It starts with dipping into FW and being turned into an episode of destroyed in seconds.
Then as the years pass you obtain:
perfect skills for Deep Space Transports to haul in frigate fits by batches of 25, allowing you to set up forward staging without having to sell a kidney to Red Frog.
perfect skills for Planetary Interaction to make some money on the side without having to do anything (if built right you only have to haul goods out of a planet once every month)
perfect skills for Condors and Hookbills because you figured out that Small Launchers are potent AF.
You will start to realize that you are ISK positive from just the loot from destroyed player wrecks, and that you can just hog all your LP for Hookbills and Caldari Navy Medium Shield Extenders.
You will become increasingly frustrated with bots who leave plexes instead of fighting you.
You will become increasingly frustrated with pirates who leave system whilst youâre reshipping to offer them a balanced fight, due to Roamers having the attention span of a goldfish.
You will become increasingly frustrated with CCP trying to force PVE into your PVP-centric game mode.
You will become increasingly frustrated with allies who interrupt 1v1s.
You end up putting up with this â â â â because nothing else in this game offers the same adrenaline rush.
Alternative ending: You become so frustrated with a lack of targets that you leave the militia so that you can cannibalize your former comrades.
Over the past couple weeks I have been following the suggestions in this thread. Trying a range of different frigs, even a VNI, which I promptly lost to a brand new gatecamp.
I do like quite a few of the ships and playstyles Iâve tried. Iâm mostly partial to the dual MASB heron, and the kite slicer. However, it is hard to find targets that are not sitting at 0 on a plex. I usually whelp into navy Catalysts camping plexes anyway because itâs fun and I want to learn what I can and cannot do. I expect to die anyway.
I do get bored trying to find targets. I know Eve is the long game. But it can be very frustrating to spend hours just to find one frig fight. I think this is a function of FW needing an overhaul to be more popular, and a relatively low player count, and low numbers of newer players.
I think if I step up to t2 or t3 dessies iâll be able to get more good fights, actually. They seem to be so popular for FW. I might even like to run the plexes on the side, but I would have to sign up with Caldari, and that kind of makes it rough because Caldari usually owns all the space around Tama / Black Rise where Iâve been roaming.
Tl;dr Iâm not profitable nor K/D positive but Iâve been having fun throwing my ships at every fight I can find, even ones I know Iâll lose, just to see what I can and canât get away with. Targets are hard to find still. May run plexes against Gallente just to earn some LP / isk instead of roaming endlessly to find one fight.
Unless you catch the unsuspecting destroyer or smaller ship by itself, youâll most likely encounter a fleet of three or more ships waiting until you engage the bait ship.
I found it takes hours to stumble upon a fight that is seemingly even matched.Most often its 1 sided fights: you bring one they bring 5-10 people, you bring 5-10 people they bring 30+ or dont undock at all and just hide in station because they dont have the numbers to guarantee a win. That is PvP in EVE,nobody wants to risk losing . It is quite shameful how the game progressed over the years,I began in 2007 and recall you could roll out solo roaming in a battleship or battlecruiser with no scout through lowsec/npc nullsec and find decent fights (#I was there).
If you want to solo with an expensive ship, get a LOKI that can keep a target at range with its web range bonus while killing it with HAMS. Keep an eye on local and DSCAN so you can easily GTFO if needed. The LOKI generally will also have a neut or 2 to take care of any tackler aswell as warrior drones.
Itâs a shame eve doesnât have an equivalent of a ToD. those were fun. In fact, thatâs all the NC on Emerald did. Itâs the main reason I never got a CR5 on NC, because making and keeping a squad together and focused on capping a base was nigh on impossible, thus getting enough CP took longer. All the Smurfs cared about was K/D ratio. They LOVED ToDs, because in PS one person could easily hold out against multiple people if they were good enough. Granted, pretty much anyone in PS liked a good ToD, but interfarms were funner, IMO. Plus dropping an OS in a base assault gave more kills than one dropped on a tower. Hell, even a CR4 OS could get a fair amount of kills if dropped on an AMS. Eve just simply doesnât have PVP like a well done FPS does.
However, some people are of the mindset that a good fight is far more entertaining, win or lose, than blobbing the opponent with a comp that canât possibly lose.
Yes, its pointless to play this game because solo and small gang has been ruined by CCP and they are not worried about anything but creating more time dilation and F1 monkeys. Its been this way since 2016 or so. There are much better games out there with devs who dont push one single agenda.
Today someone gave me 10M isk after we 1vs1. He came in a Hecate vs my Coercer standard issue. I knew it was going to happen because i was checking out an Open FW plex and local was empty so i knew if something rocked up i wouldnt stand a chance. But local was empty and i was curious how much LP capturing it gave so i went semi afk he came in, warped to the plex and locked me and the rest is history while i wasnt really looking. I said GG after, and he gave me 10M isk, the fit was only 3M. So that was profit even tho i lost. This is a true story.
