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*IDEA* Alliance Tournament Like PvP Arena

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Princess Nexxala
Zero Syndicate
#21 - 2013-08-28 18:28:50 UTC
Anything that would add mechanics to the game for controlled/fair pvp would be a very bad thing. Sure I want bears to get into pvp, but this type of "arena" setup , while shitting on the spirit of Eve pvp (unfair, **** you, brutal), would also attract the wrong type of pvpers. Those being the no risk/ no consequences/ pvp delivered to me type that IMO can just keep bearing it up or stick to their blobs of f1 monkeys. The reference to other games was to point out that their pvp is really ******, precisely due to the nature of the Arena/Battleground mechanics.


Admiral EnderWiggin wrote:

I meant it to be like the alliance tournament format, Is that wrong ? I don't see why it would be a carbon copy of another game. And it would also be designed with the intent of getting more players into PvP ... the PvP the way you like it in null sec , etc. There are a LOT of players in eve that only do PvE content ... why would it not be worth it trying to take them into PvP activities ?

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Logical Chaos
Very Italian People
The Initiative.
#22 - 2013-08-28 18:34:01 UTC
Oh god please. I bet this idea does not only come from the Alliance Tournament. It is a WoW Thing! But please, you do realize that even the WoW devs regret that they ever put something like that into an MMO. It simply doesn't fit and ruins the WHOLE other PvP (i.e. open pvp).

Why? Simple: People will want to stop getting blobbed or have no roams where they end up finding nothing. Therefore people will stop working out ways around blob and stop practicing better target search and just queue up. This will carebear the game down to an unimaginary level: All the instant gratification kiddies will join and this game as we know it is dead.

Sorry even the current FW Plex mechanics are dumb but I guess they can be justified somehow. An Arena on the other hand: not.
cearaen
Plus 10 NV
#23 - 2013-08-28 19:44:45 UTC
Admiral EnderWiggin wrote:
The arena would be set in an unreachable system or maybe even on a separate server so that only the two teams would have access to the battle space,....


This is where I stopped reading.

Players currently run alliance like tournaments. There were certain leagues etc. *But they are good because they are part of the game universe* They don't get to break out of the eve reality to do them. Players have to take their own security measures etc.


That said I think if the players wanted ccp to design more stuff in the game to help them build arenas that would be good. Not artificial instanced arenas though. Arenas that exist in the game and cost money. Constructing a space arena would be like constructing anything else in eve. It could be destroyed and you wouldn't have complete control that the players could not interfer with events. Maybe it could be equipped with sentry guns that fire on people that interfere and of course other players would need to be ready as security too. Think of any sporting event type security in the real world. There will be your occassional streaker or even bomb. Sporting events aren't held in an alternative universe that no one can access.

Such activities IMO could be a source of great content in the game. Not only who wins but who attacks the games and how the potential terrorists and game organizers try to run the events.

So maybe it would be something like a tournament sphere that paints a ship if it goes out of a certain radius so it would be easier to identify boundry violations. I'm sure the players that have run these leagues in the past would have ideas for new stuff that would help them run tournaments without removing them from new eden.
Admiral EnderWiggin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2013-08-28 20:31:03 UTC
cearaen wrote:
Admiral EnderWiggin wrote:
The arena would be set in an unreachable system or maybe even on a separate server so that only the two teams would have access to the battle space,....


This is where I stopped reading.

Players currently run alliance like tournaments. There were certain leagues etc. *But they are good because they are part of the game universe* They don't get to break out of the eve reality to do them. Players have to take their own security measures etc.


That said I think if the players wanted ccp to design more stuff in the game to help them build arenas that would be good. Not artificial instanced arenas though. Arenas that exist in the game and cost money. Constructing a space arena would be like constructing anything else in eve. It could be destroyed and you wouldn't have complete control that the players could not interfer with events. Maybe it could be equipped with sentry guns that fire on people that interfere and of course other players would need to be ready as security too. Think of any sporting event type security in the real world. There will be your occassional streaker or even bomb. Sporting events aren't held in an alternative universe that no one can access.

Such activities IMO could be a source of great content in the game. Not only who wins but who attacks the games and how the potential terrorists and game organizers try to run the events.

So maybe it would be something like a tournament sphere that paints a ship if it goes out of a certain radius so it would be easier to identify boundry violations. I'm sure the players that have run these leagues in the past would have ideas for new stuff that would help them run tournaments without removing them from new eden.


I like your ideas take mine and yours together and we might have sonething nice.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#25 - 2013-08-28 22:11:59 UTC
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