Right so this is the question for those of us interested in PvP.

How does someone survive in Eve by living only in one character, playing almost totally in a PvP environment?

This discussion needs one very important qualification and that is that you should NOT be using a second character.  Purely living and dying by the autocannon (missile launcher, hybrid turret or whatever).

Plenty of people are doing it, at least that is how it appears.  There are those who are amazing at PvP and clearly those people make their ISK by killing nubs like me who are still skilling up and learning the game whilst spending their ISK.  But what about this path for a new player?

It is certainly true that the solo route is certainly not viable for a new player. Not if you want to sustain yourself ISK wise and maintain a decent income whilst PvPing.  The advice of all those veterans I met at the start of my career was very true. Get into some good company and work in groups.  Someone on this blog way back at the start told me to go to a big 0.0 alliance “everyone needs a hero tackler.”

Personally I have spent around 200 million ISK learning how PvP works solo.  It has been a blast, I have absolutely no regrets but what really started to bite was the reality of Eve.  My wallet is getting worryingly low.  However lets look at the plus side, I think I am now pretty good with a directional scanner and made some good ‘friends’ even if they all seem quite keen to blow my ship out from under me every time I see them!

In the end I got chatting to Vordak Kallager the CEO of Autocannons Anonymous Corp slogan “Don’t worry, we’re incompetent” (what better home for meh?).  We had a bit of a laugh about PvP and had a chat about getting the right source of ISK.  In the middle of the chat there was an offer of a trial membership to Autocannons Anonymous.  So rather than piddle around any longer solo I signed up.  I have seen them about in Low Sec so they are in the right place for me.  I have fought some of their members solo when out and about as well and they seem pretty chilled out about it.

Anyway back to the point of this post.  The first thing someone like me, who is into PvP needs is learn how to survive long enough to be able to kill something.  They also need a source income whilst they continue to specialise their skills for PvP.  So this means low sec roaming looking for Factional warfare targets.  Some of my old corp mates from Pro Synergy Lucy Royal had invited me into FW a while back unfortunately she was fighting for the Amarr which kind of didn’t fit my character.

Anyway, like many before me the best thing for a PvP interested player seems to be to get into the high risk low sec environment and at the same time to minimise your risks by being in a faction where you can have mega mates to help you.  Bingo – Autocannons Anonymous and the Minmatar Faction looks like a good bet.

So far this line of thinking has cost me a Thrasher without any return…. ok so the next few posts will focus on giving this some serious attention.