EVE General Discussion

This is a spectacular wonderful idea. I want to do it.

This is a part of Eve that everyone excepts when they hit the "Undock" button. The race should have these dangers also. This also would test pilots skills with fittings and piloting. Instead of pushing warp, jump, warp, jump, warp, jump. (Hot Key FTW).

Count me in if you add some excitement like sandpeople sniping at our ships at certain places and other obstacles like that. Perhaps allow weapons like smartbombs, every one would be allowed one SB each to motivate players to not get to close, or the opposite...

this is eve so don't think boring F1, think mario kart

All this talk of ganking, word to the wise, tiny sig, extreme speed = good luck hitting anything,and smart bombing way too east to exploit, mmmk?

I'm too old in game to be worried or annoyed by people trying to gank racers.

That's part of the game, and heck if I had a large bet on a racer who was in second place I'd make the call to have my hired thugs try to take out the guy in first place.

That's a very EVE thing to do.

don't see why ccp can't release a checkpoint gate bpo.

Here a quick update:

To join the "New Eden Racing" channel, left click on the bubble in the right corner of your chat window. This opens the channels window. Type "New Eden Racing" without the quotation marks and click join. Once you have been in that channel, it will appear in the player channel list. So don't worry about closing the chat window, you can find us very easily through that list.

Thanks to The Bismarckian we have made a choice of the system we want the race to take place in.

If you have been racing under the SRV (Julian Rigel's sub-warp racing venture) you will be pleased to know that I have been building a track in Ikao for the nostalgic among us. Keep in mind: the Ikao track has been built to comply with SRV specifications. Bookmarks will be available shortly. Ikao will not be the location for the NER races !

NER (New Eden Racing) is set to improve on the SRV rules and will look and feel more spectacular due to a slightly different way to build NER tracks.

Jill.

The NER races will most likely be held in Concord sov. space.

The test should include the following factors to be interesting:

-Speed
-Cap Stability
-Agility
-Warp Speed
-A very small amount of combat ability (let's say they'd be forced to shoot down an unarmed frigate before they can progress to the next lap)

This way you don't just get something like this for every contestant:


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Navy Micro Auxiliary Power Core
Navy Micro Auxiliary Power Core
Navy Micro Auxiliary Power Core

10MN Digital Booster Rockets
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II

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Small Ancillary Current Router I
Small Ancillary Current Router I
Small Ancillary Current Router II

The races at this first meet will be sub warp only, there are plans for more events like long distance racing if this first event is successful.

As for snake implants, drugs etc I'm not sure what to do, I want the races to be as accessible as possible.

There may be an extra race for the most pimped out characters.

But the main event will be skills, modules, rigs and overheat only to encourage pilot skill.