Two weeks since my last post, but I'm still here, still in EVE pretty much every day, but for the last two weeks I've not been in Solitude at all.
July 1st saw the start of a month long YOLO SOLO event - go out and find as much solo PvP as you like, get blown up, blow up other people, have fun and make sure you write up your (mis)adventures.
There are mystery prizes, as well as 1st, 2nd & 3rd for most solo kills. I've even managed to win one of the mystery prizes so far as I blew up someone who'd previously blown me up. Nice, and the extra 25million prize was promptly spent on more ships to get blown up.
In the last two weeks I have managed to gain 1 solo kill (as above) when I tried to act as bait in a battle venture. Unfortunately for me, I suck and the guy was able to destroy my Venture before I could take out his Thrasher (I was hoping for a T1 frigate).
Unfortunately for the guy, he then decided to hang around in the belt and take on the local belt rat. I had an Incursus in station in the next system, so I went straight back and blew him up, then scooped the loot from both our wrecks...and won the additional 25million as mentioned earlier. Result!
Other than that kill, the previous two weeks have been littered with my wrecks;
Incursus Tristan Merlin Algos Incursus#2 Incursus#3 Incursus#4 Algos#2 Incursus#5
I don't have a good ratio of Kills:Deaths (1:10) and I've lost more ISK than I've blown up (something like 40million lost vs 6 million killed), but I've enjoyed every explosion. After every fight my heart is beating faster.
Hopefully I'm also learning and improving. Even after only a small number of fights I feel that I am managing the engagement better, I'm not dictating the fight on my terms yet, but I am understanding what's happening. I'm managing my modules better (though I did spend one entire fight repeatedly turning my guns on and then off before realising that I hadn't actually locked up the ship I was 'engaging').
More kills will come, no doubt and at the end of the month I'll be back in the peace & quiet of Solitude...with the occasional trip out looking for trouble ;)
