Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What is The arena?
• The Arena platform gives players the ability to plan and host pvp events in a more
controled fashion
• It is a content creation tool
• It offers tournament and betting options to make it more engaging and easy to find and create pvp content

What features would the arena offer?
• The ability to create real duels between players with no outside
interference ( Remote reps, Links, etc )
• The ability to create tournaments
• The ability to place bets
• The ability to decide on the fight rules


What are the pro’s and con’s of the arena ?

Pro’s
• You can have fights with no outside intervention (no links no reps no friends)
• New players can practice fighting in a more predictable controlled setting
• A powerful content creation tool
• PVP tournaments with a competitive feel
• Betting!

Con’s
• Can be hard to implement
• Not sure how it could deal with advantage from implants or boosters
• Difficulty spectating the fights. How would that work?
• Would render the current duel mechanic obsolete in highsec
• Unsure how multiple fights could happen at one time without instancing


How would it work?

The arena structure would be dockable.Once docked you would be presented with the familiar items and fitting window and an interface.

Situation A) You are a solo pilot in search of a quick fight so you either create an open challenge to other people or you can accept an open challenge of someone else. The interface will give you the options to restrict the duel to certain ship class
or specific hull and may even offer the ability to wager on the fight.

Situation B) You and a few friends want to have a 5v5 skirmish,proceed to create a challenge the same way as with a solo duel. The same options to restrict and define the rules of the fight are available.

Situation C) You want to host a smal tournament, you can use the interface to start
one. You will have the option to choose the time the tournament starts,the minimum and maximum number of pilots that can sign up. You can have an entry fee .
Choose between single or double elimination. Prizes can come entirely from entry fees or the tournament creator can add isk or item prizes from his own pocket.
Prizes can be paid out in multiple ways such as Cascading arithmetically (Cascading arithmetically is 1 share, 1/2 share, 1/3 share, 1/4 share, 1/5 share, and so on) , Cascading exponentially
(The way cascading exponentially works is that first place gets 1 share, 2nd place gets 1/2 share, 3rd placers get 1/4 share, 4th placers get 1/8 shares, and so on), or winner takes all.

Situation D) A pilot wants to spectate a fight and place bets on it. he will be presented with an interface designed for placing bets on said fight

In closing i think this can be a very fun and interesting tool for players to use. This can be the equivalent of Rome's Colosseum. I would love to hear what you guys think and pick this apart,maybe come with improvements on the idea. If people will like this idea i will make some concept art for the arena structure and a mockup for the interfaces.

And before anybody trolls me,yes i did use the search option and i did read "The dojo" thread, but i think this is different enough to be worth it's own thread.

Cheers. Let's have fun with this one.

or you can just u know.. tackle the person and create a 1v1

This sub-forum is called Features & Ideas Discussion not Features & Ideas Trolling. If you want to debate the idea is bad go for it, say why . Trolling here is just a waste of time and doesn't help the eve community grow at all :) and btw i don't mind if you think it's bad but i do want to hear some reasoning.

This got shot down for a reason, even when a dev proposed it.

So the Dojo concept surfaces again, didn't like it when it first turned up don't like it now. If you want fights divorced from the possibility of influence or interaction from the rest of EvE then log onto the test server.

Not supported.

No matter what you say attempting to isolate players from the sandbox with an instanced arena is not healthy for EvE, this is one of your concepts major similarities to the Dojo proposal and is also the main reason I object to it and to arenas in general.

I too do not use the search function.