Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I really like solo PVP. It's a shame that it is so hard to find! (maybe some of you disagree but for me it is difficult to find reliably, especially outside of 0.0). I wish there was somewhere I could go, within easy reach of high sec, where I could solo PVP without constantly getting ganked. It seems like every lone ship in low-sec is bait, and the null sec that I have seen is very "turf-y", with each system more or less firmly in the hands of an alliance. Overwhelming reinforcements are always one or two jumps away.

I dislike the combat simulator idea that has been proposed here many times. PVP should be risky and permanents to maintain the balls-out feeling. People's time should also be devoted 100% to activities that will have a lasting effect in the universe.

Instead, what about an area of space where fleet networking didn't function? Call it "wild space", where interference from local phenomena prevents normal inter-ship communication. Warping to a fleet member would be impossible, as would broadcasting, fleet warping, etc. Perhaps the space could even interfere with IFF transponders, identifying friends as foes, or scrambling pilot names, corps and alliances. To make things really crazy, planet and moon (and gate?) names could be scrambled so even groups using TS could not easily warp to the same place.

The idea would be to create a "free-for-all" arena where each pilot was responsible for themselves and couldn't rely on a blob for backup.

What do you guys think? Is this something you would be interested in? Do you think this would actually encourage solo PVP? Is there even a place for solo PVP in eve anymore?

Thanks, I will definitely check that out. Though that is a good solution, I still like the idea of an area where free-for-alls are the only option. I want the other guy to be surprised when I jump him, and terrified and unready.

I'm thinking of scanning down a pilot running anomalies in a system with a handful of other people in local, for example. Currently fleets use a scanner scout to track down a target, then jump the rest of the fleet into system when they have a point. Fleet warps to tackler and kills target.

The situation would be a lot different though if the rest of the fleet could not simply warp to their tackler. Every ship would need an expanded probe launcher and moving as a fleet would require waiting for the slowest scanner every time. Furthermore, if ship types were hidden from scan results (for example) the FC would need to give a pretty accurate geometric description of where the target scan signature was relative to the sun and planets in the system. And if the planet names were scrambled too, it would be even more difficult.

A lone pilot though could jump in, drop probes, zero in on a target and warp straight there. Maybe they are not sure what they will land on, but that would be part of the fun and the risk/reward. Maybe it's a careless noob mining. Maybe it's a vet with a proven and versatile fit. I would be stoked to land on a rook if I had some eccms. There are plenty of curse counters out there. I think that ships in eve are "more balanced" solo than they are in groups, in the sense that for all solo fits there exists some solo counter-fit, whereas in multi-ship battles it largely comes down to numbers (assuming people understand basic gang fitting).

As for the falcon alt: this is exactly the kind of thing that makes very small scale pvp in eve no fun. Fitting skill, stalking skill, piloting skill...none of that matters because of the falcon cloaked 100km away.

I think that fleet pvp in eve is awesome, it works great and is lots of fun. But there is another side to eve pvp, which is very rich and deep and already fully implemented in the game, but almost entirely unused! All it needs is a system or two where the falcon "undo" button is more difficult to use.