I have all the engineers within the bubble unlocked, and run grade 5 mods on most everything. No PP, or alien stuff except for the FSD booster.
So, my question is: Can a simple G5 engineered 'Vette hold it's own against the majority of the Open crowd? Assuming one-on-one of course. Thanks.
Yes, it can. With some caveats.
Depends on your build. If your build is bad for PvP (no MRPs, no hull, bad shield choices etc.) all G5 in the world doesn't help you.
If you run into a CMDR with reverb torps, and you rely on shields, you're toast if you don't highwake out quickly.
If you run without module protection and lose shields, you propably lose your FSD or thrusters and are toast.
You propably won't be able to kill your assailant, because your time on target will suffer against agile foes.
Conversely, if your build is good a single ship never will be able to kill you before you jump out either.
Yesterday I fooled around with my Corvette against
@NCFCpaul and we did two friendlies with my Vette (fixed PvP loadout, 7A prismatics, standard armor)
against his Krait MkII and Mamba. Both fights took about 7-10 minutes until I dropped him to 20% hull. If he had run, I'd not be able to stop him,
and he couldn't make a real dent in my shields either. Will load them up later. He wasn't running an anti-bigship loadout though.