EVE General Discussion

I started roaming lowsec solo around 500,000 sp and managed to get a few kills.

I'd say it depends what you want to fly. Frigates have a low skill ceiling. You could have 1 million sp and blow up someone with 30 million sp in a 1v1 frigate fight.

It's almost as if skillpoints or player skill matters with 1000 fleet members.

23.6 million sp, (**** all of it in frigates) you don't need heaps of sp, just knowledge, steady hand, and balls.

For a while, I had a PvP char that I purposely kept at sub-900k levels and it did pretty well for itself, Sure, I had to be more considerate of the fights I picked than normal (which was an awesome learning experience, actually, as I had never bothered to learn the whole "pick your battles carefully" part prior), but there were still plenty of victories to be had. Sure, it was limited to frigs, but there are still a lot of great battles available to frigs (also, no Thermodynamics, because getting Science to the pre-req levels accounts for half your SP), but it was still a great character to play.

Sadly, I've since opted to essentially mothball the character for about a year to train it into a much more specialized role.

Even so, you can PvP just fine at 900k SP or less. You'll have to learn how to pick your fights, but it's still a great experience!

Sad to say, almost all my PvP was back when i was a low SP (sub 30 mill) character.

These days with less time in EVE I tend to log in check some stuff with my carebear alts and log off.

Especially now I am playing Pathfinder Alpha. (Anyone wants an invite PM an email address - I have 4 available)

Yesterday for example all I did was move 20 Itty Vs to a better market and then queue 20 more and change the sell price on 300 or so Ventures that were not selling at a hub then logged in a different alt and grabbed about half a bill of P2 from a 0.3 system and ran them back to highsec for Red Frogging to a hub.

Not a skeric of PvP these days.

My PvP character, currently at just under 30m SP (EVEBoard). This is very much work in progress though. I need to finish up with this remap and then finalize the perception and willpower skills. :)

I like Tippias's character and I see her point. Personally, I would train a fair chunk of those IVs to V. While you can definitely attribute wins and losses to player skill, the actual skill points do matter to a degree. Not having a single gunnery support skill trained to V, against a pilot who's of equal skill and does have these at V, could mean the difference. Over time you should make sure you don't leave any of that chance in play. Those skills should be maxed in my opinion.

It's not JUST that extra % of damage. It's the extra damage + tracking + Rate of fire + Falloff + less cap used by prop mod, guns, scram, web, ... + that extra cycle of overheating + drugs + everything else. It just adds up.

There will be situations where your cap dies, the scram turns off and your target gets out. Those situations could have potentially been avoided by having that little bit of extra DPS and cap you'd get from having those skills at V.

That said, this character is just a year old and is well on its way to catch it. In a way it's already even. Of course you can PvP with any amount of skill points. Personally I'd go for the Magic 14 at IV (ideally V) + racial frigate V + t2 guns (with IV gunnery support - V pretty high on the 'to do' list).

Edit; Doing those skills listed above, including racial frigate V and t2 guns puts you just under 3M SP.