You are bad at hunting for solo pilots and reading the situation for traps, then.

Take some friends with you next time.

Go play WoW instead if you think having your shipfit and your skillpoints should translate to any sort of PvP success.

as noone said it just yet..
ur stuff...
can I hazz it?!?

...Its not that simple, You spend hours roaming.... then say **** it and engage a trap just out boredum

There are much cheaper ways to find solo PvP, even though they end about the same way. That said, they end about the same way; which is both for and against your argument.

Of all the frickin things to fly, why did you choose a Tier 3 Battleship for Solo PvP? They're basically big, slow buffer tanks with limited DPS. Either they are long range with no tracking, or they're short range with no Optimal. If they're short range, you can't get close enough to DPS, and if they're long, you can't hit a Cruiser.

Also, they don't really have any bonuses worth noting for the trouble of training them or paying for them.

Tier 3 BS = POS Bashing tool for bored pilots, or Fleet Long Bombardment with a high buffer, or Fleet short Brawler with moderate DPS on Battleships provided it has the means to get in range with a warp in point or plenty of distractions.

Not much else they are good for aside from sniping which isn't to common these days, and only helpful in a small gang when nobody expects it.

Other reasons not to fly Tier 3 BS:

No Capacitor
Poor Align time
No effective Active Tank
Not enough Buffer fitting for their size
No passive Tank
Low DPS for their quantity of guns
Tier 3 Battle Cruisers
There's more...


My experience anyway. Putting 2 Billion ISK in fittings on it doesn't make it better, it just makes it look bad next to other ships that put 2 Billion in fittings on.

No, it doesn't prove anything besides that you are a frustrated attention ***** who rage quits because EVE is ~hard~

Looks like even that is too hard for you.

Sorry, better luck in some other game!

I think the point here is that Eve Online is an MMO. Not saying that Solo play doesn't have some purpose in the game, but in as a whole I don't see what CCP could or should do to cater to people who play an Online game by design from the ground up to be a team oriented game. I mean we have corporations, alliances, fleet mechanics.... each ship has a specific purpose designed to be part of a whole... how many hints do you need before you understand that Solo anything is always going to be a second class citizen in this game.

Its a team game... find a team.

So you intentionally fly out to lose shitfits, and claim that it somehow proves that solo PvP is dead?

I understand you OP.

I have been around since 2006 and the game has changed many times over the years.

My advice (without resorting to meme) would be to move with the times.

I havent logged in for anything except skill changes for about 6 weeks BUT for when i do get the Eve urge I have cunningly joined RvB. This at least gives me my own blob and a group of players looking to just have good fights.

Also if you are going to quit just quit. No one responding here is ever going to offer any sympathy which simply turns your situation into a self-fulfilling one. When CCP do the end of year accounts they will notice player count rises and falls and take the appropraite action.

solo pvp may come round again and if it ever does ill be there doing it

I've seen a person singlehandedly take out a 6 man gatecamp with a cruiser. I have no idea what OP is talking about lol..

What do you think about this?

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&view=kills&plt_id=83996&m=8&y=2012

Check out his vids, jampyzero on YouTube. Also Eve is Easy, cool stuff all and lots of tips for soloing.

Why bother soloing when you can blob things, get the kills and never lose ships, ISK.

Your mentality that you have 90m SP and a bling fit and should therefore be able to "solo" multiple spaceships illustrates your lack of understanding of game mechanics.

Battles in Eve are won or lost in the fitting window, and the fitting window should be used only after intel on the enemy has been attained.

2 properly fitted 20MSP pilots/ships should be able to **** any 90MSP subcap if they know what hes flying.

I'm not going to say good riddance tho, nor will I ask for your stuff.

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No wonder you're quitting with that loltastic 4:1 K:D ratio on BC.
Have fun in your future pay2win games.

Go make your own vids ya jerk! and leave my old crap alone! <3

There are a lot of games out there that sell a fantasy. They provide an experience that is beatable, where results can be achieved by anybody who really tries. They sell the fantasy that you are really good at this and you could save the world/universe.

EVE Online takes that fantasy and beats you half to death with it, then it tells you to HTFU and get over yourself.

It's a multiplayer game where you are facing other people who are trying to beat you just as much as you are trying to beat them. Those other players will use what advantages they can get. You have 90m skillpoints, they have active friends who work together.

If you want EVE to change to suit your playstyle and cater to your fantasy of being awesome, then GTFO and don't ruin a damn good game.

You do realise that since "back in the day" EVE has grown significantly in player numbers right? There are three times as many active subscribers now as there were in 2006.

There are more people playing now, and people have been playing longer and worked out what works and what doesn't. Hypothetically the actual game (the rules, the multimedia, the server code etc) could have stayed exactly the same and would be entirely different based on those two factors alone. I can say that because EVE Online is player driven, and it is the players who create the interesting content. At least CCP seem to recognise this.

Complaining about EVE Online becoming a "numbers game" is like complaining that it is growing and reaching a larger audience.

I know exactly how you feel OP. Me and my friend do exclusively solo PvP (rarely duo), usually we go on our solo roams without getting a kill. People can say it is player skill and anything along those lines, but honestly it isn't. I understand it does take some skill to solo PvP effectively but getting killed by a much larger group, or one with a Falcon is inevitable and no amount of skill will prevent it from happening.

For now, I continue to roam as I do have fun, but It does get frustrating at times when I go a week without seeing a good fight (regardless if I win or lose).

And for the ones scolding the OP for roaming in a BS, try reading better in the future. He clearly said he was roaming in expensive BS's only to dump his isk.

Good luck with your future endeavors, good to see other real solo PvP'ers exist.

Then he shouldn't complain about getting blueballed.