EVE General Discussion

I don't know, eve hunger games could be pretty fun watch. Lock 12 teams of two in a single system. No cloaking. Last team standing wins. I'd PAY to watch it even.

No, not really.... we need some CCP help to remove those damn gankers. And bumpers.

It's funny how almost everyone against it hints at the fact they will not be able to pray on the weak and lame. Fact is you will still catch the same amount of PVE ships at gates or trough probing, same amount of industrial ships, nothing is going away if this is introduced, all the PVP that is sought after just by one side will still be there. The ones that roam low/null now will roam after such a feature is introduced just like someone above pointed out happened after RvB and such.

Only thing missing is how it should be delivered. I am certain CCP will not release (if it ever comes to this) something that is as efficient as bounties where pre - Retribution.

- Risk free? hell no - 2 teams of 1 or more pilots each enters means there will be survivors only on one side if any(this is the hardest thing to implement I guess).
- No ranking system - this went out of fashion same time with powdered wigs
- Make the amount of isk required to start such a fixed match substantial enough as to encourage players to look at it mostly as an expensive training ground and make costs grow exponentially in relation to the number of ships involved in the brawl
-Make a betting system so involved parties or outside ones may bet on the outcome(also tax it)
-The loosing part should pay maybe a fee to the KSCO - Keep Space Clean Organization
-Create a wining terms set of rules with many options available(I haven't thought of any beside blow the other guy out of the sky)
-Make people register with Concord for a fee for a "gladiator" (I know I know) license
-Make so that this feature is only available in high and if any module(if any) should be necessary it only comes in a high sec version
- If a pilots corp is in a war either prevent them from participating in such matches or allow the pilots from the opposite side of the war to enter the fighting area and attack their WT's
-Profit...?

Or maybe change FW so it is more even and presents less risk.

Not a fan of arenas in PvP games. My vote would be no and I am hardly a leet, blob ganker.

It's funny how the two people in favour of it refuse to acknowledge that there are already a lot of different ways to get pvp, or simply refuse to do it and want a more easy, consequence free version of PVP on their own personal terms.

That is not how EVE works.

Go play one of those other dead MMOs like swtor

No we don't like it because arenas have killed the pvp outside of them in every game they were put into.

As long as everything that is destroyed is from the live economy, I don't see a problem with it.

In fact, it would open up a new official career path, The Bookie.

However, the difference between this game and every other game out there is that the ships taken into these arenas give you an advantage based on how much isk you spend. If the Arena were setup where all ships/mods/implants were from the economy, it would actually encourage war in EVE simply due to the value of the stuff being blown up.

Now, I'm not entirely on board with an "Arena" where we can make a tourney any time we want to and join up. The reason I'm against this is that it would take away from the e-sport aspect of how the current Alliance Tournament functions as a draw to EVE. It'd no longer be exclusive.

I do however feel that the Alliance Tournament needs to be a season.

Quite possibly, but isn't that kind of the point to this game?

edit: people still use the contract system and for the most part, even with all the safeguards CCP has put in place, people still scam with it, people fall for them and it's still used.

*shrugs*

Dunno what an 'arena' is in all those other games, but a system where you could challenge someone to a duel (1v1) in highsec would be interesting.

Treat it the exact same way as a convo request. It costs ISK to initiate the challenge, and you can set the amount for someone to challenge you. Just like a convo request, you can decline or decline and block (altho I love the idea of setting the challenge amount at max and seeing if somebody is dumb enough to keep challenging you to a duel....)

If you accept, you and the other guy are immediately Blue-Flagged (Limited Engagement) to each other on a 15 minutes start timer. And the fights on.

Minimal change to the game coding for CCP, and if you lose, you have just lost your ship and maybe your pod too. And no insurance payout, buddy...you chose to participate in this fight, remember?

And yeah, to keep things spicy, 'neutral' repping is allowed (altho they would get sucked into the fight as well...or even better, make the reppers get Suspect flags and go blinky yellow. Yeah, thats even better.).

So there is still a chance your opponent might 'cheat', at a possible cost to his accomplices...just how much do you like So-and-so, anyway? Enough to risk your expensive logi ship?

To have developers waste time on a new game mechanic that never gets used? No thanks. I said earlier that there most likely is a list of must and must not do for 'arenas' and if they can't be followed there is absolutely zero point in wasting time when CCP can spend that time fixing lag... er, I mean other stuff.