Try leaving the Kamela area when you're solo. I rarely hang around there after I switched from minmatar to Amarr, because it's so blobby.

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

There's still decent 1v1 to be had. Just be prepared to deal with a lot of being outnumbered, boosting nonsense, and scouts tackling for a gang. Remember a) many eve pvpers are cowards, b) many eve pvpers are bad (especially at solo), and c) many eve pvpers aren't very good at evaluating matchups. Combine a) and c) and a lot of people will run away from what could've been a good fight. There's also the fact that once someone has got numbers, they don't tend to hold back on using them. Even if the scout could've soloed a target with ease, they'll still bring everyone in to ***** on the killmail.

Good CaptainTr1cky;

I have to agree, I run from most fights too. Someone in a Daredevil in a Novice plex should expect my Merlin to run--I don't know why they bother. Then there are the OGB hookbill guys who move so fast it is obvious. If you really want solo fights in FW you should wander around alone in a t1 ship and try not to make the boosts too obvious.

Then again I cheat some too--I know what ships I can jam pretty easily (executioner, condor, rifter etc)--and so I wont run right away, since I can jam and dash later.

Having said that, I don't think I have killed anybody in a month--but I have had alot of fights.

your humble servent
SeaSaw

Also, if you're serious about 1v1s you will definitely need a falcon alt, a booster alt and a guardian alt. This wisdom I have learned in my wanderings :)

Nonsense. At least on frigate level.

CCP should start doing an entrance exam before you are allowed to subscribe where anyone incapable of spelling their own name and wiping their own butt cant play. I

Don't do that! We would lose all Minmatar militia this way!

There is no "fair" fight in EVE

The problem with find 1 vs. 1 is that you never know if the one who is sitting in the plex is really just one alone.
In many cases the 1 in the plex is either in an ++ber-pimped ship like Faction-Web Daredevil. In other cases the 1 in the plex is boosted to hell in addition to his crazy implants. Or all three together. For this reason engaging one target sitting in a plex is just suicidal behaviour if you do it really solo. Therefore the usual way is to at least call one or two friends just to be one the "safe" side. Since everyone wants to win at the end this behaviour is normal. There is no "fair" fight in EVE so people are adaptiing to this fact.

Good CaptainTr1cky;

I have to agree, I run from most fights too. Someone in a Daredevil in a Novice plex should expect my Merlin to run--I don't know why they bother. Then there are the OGB hookbill guys who move so fast it is obvious. If you really want solo fights in FW you should wander around alone in a t1 ship and try not to make the boosts too obvious.

Then again I cheat some too--I know what ships I can jam pretty easily (executioner, condor, rifter etc)--and so I wont run right away, since I can jam and dash later.

Having said that, I don't think I have killed anybody in a month--but I have had alot of fights.

your humble servent
SeaSaw

'Someone in a Daredevil in a Novice plex should expect my Merlin to run--I don't know why they bother.'

Couldn't agree more with you Christine/Zarnak - but you guys might as well be playing a completely different game to the OP and Dan and a large chunk of (non-noob) players who are too lazy/stoopid to put some time and effort into learning or trying.



WAAAH I SIT IN MY PLEX AND NO GET MY FIGHT EXACTLY HOW I WANT WAAAH THIS GAME IS BAD WAAH PERSON X IS DOING THIS TO ME WAAAH IM GONNA GO BACK TO PLEX AND REPEAT EXACT SAME THING.

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WE CHOSE GOLD FLEET BRUVA COS 5 OF US COULDNT CONISTIANTLY SPELL ''GREEN''.

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

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.

OH HAI Seasaw!

To answer your question


That would be because in the areas I see you, you choose to plex systems were its plainly obvious we are boosted so we can aggressively defend those systems. If you found me out of my home systems I am never boosted, nor are my friends 95% of the time.

So we bother because you are attacking our systems by plexing them. Simple. If I could get an arty cyn into a novice to shoot your WCS merlin in those systems I would, but I can't.

You may also find that if you fit a PVP fit with a warp disrupter to your merlin you may actually get some fights. Instead, you fit to farm and only farm, hoping we do not harass you because we get bored. Well, I don't get bored chasing farmers. Ever. It's one of my fave passtimes while not busy and I'll happily chase someone system after system just to shut them down while I'm station trading on my alt.

See you soon seasaw :D

Regarding the OP.

There are 1v1's all over the place in faction warfare but as people have said. Try not to fight in the key systems. All militias blob and in key systems you will be blobbed or attacked by ships boosted up the wazzoo or both. After a while you'll soon get to the stage you get confident fighting more than one person.

you are a joke , sadly , and while i do apreciate you share your thoughts in this thread i highly doubt i'l ever follow some that are coming from a player who's 24/7 boosted by 2-3 alts thats going 8k m/s in a wolf sniping from 50 km and scraming from 40 .. please ... if that is your ideea if having a 1v1 then u really are ( what u personaly said towards us ) not using more then 0.2% of your brain .

You very well may be a good player and a good pvp'er , i don't doubt that , but u cannot expect us to come out and play with you when you are so pumped up to that level not to mention expecting 10+ more like u to pop in our fight .. so no thanks .

I'm not lazy , i'm not dumb , those links u posted are not new to me , i don't sit in a plex w8ing for x fight as my only tactic .. and i sure as hell won't start a 1v1 in kourmonen where all " elite pvpers " are boosted by 5 loki's ... so say what u want , your arguments are useless till u come and fight us like we try to fight you or your faction members .


But hey , thanks again for posting your rage to my " whining " thread

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Lol, thats a gatecamp whoring slasher, if it has td's it could be a threat to single wolf.

Thing number 1. 2. and 3. in the art of getting a fight is making your potential target think they can take you on.


Be that with trickery like pretending to run away or simply using underrated ships. (I don't think many expect a armor slasher to **** a taranis for example)


Its all about finding situations where they think they have the upper hand, and proving them wrong.

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.

But Eve still sucks for frequent quality pvp as a whole and FW is not good enough. Again if you think getting one or 2 good fights in 2 hours is great then maybe its for you. But thats not cutting it for me. It wastes too much of my time with boring roaming and "hunting".

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.

The problem I have with the game is not that it is a sandbox. Its not that it is complex (its really not that complex) or anything like that.

Its that the mechanics do not promote frequent quality pvp.

These are different issues.

But you are right people like myself and the op will move on to other games. What will be left are people who don't mind that you can pretty much only get one or 2 good fights in 2 hours. Its a shame ccp can't do something for people who do not have so much time to waste. But it is in fact clear that the only players they want, are those with tons of time to waste.

Its that the mechanics do not promote frequent quality pvp.

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.

o/

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

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.

Boosted daredevil meets boosted blob <3

http://minmatar.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15851639

Please discount my breacher that went welp.

:3

nobody ever said that minmatar enjoyed pvp. the vast majority of them don't.

you're probably running into U'K/D'K/IO/LNA/EM. 99% of the people in their alliances don't like pvp at all or it scares them.

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

come closest to what I am talking about but your killboard does not substantiate 4-7 decent fights per 2 hours.

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!

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!

There are so many options to evade pressing that nasty undock button, who wants to do it, its so dangerous.

I'm not familiar with LoL.

If they just gave us a notification system where we could see where plexes are being captured we would easilly get 4-7 decent fights in 2 hours. They decided to keep the hide and seek pve plexing mechanic, were you just wander around hoping to run into someone to fight.

Lolwut? Looking at your killboard, I have far more kill activity than you, far more solo kills than you, and I'm even being generous and leaving your daredevil fits out of this conversation. And you're accusing me of being afraid to undock when I go play LoL when there's nothing to shoot at?

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.

i didnt wanna point out the obvious haha

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

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

You do know the guy triple to quad boxes in pvp at once right?

OMFG that's so pro.

Newsflash mate, if you need to dual box to win at pvp you're ******* terrible