get bm;
6. Pew, pew, pew
7. Profit.

After 7, head to the station and try to get them to come out. They probably won't. If they ask for surrender terms, make it 1 PLEX. Use PLEX to get second account.

Solo war dec hunting is fun, oh so much fun. Watchlist, locaters and a scout. When you terrorize a group so efficiently they will usually pay large sums for you to be gone as well :D.

Malcolm was referring to a hypothetical situation where you would be doing this with one account. Of course, the standard thing is to use a cloaky or inconspicuous alt on a second account for warpins.

Derp thanks for clarifying

H.Bot has it right that I was talking about the worst case of using one account.

But you are also right, that is exactly how it is done. I line up wartargets the same way I line up miner ganks. A cloaky scout and warp at range so as not to decloak him. I don't want my scout to get burned and have to bring in another one for that war. I land right on the target with little chance he (or I if I've underestimated him) will get away. The exception of course is mission pockets with gates. Those you just have to jump through and hope you can tackle the guy before he gets away.

Also, it wasn't asked, but another tip: If you can use a character with a name in the latter 1/2 of the alphabet you'll be happier in the wardec business. My character that starts with "D" has a much rougher time than I do because I appear much lower in the local list.

I have one account, and I used to be a 1-man merc corp.

It is very hard.

However, here are some things to make it much, much easier.

A) Get your carebear mining friends to scout for you. You would be surprised what depravity lurks in the hearts of those so-called 'innocent' space miners. Pretty soon they will be scouting corps as possible war targets for you as well.....

B) Go to a noob system and 'hire' some noobs. They work cheap and will usually be thrilled to be getting involved in PvP this early in the game. You can usually hire a bunch, in fact, and having a dozen newbies flying in all directions is pretty fun. Sometimes you can get them to join your target and be spais, but this can be tricky.

C) Locator services (ie, Player corps that can run lots of l3/4 locators) are your friend. But they aint cheap. Oh god they are not cheap. Sometimes, tho, they are essential. EveWho is a must as well.

D) Battlecruisers are your friend.

E) Avoid t3 boats, they have a tendency to scare your WT into docking up for the week. And you generally can get the job done with t2-fit regular hulls anyway.

F) ECM is your worst enemy. Plan for it.

hahahano

hmmm damn looks like another area where alt's/links rule......I hate having to pay/plex for a second account.

One issue I have is that I run eve on an old laptop (as I travel a lot with work) so dual boxing is pretty much a no no especially in combat....

Might have to start playing with everything turned down/off :(