U can try beat the animalies scaning dudes) Probably u even make money for their loot
Ok i do not write it. Everyone now would kill my scanning ship
The āprogressionā is different for every player.
Settle back and let Uncle Meph tell you a little storyā¦
For me, I almost exclusively flew frigates for my first year in EVE as a member of RvB (red fed best fed!) and then in one of the null blocs. Mostly the Maulus or Griffin in small gang fights.
I did this at the suggestion of some of my corpmates at the time and Iām very glad I listened. This was the days of Ishtars Online: The Game of Drones.
During this time, pre skill injector days, I trained my Navigation and Engineering skills. My Gunnery and Drones skills. All those backup skills that help every hull you fly.
I had a great group of very good pilots to fly with, including one of the best tackle pilots ever to undock an interceptor. These guys were very generous with their knowledge and advice.
I watched. I learned. I died, reshipped and died again.
I flew Firetails and Tristans. The occasional Algos or Vexor.
As my skills increased I started to fly Logistics cruisers. A lot. My Corp moved out of null and back to lowsec (where we spent 99% of our time anyway). I flew blops battleships and hunter Tengus. Dreads and FAXs.
I moved to j-space and stepped up into battlecruisers in fleets.
All this time, I still mostly flew frigates or destroyers in small gang/solo roams.
Now, after some time spent winning EVE, Iām back in j-space after a small hiatus in a null block. I flew Leshaks, Sabers and Devoters in Pochven fleets.
These days, when roaming with my mates, Iām the tackle guy. 150m SP and 99% of my flying is in either a Malediction, Dramiel or a Firetail when roaming FW space (either solo or with friends). Occasionally Iāll get a Draugur, Vedmak or Kiki. I bought myself a fleet 'cane to try and figure out How To Flyā¢ something bigger. Iām really not very good at that yet.
So yuh, the progression for me was frigates and then back to frigates, while mostly flying frigates.
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Mine was over 25 minutesā¦
Iām the Dramiel in this encounter. I actually had to tell my corpmates not to join in as it was a gudfite.
Sending isk to people that appear to be newbros or inexperienced after blowing them up is considered ābeing politeā by many solo/small gang pvpāers.
I once dropped my Sin on a Venture, as Iād been out hunting for ages with nothing to show for it. Sent the dude 50m.
My advice which you may or may not be happy with but you should join a corp which can support your solo PVP habit with mercenary payouts and/or an SRP program. The former is rare (only 2-3 groups currently active) but the latter is common. They will also have veteran players who can help you accelerate developing the PVP skills to help you die less (which will stretch how far your ISK goes)
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I solo PVP almost every day since i started doing FW. It requires patience. But its possible. And it has been rewarding even tho i die probably 90% of the time 
I did get my first kills recently tho.
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Ive adapted the fit through thrial and error. every encounter has been a learning experience. and ive arrived at a fit than can fend for itself against a majority of threats in a small NVY complex. unfortunately it does not have a scram so the only way to get a kill is if the opponent doesent warp away. surprisingly some dont.
Thatās for losers,
Zaera likes to win.
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Use t2 pulse lasers, mwd, mse, damage control, 2x heat sink. Youāll get more wins
I am too lazy to roam, and have a healthy wariness for activating stargates without knowing what is on the other side, so I live in a system which I know the opposing force will attempt to push. I stage in an NPC station there, use insta-dock/undock safes, and focus on fighting in the FW sites. This, in combination with only doing my DST hauling during safe time frames, means that I never sustain such losses. You could classify all this as āknowing your neighbourhoodā and āacting with due prudenceā.
I am not a fan of the Slicer myself, because the Slicer has a bad top speed, a bad turn rate, and poor turret tracking. The really successful pilots are either rocking High Grade Snakes, or vibe check plexes with a sub-2 align time, or both. @Aldrith_Shutaq is respectable with that hull, though. Personally, I prefer to use the Condor for as many roles as possible, because this character is Caldari. If I run into something a Condor can not do, I undock a Hookbill instead. Because I have over ten different fits for both, it becomes harder for people to deduce what fit I am undocking. If my character was less patriotic, I would also be using the Breacher a lot, because it is nice as a brawler, scramkiter, kiter and tackler too. Not kinetic locked. Bonus to shieldboosting. Kinda nice. Lacks that utility high I need for neuts and nosses, though, and that enables a lot of meme fits.
One thing you can do is poke the beehive, by oplexing the staging system of an alliance of the opposing militia.
I have never seen anyone do anything marginally useful with those. Navy Destroyers would be a better option. Even T1 Destroyers.
I mean yeah, Plexes are things intended to incentivize you to stay in a place long enough for someone else to find you, so that you can get a good fight. It is essentially like a romantic dinner table set for two as far as I am concerned. But due to decreasing attention spans, even this canāt convince people to refrain from roaming, so they miss out on a lot of fights.
Weāre still struggling with the negative aspects of the last overhaul. Better to wait for them to remove the Advantage system first, to eliminate mandatory PvE from the PvP-centric game mode. Same goes for 5-man sites, as those are just farmed by multiboxing krabbers, which also doesnāt vibe with a PvP-centric game mode.
I am low key starting to get the vibe that you might not be enlisted yet. If you start plexing in Fliet or Heydilies, I can practically guarantee that you will get a retaliatory response from them. I play during EUTZ, which is basically dead hours, like anything outside of USTZ, and I still get enough fights to not feel forced to throw ships away to get content.
The Frontlines system helped with that quite a bit. Was good. Weird that they took so long to eliminate LP profit from rearguards and command posts tho.
Problem is we want dank solo fights against people who actually fight back, so farming the tutorial area for easy kills doesnāt do anything for us.
Iāve only had one gang try that stunt on me since uprising released, and they ended up feeding in one by one because they did not anticipate the amount of DPS a Hookbill could put out.
Then you are bad at finding fights. Per definition if you have to leave your staging system to find them, you didnāt know where to settle.
The Loki also canāt fit into FW sites because it is thicc and T3.
It is a silly place, let us not go there.
Working out just fine for me.
Yeah, I do that too if I feel bad for people. But I actually check their fitās value before sending a reimbursement.
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I second that.
Solo is where itās at.
Why not? Gank a freighter with twenty billion, easy isk - right?
Oh wait, you canāt do it - so how is it easy?
Iād rather have a good 1v1 where both sides end up in structure than twenty billion isk, miss me with this nonsense, please.
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Actually no, you do it to pat yourself on the back and make yourself feel superior, letting the noob know that you pity them and one day they may be as awesome as yourself.
Zaera on the other hand just pods them
Nah, I do it to decentivize them from quitting EVE. Then I link them to a discord server which is set up as a library with FW guides and FW fits with user manuals, because if you teach a man to fish, he is fed for life.
I see , a bit like punching random strangers in the face then giving them the web address for self defence classes.
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When someone undocks, they signal that they accept risk.
When someone enlists in a militia, they signal that they want to fight.
When someone enters a FW site where I am stationed, they signal that they want to fight me.
I just happen to prefer it when my sparring partner knows what they are doing.
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Ok, but why not use the twenty billion isk to buy more stuff?
I think you are a liar.
How is it possible to have a ā1v1ā in which both sides end up in structure? Why isnāt it just one that ends up in structure and the other dies?
It sounds like youāre talking about testing your tank with a friend, and not an actual fight.
sorry @Jormungandr_Midgarosormr but PVP always pays for more PVP. If you have to do carebear activities to play the ācool partā of the game, you are doing something terribly wrong.
Get gud.