Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I had many duels in eve and all people had healers next to them to heal them.Duels is another big lie of eve pvp .

I m not talking for fair 1 vs 1 just a 1 vs 1 system.I m talking that I have a 10% only in my whole fights that were really 1 vs 1 even if they were tech 2 ships high skilled players etc and I lost.At least it was 1 vs 1 but still this thing almost doesn t exist in EVE.I have seen it in other games like aion,wow,runes of magic,fallen earth,lineage 2 and many many other games.

It could be interesting for players to have a genuine 1 v 1 mechanism though, say if you agree to duel then you both warp to a set of co-ords provided that activates a warp jammer or such once both parties enter. only one can leave unless the other concedes defeat and the winner allows them to leave too.

Duels factional warfare null sec anything.I couldn t find any 1 vs 1 in my one year of play never.

i haven't looked for 1v1 fights despite my year long pvp fest as i know i am not very good at eve yet. i have several friends that solo pvp though. i have also been in several 1v1 fights against my will when traveling to meet my fleet, leaving fleet early and flying home or while performing scout duties. So solo still exists , people search for it all over and i find it against my will from time to time. small gang fights are more fun though imo as the added complexity makes for good fleet v fleet duals when 2 evenly matched groups engage. those 15 vs 30 fights where the smaller cheaper force prevails are the ones i remember with joy as well as the 100 vs 100 fights where the tackle of both sides fence around the edges of grid trying to pick off other tackle before the end comes and one side needs to run.
sorry rambling a bit but eve has so many forms of pvp and every time you uncover another layer you find more layers underneath.
it really is turtles all the way down.

If you go to rancer you will get alot of 1v1.

As the OP indicated, it's a Marketing issue.

Sigh, all PvP EVE has is Skill Point Blob vs Skill Point Blob. Unless some real blunders are committed, blob worth more skill points would always win. EVE has no PvP to offer to newer characters unless you can get enough of them to cover the skill points gap of the blob.

I'm sorry but this is one of the few times where I have to step in. EVE is a great PVP game. In fact I would go as far as saying its THE PVP MMO. Here is the reason:

Everything is player driven. Unlike most other MMOs, pretty much everything you use in game was made by a player. Whats better PVP than that?

Speaking of combat alone I can say with quite a lot of authority that there is in fact a lot of solo and one vs one PVP opportunities, you just need to learn how to find it. That being said I can also say that most people in game do NOT fly alone. The game was not designed around solo ships, that would be very counterintuitive. Just because solo combat is hard does not mean this is not PVP. Solo combat is realistically hard. You can't expect one man to take down an army in RL, and you can't expect the same in EVE.
If you can't accept that a game that offers PVP in every single aspect of the game as a true PVP game then you are being a hypocrite. Yes you will die, and a lot if you are trying to fly solo and win. I can attest to that. However, there is no PVP more rewarding than taking a single ship design which you've perfected to maximize your chances of winning against multiple targets and actually winning outnumbered. I don't think there is any other game that plays like that.

I should add with a minor rant here that if the game did offer an instanced arena it would be completely abhorrent and terrible and people would complain about it constantly. Want to know why?

When you do find people who are willing to true 1v1, half the time both of you show up in overtanked zero dps ships and want to fight on station so that if it's going badly you can de-agress and dock or you end up killing the other guy's frigate after a 20 minute marathon where the threat of running out of ammo was entirely legitimate. If the game did bring in a true solo arena this would be a massive issue. Case in point there was an alliance tournament some time ago, can't remember which it was where the rules allowed you to bring more than one logistics and/or remote reps from other sources. Any team that didn't take advantage of that to field dual logistics died in a fire if their opponent fielded two of their own and when both teams used dual logistics neither team would ever die with many fights often determined by who managed to quick primary and pop a single frigate. As a result CCP had to restrict logistics and remote repair in the tournament so that stuff would actually die. So I can fully envision fights where both players in a solo arena fire their entire cargo holds empty and then have a staring competition waiting to see who gets the most bored first and just hit self-destruct to get out of this silly nonsense.

Seriously now, who among you can't see the pages and pages of threads about how bullshit arenas are because you can just over tank if CCP were to ever actually put them in. Be glad CCP put in the voluntary limited engagement timer because that's as close as you'll get to an arena and as far as I'd support even though I make no use of it myself because it's a trap and I'm not setting it. (Nevermind the -10 sec status).

By finding real in-game pvp you avoid this problem because being overtanked in the real game just ensures that YOU can't kill your opponent, he can still call in enough damage to instapop your worthless brick if you can't kill things quickly out there.