PVP Report
This focus into my “Alone PVP” endeavours,
using usually 2 tons. I might eventually team up with the occasional friend
during my “Alone PVP” roams, but any kills/losses I achieve in a proper fleet
are not posted or analysed here.
I’m not even going to lie about my goals as an
”Alone PVPer”. I want to find people, deceive them and kill them. I’m a brawler
at heart, so dying is inevitable, but I want to make sure I manage to kill more
than I lose. While not trying to be an Isk Efficiency fanatic, I do prefer to
use cheaper affordable ships to kill more expensive ones.
A4D joined Dead Terrorists Alliance on a
temporary basis and left in the end of the month. Why so? Some of our members
were interested in doing some Turkey shooting, and by Turkey I mean Goons.
Fellas wanted to experience some fleet action in a Sov Warfare context, and
shoot Goons, so we needed to join the MBC. A4D and some Dead Terrorists
corps have an old history together, so
we were invited to take part on the festivities.
I already knew I wasn’t going
to join alliance or coalition fleets, so my biggest concern was to have half
the freaking EVE Universe blue! Fortunately it wasn’t as dramatic as I was
afraid… Near Curse region, SLYCE and Darkness were blue, but all the Russians
in Catch were not, so I messed with them instead. Far from Curse, the OSS were
the only blues I found, but then again, I spent most of my time messing with
Russians in the East and South.
Unfortunately the CFC crumbled all too fast, so
no more reason for A4D to be in the North, and we left Dead Terrorists on good
terms, going back to Curse and AFK status due to spring and summer coming…
People seem to love the warm weather more than a computer game... If global
warming hits hard and if America becomes a tropical paradise A4D won’t even log
in the winter!
COMBINATIONS FLOW
Next graph shows how many ships I killed and
lost, using my most usual combinations.
Still addicted to Dual Hull Brutix. Killed 85
ships while losing 24.
Funnily enough, I also used a bait Combat
Exequror backed up by a Vexor to mess with some T3 Destroyers camping near my
home system. They all ran away from my Exequror as I landed on their bubble and
avoided engaging me. While coming back home with a broken heart, an Orthrus
engaged me, only to be surprised by a scrambling Exequror! It was worth dusting
those ships of the hangar after all!
HOSTILES KILLED
Let’s take a better look on the hostiles I
killed. Next graph shows what ships I killed and how many.
Most kills were Vexor, Vexor Navy Issue and a
bit behind Gila and Myrmidon…
T1 Cruisers continue to be dominated by Vexor
and Caracal by large margin, and this is likely to continue. Vexor Navy Issue
and Gila are still heavily used for both PVP and PVE.
I’ve noticed a tendency for people to use more
and more Combat Battlecruisers as they do provide a good midpoint between a T1
Cruiser and a HAC.
During this month I killed 51 different ship
types, even though mostly only 1 or 2 of each, so people like to bring some
variety to the field. This month I hardly killed any Caracal or Svipul, but the
Gila keeps showing as extremely popular. People complain about “Svipul Online”
but for me it seems it’s more “Gila Online” for 4 month in a row.
Following graph shows the Isk value per ship
type.
HELLO MR. FACTION FITTED SIN! Me and my mate
Wicked Angel in an Osprey Navy caught this fella while he was returning from a
disconnect. Oddly he decided to never engage and tried to make back to gate,
but we managed to bump him several times and eventually he died after tanking
130k hitpoints… Had he decided to engage, he would have killed us all easily,
so I’m glad he didn’t.
Next spikes are the Orthrus and the Tengu. I
also managed to kill a couple of these and they turned out to be faction
fitted, netting me around 2 Billion in loot.
Finally we have a Raven Navy Issue and some Gila. I
never ever ever EVER recall having seen a Raven Navy Issue… I don’t even know
why the ship has not been popular in the last 10 years, but this month I caught
one traveling gates. Peace to his odd appearance.
Even though many ship types killed might attest
for a good variety on the field, I created some Categories in order to
understand better the different ship classes I managed to kill.
My top preys were Faction Cruisers (by far), Interceptors,
Combat Battlecruisers and T1 Cruisers. Combat Battlecruisers consolidating
their “re-appearance” this month.
How about isk wise, in what categories I’m able
to inflict more economic pain?
Faction Cruisers once more time, by a HUUUUUGE
difference. Sure, there’s the Black Ops, but that’s more of an oddity. T3
Cruisers showing as pretty expensive too.
HOSTILES KILLING ME
Equally important is the notion on what ships
are being used to kill me. Solo players always complain about being “blobbed”
all the time. Well… I WANT for my foes to try to “blob” me, I WANT to fight
outnumbered, I WANT for them to bring their best, so that I can outsmart them
and kill them, just before I bail out teasing them!!... or die trying… Of
course, once my foes bring too much it’s time to safe up and let them vent in
local on how I’m a coward because I’m not throwing myself at their 15/20 men
fleets for their leisure.
1st thing I checked was how large
were the fleets that actually killed me, or in other words, how many people are
in my losses killmails.
Generally speaking, if I died to a gang of more
than 10 people I was probably simply ganked.
If I died to a gang with 5-10 people, I was probably
surprised by unexpected backup.
My preferred targets are mostly gangs with less
than 5 people, and if I died, it probably means that I made serious mistakes
and/or assessed the situation very badly and that there is a lesson to be learned
around on how to make better next time.
Looking at the graph, I was ganked by large
fleets 3 times… This is very acceptable!
I died 9 times to gangs with 6-10 people. This
is definitely too much and it tells me that I simply don’t know when to quit
and call it off XD. Usually 5-10 man fleets do take some time to form, so I’m
pretty sure I’d have ample opportunities to get safe. I should be more careful
and not be caught by fleets this size that many times
I died 12 times to 1-5 man Fleets… These are my
intended targets and I seem to find these a lot, so I still believe there are
good opportunities to a solo player/small gang out there.
Let’s take a look to the ships that actually
managed to kill me.
Largest spike are Ishtar, mostly because I got
caught by a fleet of 15 of those. It was a fast death…
I also died a lot to Svipul (every fleet brings
one), Stiletto, Gila and Crow. Interceptors are pretty much always deployed to
catch me and people just love to bring their Gila (even if fitted for PVE) no
matter what.
There are also many many ships that show up in
my Killmails once or twice only. A total of 61 different ship types were used
to kill me. I pretty much think this shows that EVE is healthy when it comes to
variety and small gang PVP.
Let’s look at the Categories used to kill me
This month it’s Faction Cruisers, Interceptors
and HACs that killed me the most. The HAC spike is mostly explained by the 15
Ishtar gang I met. Also showing up strong are the Combat Battlecruisers, a
rising category in my latest travels and, of course, T3 Destroyers.
Ships that completely dominate solo wannabe
PVPers, like ECM Cruisers and Logistics, aren’t really used all THAT much. I
find that extremely good news for me and other solo guys out there.
That’s all I remembered to take a look at in a
PVP Report. Send me out a mail if you think I overlooked something, and make
sure to undock and go out there!
TRADING REPORT
MARKET PROFITS
This month profit was around 6.2 billion… What
happened for it to be so low?! I blame Goons… Yes seriously! I blame Goons!!
Once this whole “World Word Bee” kicked in, my
profit in Hek plummeted. The war raged on the North and Hek is in the South, so
everybody went “up there”. I noticed a strong diminish in my profits already in
the last week of March, but the beginning of April was excruciating, even with
me updating orders every day. Also, according to other market bloggers, all
trade hubs seems to have been negatively affected and some new temporary hubs
in the north showed up to fuel the war effort.
Still the war was not the only factor… As I saw
my profit go down, I made myself a question, I had not the answer to:
How much profit comes from “old stock”, and how
much comes from “new stock”?
I call “Old Stock” orders that are up for more
than 15 days or so and “New Stock” orders with less than 15 days, coming mostly
from items just recently brought from Jita. Since I already was taking a hit on
my profits, I decided to take this a bit further and try to get some
estimative. Sure, It was being an abnormal month, so results might not be 100%
accurate, but better make this experiment while already having a bad month.
Therefore, this month of April I did not
purchased absolutely NOTHING to resupply the Hek market. My costs were mostly
PLEX, PVP Brutix and some Blueprints that I’ll address later on. I kept
updating orders on a 1 or 2 day basis. I managed to sell the above mentioned
6.2Bil, meaning that about 60% of my profits come from “Old Stock”… Quite a
lot. I already knew Hek was a slow moving market (and I like it that way) but I
expected my “New Stock” to be more important than it actually is. This is not
necessarily bad news, as I can get more lazy now, telling myself “Oh, old stock
is more important, so I’ll just buy stuff tomorrow…. Or the next day” XD
This tactic also allowed me to free up lots of
market orders, as well as get some liquid isk to invest in these new Citadels
things as well as new Capital Mods. At the end of the month, I had 53 liquid
billion available, ready to spend after the new patch hit.
Once the new patch hit I bought Citadel BPOs,
Citadel Mods and some new Capital Mods, but that was all addressed in my
previous Blog post, dedicated to that particular issue, so I won’t repeat
myself here.
HAULING EXPENSES
I didn’t haul anything… Soooooooo smooooth….
Sooooooo relaaaaaaaaaaxing…
PLEX EXPENSES
Payed my 2 accounts with 1 PLEX each, costing
me a total 1,9 Billion. Plex is lowering and I hope it lowers even more! 300
million Plex days where are you?! Come back!!
On the other hand I have no idea how many of my
customers buy market stuff resorting to PLEX funding… I might be, indirectly,
making more profit with expensive PLEX, having more people buying my market
stuff with isk obtained via PLEX, rather than saving isk directly from the PLEX
I purchase to maintain my accounts. Who knows…
BLUEPRINTS
This month I had 3,5 billion profit, by selling
111 contracts with an average of 32 million profit each contract. 350 million
were BPC profits and rest is BPO profits. This was the month I earned the most
in Blueprints, ever, beating last month record.
I currently research around 300 different BPOS…
this means that when I finish up a “research cycle” I won’t have much stock
lying around, as stuff already probably sold. As an example, I see no advantage
in researching 10 “Neutron Blasters” at once they sell very slowly, so I prefer
to research one of each gun from all races.
I purchased 13 Billion in a Medium Citatel BPO
and Citadel Mods BPOs. 500+million BPOs went to Curse to research in NPC Null
and cheaper BPOs will be researched in a Hi-Sec Station. Once I bought the BPOs
I made 5 BPC from each BPO, completely unresearched, to start making some isk
immediately, and while waiting for these BPCs to sell I’ll research those BPOs
in short cycles. Priority right now is to always have BPCs ready and up on
contracts. In the end of May I’ll be able to present how much isk is rolling in
from Citadel Mods BPC sales. For a 13 Billion Investment, they better be worth
it!
I started training my PVP toons to research
BPOs in Curse as is an AFK process, and I can just update jobs once I die and
spawn back into Curse. It takes a month training, so not that much anyway.
MISCELANEOUS INVESTMENTS
Did not bought any Capital BPOs in order to
resell them… Looked for good deals but found none.
Finally, my Overall Graph
