EVE General Discussion

Solo PvP, in any MMO, but especially a sandbox is not really a sane design goal, it is in direct conflict with diversity (e.g. 100s of different ships).

As soon as you start encouraging 1v1 someone is going to want the battleships balanced with the frigates

His name was Infinity Ziona.

Before I go on, please note that nobody cares about your killmails, by showing how you killed a vindicator with an enyo, and then replying some crap like "wtf you talking about, there is full of solo combat", so don't try use this post as a means to show off your precious kills, nobody cares as although I am sure you might have nice kills, the purpose of this post is not to show them off. Thanks!


Now, I am wondering since experiencing this myself, as well as my in-game fellows, I am wonder what turns people off from getting into solo combat?

I understand that obviously isk is an issue. Often solo pilots need alts (2nd. account) as scouts, some go as far as taking off-grid boosters (which more and more I understand why, because they must be feeling frustrated with being ganked non-stop so they try increase their survivability), but my point is, solo fighting in eve, does have its cost. You lose 3 normal fitted Assault Frigs, you are at around 100 mio isk loss.

However, that does not have to be like this. You can fit t1 frigs and destroyers for under 10 mio isk, have them very well fitted, and at least every now and then, go for fun fight. I have solod coercers in duel rep incursus :), kill brawler comets with kite merlins, and the experience in such an engagement, is so much fun, especially the interaction you have with the other pilot as a result. The good fight in local, then the convos, the fit requests, and there ya go, you got a new in-game buddy that you stay in contact with, share fits and share your victories and losses. My point, solo combat can add an incredible amount of fun to the game. Anyway, there is so much muli-tasking that you do during such engagements, but most of the times your fun is quickly ruined as the half a dozen more t2 frigs are on scan with ECM support, and they are about to land. With other words, you are in a rifter, orbiting a enyo at that borderline range with barrage hitting it while still taking null damage, but why does the enyo have to have 5 more assault frigs come in, with ecm support? I know that they can do this, I respect it but when I research about the people in my losses, I see so many like many year old accounts with 0 solo kills. Have they just not even once tried?

Why is it so much less common then it used to be? Again, I don't care about troll replies of people that don't do pvp trying to proof me wrong, there are in-game channels (bringing solo back), as well as serious concerns of solo players in this game, that solo combat is more and more harder to find, and as a solo pilot, I can see this daily.

So, what is it perhaps except isk (like I said, you can have fun with t1 frigs and destroyers, and even cruisers since the buff and they sure are cheap to fit now), what discourages the great majority of eve players to try solo combat? They just have no clue, the fun they are missing out on.

Oh at last, please no "eve is a multiplayer team play" crap reply, which is wrong, you can do any role that you wish here, doesn't have to be in a group always, and the point of this thread is to ask what discourages people, not your personal opinion about solo combat not belonging to the game.

Hope those aren't in order. Consider if you haven't done any of these in 5 days.