Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It's all about awesome, and real combat in EVE is simply more awesome than arenas

If you don't find EVE fun, just don't do it then

Historically, fights in the arena have always been meant to be entertaining, not to provide training. While martial competitions were typcially held in high esteem in military nations, the fighters were typically slaves, criminals or other disposable elements; the abilities of arena fighting didn't transition well into the tactics of the ancient times, which were mostly reliant on highly disciplined closed formations, such as phalanxes.

The closest intermixture between public competition and military could be found in the spartan society, where competitions between soldiers were indeed part of the regular training. Note that the focus of these competitions was not entertainment value, they were not designed to be fair and participation was not optional; while the observer might have found those competitions entertaining, the competitioner most certainly didnt. Also keep in mind that those were the guys that thought throwing weak-looking infants into a chasm was a perfectly reasonable thing to do; I doubt that their understanding of what constitutes an "entertaining competition" would transition well into modern times.




Current gameplay mechanisms are not balanced for arena combat and would most likely result in an undesireable experience for the participants. In order to make arena work, specific rebalancing would be required. The current playerbase is not interested to have their game rebalanced to suit an arena environment.

get over your galaxies loss man

this is a different game

gamers just leave because of bad gameplay or because another game is getting better to fill their desire

most of the people talking here do not even play that much, they did maybe 5 years ago

most of the people do not understand gamers at all, they just want to collect ships and stuff and spin it all day long

you people treat your ships like gollum his ring

thanks on the input, it really feels like you are an expert on the game

It has happened in every single game to have followed your idea.

If you want these things then go play STO because that game is exactly what you are wanting.

oh really? for me it sounded more like a monkey is talking to me... but thanks for explaining

too many people here holding up the developement, they treat the game like their ships, the gamemechanics has put their minds into jail... free spirit with good ideas are like enemies in a static world resistant to change, at the end those will be the ones killing the game...

This game is growing every year while every single other MMO is losing subs.

yea thats why we won't add any new stuff anymore, right?

good you are no developer, the game would have had a cycle of 1 year