Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Instead of Brain in a Box we get EVE Arena. Great.

Me too, although perhaps the fact that your ship would be in a somewhat special "state" while in that arena might allow them to be coded to be unaffected by boosters.

Not happening, only goonies can have fun in eve it's the rules.

this literally rapes the fundamental principles of why I play this game

if this becomes a thing and continues to receive this kind of insipid adulation... I don't know

could we at least attempt to fix the core mechanics of the game (you know, the ones that make it not a stupid ******* WoW clone, again, which I'm pretty sure we're all playing this to avoid in the first place) instead of adding niggling features that have literally no place in a sandbox game and by their very nature cheapen and dull the fine edge of elitism and frustration that make this game what it is?

I could get behind deployable arenas only under the condition that the arena was destroyable. In otherwords, the way I would work it is that some corporation or other deploys an arena where they can set up tournaments etc. . .; that the arena is deployable in a manner akin to a pos and that it is destroyable in the same manner. Of course people who want to use the arena have to travel to the arena - no instant teleportation. This way if people want to setup tournaments they can do so, provided they can defend the arena, and the arena itself becomes part of the meta game of eve, allowing folk to disrupt the tournament/arena if they so desire.

If this becomes a "thing", then you are gonna see hisec carebears wanting the option to shoot corpmates removed. End to awoxing and safaris.

First step to making Eve a competitive PVP game outside of tournaments. The important part is to, from the start, prevent abuse and exploitation. A lot of this is in the hands of the players as well as the devs. Lets support CCP as best we can with this.

The 1v1 is a good start but I think this could easily get expanded into larger teams.

What I like about having players stocking their own dojo is you can really customize the kind of fighting in your dojo. It would also be nice if there could be some sort of in game support so that players can stream their dojos and organize the contestants so that player run tournaments are possible. I think that giving individual players the tools to change how their dojo works such as: make brackets, allow it to be best of multiple matches or single/double elimination, 1v1 or team fights, module/ship/implant restrictions, changing point value for ships (huge gripe a lot of players have for AT is the point value for certain ships/ship classes), arena size, etc. Brackets don't really need to be implemented within the dojo but owners should be able to select who fights who.

Would be nice if like a pos the dojo owner could select pilots who can help run their dojo, similar to pos roles. Allow certain players to operate the cameras and stream your dojo, allow certain players to stock your dojo, certain players to referee or move the specific participants of each match.

This level of customization will cater to a much broader audience, certain dojo organizers would be able to 'compete' for their dojo's popularity and prestige. More popular/prestigious dojos could charge larger and larger amounts for entrance to their tournaments, etc. Also if launched like this it would require much less attention/maintenance from CCP moving forward. All that would be needed is bug fixes, balancing is done by players.

Adding more toys in the sandbox is good for the health of the game. Variety is the spice of life.

I still would like a global MMR arena system eventually with rewards such as skins, medals, etc. for placing high in each "season" but I will take what I can get with dojos for now, even if I don't think I will be that interested in the 1v1 format (rock paper scissor fest).

I don't understand this. On TQ where would the ships and modules come from? Would they have to be bought and then stocked into the whatsit? Surely they wouldn't be spawned. Do the participants then pay for them?

This is very exciting news. Duels are really fun, but they can be tampered with to no end. It would be nice to have a legitimate 'tournament' like setting in addition to all other avenues of pewpew that currently exist.

I only barely skimmed this thread, as I can see it becoming a threadnaught by day's end, and I see a whole lot of anger directed towards this idea. I just can't, for the life of me, figure out why an option that would let two willing participants fight each other, mostly free of being ****** over by others, would bother some so much. I mean, does it bother the general playerbase that tournaments exist and can't be ****** with? What's really the difference? It's not like everyone everywhere is suddenly going to stop shooting at other spaceships outside of the 'dojo' the moment this gets (if it gets) released.

Wow really? I thought I was playing EVE not WoW.