Warfare & Tactics

The idea is simple.
Create a system that players can go to that will only allow you to initiate combat with one player and only if that player isn't in combat and hasn't been in combat for 5 minutes.

This will hopefully give the winner of the previous battle a chance to recover or get out of Dodge if they can't repair before they would be engaged again.

I really like the idea of fights being ship class specific. for example cruiser vs cruiser, frigate vs frigate, BS vs BS.

This could really be a fun way for players to mix is up without losing your favorite ship to a roaming gank squad.

Personal Disclosure:
I"m fairly new to the game and haven't done any intentional pvp, I'm not in a player corp yet, but I am curious to see some PVP action, without having to take someones bait cans.


In closing I would like to say that EVE is a big universe; surely there is room for just one solo pvp system.
It would also make sense that 0.0 players would have a direct jump point to it that wouldn't involve traveling Hi-Sec space.

0.0 space is expansive, but from what I hear not well populated. The Arena style system would be a great place for players to hone their combat skills and not automatically get smoked becuase someone has more friends in closer proximity.

As the saying goes more pew pew pew = more fun..

Comments Welcome.

I think your missing the point. Eve is a multiplayer game start making friends. Solo pvp isn't dead, many people do it quite successfully in frigates.

If you want something to this effect, I would suggest Red Vs. Blue. I'm not 100% sure what there rules are on 1v1's but they are a great group to learn the basics from. Good luck.

I understand what you are saying, but we are only talking about 1 system out of how many 1,000?

not sure if serious or just trolling


i totally like your idea though bro, and we could like, have an ELO rating system that shows our rank under our name and at certain levels we could get
"Vengeful Space Gladiator" versions and then
"BRUTAL SPACE GLADIATOR XXX CAKE" versions of our ships and maybe we can enchant them to have cool glow effects and then we can all float around jita 4-4 and /spacedance

Eve is not an arena deathmatch E-Peen gloating video game. And that is why I don't like this idea. You want friendly consensual PVP, Red v Blue is the closest you are going to get. You want real PVP, get out of high sec.

Its pointless. Want to go PvP then you don't need an arena system. Just undock and head to low-sec/npc null.

Hell we're back at October 2008 population levels, low-sec is empty (apart from FW areas), null npc is dead and most of sov null docks up when a neutral comes into system.

In short there has never been a better time to try solo PvP. The probability of being ganked away from busy routes is extremely low.

Edit - actually finding a target is likely to prove harder than killing it. No joke.

I generally don't find many solo fights with Othran. He has a fair bit of experience in flying solo and you tend to find that makes people wary. I'm not claiming he has great killboard stats (I don't even look at KMs these days) but its more likely I'd have to go for a 1 v 2.

Might not start that way but I find most people won't engage without a buddy on call. Varies a lot depending on what you fly and where/when.

I can only assume killboard stats/employment history/whatever has something to do with it as I have an alt with similar skill points and he doesn't have a problem finding a solo fight even with similar ships.

I suspect a newbie PvPer would have little difficulty finding solo fights. Winning them might be a different matter.

You said you liked the feeling of danger in Eve. That's the one thing Eve has and other major MMOs don't - any instancing will kill that feeling stone dead and then what's the point of playing Eve?

While I would love an easier (or rather quicker) way to get dogfights, I can't see how this idea could be implemented in this game in a good way. I can however see several possible executions that would be terrible.

This exists already. For years actually. This is how it works:

"Hello corpmate, would you like a 1vs1 ? "

If you're in a NPC-corp you're clearly stating you DON'T want to interact too much. Thats fine. EVE is a sandbox. YOU decide what happens. That includes PVP. If you want an arena, set it up.

Small edit: I complety agree with the post above

I''m missing something in most of the replies I see.
Are you all saying that Eve PvP is fine the way it is?

Common are comments about 0.0 space being mostly abandoned.
Common are comments that the game is fine the way it is.
I've read comments that the Devs are looking for ideas to improve the 0.0 space participation. I'm just pitching an idea.

If the current participation of pvp is fine and working as intending and what does it hurt to add another option to a sandbox?

Are you naysayers concerned that a solo only system would become so popular that it would threaten the activity levels for the other 7,500 systems?

I'm seeing some good comments and I appreciate you all taking the time to share with me.