Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well it should be able to check implants maybe putting implants inside too and then you will have them in your cargo at the arena and your current implants if there are any destroyed at the moment of teleportation
And the team clean sweeping the opponent 100-0 should be disqualified if 1 of their frigate pilots violated the boundary? really?
that's why you need full set of tools at least on sisi to have fights run smoothly and in decent time spans

While respecting both sides of the debate, I have to point out a few things.

Putting what is essentially a training room on the live server is NOT inherently a bad thing... nor is it a "Un-EVE" thing. It is simply another tool.

The only clear mistake is this concept (quite forgivable as it is a rough prototype) is pitching it as combat taking place in a secure dead space area.

If instead it was pitched as an "In game combat simulator" where a "virtual battle" was taking place there wouldn't be quite the huge wave of concern right now. To make this seem correct the two pilots who enter into actual combat in this manner should disappear from local.

That way, for all intents and purposes, the pilots involved are in a "simulator pod" somewhere.... like an arcade in space... and are essentially considered out of normal bounds much like anyone else who is docked.

It's a subtle change of mindset, but there it is.

The advantages to having a combat simulator/training room on the live server are immense, and the only folk that will likely use it will be folks either training noobs.... or noobs themselves trying out combat for the first time.

Now if you are simply giving it a thumbs down because you don't want the population of combat experienced pilots to go up... well... that fairly lame my friend.

If you dislike this because it challenges the stark, harsh, consequence filled nature of EVE... seriously... relax. You're not going to find people abandoning their normal activities in EVE to take part in an endless series of 5 minute matches. And even if some did devote themselves to this, they aren't the pilots you'd find in space making a contribution to the game anyway. They'd be the pilots that never leave the noob systems (or undock period), so you've lost nothing.

If you think about it, it's fairly silly that something similar hasn't been part of EVE since the beginning... as it only makes sense to have a method available (on the live server) where you can try out different fits and tactics in a combat situation that isn't constantly prone to outside interference. It simply doesn't make good sense to NOT do this.

So just think of this as a training/combat simulator on board that station, an arcade within a game if you will. Eventually your sphincter will return to normal.

they can only shoot things that can shoot them back

cloak is a single person instance - deal with it

Baltec1, respect, but the popularity of the tournaments we all enjoy says otherwise. We enjoy those on a very regular basis, and the same logic that necessitates their isolationist nature holds true for this situation as well.

Competition and training in 5 minute matches isn't going to harm the harsh nature of EVE in the slightest... other than to perhaps raise the general quality of pilot you meet in combat.

Exactly.

NO ship in space on TQ should be "un-screw-with-able", not even the one I'm sitting in that I did 10 hours of incursions to afford (*pats Machariel like a favorite pet*).

The core concept of EVE means something (to people who actually care about EVE). You don't screw that up in even minor ways because people are too lazy to scan out a wormhole to find an empty system to screw around in unmolested.

Gotta disagree. I can take the tool as something cool and handy for running your own competitions but I cannot back something that will effectively instance you from the rest of EVE and stop people from messing with you. Thats before we go into all of the ways we can abuse this thing.

And then stuff like AT, NEO and solo pvp videos happened, and people liked it.

Bad POS management is a core aspect of the game, I won't cry when CCP fix it.

Deal with it and HTFU.

No, it should involve actual ships being destroyed, at least that way my industrial activities will be unaffected, maybe even boosted if lots of people engage in Dota-in-space.

Again, instead of "highlighting" why I'm presumably wrong you keep posting your opinion on how I'm wrong because you said so.

I wonder why

We do have both right now. You can run 1v1s and I can backstab you and vice versa. This removes my option to backstab you (and adds a bunch of underhand uses a few of which I pointed out)