EVE General Discussion

Its why EVE is the only MMO to still be growing after 10 years. We don't do what everyone else does and that is why EVE works.

SWG did not segregate off its PVP from the rest of the world and still all other pvp outside of restus died off. Arenas are simply not compatible with EVE and offer nothing good for us. If you want to hold an event then use the tools we have right now.

This is false. For instance I'm getting gasnked mostly. Is not this.
People adverse to this kind of idea are simply EvE players, experienced enough to know or to feel as this kind of restricted/protected so-called PvP is disruptive for the the single-shard sandbox model and is against EvE background, lore, settings and nature.

Having abstract random ideas is easy (PvP arenas, genial! none thought to it before) but one should keep in count the settings of the game, their history and the playerbase background.

As well as this continuosly demanding to rewrite/modify core mechanics to adapt to players too lazy to play the game as it is is becoming annoying and not productive at all.

Is like a guy going to a vegetarian restaurant and ordering a steak:

"Sorry Sir, we do not serve meat here, it's a vegetarian restaurant"
"oh, why not? I don't understand, why don't yuou serve meat? I want a steak, you should change"

On another server it would be doable. But not in the "real" EvE I assume. But again, that would kinda "extract" the pvp activities out of the sandbox.

You guys will be the first victims of an embended arena system.
Years of players driven gameplay and effort just trashed.
And then the rest.

Yes, for the ones that wish to track their pvp prowess, there is a thing called killboard. You can even api verify it.


No it's not..cause there are obviously more cons. As was being stated numerous times already.


That's ok..I enjoy watching parkour on youtube, but don't enjoy practicing it. Not everything is for everyone. So..your point?


This is a dirty ignorant lie. And that repeating mantra really puts alot of people off pvp and roaming. Which is sad really, cause null and low provide plenty of good fights. Getting blobbed is an exception rather than rule. Also a need to have 100mil sp before you can do anything in pvp is another ignorant myth. But yeah..it's easier to shoot rats all day and whine.


Seems to me you are the one with a closed mind. Everything you ask for in the infamous 'Arena' is already possible and can be realized by the existing game mechanics.

Heck there is even a completely separate server where you can have free arena like fights.

Confirming that killing speeders on a spy was much easier there than anywhere else

this is my idea for this:

I can see all sorts of new scams arising out of people gaming such a system. Other than that, this idea is without merit. If you want arenas, there are tons of other games that have them. Can't we have one, just one game that is different. Please?

In WoT (world Of Tanks), arena PvP is pretty much alive and it does not kill PvP. You select the tank you wish to use, you hit BATTLE, and your fight starts in 30 seconds (15 vs 15). No need to roam for hours to get a fight. People saying that the arena concept would kill PvP in Eve are either wrong or hypocrits. Arenas would only "move" some of the PvP somewhere else. Maybe it would kill roams but who cares. We roam to get fights, not to fly as tourists. The rest of the PvP that would remain in the game would be more for fights that "matters". Just like in WoT where people fight on the World Map with their clan m8s to conquer or defend territory. Those type of fights happen constently. The Arena feature does not stop people to play on that map. In the contrary it helps it. Individual players use the arena to refine their skills. Clans use it to train their members for world map fights and elaborate strategies. We then go on that map to see how good we are and to conquer territory (and for Gold).

RvB? Hey, I been in there and had fun...until I was tired of T1 frig and destroyer fights. Often I had to stend down with a T1 cruiser. Battlecruisers seemed to raise complaints everytime someone would bring one on the field, and do not remember fights involving battleships. The RvB fun gets away quick when you have the skills to fly better ships and you are constently told not to fly them. In my opinion, RvB exist because their are no arena. So its disapearance would not botter me. So bring this arena (or simulator), make sure that their is still a cost to play in it (ISKs / fights or use your existing ships). I know a LOT of people would enjoy this.

The RMTers and adepts of cheap PvP can go cry to their moms if this is introduced. The though of reading all those rage posts excites me. Bring the arenas CCP.

As bad as the op.

Geez, I wonder why it works in WoT. I wonder if it's got something to do with the entire game beign built around that very gameplay mechanic, wtf?

Holy ****, you just wrote a small wall of text trying to compare a non persistant world game and "how it works" to EVE.
Are you not actually playing EVE