Most impressive pvp results are either due to planning or to the enemy derping in some extremely stupid fashion.

I used to think low of my pvp abilities because I felt that most of my kills were due to the enemies being ****-fit or making obvious mistakes. How can you be proud after winning that sort of fight?

Then I started watching solo pvp videos from people who know what they are doing - and realized that the only reason they can get away with seemingly impossible stunts is not because of their own god-like skills but because their enemies derp all the time.

What is "seemingly impossible" is usually impossible if your enemy doesn't make mistakes - whether your name is John Doe or Garmon.

The "trick" to solo pvp is to gamble on your enemies derping frequently while trying to make few mistakes of your own.

When people say they want to solo pve, everyone points out this is a MMO.

Dear god. Not this thread again...

Solo PVP is not dead. You just need to know how to do it.

You can't expect to log in, undock, and find an afk Navy Issue in the top belt. You must actually put in some leg work. Rather than sitting on gates in massive blobs you must find the target best suited for your current fit. Or just shoot at everything like I do.



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Not even going to read a stupid article about something EVE was never intended for.

As for the OP. Solo doesn't involve links and remote reps which this pilot uses. What was the point of this thread?

Remote reps would explain his extraordinary luck. Did Jester misreport this fight?

Jester even says so himself.

Nice write-up.

Also, quite funny how the vast majority of repliers completely misses the point.

Picking your targets is the most important thing. Anyone saying solo PVP is dead should probably watch a Kovorix video or something. I had the pleasure of getting my ass kicked by him once (Right when ASB's were introduced) and I ended up dropping a hotdrop gang on him to find his fit (I'm bad at reading patch notes).

pvp in eve

watch ms paint lasers

ship explodes

you pressed 1 button


pretty sweet

Definition of solo PvP?

A player who wants gentlemanly agreed upon one-on-one?

Or is it a player who wants to be able to sneak upon unsuspecting victims, hit them quickly then run off before his buddies show up?

The former is a matter of trust (heard something about a new feature which would allow for one on one fights, dunno what happened to it though)

The latter? Yeah, it is definitely very EVE-like...in theory. Too bad reality is something entirely different. You know, instant information being the same old issue and all.

Flying alone and taking fight as they come. Trying to outwit, out manoeuvre and outrun groups till one of them makes a mistake and then strike, repeat if possible.

Flying alone and taking fight as they come. Trying to outwit, out manoeuvre and outrun groups till one of them makes a mistake and then strike, repeat if possible.

Ah yes, that is always possible but I do also believe that there are very few of the solo PvP players who do this, no? This does require rather extensive experience after all and precise knowledge of many factors.

And then there is still the question of whether these players would want EVE to increase their odds somewhat by offering them the chance of surprise attacking enemies, even if outnumbered.

Solo, it's deader than dead

The shock, it's all in your head

Not even going to read a stupid article about something EVE was never intended for.

Solo PvP has ALWAYS been dead. This is a massive multiplayer game, always has been. Not 1v1 deathmatch, never will be.

For those of you who don't get it. MMO stands for Massive Multiplayer Online. Massive does not mean 2.

if solo pvp were dead i wouldn't play this awful game

Two people didn't read the linked article before posting.