I'm in a bit of a funk at present. I find pvp interesting even though I'm terrible at it but I find myself doing it less and less. Why? Because its such a hassle to do.

I'm in a null sec coalition so generally you have to wait to ops (at times that aren't very convenient to you) travel over 50 jumps and deal with jump clone timers. Bankrupt yourself getting a useable ship for the fleet (often tweaking official doctrines to because you don't have t2 guns) then wait for 5 minutes before moving off, only to die in 15 minutes and get podded back those 50 jumps without getting on any KMs.

I mean when there is a neut in the pocket I'm ready and willing to jump into a HD ship and take them on but if its an op my general reaction is do I have to? Because I have to go though all of that while I could be doing something productive in the same time. Or at the very least checking my PI.

Does anyone else find themselves in the same situation?

Make alt, go do FW, stay on comms with your corp in case something interesting happens.

join something where you would find more fun PVP opportunities, like FW, pirating, or living in NPC nullsec? You shouldn't have to sacrifice fun for ISK generation.

FW isn't much different.

Except instead of 50j you fly less. But the procedure is the same. Roam around to find a fight that you hope won't end up in you getting blobbed.
On the plus side, you don't get podded as often.
On the minus side, you now need to go back those odd 10j in a pod.

I'm in a bit of a funk at present. I find pvp interesting even though I'm terrible at it but I find myself doing it less and less. Why? Because its such a hassle to do.

I'm in a null sec coalition so generally you have to wait to ops (at times that aren't very convenient to you) travel over 50 jumps and deal with jump clone timers. Bankrupt yourself getting a useable ship for the fleet (often tweaking official doctrines to because you don't have t2 guns) then wait for 5 minutes before moving off, only to die in 15 minutes and get podded back those 50 jumps without getting on any KMs.

I mean when there is a neut in the pocket I'm ready and willing to jump into a HD ship and take them on but if its an op my general reaction is do I have to? Because I have to go though all of that while I could be doing something productive in the same time. Or at the very least checking my PI.

Does anyone else find themselves in the same situation?

you know what's worse? I don't think I've ever experienced any real fun from pvp. Perhaps its the fact I generally lose it and end up wasting money or a lack of a big kick but it has never really clicked with me.

I really want to do combat sites but I can never get a ship that can do them or someone runs it faster than me.

"Hurry up and wait" achieves new meaning with EVE, probably because the "people in charge" just purely suck at organization. Also, your "team mates" don't generally understand what being a team mate means.

You just summed up life in the military.

I'm in a bit of a funk at present. I find pvp interesting even though I'm terrible at it but I find myself doing it less and less. Why? Because its such a hassle to do.

I'm in a null sec coalition so generally you have to wait to ops (at times that aren't very convenient to you) travel over 50 jumps and deal with jump clone timers. Bankrupt yourself getting a useable ship for the fleet (often tweaking official doctrines to because you don't have t2 guns) then wait for 5 minutes before moving off, only to die in 15 minutes and get podded back those 50 jumps without getting on any KMs.

I mean when there is a neut in the pocket I'm ready and willing to jump into a HD ship and take them on but if its an op my general reaction is do I have to? Because I have to go though all of that while I could be doing something productive in the same time. Or at the very least checking my PI.

Does anyone else find themselves in the same situation?

EVE had all sorts of different groups, playing all kinds of PVP.

A change is as good as the rest...

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Edit - oh & I hear you about single neutrals paralysing the whole place when a "FC" isn't on. I remember that only too well - dock up dock up the sky is falling :D

Even if you did go kill the neut you caught crap for it from probably your own CEO and whoever else figured they were in charge at the time.

Anyway there are other options - like the alt corps mentioned which IME are much more fun than the sov corp.

3 words:

NPSI public fleets



Nuff said.

This

I made my own little NPSI fleet last night and despite us being a little ragtag fleet of max 8 people whom have never flown together and we had 1 person who never ever pvped before. We still managed to kill more than our worth.

50 jumps

if its an op my general reaction is do I have to? Because I have to go though all of that while I could be doing something productive in the same time. Or at the very least checking my PI.

Does anyone else find themselves in the same situation?

I'm in a bit of a funk at present. I find pvp interesting even though I'm terrible at it but I find myself doing it less and less. Why? Because its such a hassle to do.

I'm in a null sec coalition so generally you have to wait to ops (at times that aren't very convenient to you) travel over 50 jumps and deal with jump clone timers. Bankrupt yourself getting a useable ship for the fleet (often tweaking official doctrines to because you don't have t2 guns) then wait for 5 minutes before moving off, only to die in 15 minutes and get podded back those 50 jumps without getting on any KMs.

I mean when there is a neut in the pocket I'm ready and willing to jump into a HD ship and take them on but if its an op my general reaction is do I have to? Because I have to go though all of that while I could be doing something productive in the same time. Or at the very least checking my PI.

Does anyone else find themselves in the same situation?

You shouldn't have named your character Aardvark.

Sounds like you are in an alliance with crap tactics, a "throw ships into a meat grinder" approach and then expect you to pay for your own ships.

Leave them. There are better organizations out there.

So... your catalysts ganked a hulk?

It's more likely he's just incapable of following orders which makes him die - combined with him 'tweaking' doctrine ships which will make him not-eligible for whatever SRP program his alliance runs.

Nahh. I leave that to the Code. I don't want them to ragequit just because they get competition.

Me, while I'm not a super dedicated pvp type, i like fleet fights and despite my bad luck (why oh WHY did I make a pvp main with a name that starts with a C, also screw enemy FCs why use the alphabet for target calling) I keep coming back. I should get "F1 Monkey" tattoo'd on my left ass cheek or something.