Every time i sit my ass in a plex i have my mind set to 2 priorities .. 1 getting a fight and 2 if fights don't come atleast i do my faction good and make some money on the side , but every time i see people on short scan on the gate they are either in ships that could be a balanced fight but they end up leaving cause , and i quote ( not actually copy paste since i didint copy it at the time ) " i don't feel like puttin my ship at risk right now " so they leave ..... that or they bring 3-4 ships to challenge me which obviously 90% of the time i got no chance if they are able pilots and bring the right ships .

Now i can understand the concept of ganking a person , u do it i do it we all do it cause its eve .. but lets be honest .. who in his right mind will stay in that plex to get ganked by several ships , u must be dumwhited and not warp of to a safe .

So my question is , if people want a fight and not just simply humiliate ( or try ) they're opponent , then why not try to be a good target , one that will make your enemy think hmm yea that might work lets give it a shot !

No offence to the minmatars i'm sure my amarr colegues do the same but rly .. u guys either bring 20 vs 1 or u bring something that most definitly has the greatest advantage and the enemy has no chance ( like say u have your booster in the system , obv ) U guys are at t3/t4 u make alot of isk and u can't put a rifter/slasher or a thrasher on the line ?

One time i was in a cruiser and 3 dessies showed up at the gate .. naturaly i was polite and told em yes please come in .. they left cause well ... apparently a t1 cruiser was to much for 3 destroyers ....

Few minmatars really do give good fights and i apreciate em for that ... or maybe i'm just not lookin in the right place .


Tell me i'm wrong and call me a noob , thats just how i see it

The trick, at least IMHO, is to bring something to the fight that the enemy underestimates and won't run from. Is there an enemy Thrasher running a medium in your system? You can up ship and watch him run or call friends and the same. Or you can take him on in your Tristan knowing his DPS is crap after 6km and the AB, web, scram and 7.5k EHP will insure that your little Tristan survives long enough to get to 8km kite range. (Just barely with 6% structure left but a win is a win )

If you understand the mechanics well enough you can pull off some great wins.

...Edit > Theres yet another ''we have no good fights'' whiner above this post. This is a common theme amongst stoopid people and its absolutely inexcusable. It makes my stool itch.

This argument has been had before Cearain (i think with X-Gal). Personally i don't think you are aggressive enough, and/or have enough reships available. .

Two of the top 10 recent players on the BC Kill board are FW players so i just don't accept your argument. http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/ Look at players like Saly Va and (hate saying this) Voody Voodoo from your side and then tell me there isnt opportunity for pew .

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There is a plethora of pew out there if you know how to find it and vary your tactics accordingly. IMHO you could easily get double or triple that number of fights. Its not the opportunity that is missing its the methods you are applying.

People like Private Tr1cky and others complain about blob in the same sentence as complaining about having no opportunity to PvP. The wasted irony is that the Blob is a metric tonne of PVP thats actually coming looking for you! .

This is not ''leet PVPz'' only open to a select few special chosen pilots. This is no private club for Ice man and Goose. Its not even a private club for the likes of Hollywood and Wolfman. Any one can do this. There are resources out there, there are courses out there, there are videos and forum posts out there, there are fits. Short of some guy coming round to these people houses, logging in and actually clicking in space for them its all spelt out how to do.

Its accessible, its fricking awesome, and like all rewarding things > it just needs some forethought, some learning, some application and some practice.

Then TBH brosef, you are playing the wrong game. Should probably just move on to something with more structure and rules and less sandbox. You don't get it, Eve has been and always will be what you make of it. CCP isn't responsible for providing me with content...I am. They simply give me the tools to do so.

But you are incorrect, they do. I spend usually 10-15 hours a week playing and average 75-150 kills per week while maintaining that level of play. Are all these kills solo? No, but I would say at least 50% are really good fights, 25% are noobs who don't know me and should of run, and 25% are ganks. How many gudfites does that translate into per hour? I am not sure, but if I had to guess it would be somewhere around 4-6. Is that typical for everyone? No. Can anyone do it? Yes

Cearain > Of course it ebbs and flows at times, and im not saying that you should ALWAYS be getting 5 fights per 2 hours but your 'average' is low. Your right, i assume a lot about your play style but on teh same note perhaps you are doing something wrong as well.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=TeaEarlGray+HOT&page=1#kills

Text pew is over for the week - see you in space.

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How come when solo PvP comes up it's always under the guise of Factional Warfare in low-sec?

Somehow I still get 2-10 solo kills per week, solo must be dead. .

Some are ganks (noobs, way outclassed, farmers), some are gfs (way outclassed the other way, "fair" match up, boosted and it made no difference). I also lose a lot of ships v0v.

In other words, htfu.

Every now and then I try a few new things, but generally IMO eve needs a companion game like league of legends (LoL). Pretty much what I do is

1) Log into eve, roam for fights.
2) If 15-30 minutes go by and there's nothing to shoot, go play LoL
3) During the LoL game people will usually hop in and tell me when something is happenning, or I read intel channels/quickly undock between games and take a look around. If I find something interesting, or I just want a break from LoL, goto 1), else back to Lol!

Fw is incredibly dense for small gang fights vs anywhere else in eve, possibly save for rvb. .

This isn't a game where you can literally fight 24/7 ....

Once you have won at pvp and there's no-one around for a little while, you can farm ISK in eve. Or you can spin buttons if occupancy warfare is your primary goal (while making ISK!). Or, if you have enough ISK my solution is to go play another game until there's something else to shoot at.

Alternatively, if all you want out of eve is constant, neverending fights - there's a special system on the Test server with beacons where everyone warps and constantly fights with pretty much free ships. Don't know the system, and I've never done that, but people talk on the forums all the time. It's probably somewhere in the Test Server forum in a sticky the system that allows ffa pvp..

The main reason I'm still in eve are the killmails - generally pvp is fun and available in a lot of games, but what makes eve different for me is that it's very enjoyable to look back at every kill and loss and see the history, see every single module and item on the ship, see the points accrued where you took on the odds, see how your enemy flies theirs ships and come up with counters/just take their ideas and adapt.

You do know the guy triple to quad boxes in pvp at once right?
So when you add up Cynthia Nezmor, Alexandra Sarn and Angelina Solette you might get an idea of a fraction of the kills he gets cuz we all know those are just the alts anyone knows about after flying for a few days around Aset......

The guy uses Two DDs and a cruiser at once to fight gangs of ships and holds an 80% efficiency..... I hope to one day be that good