Warfare & Tactics

Is it actually 1v1 or are there a slew of loopholes involved that pretty much mean your always going to be fighting a small gang.

kinda like the whole lowsec suspect flag gate gun exploit

There is nothing preventing other people from taking part in your duel besides the normal aggression limitations. Honourable combat is therefore in no way mandated by the mechanic. It just allows players an easy way to have fights between themselves.

I guess you could always do some work to make sure there is a lower chance of interference. Things like, if you're worried about remote boosting you can invite them to a shared fleet, so both sides get the same boosts or if remote repping is the concern, fight at a location where suspects are aggressively engaged by your own backup or by the locals.

If I recall you can be podded in a duel. You decide if that's safe.

Duels just create a limited engagement between the person that sent the request it and the person he sent it to.

That's all it does, nothing else. It's exactly the same as if you had a Limited engagement with that person for any other reason.

Also it's a mechanic and EVE is a video game, nothing "noble" is involved at any point, the events that occur are fictional.

"Noble"?!?!? WTF??? This is intarwebz gaming... Get a grip, man...