1) solo pvp isnt dead, there are still a lot of ppl flying around solo for whatever reasons, you just have to pin them down or isolate them from their blob

2) solo pvp is difficult, because its MMO and people learned their chances are better when grouping together

3) people dont enjoy loosing much

thats all
there is no rocket science behind this neither are certain buffs or nerfs responsible for "dead solo pvp", its human nature.

1) Nano nerf, used to be that a smart pilot could engage a larger force and have a chance to escape if he needed to. Now unless you fly minmatar exclusively or angel ships (which are the FOTM, no coincidence there) you are unable to control your fights.

2) Resulting Web nerf that came with nano nerf, Also with this is the oversized afterburner means that you need about 6 nerfed webs to even hope to slow down these ships. Also solo with 60% webs means that close range ships will have a very hard time holding anything still long enough to hit them properly.

1) solo pvp isnt dead, there are still a lot of ppl flying around solo for whatever reasons, you just have to pin them down or isolate them from their blob

I don't actually disagree with you about the problems of scale /.../ When I played FPS games, I was all about developing good strategies to dominate maps. Sure, we had individual skill, but everyone in my old FPS clan knew their role on each map. That's what being part of a good fleet in Eve is like.

The problem is that there is nothing in Eve that you can destroy by surprise that constitutes an existential threat to a 0.0 alliance /.../ Hell, you can't even dent the production of one Tech moon without the full resources of a coalition. That's a problem, but hell if I know how to solve it.

The other problem is that nothing stops us from fighting in the same style. If CCP added objectives that small groups could accomplish, a good 0.0 alliance would still have more people who could be organized to accomplish those objectives more effectively. Let's say you got rid of POS timers - you'd just encourage global coalitions and even less political diversity. How would you propose to solve this?

After five years of Eve, I have multiple accounts that can fly any subcapital ship with near perfect skills (and two who can fly supercaps). I'm not saying this to brag - but to point out that even I, a lowly rice-patty peasant, have enough Eve skill and RL skill to be as good as the best players I ever saw in 2008. In any ship. How would you propose to solve this?

small gang PvP is not dead. It's just harder to find fights you can win. And that is a fine thing by me.

Ironically there is a guy with 33 solo kills this week in my alliance.

No alts, no boosters, just him and a Sabre and a gate.

Wildcat I think you should uninstall because I think you will set the world record in tears shed over a videogame if you make (yet another) terrible thread soaked with your tears.

Lets be honest. You are just buttmad you can't do what you could do in the past and you are COMPLETELY unable to adapt to the times ahead. There are still hilariously broken/overpowered strategies you could use to win fights (I'll help you out, it involves a T3 being in a system), but I don't think you are physically capable of imaging life without your +10km/s nano ships and your 200km falcon.

I await for your next tearful outbreak.

Stressed important stuff about elite pvp

I wonder if CCP is aware of the problem... Anyone has a source of a dev saying "yes, we know it's Blob Online on are working on it" or "working as intended"?

Maybe, inferno being related to war... and with dust coming...

As for the poster above me, using alts is not going solo. It doesn't matter if the same human mind is controlling two characters, since one human brain is more than sufficient to adequately control two pilots in this virtual world the benefit is massive.

They are not doing full damage. Scorch does notably less damage than faction MF. They also are giving up damage mods for range mods, and using low-tracking pulse lasers. In fact, the tracking is especially notable because these same ships will NOT be doing full damage by close range unless the target stands still.



Well, I like empire building in my RTS games. I don't like it in an MMO. Who the hell wants to feel like just another number or cog in the corporate machine, in a game?

It baffles me how people find it fun at all to be part of large corporation.



Do you include scout alts in that equation? Because I'd like to know where this groundswell of "it ain't solo if you're scouted" came from. Near as I can figure it's popularity is a new thing.

I believe using two characters or more simultaneously is nothing short of outright cheating and the fact it's not only allowed but encouraged by CCP is beyond comprehension.

Wall of Truth

Fighting because fighting is fun is certainly something that exists in both, but it has become a hobby or a spectator sport rather than something that actually achieves something. Small pvp was always more about having fun than a grand plan, and thats fine. But if you want that kind of fighting you have to find other people who are of the same mind.

Basically, solo pvp is obsolete in terms of galactic politics

Some people don't want to be part of an empire. Some people prefer to wander alone or with a few small friends. It's a little narrow minded to suggest that the two styles of play cannot co-exist.

Find others interested in 1v1s and small gang fights and have gudfites. Stop whining about blobbing when you barge into sov space hunting for dumb ratters and your small gang gets blobbed.