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Juni Dogo
StoneCutterz Shotgun Weddings
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Posted - 2011.10.05 08:54:00 -
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- Start cheap. Don't think an expensive BS will give a better chance to survive, it won't. Go for fast frigates at first You won't be able to take down most BC or BS, but it's a cheap ship that you won't mind loosing, and it's fast so you have better chances to escape. as experience and isks grow. Go for cruisers and battlecruisers if want to hunt down bigger ships. Forget about doing solo pvp in a battleship. You'll attact to much attention, you won't be able to kill fast ships like frigate that will laugh at you as the scramble you untill bigger guns finish you off.
- Choose your hunting ground well. Learn the corps that usually go there.
- Learn how to use the tools that will help you survive. Don't go into lowsec untill you know how to use a directional scanner, to set up your overview, watch local chan for entries, align, safe spots, ect... Plenty of video tutorials on the net.
- Know your ships and mods weakness and advantages. Same goes for your enemy ship. Solo pvp is usually a rock-paper scenario. If you fly a brutix with balster (High damage but very bad range) and you see a cynabal (average dps, but it can keep you at long range with ease), don't even think of engaging the darn thing as a cynabal is just too fast for your brutix to get at blaster range. It takes time, but as you learn what other ships can do, you learn what targets you should engage or not.
- When you loose your ship. Don't hesitate to talk your guy who killed you. As him what he did to you and what fit he used. Usually, you'll get a friendly response, and it's a vital source of information when your new to solo pvp. You'll also have a good reputation.
- You won't be making isks like this, and you will actually loose a lot as you begin. Find a good source of income to cover your looses. Level 4 missions are a good way to make isks with a fighter pilot.
- Again be ready to loose a lot a ships before you actually start to killing.
- Get used to run away. As said above, gangs will be a common encounter in lowsec.
Solo PvP is risky and not very lucrative if you plan to make isks out of it. At best you cover your looses. But it's more enjoyable than gang pvp. Still, you can solo pvp while being in a friendly corp. So why not join one? |
Marcus Wilde
HellHound's INVICTUS ALLIANCE
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Posted - 2011.10.05 09:03:00 -
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I started a blog on this very subject last month, I'll be adding a post per month or something like that. You may find it useful, or you might not, I dunno nor do I care
http://hellhounds-howls.blogspot.com/ |
Zoe Alarhun
Drunken Space Irish
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Posted - 2011.10.05 09:08:00 -
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As long as you are careful with your targets solo works just fine. I fly Solo almost permanently. |
Karim alRashid
Aliastra Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.10.05 09:08:00 -
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Go to Singularity, great place to try and get the feel of various fits. |
Solstice Project
Cult of Personality
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Posted - 2011.10.05 09:56:00 -
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You'll find plenty of honourable solo PvPers, you just have to look around, pay attention, and TALK to ppl in lowsec local.
Don't let yourself discourage by ppl who need/want others to have fun with, you can do everything on your own ... just TALK, for example by making fun of those who don't talk in local. :) (but try not to be an *******)
I have no idea why others have problems finding 1vs1 PvP, so believe me ... it's perfectly doable. |
Kitty McKitty
In Praise Of Shadows
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Posted - 2011.10.05 10:37:00 -
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Some good advice in this thread already. I just want to say, those telling you to join a corporation and not to solo are morons. Obviously it's going to make life harder for you but you sould like you realise that. PVP leads to plenty of deaths in this game and obviously going it alone makes your chances of survival much lower in general since you are fighting the odds but as long as you are prepared for this you will do much better when you end up in a fleet.
Most of these babbies that can't advise more than 'join a gang' are probably used to being an incompetent drone that doesn't lose ships often because of a numbers game. You aren't going to learn nearly as much in a gang as you will from getting out there alone.
I'd take Beasts of Burden up on their offer and at least try some small gang pew pew since variety is the spice of life but do not let anyone talk you out of solo. It's the only thing that keeps me interested in this game. GÖÑ Haviing your portrait painted here helps INTAKI Disabled Children GÖÑ |
Juddas Priest
Masonic Templar Warfare Industries
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Posted - 2011.10.05 13:29:00 -
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Actually the most difficult part of learning EVE for me has been finding the right Corp. Personally I didnGÇÖt want to be part of a big corp because you have to fit into already established behaviour patterns and have to learn them with little or no hands on help. Something small, friendly, casual and willing to help a new pilot. Also has to be online during my TZ and be more or less as active as I was. I have spent many an evening being the only person in corp chat because It was either the wrong TZ or the corp just wasnGÇÖt active enough.
ItGÇÖs not just PvP either I wouldnGÇÖt mind having a go at incursions but thereGÇÖs nothing worse than being the only noob in an incursion fleet where everyone assumes you know what all the techno babble means.
Eve seems specifically designed to be solo unfriendly unless you just want to be a carebear all your eve life. You canGÇÖt reason someone out of a position they didnGÇÖt reason themselves into |
Weaselior
BUTTECORP INC Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2011.10.05 13:41:00 -
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Jacen Matthews wrote:Hello all,
I am a relativly new player, been playing less than 4 months. I have played most of that solo, or missioning with a friend.
I want to start doing some PVP, however, I do not want to do "Gang" or "Fleet" PVP. I want to be able to go out on my own, or with a friend and get into some trouble.
This however, seems counter to what everyone else does in this game.
Is this strategy just not valid? Am I looking in the wrong places ( I flew to 8 different lowsec areas in a four hour peroid, not one fight).?
Just throwing this out there, I cannot join most PVP corps due to the fact that I cannot use voice comms (no hearing).
Any advice would help, maybe this is just not the game for me?
Thanks!!
gank hulks and exhumers in empire, best 1v1 combat you'll find anywhere |
Xuse Senna
Ducklings
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Posted - 2011.10.05 13:50:00 -
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Show us a Corp which doesn't use Voice Comms? http://tinyurl.com/Qucked
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Mors Magne
Astral Adventure
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Posted - 2011.10.05 15:24:00 -
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Here is a possible 'work-around' that should enable you to join a large fleet normally, even though you are deaf -
The good thing about large fleets is that you never have to do any talking - it's all about listening to the Fleet Commander. So...
1. Get voice recognition software - my undertanding is that the technology is very good these days. Apparently, you don't even need to callibrate it to a voice.
2. Use the internet to find a way of turning the Teamspeak / Ventrilo speaker 'out' voice activated software. In theory, this should be simple.
3. Use the voice activated software to write on a Word document.
4. Change the Eve Online settings from 'Full screen' to 'Window' so you can see both Eve Online and the Word document on your screen.
5. You'll know it's the Fleet Commander speaking because they use the same short phases in every fleet in Eve. There are few (or no) important conversations that last longer than four words.
Finally, if the fleet commander says, "Jump to..." and looks like jibberish - that's probably how it sounds to everyone else! Just press 'jump to the fleet commander' and you're probably ok! It's what I normally do anyway! I just watch what other people are doing.
The other small difficulty you might come across is understanding the name of the primary target. I think this is a really small detail - I'm sure you could find a really good target using your eyes.
The important thing is to use cheap ships until you adapt - and I'm sure you will - sooner than you think. |
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Lord Ryan
Derailleurs
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Posted - 2011.10.05 15:42:00 -
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Come find me I'll PVP you! You don't have to worry about my friends jumping in cause I don't have any. Not a very likable guy, so **** off! If you need a corp hit me up. Hearing is not a problem, cause the only thing that pisses me off more than forum police is having to talk. Mofo if I wanted to talk I would log off climb out of my mother's cellar and go hire a prositute. -á
I want to fly a badass Mon Calamari stlye-ácruiser painted to match my Tron clothes. |
Toterra
Shut Up And Play
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Posted - 2011.10.05 16:50:00 -
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned The Punisher plan from the flight of dragons blog. Basically this guy took 20 punishers and lost them learning about solo pvp. Started knowing nothing... ended up a dangerous pirate. Really, this is the only way of doing it. |
Solstice Project
Cult of Personality
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Posted - 2011.10.05 21:56:00 -
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Mors Magne wrote:Here is a possible 'work-around' that should enable you to join a large fleet normally, even though you are deaf - The good thing about large fleets is that you never have to do any talking - it's all about listening to the Fleet Commander. So... 1. Get voice recognition software - my undertanding is that the technology is very good these days. Apparently, you don't even need to callibrate it to a voice. 2. Use the internet to find a way of turning the Teamspeak / Ventrilo speaker 'out' voice activated software. In theory, this should be simple. 3. Use the voice activated software to write on a Word document. 4. Change the Eve Online settings from 'Full screen' to 'Window' so you can see both Eve Online and the Word document on your screen. 5. You'll know it's the Fleet Commander speaking because they use the same short phrases in every fleet in Eve. There are few (or no) important conversations that last longer than four words. Finally, if the fleet commander says, "Jump to..." and looks like jibberish - that's probably how it sounds to everyone else! Just press 'jump to the fleet commander' and you should be ok! It's what I normally do anyway! I just watch what other people are doing. The other small difficulty you might come across is understanding the name of the primary target. I think this is a really small detail - I'm sure you could find a really good target using your eyes. The important thing is to use cheap ships until you adapt - and I'm sure you will - sooner than you think.
That's one hell of a great idea, but fails (no offense, i really like the idea) when you realize that there are ppl from sweden, ireland, australia, USAmerica, germany, Austria, poland, africa, etc etc
Too many dialects, too many accents ... and whatever the NSA uses, it's not for commercial use. xD |
Suitonia
Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED
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Posted - 2011.12.11 07:51:00 -
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Toterra wrote:I can't believe nobody has mentioned The Punisher plan from the flight of dragons blog. Basically this guy took 20 punishers and lost them learning about solo pvp. Started knowing nothing... ended up a dangerous pirate. Really, this is the only way of doing it.
Experience is the best teacher. This is hands down the best way to learn. |
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