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This. Exactly. I get sick and tired of idiots coming on the forums and complaining about getting blobbed. Do you really think that anyone is going to choose to fight at a disadvantage if they do not have to do so?

The way PVP happens in EVE Online is not really that different than how militaries all over the world choose to engage enemies in real life....

I have a confession to make:

My blog (see my signature), which provides details of dozens of solo and small gang fights backed up by API verified killmails is a hoax. Regardless of what you might think, it's all fake.

It must be, after all, because as the OP has correctly pointed out, this kind of pvp does not exist in Eve. It's imaginary, just like elves, and faries, and Eskimos.

Yeah. And make it so I can kill 4-5 MR's an hour too. CCP you need to make it so all I have to do is log in and then spam my skills button over and over to get leet kills and pvps. Maybe hire people to log in when I do and float around in ships so I can target lock POW them, it would be even better if I didn't have to leave a station. Please thanks.

By "fights," he must have meant catching a noob ratter at a belt, as opposed to getting ganked at a gate.

There is plenty small gang PvP going on all the time.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=Agony+Unleashed

That's the battlclinic info on one group. Take a good look at it.

Go back a few PAGES of kills. You'll find like 3 entries with 11-14 on page 2 and going back to around page 7, you'll find that they jumped into fights with larger groups and what not.

That group specializes in small gang PvP but the cool part - they'll TEACH you how to do it successfully. They run classes on the topic.

So if you're finding it difficult - check out Agony's class schedule and learn how to find such small-gang fights.

IMO that'd beat the hell out of being ticked off that you can't find it successfully. Take a class and learn how from folks that I do see as experts on the topic as well as training how its done.

Not to be overly rude about this but...
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If you actually are an ADD "gotta be in a fight every 5 minutes!" type - go find a lobby/arena style game and play that. This game is different and no I really don't see a reason to cater to the "20 min online, where's my PvP!" mindset.

I base out or Aurohunen (because it's near jita so my hauler doesn't have to go far for replacement ships).

Aurohunen, Mara, Rakapas, Oldman star, Tama and it's adjacent systems - I normally fly up that route. I usually find a pew between 1-4 jumps from my starting system. It's very busy stretch so you see haulers coming and going all times of day (if you want to randsom the buggers for isk), auro normally has some clueless people wandering into it from high sec to mine/rat/explore, mara/oldman/tama normally have tons of pirates and the occasional anti pirate there if you are looking for more "even" fights.

It really depends on your area. Also there's a bunch of people who mission here - so scanning them down provides some lulz too.

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Win or lose we have a fun time flying together and chatting it up on TS when not in combat. That's the whole point of the game. EVE wasn't designed to be played alone. Get a group of friends or join a corp that seems like a good fit and make some friends and go out and have fun together.

It is a sandbox but it's also an MMORPG which is, by definition, a game that's meant to be played with other people. Whether you want to make friends in the game or not is up to you and it's entirely ok if you just want to go out and do stuff on your own. The bottom line is that it's STILL a game. And, yes, it's a sandbox in which you can do whatever you like. But at the end of the day it's a game that's designed, from the ground up, to be a team oriented experience. .

If you choose not to play it that way that's cool but you shouldn't expect to get quite the same experience as those who are playing it in the way it was actually designed to be played. .

I'm not saying you should consider it a social medium or that it's even required to have fun. But if you just want to solo and such you shouldn't be surprised when things get boring from time to time in a game that's entirely designed and built around the idea of player interactions. .

Honestly it sounds like you want arena-style combat and EVE just isn't a place where you're going to get that outside of planned tourney type events or pre arranged fights with another player or group of players. As for PVE? I don't see how you can say incursions don't reward you for doing the same work with fewer people. The fewer folks in the group the more isk you get since the payout is static and the payout is split equally amongst the pilots present. They do limit max payment for player, however, but that is basically to prevent people from being able to farm far too much isk from them. Frankly incursions already pay more than they should.

I don't understand why this topic even exists.

When I was playing regularly I would log on, fly around by myself or one or two other corpies, and generally find 4-5 fights in a two-three hour play session. I probably could have averaged more but it takes a bit to reship after dying....

It was about a month ago, I think. I'd recommend getting the hell out of FW, to be honest. FW attracts the wrong kind of people for gudfites, in general, unless you're taking advantage of plex mechanics. Try Minmatar/Amarr lowsec near hubs, that's where I've had the most success.

Fit to be able to fight outnumbered or disengage, so kiting/boosted tanking ships. Yes, there will be some slow nights, and some where you seem to have a fight every system you jump into, but on average I consistently got much more than one fight every ninety minutes.

It also helps to get a local network of people in an informal intel channel. Saved me a lot of time roaming around myself when someone would report 'flashy hurricane chasing me in the belts of x system' - you hop on over and get a goodfight right there. These informal networks are generally best made via shooting people, so you'll have to chill in one area for a bit to get them set up.

Again, not saying you're doing it wrong, just letting you know it's definitely possible.

Only if you're dumb.

Good day, Cearain:

"I do faction war because it gives me more targets that I can engage on gates and at stations. Actually I don't see how leaving faction war can do anything except decrease the amount of pvp."

I left Minmatar Faction Warfare after a year because of the types of PVP -- station games, mainly fighting on gates, inconsistent small gang activity, etc.

When there were large fights, it reminded me of watching or reading about Civil war fights were each side stood near the other side, and just lobbed away until one side remained; then stating GF in local.

While there was solo activity in FW, over the eleven months in FW, the number of solo pilots on each side dwindled; and when opportunities came up, often times a fleet would be present to interrupt the event.

Since I've left faction warfare for piracy, I've seen an huge increase in PVP -- consistent small gangs that rarely run away from larger gangs (yesterday was 3 v 6 (no losses), 8 v 17 (2 losses), and 13 v ___ (counter lost count) (no losses).

Add solo where most of the time, the solo is not interrupted; and, at least speaking for myself, I've more fun than in FW.

We do fight on gates (with and without gate guns depending on the situation), in dead space, in plexes, at belts, and sometimes (more rare than not) at stations.

Thank you.

Then Perhaps you Should join RvB? Just a thought.