Well, after a month of playing and learning it seems that it's indeed not a game for a "lone wolf" unless you have been around for a very long time.
I was expecting to get smashed a lot by other players in pvp, but it seems unless I limit myself to mining in totally safe regions or mission running (as boring as fighting offline in AH) I can totally forget it. Not just because I lack experience and a lot of player skills, and not even because I don't have the money for better equipment. It's extremely lopsided because my pilot has not the skills yet to use the equipment necessary to survive more that just 4-10 seconds when being jumped by just a single enemy (most of the time it's many more).
All I could do so far was totally avoid combat with other players by not venturing into low sec... which doesn't make the game very exciting or fun for me.
Looking at the skills I figure it takes my like another 1-2 months of real time to be able to get be on par with the majority of "bad guys" which only would start to give me something like a small chance to survive at least every once in a while. I'm afraid I would have to wait even longer than that to be really able to play as a lone wolf...
Too bad, as I really like the complexity of that universe.
(a dismayed Lusche)
