EVE General Discussion

People often complain about hard to find good PvP fights in Eve because there is no mechanism to ensure fair fights. CCP should create such a mechanism to make PvP activities easily available and fun. It is quite simple to do so. For example a PvP flag can be added to the status of a fleet. The number of ships in the fleet can be 1, 5, or 10. The FC can turn on the flag and start fleet roaming. If two such fleets with same ship count get close enough, they are then warped to a location and fighting starts. At this point, no other ships are allowed to land on the same grid to ensure fair fights. I am sure if CCP wants to implement such a mechanism they'll come up with a far better design.

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Friendship is magic.

There is no such thing as fair in eve (love, war etc...). You can counter large fleets of casuals with a well prepared and freaking expensive small fleet of Nerds...fair enough?

No.

If you want something like that, go arrange it yourself. Locking space off is pretty much antithetical to EVE's design. It's also open to massive abuse.

Whether other games do it is irrelevant, because EVE is not those games, and they most certainly aren't EVE. That's probably why EVE is one of the more popular MMOs on the market, and why it has survived the death-spirals that all the wow-likes have succumbed to.

1. EVE is like most MMOs and that's good. Arena PvP is restricted PvP, which there isn't and should never be in EVE. Escalating fights are what cause things like the battle of Asakai. We like the unique flavor of EVE and want it to stay unique.

2. It SHOULD disrupt you though. You should have to make an active choice to either engage in PvP or do your other stuff. It shouldn't be something you just queue jump into like WoW battlegrounds. Again, this is due to the unique style of EVE

3. I've seen fleets of 5 rip fleets of 20+ to pieces. The only way this would be balanced is to put in point limits like the alliance tournament, but then the whole system would become elitist anyway and you'd still have problems. A massive alliance could afford to squeeze the most amount of performance out of their ships using faction and officer mods to ensure they get a victory, and guys like you that just want to roam around wouldn;t be able to afford to keep up. Again using WoW as a reference, this is like when you first join battlegrounds, and everyone has all the PvP gear and beats you down in a hit or two. The difference here is that in EVE if you lose, you'd lose your ships and gain nothing, while in WoW, even if you lose, you win.

In short its too restrictive to add to a sandbox like eve, and would completely separate itself from the rest of the game. You could however look into red vs blue. They arrange arena fights with each other all the time, and is pretty much the player built example of what you are asking for. Alternatively, you are free to design your own corp based around arena PvP, with leaderboards, prizes and medals. As always in EVE its what YOU make that counts.

EDIT: Oh and CCP don't really care if you are 3 players or 1 player with 3 accounts, they get paid all the same. The loss of their existing player base if they were to implement game changing mechanics like this would be too costly for the few new players it may or may not bring in.

That reason is because they are WoW clones.

EVE is not that kind of MMO.

You again with your tech 2 nonsense. Can't wait to hear you cry when you meet a falcon.

its going to take me 9 days to train light missiles to level 5 from level 4. Is that considered short for low sp players?

If you think that is long wait till you get to those 30 day - 90 day skills to go from lvl4 to lvl5