Player Features and Ideas Discussion

can you put in a bulls-eye with Rise's face on it too shoot please?

can you tell I'm still miffed at his eagle hating ways

is this really the crowd you think should be rewarded?, do you really think sugar coated bullshit pvp is going to add anything to the sandbox?

So you want to make an Instance in Eve which allows two player to fight. I don't understand why this is even in development. This idea is everything that Eve isn't. Eve isn't fair, Eve isn't safe. Its one server where anyone can shoot anyone. You are basically taking one of the core values of the game and smashing it with a Theme park MMO hammer.

This isn't on TQ. However, long term, it may be. (Note the may.)

This isn't a way to get rid of non-consensual PvP. It's a way to let people have consensual fights in a place where loss is meaningful.

There's an appetite for it, after all. (See RvB, for example).



As for 'slippery slope', that's an argument that's very hard to go against. Without a time machine, to look into the future, to see if anything has changed.

why try a feature that has no reason even being in a prototype stage. Eve isn't an instanced theme park mmo.

I didn't put any restrictions on it, but I've only tested it in null systems. You might get concorded in a match in highsec now that I think about it. Probably a bad idea to do that.

I've set up moveme to send folks to station in FD-MLJ, just join the channel "moveme" and say "moveme".

This should be pretty epic and will lead to a whole list of player run events, gambling, debauchery, and what have you. +1 for listening to the players and +1 when this gets implemented and flushed out.

Things to already build on and consider:
-Ability to set prizes
-Ability to ban ship types
-Maximum 10 v 10 fights
-Betting
-3rd party viewing
-Allow haulers to dock at the structure and drop off ships
-Allow courier contracts to be assigned to a dojo


Now, if only we can tie SOV into this, as someone already mentioned, "gladiator style" so when there's a stalemate, i.e. big blue doughnut, things can be settled like men

Question for the aesthetics of this: is this just going to be a tiny little blip in space like the MD or MTU?
-Have you considered making this a giant superstructure of sorts that has to be built in space off a planet. I mean it is a 125km sphere radius of doom, so the thing is massive. You could have some special designs for each faction given their flavor (blood raider would have skulls and offering tables littering the structure's exterior or a corporate, modernist Caldari style structure, etc). Consider a giant ball that uses a bubble's sphere of effect to mark the grid with the structures top and bottom "generating" the sphere (will find a picture or make a quick design later)

This would allow them to be built in highsec, destroyable through a wardec, and limited to 1-2 per system. Lowsec/nullsec could have it's own style (more grandiose or run down) and be attackable at will. Allow for a few mini timers like a POS given the structure's size and the contents it would hold

Yes it is a way to get rid of it. The two pilots end up in an instance on TQ. If you want to do this, go on the TEST server or find a SS. Eve is about risks, and this take a lot of the risk out of Eve.

Red vs. Blue is doing it right, if i come across a red dude shooting a blue dude, i can lock and shoot one or rep the other.

If this was an idea proposed by a random EVE player, you'd have a point. It isn't though. It's a fully functioning prototype made by CCP and is clearly introduced to gauge the community response before committing to adding arenas to EVE. The things shown to lead to the decline of world PvP in other MMOs. Also CCP themselves have always stated they don't usually commit to developing new systems just for test servers, since they can't justify spending that work on few hundred testers when it could be used to improve the game for tens of thousands. I'd say there is certainly a cause for concern over this. Those concerns might not end up manifesting to real threats, but now is the time to express them.

I'd say the methods possible for outsiders to influence the arenas determine whether this is a cool addition to the game or an abomination in the sandbox that needs to be cleansed with fire. From the initial glance it seems to avoid the worst pitfalls, so I'll go into the wait-and-see -mode until the project progresses further.

this is a little extreme however i agree keep it of TQ so long as it never makes it there this is a cool idea