Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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Old Features and Ideas Discussion - Post 19

Y'all capsuleers posting in a troll thread

as much as i get the " pvp low sec null sec " aspect i also do think that a place where you could enter fights placebets watch for fun etc would be awesome. kinda reminds me of thunderdome.

NO It is a sandbox

And if you complaining about lack of high sec 1v1 pvp it is not CCP s fault that all those high and mighty ....cough cough PVP players hanging around the trade hubs cheat

If you look for it you will find plenty of pvp in low sec .. atleast those guys give you a good fight and most of the time a fair fight actually most of them are good at it as well ...

Tho yes you need to look for it it is not something you find when you jump into the first low sec on your map


May be organise a frig fight with a friendly Corp/ alliance or something a good idea aswell; ussualy alot of fun and it gets the new players in your corp isome pvp experience aswell

If you call fitting a ship, warping to 'cruisers suggested' and getting ganked by 20 guys in carriers and machs fun.

Well - at leat it's realistic...

Actually you can get into trouble for that, it only takes a minute to report them and that ends them.
Believe it or not there are rules for the test server.

And besides it is not as if really lost anything.
In fact you made a profit.

Well - happened to me numerous times - also I'm not sure if wrong ship class on a beacon is against the rules - it only says 'suggested' IIRC.

And yeah - you're right - it's not a big deal - still don't get the point of people blobbing on sisi.
It became a lot worse with the release of Sisi launcher - at least having to copy a folder and modifying a shortcut kept the idiots aggressing you outside station out...

I actually think the game does need some PvP "arenas" but they need to be integrated into the setting and concept of New Eden.

Consequence-free though? Screw that.

What I'd see would be organized fights in Arena deadspace areas across space that allow certain classes of shps in to fights to the death. These would be real ships, with real equipment that explode and leave real loot. Only thing that the arena principle would allow would be guarentee of non-involvement of 3rd party interference and a way of fighting without concord involvement in low/hisec.

The roleplay side of this would be some kind of npc megacorporation that makes money broadcasting capsuleer "gladiator" fights and has the exclusive rights to excluding concord response from its deadspace arenas.

Would be nice to see some significant development of the interface that allows remote viewing of the fights in these arenas - allows isk betting on the results, hell, allows the competitors themselves to bet on the results and stake sums of isk and equipment on the outcome.

I actually think it would be a decent introduction to the game in hisec to have a place where opposing pilots could settle their differences and fight "honestly" without all the nonsense of can-flagging, neut reppers, 3rd party nonsense. And if it can be integrated into the setting correctly it'll work.

Of course I think the main reason people are quite kneejerk opposed to the concept when its suggested is the "no consequence/instanced" element but ensure these are real ships that really explode and need replacing from the player market and I really can't see the problem.

I always loved elements of the Battletech setting with the Solaris dueling arena and I'd love to see some league tables for premier space gladiators in Eve Online and fights between the elite combat pilots making top billing on the billboards and news. (Maybe even something worthwhile for that CQ tv to show).

My position is that the small unit Eve combat system for spaceships in Eve online is actually still top notch and I support anything that will get more profile and opportunity for people to try this stuff.

I could see the "Friday night winner stays one billion isk a stake 1v1 battleship championship Arena in Jita" being pretty successful draw and giving a lot of people who shy away from traditional pvp because of the perception its always one-sided gank artistry an opportunity to try this stuff.

As long as the arena's where varied, allow these things to be rented and customized by player corporation sponsers, and ensure it does simply ADD to pvp in Eve rather than (if there was no death penality) replacing it. Then I have no problem with the concept.

There have certainly been times when I'd have killed for this functionality while trying to arrange combat tournaments for multi organization participants in lowsec.

Just some thoughts and example of what I consider to be constructive criticism for the op.

The true epicness of the original post is being totally missed.




Either the most sublime sentence in a troll post ever, or a never-gets-ungiggle-worthy newb thought.

The majority of answers in this thread surprise me and is indicative of short sightedness.

I believe Eve does need a PVP arena for several reasons:

1) It would introduce risk adverse players to PVP in a risk free environment.
2) It would provide a mechanism through which players could hone their skills.
3) It would make PVP in the "wild", so to speak, more enriching by producing better PVP'ers.
4) Ultimately, it would provide more opportunity for PVP since the above 3 reasons would produce more PVP'ers in the game.
5) It would promote more solo PVP.


The reasons given in other replies "Test server this way...." is unreasonable. It's unreasonable because it's a completely different environment than the game. It requires a completely different client. It's not Eve. Imagine the amount of tears if the developers introduced a new feature to the game and told everyone to go to the test server to use it because it was only ever going to be on the test server. The tears could float the Titanic. There is absolutely no downside to having a limited arena for PVP. NONE!