I played it like a year ago for half a year, I was a solo pirate.
Beat these:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8631366http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8732660http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8898768I basically made friends with everyone I killed whom I saw some potential in and eventually had a semi-decent network of players.
The last one I'm especially proud of as that guy was one of the leaders in the biggest pirate corp around those systems. He had been really annoyed with me since active pirating had stolen a lot of kills from their passive gatecamping, while slipping through with my fast frigate. So he got a super-pimped Dramiel (which was incredibly OP at the time) and went out to find me. I took the battle to him and together me and my two new noob friends (one in a t1 frig, and one in an assault frig) assaulted him in a belt, where he was waiting. The moment we engaged in battle 20 (!) people entered the system and started warping to our location. But thanks to my custom-fitted ship and some manual flying I managed to catch the 170 million Dramiel, kill it with the help of my friends and get out just in time before the huge blob of top-tier ships could destroy us. One of us (the guy in a t1 frig - net worth 1.5 million lol) didn't make it out in time and I was just locked by the time we entered warp so it was damn close but you should have seen the chat afterwards.
Aah, good times. I quit that game due to the fact that I had to spend days grinding missions to fund the PLEX's. My piracy supported itself but it didn't profit 300 million a month :/