Vicky Somers
Caldari
Rusty Anchor
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Posted - 2011.02.06 08:44:00 -
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Solo play is fine. Eve is not a fair universe nor should it be. The fact that it is not fair is what makes it stand out from all the other games. You seem to have confused solo play with playing a single player game. Eve is a multiplayer game. Even if you play solo, like many people do, you still have to take into consideration that you will end up bumping into other people. They're there and they will notice your action. And every action has a reaction.
I try to do as many things in Eve as I can. As a solo player I have many alts spread over different accounts. Playing solo can be both challenging and rewarding. If I draw negative attention from a large group of people with too many alts, I am pretty much screwed. That's why I have to be careful about everything that I do. Every contract I make, every system I go to, every person I target, every line I say in local, etc. If I'm at a belt in a Hulk with my miner alt and some bozo warps to that same belt and starts drilling the same rock I am drilling, it bugs me. I can do two things. I can either ignore said bozo or I can war dec his corp with an alt. Which I will do and which usually has both fun and rewarding results.
The real beauty about Eve and playing it solo is that even though it is a huge universe, you can still have a big impact as a lone wolf. You have so many options if you get war decced by a large group of people. You should always research your stuff. Find out who their enemies are. Do they have lots of reds? Do they operate in lowsec or nulsec as well? If you can lure them into lowsec where an alliance operates that is red to them you can end up sparking a really big fight over nothing. Find out who their members are. Follow them with alts. See what they do outside of keeping you wardecced. Very few corps are 100% pvp. They might have miners, indies, haulers, etc. Get in a cloaky ship and camp them out. Wait for easy kills and go for them. Outsmart them at their game.
That's pretty much Eve. You have to outsmart people. If you can't, you're pretty much screwed at anything you do. Especially as a solo player. You should definitely know this as an indy character because if you can't outsmart all the other industrialists and traders, you won't make any good profits. There is no such thing as an easy win in Eve. You have to work for it.
If you think you can just set up a POS in high sec as a solo player and do research on BPOs in easy mode then people will wardec you for exactly that. If you want to do it risk free, pick an installation at a station and wait 20 days or so. No one will bug you then. Basically in Eve there is a universal balance that dictates the ratio between risk and reward. The bigger your reward is, the higher the risk should be. If anyone could just print out isk in loads, there would be no point to playing this game.
Fun for hire! |