EVE General Discussion

Hello all,
I'm rather new to Eve but in my short time here, I have found that there are a decent amount of people who invite other players to duel but to no avail. I myself have invited several people to dual and been unsuccessful in getting an accept from the other party. I was thinking, why not have an area where people could go to just hang out around where all/most of the people there also want to duel.

So i wanted to ask the community if having a corporation (i was thinking of starting one for this) set up shop in a location and offering a sort of gladiatorial combat area for other players to come and hang out or duel would be a thing some people wanted. I'm sure you are wondering among other things why a corporation would be needed for this. Well the truth is you really don't, but as most people in this game I want ISK. Considering that these are a list of "services" the corporation would offer.

• Dueling prize money(i.e. two parties give an entrance fee, one winner of the duel gets the pot minus a percentage)
• Allow bidding on such activities (people watch a duel and place bets on the winner, winner(s) split the pot minus a percentage)
• tournaments with prizes

Now obviously there would be rules in place, such as but not limited too:

• If you warp out or for any reason leave the dueling area designated you will forfeit the match
• If you cheat in any way you will forfeit (cheating? like i said rather new so not sure about that one)
• the losers wreck is (obviously) open for the winner to inspect and take what they want
• Winnings will only be received upon destruction of the persons ship (not their capsule although if you wish to kill it, fine)
• Winnings will only be handed out to those who pay the entrance fee (so don't start a random duel then ask for your money)
• bets can only be placed on one ship at a time (to keep this simple and easy to deal with)

Now obviously, these are just some rough details but I really like this idea and just wanted to know if people wanted it/ would actually participate. I'm open for constructive criticism and ideas. Talk to me here or in game if you wish to join me in creating this or just want to play with my noob self.

I would refer the OP to the concept of Herding Cats

Lo sec.
Null sec.
WH space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqrm6pOQsgQ

I'm surprised RvB hasn't set up something like this already.

Solution: Remove the Po Po from hisec.

No.

But where would they go?

Yeah, as i said the Eve Tutors channel did exactly this and I gather it worked but eventually got too much effort to organise.

Well, I'd be up to organize it constantly, as a corporation you could have shifts of people in charge of taking bets and entrance fees. but I am only one person atm, and although I'm sure someone will just take this idea and start it on their own I am open to people wanting to join me. also In reference to your previous comment about the "cheating", although I'm unsure of the details I'm at an understanding that anyone inside the duel can invite anyone else (possibly a friend) into the duel. this would obviously be against the rules and that person would forfeit the winnings. now if someone cheats or is otherwise disqualified from a duel on more than one occasion they would be banned from entering into a duel for a period of time. (this would be a sanctioned duel, not asking for a game change obviously)

Suddenly neutral logi, OGBs and not-quite 1 v 1.