Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Is it really so hard to do a forum search for this topic?

If you can't be asked to look for/at the countless number of times this has been discussed, then I can't be asked to explain why it's continually shot down...

Let me do a forum search....
5 seconds later:
Oh look at what I found after typing in the word ARENA and hitting enter...

Consensual PvP Arenas
Virtual Arenas
Tourney Arenas
Controlled Arenas
Lowsec Arenas
Dueling Arenas
Ship Restricted Combat Zones
Dueling Contracts
PvP Arenas
Colosseums
Simulated PvP
PvP Simulator
Null and Lowsec Arenas
Duel Mode
The Thunderdome

and on, and on, andon, and on, and on....

Common reasons against an Arena:
1.) Arena PvP is not like regular PvP. As a pilot that's particpated in the Alliance Tournament, as well as run private tournaments, the setups and tactics are not very transferable between arena style and general PvP.

2.) Sisi

3.) Why?? Why have the developers spend their time on this aspect of the game?? To do this right, where outside forces couldnt interfere with the match, would require quite a bit of work. Rather than creating a contrived scheme for dueling, people can already duel... I do it all the time!!!

4.) If you could be assured of a "fair fight," where you don't have to worry about backup, you don't have to worry about fleet boosters, or faction fits, or blah blah blah, why would you go looking for a fight in lowsec or nullsec? This would be detrimental to PvP in those regions.

Yes, people go apeshit about ideas like this, because they see it as somehow being a threat to their own playstyle. Screw 'em.

An arena would be pretty awesome.

also, it might actually convince people that gallente aren't useless, they are just a niche race.

Where do you get this fact from? I'd love to see your source.

As I've mentioned on several of the other posts this is EvE, not WoW. In WoW, the content is provided by the game developer. In EvE, we're supposed to create the content because it's a sandbox.

So I'll say the same to all you lot who want an arena as I did last time and the time before that etc.: Go make an arena.

Rather than whinging about the fact that EvE doesn't have one go make one. If you don't have the imagination to manage it *snip* go play WoW.

If you really want to have an arena, can't think how to do it and really want to stick with EvE rather than moving to a game more suited to your*snip* let me know and I'll explain how you can do it.

I fixed to bad words for you!
Kind Regards
ISD Dosnix

Edit: Thanks and apologies. I shouldn't get annoyed with people who play a sandbox game who don't want to play a sandbox game. After all, there are a lot of fools out there. I'd best get used to it.

... of what?

ftfy

Precisely! Enough of this Themepark crap in EVE.

It's more a matter of mechanics than content. Of course, even if you don't consider that to be the case, I don't see you being able to claim that missions, incursions, plexes, rats, etc aren't content, and created by CCP.

pve pays for pvp.....play wot, a pure pvp game, and you'll appreciate this caveat feature. I have tier 9 tanks in wot that bleed credits on losses. Hell unless a good match I can be on the winning side and still lose credits (ammo and repari costs can kill me). Wot of course has a nice soluton for this...gold tanks. they get money made multiplier to make more money so you really have to blow it out your ass to not lose credits. Wallet warrior, play to win (as the gold tanks can get you to the high tier matches in about as fast as it take to have your online payment clear thier system on day 1 if motivated to spend cash ) the stigma attached to this however. Me...I jsut like my t59. A much better ride than lowe in many respects.



Also worth noting not all even use this. their sandbox is to scam people who run said pve. And the pure blood gankers....yep they need the bears to run this pve content. Not much good if the gank nets a CN invul....and no one has the isk to buy it when they sell. Hell, you need the bears running the canned content to get the damn cn invul in the first place with LP's.

a big reason why arena will not happen is ccp probably realizes from other games is that "instanced" pvp means matchmaker programming. And unless you have had better luck than I.....no pvp matchmaker I have ever seen has not sucked ass.


they are either too controlled for "fairness". This means long waits as MM finds a match that won't be a most likely ass raeping in the making. basic stuff....2 month noob in the frigate wait list will wait untl another about another 2 month noob shows. Otherwise you get the other probelm with MM..


Its too open in scope. Going back to the above example. To not have our frigate noob wiai for a "perfect" opponent to enter the arena MM will take whatever frigate is next in the lsit and say " Fight......". If its a 2 month noob with crap fitting skills and no money for faction/o gear life is good. Should be equal ships and skills and its not lamb to a slaugher. BUt if the next frigate up is a bitter vet of 7 years, has done the AT circuit a few times and is rolling up in HG pirate implants and skill wires 5% slots 7-10 and on combat drugs with a bling fit frigate.....2 month noob unless a natural god of pvp will be +1 to the killboard padding of the bitter vet.


Either of these paths will most likely have arena not very popular. this is why you need to join a pvp corp that does thier own thing. On the combat char I could always find a corp or alliance mate who was down to fight till hull. I was in a corp that held in house tourneys as well. Strict rules, and organized such that there was refererees and such with ship scanners. Rules of the toruney was no o-fit or faction (faction ammo the only faction item allowed on ship) , showed up to the meet as such, gratz, thank you for your entrance fee present as no refunds for tards who can't read, please leave now.