Is true solo PvP dead I've been attempting it lately had some success but if it was all i did i would run out of isk fast. I really like solo PvP and just can't seem to find my groove in it. It seems like every time i get blobbed or no one will engaged in low and kills my sec status for no reason. If someone has had success i would like to talk maybe get some pointers or anything or just talk. Ive been using Battlecruiser but there expensive to lose a lot. I don't use scouts or boosters either mabye that's what I need i don't know.

Soloing regularly in a BC without scouts/links is totally not viable unless you are jew-rich. Even the really good players that do this hardly manage to break a 50% isk efficiency doing it.. Even a cruiser is difficult. I would just go all the way down to frigs and dessies for 90% of the solo and bringing out bigger stuff for an occasional change of pace.

Less frustration, less isk cost (LESS DREADED PVE)

Its fun.

Something to understand is that for all the great videos players put out. they may contain maybe 5 or 6 fights which are watchable, but are a results of probably hundreds of fights mostly getting ganked, unless it is done with scouting / boosting.

As far as sec goes, your gonna screw yourself pretty hard if you only want to fight in low sec, because if you engage, people will run. if they engage they pretty much know they will win, usually with help just around the corner.
i'd suggest you'd probably have more luck trying to use something smaller and going out into 0.0 and trying to pick off randoms.

personally when i have done this i go in a blarpy, but it's been a while since i felt the need.

I'd recommend checking out FW space , preferrably in a frigate sized ship , plenty of opportunity for fights.
Also , use the map setting that allows you to see average number of pilot in last 30 minutes , makes it a lot easier to get fights.

Is true solo PvP dead I've been attempting it lately had some success but if it was all i did i would run out of isk fast. I really like solo PvP and just can't seem to find my groove in it. It seems like every time i get blobbed or no one will engaged in low and kills my sec status for no reason. If someone has had success i would like to talk maybe get some pointers or anything or just talk. Ive been using Battlecruiser but there expensive to lose a lot. I don't use scouts or boosters either mabye that's what I need i don't know.

Is true solo PvP dead I've been attempting it lately had some success but if it was all i did i would run out of isk fast. I really like solo PvP and just can't seem to find my groove in it. It seems like every time i get blobbed or no one will engaged in low and kills my sec status for no reason. If someone has had success i would like to talk maybe get some pointers or anything or just talk. Ive been using Battlecruiser but there expensive to lose a lot. I don't use scouts or boosters either mabye that's what I need i don't know.

The main thing ruining solo-pvp in this game isn't blobbing it's ECM. I honestly have no idea what CCP was thinking when they developed ECM. It makes you unable to fight back. A mechanic that's preventing fights is a broken mechanic in my opinion. Solo-PvP was the only thing still giving me satisfaction in this game. It was the only thing giving me intense fights and I still get that occasionally, but most of the time I end up being permajammed and dying with only a few seconds of me fighting back. I've died countless times with my main being permajammed while me frantically trying to lock something before dying, unsuccessfully. Even just a frig can take out pretty much anything when he's got a friendly falcon 70km away. You won't have time to kill anything if he miss an ECM-cycle until you get jammed again the next cycle.

Sure I can stop whining and fit a couple of ECCM-mods (because only 1 doesn't do it, believe me I've tried). This will totatlly nerf whatever ship I intend to fly. Or I could just stop paying the subs I've been paying since 2006. I recently had a 3 month break from the game and just came back. Blob-warfare isn't fun to me. I only get satisfaction from skirmish and solo-roaming. If I go on another hiatus from EVE I fear I won't find the motivation to return. Small scale and solo-pvp has been neglected for too long. Like I said in the opening ECM is the number one reason preventing good fights when solo.

CCP should remove ECM from the game entirely. It's a broken mechanic which is preventing fights.

Singularity gives me my pvp fix because as has been stated above engagements are just too random for me.

The main thing ruining solo-pvp in this game isn't blobbing it's ECM. I honestly have no idea what CCP was thinking when they developed ECM. It makes you unable to fight back. A mechanic that's preventing fights is a broken mechanic in my opinion. Solo-PvP was the only thing still giving me satisfaction in this game. It was the only thing giving me intense fights and I still get that occasionally, but most of the time I end up being permajammed and dying with only a few seconds of me fighting back. I've died countless times with my main being permajammed while me frantically trying to lock something before dying, unsuccessfully. Even just a frig can take out pretty much anything when he's got a friendly falcon 70km away. You won't have time to kill anything if he miss an ECM-cycle until you get jammed again the next cycle.

Sure I can stop whining and fit a couple of ECCM-mods (because only 1 doesn't do it, believe me I've tried). This will totatlly nerf whatever ship I intend to fly. Or I could just stop paying the subs I've been paying since 2006. I recently had a 3 month break from the game and just came back. Blob-warfare isn't fun to me. I only get satisfaction from skirmish and solo-roaming. If I go on another hiatus from EVE I fear I won't find the motivation to return. Small scale and solo-pvp has been neglected for too long. Like I said in the opening ECM is the number one reason preventing good fights when solo.

CCP should remove ECM from the game entirely. It's a broken mechanic which is preventing fights.

I cant kill someone with a falcon alt/friend by myself

1st - Get out of the BC's...unless you still need to learn that there are people in frigs and dessies that are going to lock you down and wreck your day.


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Problem is never mechanics, it's people. Your "solo" pvper only wants to "solo" with his OGB alt. Your "true solo elite warlord" pvper only wants to solo against newbies.

You might be looking for fight. Most people log in to farm.

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The main thing ruining solo-pvp in this game isn't blobbing it's ECM. I honestly have no idea what CCP was thinking when they developed ECM. It makes you unable to fight back. A mechanic that's preventing fights is a broken mechanic in my opinion. Solo-PvP was the only thing still giving me satisfaction in this game. It was the only thing giving me intense fights and I still get that occasionally, but most of the time I end up being permajammed and dying with only a few seconds of me fighting back. I've died countless times with my main being permajammed while me frantically trying to lock something before dying, unsuccessfully. Even just a frig can take out pretty much anything when he's got a friendly falcon 70km away. You won't have time to kill anything if he miss an ECM-cycle until you get jammed again the next cycle.

Sure I can stop whining and fit a couple of ECCM-mods (because only 1 doesn't do it, believe me I've tried). This will totatlly nerf whatever ship I intend to fly. Or I could just stop paying the subs I've been paying since 2006. I recently had a 3 month break from the game and just came back. Blob-warfare isn't fun to me. I only get satisfaction from skirmish and solo-roaming. If I go on another hiatus from EVE I fear I won't find the motivation to return. Small scale and solo-pvp has been neglected for too long. Like I said in the opening ECM is the number one reason preventing good fights when solo.

CCP should remove ECM from the game entirely. It's a broken mechanic which is preventing fights.

I agree ECM is over powering but i don't think it should be removed from the game i believe the biggest flaw in ECM is range the fact that you can be jammed over 100km away with a good falcon pilot is bullshit the fact that he doesn't have to be in the fight but yet can have such a large influence on it is just rediculous

The main thing ruining solo-pvp in this game isn't blobbing it's ECM. I honestly have no idea what CCP was thinking when they developed ECM. It makes you unable to fight back.

True solo is an art form that is dieing in Eve.

I don't think it will ever go away but the ability to fight without boosts and scouts is not a mindset that the majority of eve players have.

I personally am too lazy to train up multiple toons on different accounts just so I can gank the average low experienced pvp'er.

If you are going against a solo player and you are using boosts and scouts etc then really you are just as risk averse as the high sec wardec griefers preying on noob indy corps.

If you are using them to fight bigger tougher gangs then there is some argument for it but all you are then doing is fueling the boost/blob culture.

The sign that boosters are mainstream now is that they are no longer boosting "solo" pirate faction BS/Cruisers or T3's, but now boosting "solo" punishers and merlins.

Ecm, offgrid boosters, Alts, ASBs are part of the game's fuctionality. They are a part of the game and here to stay, so man up, and think of a way to counter them, or simply use them yourself. Its like hearing those soccer fans whine for hours over how the referee whistled against their team and got them to loose the match.
its in the game, so live with it. I personally dont use any of those simply because I havent a trained alt, but the thought occurs once in a while. No one stops you from training a scout or Ogb.

T.

Ecm, offgrid boosters, Alts, ASBs are part of the game's fuctionality. They are a part of the game and here to stay, so man up, and think of a way to counter them, or simply use them yourself. Its like hearing those soccer fans whine for hours over how the referee whistled against their team and got them to loose the match.
its in the game, so live with it. I personally dont use any of those simply because I havent a trained alt, but the thought occurs once in a while. No one stops you from training a scout or Ogb.
T.

Solo is dead. Completely.
But if you want to try it then better the cal/gal fw warzone. In min/amarr solo is completely dead. I mean really really dead.
The only guys "solo" there are booster punks :(

If a booster punk, fights another booster punk "alone" is it re-considered a solo fight? since they have equal advantages.

Colt Blackhawk wrote:
Solo is dead. Completely.
But if you want to try it then better the cal/gal fw warzone. In min/amarr solo is completely dead. I mean really really dead.
The only guys "solo" there are booster punks :(


If a booster punk, fights another booster punk "alone" is it re-considered a solo fight? since they have equal advantages.

Solo is dead. Completely.
But if you want to try it then better the cal/gal fw warzone. In min/amarr solo is completely dead. I mean really really dead.
The only guys "solo" there are booster punks :(

Offgrid Boosters would not be such an issue if they would not boost ship speed. Having Hookbills going over 7000m/s not overheated nad 9000m/s with heat is completely nonesense. No missile or drone can catch them. This is ridiculous. Except for the speed boost every other aspect of offgrid boosting is fine with me.

Drone wont catch a properly fit Kite Hookbill even if he has no boosts.

Hookbill is easy to counter but drones are not the way to do it.

People just pay too much attention to the DPS figure in their fitting windows so they don't come up with the correct fits to kill kite hookbills.

stuff

Honestly, it isn't rocket science.

1. Get in your favourite T1 frigate.
2. Warp to a safe in a FW region system.
3. Scan system and plexes with d-scan.
4. If there are suitable targets on scan, warp in and, um, fight.
5. If not, your choice whether to wait or move to another system.

I usually adjust d-scan to 1 AU 360 degrees when a fight is likely. Keep an eye on scan and if a blob is incoming you can try to disengage.

In amarr Minnie fw I've literally spent almost 6 hours roaming and gotten no fights before, doing just that. Solo is alive but its damn boring trying to find it a lot of the time.

I do what Zappity does. Except I dont have any safe spots. I just scan the system when in the gate cloak. If the system is populated I will go in an empty plex and wait or open one myself.


I get allot of fights in lamma kourm huola and kamela. (3-4 fights per 2 hours) I used to get allot of fights up in metro as well but that seems to have dried up a bit.

For solo is the much quicker way to get fights. No waiting on others. Sure you will get more ganks in a gang after its going, But its rare that you will get as many good fights as you can when solo.

The other thing is you will obviously get more fights in fw plexes if you are not blue to a large number of pilots going in these plexes. So i highly recomend dropping militia. After I dropped militia I got a large increase in the number of fights.

What are you flying? Which systems? I usually inhabit the Kamela region and rarely go ten minutes without finding a fight (literally). Are you in a faction or are you more 'liberal' in your attentions?

Check dotlan FW map for Amarr/Minmatar for the most active recent systems. Admittedly you can have the odd dull day. It has happened a few times for me so I log my market alts in and keep the iskies ticking over.

This is a fairly typical EVE day for me just to reply to the '1v1 is dead' thing.

I logged in twice today. First time I logged into a safe about 2200 EVE time in the middle of nowhere in Vard. Local count was low and I warped straight to a Novice plex with a lone Merlin on d-scan. Died in a fire 30 seconds later. Well done RudeX X, your DPS meant I didn't even got close to scram kiting your blasters:

My poor Incursus

And in the interests of full (even if very shameful) disclosure:

My pod

A panicked noob-click minimised my overview while I was trying to warp. But never mind, not too expensive so just inconvenient. I decided I needed a coffee (yeah, that was the reason I lost it) and logged out. Far too early in the morning for that sort of thing without coffee.

The second time was just a few minutes ago. It was eight minutes before I found a fight in Kamela. I tried to land on an Executioner and a Merlin on the way out but both warped away. Evidently just farming which is annoying to say the least. Then I found a Rifter:

VERY close fight (great fun): The Rifter

Not an unusual day by any stretch so no, I don't think 1v1 is dead.

What are you flying? Which systems? I usually inhabit the Kamela region and rarely go ten minutes without finding a fight (literally). Are you in a faction or are you more 'liberal' in your attentions?

Check dotlan FW map for Amarr/Minmatar for the most active recent systems. Admittedly you can have the odd dull day. It has happened a few times for me so I log my market alts in and keep the iskies ticking over.

Safespots are largely pointless when you're in a frig.

In my experience FW just runs away all the time....oh noes an outlaw RUN FOR THE HILLS!

FW plexes are a great pvp venue and have replaced the top belt. It seems to me, the number of actual fights I get with neutrals is climbing every month.

Obviously the fw players will be much more likely to run than neutrals in plexes. There is no reason for a neutral to be in a plex other than to pvp. Whereas the fw pilots are often there to carebear vp for thier miltiia.


Thats why I wonder what percent of kills in plexes are from faction war players as opposed to neutrals. FW plexes are a great pvp venue and have replaced the top belt. It seems to me, the number of actual fights I get with neutrals is climbing every month.

get a bubble
get a wolf
go to null
deploy the bubble between to active jump gates (perferably in bottleneck system)
make safe 200km above the bubble and wait for prey to be caught

or

set a route through null, and find your prey to fight

there is no shortage of solo pvp once you change your definition of the word to 1 vs local.
know your ship, know your enemy, work the grid.

I remember an era when men were godly men of god and fought other godly men of god in proper contests of skill and honour upon glorious fields of battle. I remember it so clearly it could have been yesterday.

Yet the amazing thing about this memory... is that it never happened.

- By extension of this, I look at my lifetime kills and think about all of the hard hours I put in scanning and chasing, then I look at people who participate in weekend fleets and get my lifetime kills in a month with not much effort
- Sometimes I get sad when I see that literally everybody with a worthwhile fleet ranges in 95%~99% efficiency. Then I take a step back and wonder why I'm giving a ****

I'm honestly really happy with my experience.

Solo PvP isn't dead, it's just not everybody's cup of tea.

I recommend you and any solo pilot learn about fw plexes.

Eve totally needs more places with ship restrictions that dont allow on grid warping



Also the on grid warp distance should be changed.. its retardedly short making it really hard to spread out a blob =<

Totally this!

The word is out, Low sec is now worth hunting in, FW farmers and pvpers actually live there!

Some one should tell null sec they are doing it wrong.

I solo a lot without scouts or links and I'm usually in a cruiser. BC is too slow IMO. Frigs and dessies are good as well but I find the cruiser gives me a wide envelope of targets and enough escape ability to survive a lot of situations.

You will get blobbed. You will fight 'elite soloists' that use links, HG implants, chems, etc. You just get used to it and begin to recognise them by name or swagger.

been having and continue to have solo fights successfully without scouts and OGB and manage to find solo engagements easy enough.
Faction warfare is probably best way to get them, requires a bit of roaming but not much once you know which systems are good for solo.
Also BC's will usually attract a gang, try frigates, destroyers and even cruisers.
Most solo fights i get are against pilots who dont use OGB either.
My killboard has been slow this last month due to inactivity but the last year ive been spending most of my time honing solo skills.
Ship down and join FW! great fun!

I have the key to 'true solo' pvp.

And here it is.



Don't give a F**K about losing you ship or your 'isk efficiency' or you BC rating.....


Simple as that. Accept that it is gone as soon as you undock and you'll have a lot of fun, even if you are blobbed, OGB'd and HG implants and generally shat on from a great height.


Sure there are people who are true solo with excellent isk efficiency and BC rating.....trust me though they are few and far between.


Fly rifters! They pretty much gauruntee lots of fights

TBH having a decent isk efficiency is not that hard when you solo in frigs a lot

Even i managed it :P