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Prototype: Dojos

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PineappIe King
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#561 - 2014-09-25 22:01:30 UTC  |  Edited by: PineappIe King
Can CCP please stop making changes to EVE Online? You are doing a horrible job and ruining this game!!!!!

If i wanted to play world of warcraft arenas I wouldnt play this eve online. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US???

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#562 - 2014-09-25 22:05:07 UTC
Zappity wrote:
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?



Bought/Manufactured then stocked into it.

No paying yet. But this is a rough prototype.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter

handige harrie
Vereenigde Handels Compagnie
#563 - 2014-09-25 22:07:58 UTC  |  Edited by: handige harrie
Depending on how you have to insert ships into the unit and how big of the Deadspace pocket is, this can be exploited so bad it's not even funny. Safespots for Supercaps that can't be probed down here we come.

But plz implement it, it will make using low skilled alts for FW plexing much easier with lesser people hunting for you and give people a new way to transfer across the galaxy without using Jump Clones.

Baddest poster ever

Bamboozlement
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#564 - 2014-09-25 22:10:27 UTC
PineappIe King wrote:
Can CCP please stop making changes to EVE Online? You are doing a horrible job and ruining this game!!!!!

If i wanted to play world of warcraft arenas I wouldnt play this eve online. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US???

STTTTOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

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This change is not for blobbers, it's for people looking for 1v1s and to help the growth of a competitive pvp scene for eve (see the AT, NEO, etc).

HTFU

I have a Ph.D

Shank Ronuken
TURN LEFT
#565 - 2014-09-25 22:11:24 UTC
CCP Prism X wrote:
There's something inherently novel about submitting prototype code on a design that's quite clearly going to be controversial, and then go post about it here to create a bit of forum drama, on your second last day at CCP. Scorched Earth all the way!

Man I'm going to miss you and your Cowboy ways.


#Rekt
Lychara Mikakka
1400mm Parabellum Bullet
#566 - 2014-09-25 22:30:32 UTC
Randolph Sykes wrote:
You're messing with the entire ~sandbox~ thing. Don't implement this on TQ, please. This is beyond dangerous for the game.


Indeed. I can't even imagine EVE making such horrible thing.
But I don't dislike it at all... Let me explain something.

EVE is a sandbox. You can do whatever you want in the game. Most of "fun" made by players and consumed by players. This is what I love in EVE and this is why I'm playing EVE.
If you want 1v1 arena - go ahead and MAKE IT!! Become the central leader of all psyhopaths! Create a corp or even alliance with fabulous name like "Gladiator Arena" or "Fight club", pick a system, recrute some guards to controll the process, organize a tournament, make rules, take bets, connect Twitch.tv and stream the fights, et cetera... It's not easy, but it is possible. Game resources allows you to do so.
That is something I would like to see. Maybe I'd be part of the team, maybe i'd make bets or even attack it in the middle of a duel for lulz. This is fun.
And this Dojo feature is just ruining the game concept. "Duel" system is enough. You can stop now.

Pardon my bad english. I rarely post, especially on english forum, but this time i just cant stay silent.
If I didnt post
I
will
feel
guilty.
Bamboozlement
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#567 - 2014-09-25 22:42:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Bamboozlement
Lychara Mikakka wrote:
Randolph Sykes wrote:
You're messing with the entire ~sandbox~ thing. Don't implement this on TQ, please. This is beyond dangerous for the game.


Indeed. I can't even imagine EVE making such horrible thing.
But I don't dislike it at all... Let me explain something.

EVE is a sandbox. You can do whatever you want in the game. Most of "fun" made by players and consumed by players. This is what I love in EVE and this is why I'm playing EVE.
If you want 1v1 arena - go ahead and MAKE IT!! Become the central leader of all psyhopaths! Create a corp or even alliance with fabulous name like "Gladiator Arena" or "Fight club", pick a system, recrute some guards to controll the process, organize a tournament, make rules, take bets, connect Twitch.tv and stream the fights, et cetera... It's not easy, but it is possible. Game resources allows you to do so.
That is something I would like to see. Maybe I'd be part of the team, maybe i'd make bets or even attack it in the middle of a duel for lulz. This is fun.
And this Dojo feature is just ruining the game concept. "Duel" system is enough. You can stop now.

Pardon my bad english. I rarely post, especially on english forum, but this time i just cant stay silent.
If I didnt post
I
will
feel
guilty.


Eve is a sandbox, your way to play is not the only way to play.

If people are looking for fair 1v1s or train for the AT/NEO tournaments they should be able to do it, dojos won't remove player interactions and the "solo pvp" community will grow.

Eve shouldn't pander only to YOUR gameplay, AT is really popular and eve combat is fun I don't see why I have to roam for hours looking for fights just because you don't like consensual pvp.

This picture is a quick compendium of terrible posts (often made by nullsec grunts) that people made when CCP introduced duels : http://i.imgur.com/5v1zptC.jpg

You can see that eve didn't die, pvp didn't die either and it's still a sandbox. Roll

I have a Ph.D

Andy Koraka
State War Academy
Caldari State
#568 - 2014-09-25 22:48:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Andy Koraka
I would actually LOVE to see a live version of this show up on TQ where pilots get in their favorite ship and que up to fight solo or with friends in arena style PvP, preferably with a wide variety of brackets based on hull types and/or points, solo frig, 5v5 Cruisers, ect. and when your ship dies in the arena it's gone forever, thus staying true to EvE.

The system also shouldn't "create" ISK, but it would be best IMO if players paid a modest entry fee when they que up. That way the promise of prize money, some portion of the entry fees (90%) would draw player interest making it popular. Picture also concepts like " high stakes" dueling brackets where where each player sets down 50, or 100m to fight a frigate duel, winner take all. This too is "True to EvE" since the house (the NPCs 'organizing' the arena) gets a cut, while the players RISK their ships and ISK or the potential REWARD of their opponent's loot/entry fee
Icarus Able
Refuse.Resist
#569 - 2014-09-25 23:07:33 UTC
Bamboozlement wrote:
Lychara Mikakka wrote:
Randolph Sykes wrote:
You're messing with the entire ~sandbox~ thing. Don't implement this on TQ, please. This is beyond dangerous for the game.


Indeed. I can't even imagine EVE making such horrible thing.
But I don't dislike it at all... Let me explain something.

EVE is a sandbox. You can do whatever you want in the game. Most of "fun" made by players and consumed by players. This is what I love in EVE and this is why I'm playing EVE.
If you want 1v1 arena - go ahead and MAKE IT!! Become the central leader of all psyhopaths! Create a corp or even alliance with fabulous name like "Gladiator Arena" or "Fight club", pick a system, recrute some guards to controll the process, organize a tournament, make rules, take bets, connect Twitch.tv and stream the fights, et cetera... It's not easy, but it is possible. Game resources allows you to do so.
That is something I would like to see. Maybe I'd be part of the team, maybe i'd make bets or even attack it in the middle of a duel for lulz. This is fun.
And this Dojo feature is just ruining the game concept. "Duel" system is enough. You can stop now.

Pardon my bad english. I rarely post, especially on english forum, but this time i just cant stay silent.
If I didnt post
I
will
feel
guilty.


Eve is a sandbox, your way to play is not the only way to play.

If people are looking for fair 1v1s or train for the AT/NEO tournaments they should be able to do it, dojos won't remove player interactions and the "solo pvp" community will grow.

Eve shouldn't pander only to YOUR gameplay, AT is really popular and eve combat is fun I don't see why I have to roam for hours looking for fights just because you don't like consensual pvp.

This picture is a quick compendium of terrible posts (often made by nullsec grunts) that people made when CCP introduced duels : http://i.imgur.com/5v1zptC.jpg

You can see that eve didn't die, pvp didn't die either and it's still a sandbox. Roll



You do not need anything like this to do these things. If theres something it should be player made.
white male privilege
Doomheim
#570 - 2014-09-25 23:23:37 UTC
create only one of these, make it permanent and place it it poitot
Sturm Gewehr
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#571 - 2014-09-25 23:33:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Sturm Gewehr
I don't think people realize that the tools for arena/tournament style pvp are just not in the game unless CCP is directly organizing and running it. You cannot regulate fits, implants, boundary violations, countdowns to prevent early locking, time limits, tidi, spectator cameras that don't interfere with or can be interfered with, pod immunity, etc. If eve was "real" it would be trivial for organizations to run tournaments with these restrictions in place. You can make all the rules in the world but you have no seamless way to enforce them without the tools something like the dojo would introduce. There are mechanics for sov, facwar, dueling, pos bashes, wormholes etc. in the game but there is nothing for tournaments without CCP interaction.

There is a playerbase that highly values tournament/arena style pvp. Unfortunately this only exists on the live server twice a year in NEO and AT. Many players only pvp during these time periods because EVE otherwise does not support their style of play.

To everyone complaining about how this shouldn't be implemented because of potential XYZ exploit, this is a prototype on a test server. If we are already recognizing it now you can be sure CCP will fix it before it does go live IF it goes live. If they don't all the proponents of it will be slamming CCP for not doing something about it when it was a known issue day 1 along with the rest of you. I don't think CCP wants another monoclegate.

Giving players the tools to run their own tournaments (assuming dojos evolve to support this) is a huge boon to the small competitive pvp community and will drastically improve the quality and skill level of participants in the AT and NEO because teams will be more practiced and CCP will have more opportunities to evaluate their rules and craft a more competitive meta.

And if you don't like dojos robbing you of your content then go blow them up! It is interesting how many players here who are complaining about losing out on content belong to organizations that deliberately deny content with blue lists/NAPs/not engaging without massive superiority and also use content denial as a form of warfare.

For everyone complaining about eve becoming safe just remember that losses do occur and the are REAL, AT runs can cost into the hundreds of billions. The ships are REAL, the ammo is REAL, when they blow up there is a REAL wreck just like anywhere else. Just because arena style combat is introduced does not mean CCP or the players are just going to pack up sov, NPC 0.0, FW, dueling, wardecs, suicide ganking, wormholes, etc. and just focus on dojos.

Also keep in mind if this becomes a well implemented function within the game it could draw more subscribers. Not everyone who starts playing eve because they heard about a giant sov fight actually goes into sov warfare. Not everyone who does dojos will do dojos 100% of the time.
Sturm Gewehr
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#572 - 2014-09-25 23:34:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Sturm Gewehr
Icarus Able wrote:
Bamboozlement wrote:
Lychara Mikakka wrote:
Randolph Sykes wrote:
You're messing with the entire ~sandbox~ thing. Don't implement this on TQ, please. This is beyond dangerous for the game.


Indeed. I can't even imagine EVE making such horrible thing.
But I don't dislike it at all... Let me explain something.

EVE is a sandbox. You can do whatever you want in the game. Most of "fun" made by players and consumed by players. This is what I love in EVE and this is why I'm playing EVE.
If you want 1v1 arena - go ahead and MAKE IT!! Become the central leader of all psyhopaths! Create a corp or even alliance with fabulous name like "Gladiator Arena" or "Fight club", pick a system, recrute some guards to controll the process, organize a tournament, make rules, take bets, connect Twitch.tv and stream the fights, et cetera... It's not easy, but it is possible. Game resources allows you to do so.
That is something I would like to see. Maybe I'd be part of the team, maybe i'd make bets or even attack it in the middle of a duel for lulz. This is fun.
And this Dojo feature is just ruining the game concept. "Duel" system is enough. You can stop now.

Pardon my bad english. I rarely post, especially on english forum, but this time i just cant stay silent.
If I didnt post
I
will
feel
guilty.


Eve is a sandbox, your way to play is not the only way to play.

If people are looking for fair 1v1s or train for the AT/NEO tournaments they should be able to do it, dojos won't remove player interactions and the "solo pvp" community will grow.

Eve shouldn't pander only to YOUR gameplay, AT is really popular and eve combat is fun I don't see why I have to roam for hours looking for fights just because you don't like consensual pvp.

This picture is a quick compendium of terrible posts (often made by nullsec grunts) that people made when CCP introduced duels : http://i.imgur.com/5v1zptC.jpg

You can see that eve didn't die, pvp didn't die either and it's still a sandbox. Roll



You do not need anything like this to do these things. If theres something it should be player made.


Take out all the sov mechanics in game and then tell all the sov players to make sov themselves.

Let me know how well it goes over.
Arrendis
TK Corp
#573 - 2014-09-25 23:56:24 UTC
X4m wrote:

and....can I destroy this structure?


Good job demonstrating you haven't read any of the thread. Yes, the deployable can be killed.
Lychara Mikakka
1400mm Parabellum Bullet
#574 - 2014-09-26 00:04:14 UTC
Bamboozlement wrote:

Eve is a sandbox, your way to play is not the only way to play. Eve shouldn't pander only to YOUR gameplay

Please, read carefully. I never said otherwise.

Bamboozlement wrote:

If people are looking for fair 1v1s or train for the AT/NEO tournaments they should be able to do it

Wha~?! Wait, they are not? Is this forbidden? CCP, explain yourself. Lol

Bamboozlement wrote:

I don't see why I have to roam for hours looking for fights

Neither do I. Lol

Bamboozlement wrote:

just because you don't like consensual pvp.

Wha~?! When did I say those?!

Bamboozlement wrote:

You can see that eve didn't die, pvp didn't die either and it's still a sandbox.

Read carefully, I never said otherwise.
Solo pvp is dead because people want it dead, also. Roll
My opinion here is - "If you are to lazy to make it yourself - you dont need it".

Friendly reminder that all above is my personal, subjective, unjustified opinion. I never said that MY OPINION = FACT. The reason I'm leaving posts here is to give my feedback on those feature to CCP. Still, my opinion will stay the same. No doubt the same goes for yours and everyone elses.
Haedonism Bot
People for the Ethical Treatment of Rogue Drones
#575 - 2014-09-26 00:09:32 UTC
EVE does not need this type of "arena" experience. Any group of players can already always fight each other anywhere, anytime. If you want a 1v1 with somebody, you can already offer to duel them. Sure, they may show up with neutral logi and wreck your day - that's the whole spirit of the sandbox. You should never be 100% sure that you are going to get a fair fight. If anything, fair fights should be rare and accidental.

No, I don't think this will kill the game, but it is another step on the road to ThemePark EVE. You guys should know better than that. There are plenty of other game companies out there that do the whole themepark thing better than you do. CCP simply can't compete in that market. You are best off to veer back towards the sort of content that makes EVE unique and special - player generated content. Stick to giving us new and better tools with which to ruin each other's day - leave all that themepark bullshit to WoW and its ilk.

www.everevolutionaryfront.blogspot.com

Vote Sabriz Adoudel and Tora Bushido for CSMX. Keep the Evil in EVE!

Sven Viko VIkolander
In space we are briefly free
#576 - 2014-09-26 00:29:27 UTC
Sturm Gewehr wrote:
I don't think people realize that the tools for arena/tournament style pvp are just not in the game unless CCP is directly organizing and running it. You cannot regulate fits, implants, boundary violations, countdowns to prevent early locking, time limits, tidi, spectator cameras that don't interfere with or can be interfered with, pod immunity, etc. If eve was "real" it would be trivial for organizations to run tournaments with these restrictions in place. You can make all the rules in the world but you have no seamless way to enforce them without the tools something like the dojo would introduce. There are mechanics for sov, facwar, dueling, pos bashes, wormholes etc. in the game but there is nothing for tournaments without CCP interaction.

There is a playerbase that highly values tournament/arena style pvp. Unfortunately this only exists on the live server twice a year in NEO and AT. Many players only pvp during these time periods because EVE otherwise does not support their style of play.

To everyone complaining about how this shouldn't be implemented because of potential XYZ exploit, this is a prototype on a test server. If we are already recognizing it now you can be sure CCP will fix it before it does go live IF it goes live. If they don't all the proponents of it will be slamming CCP for not doing something about it when it was a known issue day 1 along with the rest of you. I don't think CCP wants another monoclegate.

Giving players the tools to run their own tournaments (assuming dojos evolve to support this) is a huge boon to the small competitive pvp community and will drastically improve the quality and skill level of participants in the AT and NEO because teams will be more practiced and CCP will have more opportunities to evaluate their rules and craft a more competitive meta.

And if you don't like dojos robbing you of your content then go blow them up! It is interesting how many players here who are complaining about losing out on content belong to organizations that deliberately deny content with blue lists/NAPs/not engaging without massive superiority and also use content denial as a form of warfare.

For everyone complaining about eve no longer being safe just remember that losses do occur and the are REAL, AT runs can cost into the hundreds of billions. The ships are REAL, the ammo is REAL, when they blow up there is a REAL wreck just like anywhere else. Just because arena style combat is introduced does not mean CCP or the players are just going to pack up sov, NPC 0.0, FW, dueling, wardecs, suicide ganking, wormholes, etc. and just focus on dojos.

Also keep in mind if this becomes a well implemented function within the game it could draw more subscribers. Not everyone who starts playing eve because they heard about a giant sov fight actually goes into sov warfare. Not everyone who does dojos will do dojos 100% of the time.



QFT, well said mate. People should pay attention to the feedback offered by the players that ~actually~ use and enjoy this sort of content, people who offer reasons for how this would be useful for their player style, rather than the F1 monkeys complaining in this thread who do not seem to realize that many mechanics for relatively controlled PVP already exist and are enjoyed by many.
Quindaster
Infernal Laboratory
Infernal Octopus
#577 - 2014-09-26 00:37:01 UTC
I see how many dumb people cry - it will be same as duel...
So, I want to say, WE DON"T have ANY duel in EVE at all!
When you start duel with someone and 5 neutral logi start to rep your enemy - it's not a due.
So, this people who cry about duel - they dumb.

I see how people cry - it will kill EVE...
So, I want to say, EVE is ALREADY DEAD GAME!
Every day we lose players who leave EVE, old, good players, and we don't have any replacement on theys places, only Jita scammers and mining bots what get EVE, thats all.

We was waiting for this dodjo for many years, like in many other games this is primory gaming style.

Problem in EVE is - you need to spend 5-10 h to find any target, and or you will find 100 members blob, or nothing, and if you spend 4-5h, maybe you will find some cruser on the gate who never read security channels.
And for this people leave Eve because they don't have 4-5-10 h for one kill, and they would simply go in World of Tanks and get fast fights before they go to sleep and not sit for nothing 4-5-10h.

Whole managment in EVE - absolutely dumb because you was need to create this - Arena 5-7 year ago.

About dodjo:

- you need to make access to this dodjo arena from any station simply by clicking - arena button.
- you need to be use any ship you want from your hangar
- you need to be able play in team or random team vs other team, and select team 10 vs 10 or 5 vs 5 or 20 vs 20.
- you need to be able use any ship and without any crazy and dumb limit like you have on AT, and without any stupid points for ship.
- you need to remove abillity to shoot at own team members, because some idiots will try to crash this game and they will try to shoot blues, you need to set them some negative status so they will not be able later to join any other team, so people will try to up own statistic and play fair or they will get negative status and will not be able to play anymore in dodjo.
- you need to cleate abillity to play groups, teams BC vs BC, BS vs BS, Capitals VS Capitals, and random ships vs random ships. So people can select which game style and ship they want to play. And they need to be able to use logistics ships too if they want in team, no limit, just create different groups, teams where you can join on different ship to that team.

This will be cool and intresting if you will really work on this dodjo and not just create **** like most of CCP "new things"
newfage
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#578 - 2014-09-26 00:53:35 UTC
Sturm Gewehr wrote:
I don't think people realize that the tools for arena/tournament style pvp are just not in the game unless CCP is directly organizing and running it. You cannot regulate fits, implants, boundary violations, countdowns to prevent early locking, time limits, tidi, spectator cameras that don't interfere with or can be interfered with, pod immunity, etc. If eve was "real" it would be trivial for organizations to run tournaments with these restrictions in place. You can make all the rules in the world but you have no seamless way to enforce them without the tools something like the dojo would introduce. There are mechanics for sov, facwar, dueling, pos bashes, wormholes etc. in the game but there is nothing for tournaments without CCP interaction.

There is a playerbase that highly values tournament/arena style pvp. Unfortunately this only exists on the live server twice a year in NEO and AT. Many players only pvp during these time periods because EVE otherwise does not support their style of play.

To everyone complaining about how this shouldn't be implemented because of potential XYZ exploit, this is a prototype on a test server. If we are already recognizing it now you can be sure CCP will fix it before it does go live IF it goes live. If they don't all the proponents of it will be slamming CCP for not doing something about it when it was a known issue day 1 along with the rest of you. I don't think CCP wants another monoclegate.

Giving players the tools to run their own tournaments (assuming dojos evolve to support this) is a huge boon to the small competitive pvp community and will drastically improve the quality and skill level of participants in the AT and NEO because teams will be more practiced and CCP will have more opportunities to evaluate their rules and craft a more competitive meta.

And if you don't like dojos robbing you of your content then go blow them up! It is interesting how many players here who are complaining about losing out on content belong to organizations that deliberately deny content with blue lists/NAPs/not engaging without massive superiority and also use content denial as a form of warfare.

For everyone complaining about eve becoming safe just remember that losses do occur and the are REAL, AT runs can cost into the hundreds of billions. The ships are REAL, the ammo is REAL, when they blow up there is a REAL wreck just like anywhere else. Just because arena style combat is introduced does not mean CCP or the players are just going to pack up sov, NPC 0.0, FW, dueling, wardecs, suicide ganking, wormholes, etc. and just focus on dojos.

Also keep in mind if this becomes a well implemented function within the game it could draw more subscribers. Not everyone who starts playing eve because they heard about a giant sov fight actually goes into sov warfare. Not everyone who does dojos will do dojos 100% of the time.


I hope you guys are getting in contact with CCP about this, it's funny because for years people have been complaining that "solo pvp is dead" (hence the bringing solo back channel) and that CCP don't care about solo pvp, CCP Rise literally got a job because his solo pvp videos were interesting and popular, the NEO and AT streams are always popular and a lot of non-eve players come to see what's going on.

Dojos will bring tons of content to eve, who cares if nullsec people irrelevant to the competitive side of eve aren't happy about having less blob targets? And seriously it won't stop people soloing against the odds because it's also fun, it just adds more options.

Good idea CCP.
Rowells
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#579 - 2014-09-26 01:00:18 UTC
Not sure if it's been asked, but will there be a way for dojos to be in WH or simulate the effects? Or am j totally off-base here?
Sven Viko VIkolander
In space we are briefly free
#580 - 2014-09-26 01:00:22 UTC
I have read most of this thread and I've yet to find an actual argument with quantifiable evidence that this feature would harm EVE. I have, though, read lots of posts in this thread about how this feature would help their gameplay. So I think the "in favor" side is decidedly winning in terms of actual reasons, but these are the EVE forums after all.

Instead of evidence, what you get in this thread from those that oppose this feature is, largely, a mess of subjectivity, such as the following:

1) You have people in this thread saying they do not like this type of PVP, then inferring that, therefore, it shouldn't be in game.

2) You have people in this thread claiming that the dojo is not "in the spirit of EVE," and, therefore, that it has no place in the game. These people overwhelmingly seem to be F1 monkeys who also do not realize that solo PVP, dueling, and tournaments also exist in EVE, as well as semi-controlled environments like RVB and faction war complexes--and also that a huge amount of the player base enjoys these types of content.

3) Some of the people in this thread saying this will "kill EVE" are also people whom I recognize as frequently saying "EVE is dying" elsewhere on the forum. If the game is already dying why does it matter? If it adds new players and makes some bitter vets leave isn't that win/win?

4) Some people say it is not consistent with EVE as a sandbox, therefore there should not be mechanisms for controlled fights (though see #2 above again). Yet, apparently "EVE is a sandbox" on this forum frequently just means "nothing should be in this game that I dislike." No substantive reasons have been given for how this lessens sandbox gameplay, given that real ships are lost, the structures can be destroyed, it helps players practice for tournaments, it is entirely optional, and players can/will quickly find ways of disrupting dojo gameplay if they want (such as, for starters, blowing it up).