I have 118mil sp, mostly in combat skills. Read up on all the tactics of frig 1v1. Ammo selection, ranges etc etc... But have yet to win a single frig 1v1... Am I that bad, or does everyone and their brother use an OGB these days?


About to fold up the tent and give my stuff away.......

Great advice guys, anyway I went back at it, lost a slasher but almost took out an incursus before I died. Burned out my guns, and my ancillary armor booster decided to go on reload right when I needed it most.. Funny thing is, that fight actually lasted longer than most of the fights I've had... Took me over a minute to pop, lol...

Two quick questions.
Is your safety turned off? If it's on, this can take precious seconds away from applying damage.

Are you letting your opponent shoot first so you don't lose sec status? If so, you are letting them get into their optimal fighting range and getting ahead of you in the damage race.

Join QCATs , we are pretty good @ solo / small gang pvp and will get you the experience you need to succeed. And yes about 80-85% of all "solo" pilots you run into will have OGB.

Here's some advice...

Avoid condors and hook bills, don't fight them at all.

Try some tanky ships like dual rep incurs us or a Tristan and use novice plexes to get fights at 0. Go into pled and sit on button tik someone comes in, scram and goto work. You'll have to be quick to point attack frigates, or get out. The maulus is also a good option with rails, damps and drones.

Obviously I have an affinity for gallente frigates ATM becaus they are just plain good.

The easy way to know if you should shoot 1st are by going through the following checklist:
1. Are they in a ship? - If yes shoot.
2. Are they in a pod? - If yes shoot.
3. If you are unsure about something - Shoot it because you probably can't trust it.
4. If you answered 'no' to any of these question - you are still docked.

One thing I don't understand is why one should turn off Auto Reload.

Surely the client can reload faster than I can, or am I missing something?

118 mil and you cant kill? Learn to play the pvp. I am old at 35mill and can kill. Each death learn and dont addume a leet fit will win. Learn to die and be reborn again. Phoenix pvp is what i play.

Its because it takes 60 seconds to reload, and in that time you will be dead.

You're better of being able to get off 1-2 cycles of your cap after its empty



This is more true for AAR's though, the default on those should be autoreload off..

Thanks for all the advice guys and gals, I got my first solo frig kill today, killed a rifter while in my slasher....

Whats with the auto reload thing? I still have my auto reload on for both ASB's and AAR's.

They only reload if the module switches off. I.e running AAR on a rifter and it runs out of nanite it continues to rep but only at 2/3 repping and using normal cap. When I run out of cap or stop it repping it then starts a reload. Same with ASB's but they use so much cap they pretty much shut down after a cycle or two then satrt to reload.

Other than that keep trying mate pvp skill have very little to do with SP for your toon as you can only use a very small portion of that SP at any one time and a much younger toon with a specialised skill set can actually apply more SP to the fight than you may be able too.

Oh and if you want to do it hardcore ------ Fly rifters!

Whats with the auto reload thing? I still have my auto reload on for both ASB's and AAR's.

They only reload if the module switches off. I.e running AAR on a rifter and it runs out of nanite it continues to rep but only at 2/3 repping and using normal cap. When I run out of cap or stop it repping it then starts a reload. Same with ASB's but they use so much cap they pretty much shut down after a cycle or two then satrt to reload.

Other than that keep trying mate pvp skill have very little to do with SP for your toon as you can only use a very small portion of that SP at any one time and a much younger toon with a specialised skill set can actually apply more SP to the fight than you may be able too.

Oh and if you want to do it hardcore ------ Fly rifters!

Its because it takes 60 seconds to reload, and in that time you will be dead.

You're better of being able to get off 1-2 cycles of your cap after its empty



This is more true for AAR's though, the default on those should be autoreload off..

I'm thinking its more like 20%. But really I don't know, I generally never fight condors so that might be why my view is off.

OP I haven't looked at your fits so this is just general advice. But when I started out I tended to go with tankier ships. This made the fights last longer so I could see what was happening, and gave me more time to react during the fight. Its important to gain an understanding of why you win or lose. If you just keep dying without understanding why, you are not really gaining experience.

Also look at the losses of good pilots. Try to figure out the idea behind their fits. What ranges will try to hit and what will their dps be, how will they deal with brawlers and kiters etc.

Obviously if you have fraps, a large enough hard drive, and your willing to look at the fights you lost and what the enemy was likely fitting that would be even more helpful.

Also joining a good pvp corp can be a big help.

Whats fraps? Also when ur learning to pvp ur not going to win very often. ...or at all. Would it be a good idea to fit a ship scanner so u can see opponents fit gaining more knowledge from the fight? Yeah u gimp ur build a bit but u were going to lose anyways. Maybe this will change the learning curve enough u can take the scanner(aka training wheels off) sooner and start winning

You suck at PvP for the same reason most of us do. Experience and ISK. Because you're inexperienced you don't want to dump loads of ISK into your ships, as they'll just blown up from pilot errors. You're fighting people that have already gone through that learning curve and know that they aren't going to make a ton of errors, so they can afford to fly really expensive ships, implant sets, boosters, etc. That means you're at a double disadvantage.

This is my biggest problem with EvE PVP. They tell you to start with frigates because they're cheap, but the fights are over so fast that it's hard to tell why you won or lost.

Though, if you've got 110m SP you should be able to make enough cash to fly a bit more expensive setups. I'm not talking about getting a bunch of AFs destroyed for no reason, but a decent implant set and boosters should give you plenty of edge to learn on. Learning to get your pod out in low-sec isn't that difficult, so it's a reasonably safe investment.