EVE General Discussion

Hello my fellow eve players,

I was thinking about that duelling mode aka "1 vs 1" feature that will come to hisec soon-ish.

There are many posts about pros and cons. And there are many demands for "arenas" based on that duelling mode as a restricted environment to shoot people in hisec, which is called "consensual pvp".

I for myself believe that, besides war declarations and the current ways to use Concord reaction time as a mitigation, the designated pvp-spaces lowsec and nullsec could suffer here. Or else: Why should I go to the dangerous lowsec when I can pewpew in hisec?

Now I am asking you, a part of the community who actually uses the forums, about your opinion on this. Are duels, arenas etc. as a game mechanic to do "consensual pvp" a good thing in this unique sandbox MMO called EVE Online?

There are NO designated pvp spaces in Eve, pvp is only handled differently in each security state.

I think such an option could privide some fun. Imagine two dudes duelling, with a third biding his time to carry out a gank as soon as one of the duelists is below 20% shields. AFAIK a dueling option doesn't have to be more difficult then generating a LE between two players when they both consent.

I especially liked the part where you created a whole new thread after admitting there were already plenty on the topic.

Good job. Darwin Award winner.

Agreed. I have expressed myself in a bad way here.

So, question still is: How does that arena-pvp thing affect the open influence structure of eve, especially pvp-wise?

To be honest, Arena PvP in EVE seems a little moot.

Part of the thrill and excitement of PvP in EVE is that at any given moment you might get unexpected outcomes and parties to your fight. This makes the experience emergent and exciting.

If a group want an "Arena" for fighting then there is a test server, which is ideal for tournament-style play because you can find a private system easily and all the items cost 100 ISK.

CCP market EVE on the basis of fighting for a reason - just look at pretty-much every release trailer video. I believe they would better-spend time working out cool ways of finding good reasons to fight rather than just sticking in an arena.

I don't have to die to win a Darwin Award.

If they were at 1hp a single rookie ship could pop them both.

Don't see how or why everyone thinks they're trying to copy WoW, though. It means more ship combat on top of all there already is. They're not making things safer or more noob friendly in any way.

Then I guess we need to make them invulnerable for a while after the duel. Long enough to warp.

Arenas won't make EVE PvP more attractive for me though they will allow to burn more ships - which is good for economy. So I think it's ok.

And if low-sec will be less populated as a result of arenas implementation - it's ok for me too because it will make exploration more accessible.