EVE General Discussion

The big talks with capsuleers in challenges vs the roleplay. I was thinking... What the combat tree was asymetrical.

So in the initial house challenges, have two branches for the tourney tree. Have a main tree three where all high standing amarrians and those in long term roleplay corps. Those have some feeder slots for those just okay, not amarr, etc all based upon the house.

So khanid for example might be very evenly spread with the non amarr and amarr evenly mixed. Where the hardcore conservatives might only have one non amarr branch that leads to the quarter finals.

Edit: Reasoning? It is an in game story session. There are players investing years into Amarr. As such, should be some benefit to all that dedication. It doesn't exclude the whole player base though. If good enough, perhaps a .01 minmatar pilot can win for the most conservative.

They were talking in a podcast here a short bit ago about fleshing out the rules for the upcoming amarr sucession trials.

Essentially rules still need to be fleshed out. This is a story event, but also a player involved event. Tough part of the balance is how to include the players while still respecting lore.

There are the assorted heirs with backstory and mannerisms. In a tournament, you have a tree to the finals. A fair way to not exclude but still honor the lore is to have different priorities on the non Amarr/lower standings players. If a player corp/alliance is Amarr, with high standings, roleplaying loyalists, that group should have an advantage.

So essentially tournament within a tournament. The more conservative heirs have a different battle for those who are below a threshhold to earn a spot in say the quarter finals or something. This means that house's main competition has a bias, but still, if you are good, you can earn a spot for that house.

Oh, for the finals between houses? Yes, a round robin then top two finishing off would be grand. However I am just talking the parts before. From what CCP has said so far, the different houses will have selection trials to determine their champions. That is what I was specifically addressing. In other statements, they have said they are fleshing out the rules but still need to finalize how to best incorporate roleplayers and lore without excluding a large player base.

It would be interesting if the different houses had different means of selection as well though...

maybe a special skinned titan or that new abbadon thing?

The prizes for the last Succession Trials were the Gold and Silver Magnates; the Auctoritas would not be out of place... (certainly not as out of place as the headfull of Sansha implants Jamyl had).
I'm not sure if it works politically however - the Empress was on her way to take posession (sic.) when she was killed so it will have been fully sanctified for her and allowing it to be sullied by unholy capsuleer flesh would be... tricky... not to mention that it might be seen as sanction of an effective assassination.

I think that 1vs 1 fights are not good.

I think these should go 2 vs 2. With these regulations:
Knight vs Knight in cruisers.
Squire vs squire in frigates.
On the same arena.

If Knight would defeat opponent, he could continue to fight with opponent squire.
If squire would defeat opponent, he could continue to fight with opponent knight.