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Wara Ranova
Black Wolf Syndicate
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Posted - 2016.12.05 18:39:36 -
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So I feel like this is a common topic here but I'm not finding a consolidated list. So I recently returned to EVE and have joined a small but growing null pvp corp. While we do get out and kill stuff for fun, as well as roaming with other groups. I want to work on my solo combat. I see all these great highlight reels of people killing it in solo (although i'm sure while it doesn't show the losses it's equally as exhilarating). My problem is every time I fly through low sec I can't find anyone (or if there's people in local I don't know how to track them down), and in null I'm sure everyone has friends that are ready to fly in on the batphone and **** my **** up.
So basically I'm looking for a good place to practice. While I'm aware the practice may be ruthless and I'm ready to blow isk on it, I want to find these people so I can improve my own combat skills. So to keep this short, what systems are good? (FW and such), or what skills do I need to work on? (Scan, D-Scan, etc.).
Thanks all, o7 |
Lucy Callagan
TURN LEFT
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Posted - 2016.12.05 22:11:17 -
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1v1 at sun.
All joking aside, Soloers tend to be an unusual sight these days so the best(only ?) way to solo is currently to annoy people, urge them to chase you in a disorganised way and pick them up 1 after the other then gtfo when it overescalates. |
W0lf Crendraven
Welfcorp
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Posted - 2016.12.06 03:40:08 -
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Wara Ranova wrote:So I feel like this is a common topic here but I'm not finding a consolidated list. So I recently returned to EVE and have joined a small but growing null pvp corp. While we do get out and kill stuff for fun, as well as roaming with other groups. I want to work on my solo combat. I see all these great highlight reels of people killing it in solo (although i'm sure while it doesn't show the losses it's equally as exhilarating). My problem is every time I fly through low sec I can't find anyone (or if there's people in local I don't know how to track them down), and in null I'm sure everyone has friends that are ready to fly in on the batphone and **** my **** up.
So basically I'm looking for a good place to practice. While I'm aware the practice may be ruthless and I'm ready to blow isk on it, I want to find these people so I can improve my own combat skills. So to keep this short, what systems are good? (FW and such), or what skills do I need to work on? (Scan, D-Scan, etc.).
Thanks all, o7
Hevrice is a good starting point, one highsec connection (so you can get in and out easily, is almost never camped) it has 2 lowsec connection, for roaming stop in jovainnon in the one direction (i.e 1 jump out) and stop in melmaniel in the other.
This gives you "Jovainon-hevrice-muetralle-costolle-melmaniel" as systems to hunt in. Its not super active but it gives good solo targets. Mark "The Tuskers" as -10 and never fight those guys (a few of them still live there), theyll never break a (offical) 1v1 and almost always give you fair fights but youll lose them all.
Pretty much all fights will happen at or in FW plex.
Learn to use the dscanner. |
Don Pera Saissore
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Posted - 2016.12.06 11:03:48 -
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Trail and error. I you get ganged up by a group dont fight them next time. This means you will loose more than you kill until you get to know the ppl that live in the area and ofc if you move to a different area you have to start the process of elimination from zero |
xStiL
Black Rebel Rifter Club The Devil's Tattoo
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Posted - 2016.12.06 21:46:55 -
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Gal/Cal fw area is decent around the citadel/black rise. You can come to Ishomilken. |
Kethen T'val
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2016.12.07 08:16:48 -
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Join RvB and do 1v1s all day |
Plato Forko
123 Fake Street
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Posted - 2016.12.07 09:08:15 -
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Roaming FW space in T1/pirate frigs is still the easiest way to pick solo fights. Set up a hangar to base out of, maybe a JC too if you want to stay with your 0.0 crew and just weekend warrior the FW scene. Spend a bit of time getting familiar with the terrain and setting up bookmarks, at the very least you'll want an instaundock and warp-to-zero at your base station and bounce points to scan from in systems with objects outside dscan range. Well-connected systems are usually hot (e.g. Amamake, Siseide) so baiting a good 1v1 in those means bouncing around waiting for gangs to thin. I just got back to EvE myself so no idea WTF happened to the in-game browser but http://evemaps.dotlan.net is still a great resource for maps showing the layouts of the FW warzones.
As for dscan, nothing important has changed, just bind a hotkey to "track" then spam 360 spam whenever there's something within max range and if you hit on a potential target use the track key to focus in on objects in overview then move the dscan angle slider down to 5 deg to do a pinpoint scan of the object in focus. I keep a pretty vanilla solo overview but radial velocity is the column I'm watching the most often, negative values means the target is closing on you and positive means you might wanna overheat the scram ;) |
Wara Ranova
Black Wolf Syndicate
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Posted - 2016.12.07 15:02:51 -
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Bump.
I appreciate the great replies from everyone on this thread. Starting this weekend when I can up my funds again a little and finals are over with I'll go ahead and set a base out of somewhere where I can run around and learn the mechanics of this. I'll keep the thread live to see what other suggestions have but I appreciate the time taken to help a fellow pilot.
Fly safe, o7 |
Skelee VI
Wraithguard. The Wraithguard.
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Posted - 2016.12.07 17:31:48 -
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Come to Curse I will fight you 1 vs 1 |
Wara Ranova
Black Wolf Syndicate
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Posted - 2016.12.08 16:55:53 -
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Bump. |
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Plato Forko
123 Fake Street
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Posted - 2016.12.08 21:03:22 -
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Use the map, dude! Both in-game maps and dotlan maps show you which systems ships are being popped in so that's where you should roam. It looks like you base out of Geminate? There's routes to Amarr/Min FW space through Forge and Metro low-sec, looks like there's also an out to Great Wildlands which is NPC null so probably home to a few soloers... |
Wara Ranova
Black Wolf Syndicate
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Posted - 2016.12.08 21:18:13 -
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Plato Forko wrote:Use the map, dude! Both in-game maps and dotlan maps show you which systems ships are being popped in so that's where you should roam. It looks like you base out of Geminate? There's routes to Amarr/Min FW space through Forge and Metro low-sec, looks like there's also an out to Great Wildlands which is NPC null so probably home to a few soloers...
I have already made plans to find mim FW space and base out of a system there with some cheap-ish ships to learn. Will be starting this Friday. I have used dotlan before and it's a very good resource. However if I may inquire, I see people that can go on a website (which I believe is zkillboard) where they can check a pilot and see what kind of fits he typically loses. For example Pilot X is flying an Astero. And the person will look up Pilot X and see that they lose a lot of Asteros and they are terribly fit. Is that zkillboard they use? And if so where on zkillboard can I find that information. Seems definitely useful in identifying your enemy.
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Wakka Rocka
Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.12.08 21:23:34 -
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Yes, that is Zkillboard. You can search Zkill for ships or pilots and get all the Kills/Losses/Solo information for that ship/pilot that have been logged on Zkill. You can use the Kill filter to look at their kills and obtain a list of their top 10 ships (by number of kills per ship in the last interval, probably month). You can then filter for their Losses, select an entry, and look at the fit they use. You can also look at the timestamp of the killmails and lossmails to see what time that pilot is most active, where they are most active, who is killing them most often, and how many people contributed to their death.
Zkill is simply an amazing intel-gathering tool. |
May Arethusa
The Mjolnir Bloc The Bloc
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Posted - 2016.12.08 22:52:18 -
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Ask. This tends to work better with pirates, but I've seen in progress ganks come screeching to a halt because the bait was asked for a 1v1. It's not as reliable as it used to be, but you'll get some hits if you fly engagable ships.
Alternatively, find a blob and kill all but the last guy, then 1v1 him at your leisure. |
Plato Forko
123 Fake Street
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Posted - 2016.12.09 01:08:44 -
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Zkill is better for finding out if pilots are in an active gang (any recent KMs) since fits change. pyfa/EFT are also useful since they let you experiment with fits out of game (so no cost), and give you an idea of theoretical max speed or damage range of any hull. |
Wara Ranova
Black Wolf Syndicate
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Posted - 2016.12.09 17:58:46 -
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bump |
W0lf Crendraven
Welfcorp
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Posted - 2016.12.10 03:58:23 -
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Stop bumping your own threads. |
Dan Kashada
Missing the point
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Posted - 2016.12.22 15:15:15 -
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Kethen T'val wrote:Join RvB and do 1v1s all day Don't listen to a smurf and join Red Fed |
Dan Kashada
Missing the point
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Posted - 2016.12.22 17:27:16 -
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Wara Ranova wrote:Plato Forko wrote:Use the map, dude! Both in-game maps and dotlan maps show you which systems ships are being popped in so that's where you should roam. It looks like you base out of Geminate? There's routes to Amarr/Min FW space through Forge and Metro low-sec, looks like there's also an out to Great Wildlands which is NPC null so probably home to a few soloers... I have already made plans to find mim FW space and base out of a system there with some cheap-ish ships to learn. Will be starting this Friday. I have used dotlan before and it's a very good resource. However if I may inquire, I see people that can go on a website (which I believe is zkillboard) where they can check a pilot and see what kind of fits he typically loses. For example Pilot X is flying an Astero. And the person will look up Pilot X and see that they lose a lot of Asteros and they are terribly fit. Is that zkillboard they use? And if so where on zkillboard can I find that information. Seems definitely useful in identifying your enemy. First thing is first fly around find the systems that have the camps or a lot going (usually the systems with lots of pilots) and avoid these systems till you get the experience, roam the quieter systems find the people doing offensive plexing it's never going to be 100% 1v1 all the time because they could have buddies 1 jump out but like what everyone is telling you it is trail and error sometimes you have to become the pest and get people to chase or pretending you are scared of fighting even could act scared in local chat in which most bigheaded pvper will chase you in the hopes of tears. I tend to find amarr/min FW is pretty poor for solo cal/gal FW is the better place in my opinion |
Agondray
Avenger Mercenaries VOID Intergalactic Forces
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Posted - 2016.12.24 08:28:39 -
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they don't exist.
"Sarcasm is the Recourse of a weak mind." -Dr. Smith
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Tyrana McBitch
Lisnave Spaceship Samurai
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Posted - 2016.12.25 03:16:26 -
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I solo, but I pick my fights. So far so good. It takes some time, but it's worth it. Become the hunter |
Draeman Hookah
salty inc.
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Posted - 2017.01.02 20:49:16 -
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I've also started trying to get into the PvP portion of EVE via Solo roams. First one was last night and it seems like it's a time consumer for sure.
I started in pretty low-key Low-Sec systems as has been recommended and got one engagement but wasn't able to keep him so that was exciting. Going back out again tonight, I'm tempted to make the trek to Amamake but I don't know if it's still the capital of Pirate space that it used to be.
I'm not looking for specifically 1v1 either, I consider myself a bit of an opportunist. But I'm in my "go out and lose 20 ships" phase of the learning process too. Only thing that seemed to work for me was literally jumping planet to planet (Also holding your mouse on the overview while your warping can show you when you zip past people so you get a feel for where they are and where their "safe spot" is. Found that out by accident. |
Lucy Callagan
TURN LEFT
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Posted - 2017.01.06 22:06:10 -
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Draeman Hookah wrote:"go out and lose 20 ships" phase
That's very optimistic,
I lost ~1600 ships on all my chars gathered and i still don't know how to pvp. |
ivona fly
Black Fox Marauders
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Posted - 2017.01.12 17:59:34 -
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I never lost a ship in combat.
You are all bads.
i had some blown up but never lost them |
xxsmokealotxx
Megacorp 5000 Pro XL
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Posted - 2017.01.13 13:30:00 -
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This kinda falls more into the Tactics side:
Most likely you don't actually want to find the solo PvPers if you're starting out. Because most likely they have done it longer than you and are a lot better at it.
Better bet is to try to lure a non-solo player to come after you and make him think he will have his buddies helps when he catches you.
Or just forget about tactics and attack anything that moves and hope you eventually kill something |
Infinity Ziona
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
2516
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Posted - 2017.01.14 08:28:48 -
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Its pretty much a waste of time. You can literally go for hours from deep null all the way to empire and you''ll almost never get a 1 v 1. You may find solo players or even a duo to fight but from experience they'll never engage you unless they have overwhelming force.
You will invariably get baited into a fight and a cyno gank, or you'll chase someone down a pipe, they'll be in alliance or corp organizing a suprise party for you and won't stop running till their in range.
One thing I have found that will get you fights that you can sometimes win is to let them gank you in the following ship fit. This loss occurred solo fighting NC. Originally it was one ship, which I killed, it then escalated slowly into 2 maladictions, proteus, 2 sleipnirs, a cynabal, a cerberus, then they dropped an aeon and then a hel. Its a tough ass ship that can kill a few and then gtfo even with extreme amounts of firepower on it. Of course it can't tank an aeon and a hel on top of those other ships so it went down but it took them a good 10 minutes. Drop the cloaking device and put on a decent offensive sub and it would have popped a few more before it died. Super expensive though.
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CCP Fozzie GǣWe can see how much money people are making in nullsec and it is, a gigantic amount, a shit-tonGǪ in null sec anomalies. Gǣ*
Kaalrus pwned..... :)
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Shae Tadaruwa
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
1393
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Posted - 2017.01.14 08:45:17 -
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Agondray wrote:they don't exist. Why do people with no ******* clue feel that they can congribute to threads?
Either you are being sarcastic, in which case you signature applies, or you just have absolutely no idea of reality. Either way, writing your post serves only to confirm your idiocy.
Dracvlad - "...Your intel is free intel, all you do is pay for it..." && "...If you warp on the same path as a cloaked ship, you'll make a bookmark at exactly the same spot as the cloaky camper..."
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W0lf Crendraven
Welfcorp
472
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Posted - 2017.01.14 09:01:32 -
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To quote myself from another thread:
W0lf Crendraven wrote:So since people everywhere q.q a lot about no solo pvp i decided to test how long it takes to log in, get into a ship and then do some solo pvp and see how long it took me till i got a kill. So, i logged in (in highsec), jumpcloned to a lowsec system where i had a frigate (a succubus): I undock with 7 in local in Ardar, theres 4 t1 frigs in space doing stuff but i cant seem to pointpoint them, also theres a svipul hunting me so after warping around for 1 minute or so with the svipul always following me i decide to move on, i jump into the next system (Flosewin) where i find a hound doing a mission, i go for it but it runs away. Next i move on to Aset. Theres a retribution and a few stealthbombers on scan, but they all clear out quite quickly, i check the surrounding systems but bar a few herons scanning i cant really find anything. So i move back towards Ardar, i find a few more bombers running the fw missions but they all have a brain and manage to warp out (close call with a manticore within 20km once). Ardar itself is also empty bar an algos doing weird stuff, but it always runs when i arrive on grid (being -10 doesnt help). Then i jump into Hadozeko, and there we have a rupture somewhere in space, a tristan in a novice and somwhere a caldary navy hookbill and a retribution. I warp in onto the novice, seeing if the tristan has balls (tristans are so easy to use, and people think they are extremely op, that they usually tend to try above their weight) - it does, although i think its more due to him being very new to the game. https://zkillboard.com/kill/59096535/ Its not really fit very well, and its a t1 frig with t1 mods by a new character, but still - first solo kill 17 minutes after logging in. So i saw the retri and the hookbill on scan ealier and the second the tristan died they both wrote gf in local, which made me curious, dscan was empty for me so i warped to the only complex more then 14 au away (roidiest rage or something), the hookbill is 200km away and the retri 500km. So i decide to burn for the hookbill, it bails when i come within 60km but the retri starts to burn towards me, i oblige and a few minutes later this happens https://zkillboard.com/kill/59096824/ (24 minutes after logging in). Because i was mean to the hookbill pilot in local, claiming he was a coward for not fighting a turret frigate in a hookbill he asked me to 1v1 him inside the novice - https://zkillboard.com/kill/59096969/ (27 minutes after logging in). Then i logged out. So no alts, no fleet, nothing but a solo frigate - within 30 minutes i got 3 kills, 2 of them being actual fights. Which leads to my conclusion that solo pvp is perfectly easy to find and you dont even need more then half an hour to get a few GFs.
Tl:dr got bored, timed how long it took to get a solo kill, 3 1v1s wthiin 30 minutes. |
Infinity Ziona
Pandemic Horde Inc. Pandemic Horde
2516
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Posted - 2017.01.14 09:09:10 -
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W0lf Crendraven wrote:To quote myself from another thread: W0lf Crendraven wrote:So since people everywhere q.q a lot about no solo pvp i decided to test how long it takes to log in, get into a ship and then do some solo pvp and see how long it took me till i got a kill. So, i logged in (in highsec), jumpcloned to a lowsec system where i had a frigate (a succubus): I undock with 7 in local in Ardar, theres 4 t1 frigs in space doing stuff but i cant seem to pointpoint them, also theres a svipul hunting me so after warping around for 1 minute or so with the svipul always following me i decide to move on, i jump into the next system (Flosewin) where i find a hound doing a mission, i go for it but it runs away. Next i move on to Aset. Theres a retribution and a few stealthbombers on scan, but they all clear out quite quickly, i check the surrounding systems but bar a few herons scanning i cant really find anything. So i move back towards Ardar, i find a few more bombers running the fw missions but they all have a brain and manage to warp out (close call with a manticore within 20km once). Ardar itself is also empty bar an algos doing weird stuff, but it always runs when i arrive on grid (being -10 doesnt help). Then i jump into Hadozeko, and there we have a rupture somewhere in space, a tristan in a novice and somwhere a caldary navy hookbill and a retribution. I warp in onto the novice, seeing if the tristan has balls (tristans are so easy to use, and people think they are extremely op, that they usually tend to try above their weight) - it does, although i think its more due to him being very new to the game. https://zkillboard.com/kill/59096535/ Its not really fit very well, and its a t1 frig with t1 mods by a new character, but still - first solo kill 17 minutes after logging in. So i saw the retri and the hookbill on scan ealier and the second the tristan died they both wrote gf in local, which made me curious, dscan was empty for me so i warped to the only complex more then 14 au away (roidiest rage or something), the hookbill is 200km away and the retri 500km. So i decide to burn for the hookbill, it bails when i come within 60km but the retri starts to burn towards me, i oblige and a few minutes later this happens https://zkillboard.com/kill/59096824/ (24 minutes after logging in). Because i was mean to the hookbill pilot in local, claiming he was a coward for not fighting a turret frigate in a hookbill he asked me to 1v1 him inside the novice - https://zkillboard.com/kill/59096969/ (27 minutes after logging in). Then i logged out. So no alts, no fleet, nothing but a solo frigate - within 30 minutes i got 3 kills, 2 of them being actual fights. Which leads to my conclusion that solo pvp is perfectly easy to find and you dont even need more then half an hour to get a few GFs. Tl:dr got bored, timed how long it took to get a solo kill, 3 1v1s wthiin 30 minutes. They don't look solo. Two ships on each one. Besides they're frigates, whats the point, I could undock from any hub in highsec and get frigate fights all day long. They're so cheap its pointless.
CCP Fozzie GǣWe can see how much money people are making in nullsec and it is, a gigantic amount, a shit-tonGǪ in null sec anomalies. Gǣ*
Kaalrus pwned..... :)
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W0lf Crendraven
Welfcorp
472
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Posted - 2017.01.15 00:26:39 -
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Frigate pvp is still pvp, and a t2 frig or a pirate one is usually a lot more pricey then a t1 cruiser (after insurance). And it was proper solo pvp, why there were 2 people on the mail is explained perfectly well in the test (they fought each other very briefly earlier).
And the question was where to find solo pvpers, not where to find none frigate solo pvpers. Frigate pvp is by far the easiest pvp to find in eve, its plentifull and everywhere. |
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