The great thing about a sandbox is that you can do whatever you want, and you can completely disregard the impassioned rants of whomever does not likes your way of playing. If you like doing things solo, then go for it and don't let people talking smack about you interfere with your enjoyment of the game. I personally get a lot of comfort and pleasure from communal efforts in MMOs, and I also personally have a preference for chocolate over vanilla flavouring; however, I certainly have no reason to besmirch or discriminate against those who prefer solo endeavours or vanilla flavouring.

From the other thread that is still on the first page, I think the general consensus was either "Its a multiplayer game" or "there is nothing that will benefit solo players that won't also benefit groups"

For the most part, it seems anything that can be done by a group now can be done solo, with the exception of holding space.

While I'm not sure where the aggression is coming from (other than the fact that this question comes up quite often with a simple search), I can at least understand the argument that if you want to succeed in a multiplayer game, you should do multiplayer things.

TL;DR Don't know where the anger is coming from on either side. It seems like there are myriad things to just "pass time solo" as is that both solo and groups have access to. Could never hurt to have more interesting content, though.

I think the Op is placing a little too much relevance on other people's opinions and perhaps could endanger marginalising himself with personal generalist views.

EvE can and does accomodate all styles of play as a sandbox.

You don't have to follow the Robot inclined types who prescribe how you should play EvE.

Nice to see you have relevant experience of both group play and solo to adjudge your preference though.

Flying solo requires MUCH more work than anything a 100 man fleet does.

Define "work". If I define it in terms of manhours, your assumption is false.

Align to this.Align to that. wait here. primary target. seconday target. tertiary target. repeat repeat. stand down. warp to sun. shoot target.


who is on grid. what ships are they. can i kill this player/Plex before they arrive. can i set a trap. how many people are on that gate. Are there probes out for me yet. how can i get into the next system. etc etc

I don't get it.. Han had one ship, you claim two quality solo boats.. you > Han with avialable ships.

Are you like.. asking for another super ship that bbqs more than one with ease.. and can't be probed while it station spins outside of a station shooting out disorientating multi-color'd lights when ever you get rl distractions?

I have to agree with what someone else said above. I don't care if ppl solo.. knock yourselves out. I personally get annoyed when they start begging for more simply cause they choose to be solo and for some reason feel they are entitled to the efforts of more than one.

And if you are/were with leaders that ask more than you are willing to provide.. pushing you to subtract from rl life and add that time to a video game, simply tell'em to go **** themself and drop enough dirt to make the corp/alliance implode on itself. That kind of leadership will fail ultimately anyway.

I don't think much hate is directed at solo players. Trolling, maybe, but not hate.

What people tend to hate is solo players who think they're entitled to the same rewards and benefits that 10 man fleets and 100 man corporations and 1000 man alliances get, without having to do any extra work.

Try living in Neckbeard/Goon space. Those guys are so bored they will deploy the entire fleet to find you. Or try making a living in Russian space you will get to see plenty of carriers on the screen.

Lastly, the best pvpers in this game are solo players and this is well known. They choose a ship and max it out. They spend lots of time on sisi working out exactly what the ship can do and the best set ups and then they set traps or roam knowing that they can use the ship to its maximum capacity.

TL:DR go **** yourself

Solo freaks are awesome. They tend to either be totally silent or really friendly after a fight/whatever, and I don't think I've ever met one who's a straight up jerk. (I'm talking about the exclusive solo roam guys, not solo-pve types).

EVE is not geared towards solo play. I would like to see more support for the solo player.

ie. purchase concord escort service for example.

For the solo and one man corps players out there, what kind of features would you like implemented?

Beacause people want you to be in there blobs, for them there is no PvP it's BvB or BvP or BvSG(small gang)...