EVE General Discussion

There's always Red verse Blue. We are still around killing each other, helping others learn to turn on their DC2s right when they uncloak.

Join a corp and duel your mates, or be that guy scanning other people down (and hope it's not bait), then you can have all the solo fights you want.

If you want arenas, I hear they have those in WoW, and most other garbage, throw-away MMOs released in the last decade.

CFC has a voracious recruiting program and very lucrative space and SRP, so yes, they gobble up lots of newbies and chain them to sov game play, which on the scale they do it, and more so the reasons they do it, is absolutely no fun. Just because they are the loudest recruiters does not mean they are the best to join.

Your post raises two common issues for the newbie - finding a good corp that lines up with your interests, and earning income as a newbie outside of sov-space. There are plenty of small gang corps out there who encourage pvp in all its forms, but finding the right fit in this game is difficult and unforgiving. However there are a large number of extremely helpful players and the good side of the community to rely as on a resource, so there are opportunities. The next trick is finding the cash to buy lots of replacement ships, but if you fly cheap and learn things on the frigate level, by the time you can fly bigger things, you should be much more confident in how to fly them.

Well, it's an event. It's not an everyday part of the game.



True, there is no honour in Eve, but being able to screw people over in the least honourable ways is kind of what makes this game.

I think you assume too much and are trying to broadly apply the logic stated.

Short answer, you are wrong.

I solo pvp. Have been for years. I dont use links or scouts but i do use plenty of drugs (drugs are good mkay). What i learned fighting linked scrublords and other organized pvp gangs in LS directly applies to what i encounter in nullsec. Infact, nullsec is generally less organized and easier to kill. Especially when you roam into carebear central with 20 people in local, and 1-2 of them actually pvp. WH functions similarly in the way that dscan is your local. If youre good with dscan in low/null. You will be good in a WH. Albeit a bit more paranoid.

Same thing for the guys in AT. I know a few guys in AT, and have even fought against them when they roamed our space. AT guys did not start pvping in an arena. They started it like everyone else. Roaming other people's space for fights. Eventually they learned all the tricks, got better organized and found more high level players to recruit and refine their skills for AT.

So to say that null pvp is different than lowsec and WH pvp is just wrong. Fleet combat is different, but the same tactics still apply. Counters, physcological warefare, bait etc are still viable in bigger fleets.

As to the OP, a resounding NO from me. Arenas will cripple the game and alienate the dedicated player base. Where as the 15 year old WoW dropouts will be entertained for a week or 2 and then leave the game. PvP is mainly found through roams.. whats the point of having thousands of systems to roam, when i can go to "Jita PvP Arena 1" and satisfy my thirst?

You take out baiting
You take out unequal/random initial contact fights (this is useful for fighting multiple people, which cant be done in an arena). As in Team A spawns at point A, team B spawns at point B. Its too simple and dulls the fights.
You throw a handful of tactics out the window because everything is provided for you.

So now we have the 2k or so systems in EVE going unroamed. Everyone stays in HS and has their arenas. Meanwhile all of null/LS become stagnant and the older playerbase leaves due to no one wanting to roam. The 15 year old hypertards leave after a week or two because it becomes repetitive and boring. Now EVE is circling the drain.

Arenas are not for EVE. Even CCP considered it for a month with "Dojos" which was axed within weeks of it being mentioned.