Player Features and Ideas Discussion

the subject says it all. we want that don´t we pvpers?

My idea of having fleet duel is exactly why the duel was introduced in the first place....so duel player against player? why not fleet duel as well?

How about a Mobile Duel Station (name is work in progress).

You drop one of these, a timer starts. Anyone who wants to participate simply has to click on it and select "Participate in duel"

When timer ends, everyone who clicked to participate is flagged for PVP with everyone else who click it.

can't be deployed within 50km of station or gate (or 100km or w/e) will keep this from being spammed outside choke points.

Maybe even have a list of participants and an option to drop out before the timer ends so you don't suddenly find out it is 50vs1 only after it is too late and you are flagged.

I don´t think that would work....what i was thinking of was: any fleet that wants to do a duel with other fleets expose their entire fleet 50 km from any station and drop a mobile advertizer unit that when dropped will turn into a big billboard like the concord ones saying that they are looking for a fleet duel. fleet duel invite would only be valid when the opposing fleet got the same number and type of ships regardless of the race to mach the advertizer. once duel accepted nobody else can join that fleet

I don't think this is a good idea. As stated earlier, if you want to pew, leave highsec.

As for low, it would severely undermine the mechanic of sec status and the costs (isk and/or time) of maintaining it. If my fleet engages another fleet in low on a gate, the gate guns add an interesting dimension to fleet warfare that I don't think needs to be removed.

The problem is that it encourages faux-PvP. Like it or not, the non-consensual nature of EVE's PvP is what makes it so interesting. With a fleet duel mechanic, it would prevent meaningful intervention from a third party in high-sec.

If you want to fleet duel, I would recommend you find a quiet, backwater low-sec system such as Tama or Amamake and duel it out at your celestial of choice.

Almost...

Every time I've used the dueling mechanic so far it has been to test ships, test tactics, etc... Being able to test stuff for small gangs and fleets using a duel mechanic would be frickin' awesome.

Doing this in low sec, null sec, and even wormholes gets to be impractical really fast. Good luck putting a group of 20 people out in low sec for an hour long training session without attracting unwanted attention that interrupts the exercise. Null sec you need to post eyes on entrances and every time a mouse farts the exercise will be halted until your scouts make sure it isn't an actual threat, not to mention the fact that the players doing scouting aren't participating in the exercise. Same thing with WH's, you gotta keep your picket fence up, sometimes you have hostiles roll into you that you can't afford to tempt, and wandering wormholes can appear in your system at any time. Just having a scout report that there is unwanted activity occurring nearby can make learning anything meaningful from the practice impossible.

Players in Eve should always be prepared for anything, at any time, but I must also empathize with FC's who wish to try new tactics and learn more about the game's mechanics without costing their fleet members isk, time, or even SP for something that may or may not prove useful in the future. Just being able to train new players in fleet tactics with this would be invaluable.


SiSi is also there to be used as a test bed, but it is also inconvenient for even a small group of players to use on an irregular basis. Getting the second client set up can be a task in itself, the players have to meet up, ship up, and then run their test. On tranquility these players are likely already in the same area, have a stockpile of ships ready to go or can easily be adapted, and don't have to deal with any technical issues they don't otherwise already have.

leave highsec and wait for bridge? pretty sure thats not what the OP is going for