Help landing on EVE.

[Jangooon]

Hi i've gotten a ship to match EVE's orbit very closely, however both our speeds are almost exactly the same so i'm not sure if I can ever catch up to EVE(or it catch up to me). How would I go about slowing my orbiting speed or doing some other orbital maneuver so that both of our paths cross eventually?

[Khrissetti]

My usual Eve transfer tactic is to wait until Eve is about 60 degrees behind Kerbin (Imagine a line going from kerbin to the sun, then out to Eve, the angle is the the one between those angles)

Then I leave Kerbin's SOI and reduce my Solar Pe to intersect with Eve's orbit. Quicksave then slowly burn pro or retrograde until patched conics says I'll intercept.

[EndlessWaves]

Hi i've gotten a ship to match EVE's orbit very closely, however both our speeds are almost exactly the same so i'm not sure if I can ever catch up to EVE(or it catch up to me). How would I go about slowing my orbiting speed or doing some other orbital maneuver so that both of our paths cross eventually?

Reduce/increase the size of your orbit if you want to travel faster/slower than the planet, identical orbits always have identical speeds.