EVE General Discussion

In her defense, she's not asking for an arena. She's thinking of offering one. That's quite a different story. (And it's in the spirit of the sandbox, if she can make it work.)

Can fighting be done inside of a POS shield?

Ah... but if that was the solution, OGB would have to be impossible through a POS shield... or is it? I recall some torrents of tears over that topic roughly a year ago.

people want to duel, its just hard to find them. thats why i thought it would be a good idea. if everyone knows that there is a corporation in X system that has duels, people will gather there (theoretically) and it will be people dueling each other without the hours of constantly looking for someone to duel. believe it or not some people don't want to only PvP or even enter lowsec areas. this would give them the opportunity to have a pvp experience without being ganked by 10 battle-cruisers at a stargate or even just one cruiser when they are in a frigate. It is also for people who want to PvP but can't get the hang of it because they have no practice because of these gankers or others who attack them immediately upon entering a lowsec area.


Edit: this "service" of sorts would also offer a way for people to test a ship's full potential without having to worry about having to keep someone locked down with scramblers and such. not saying it would be banned from the duel but you wouldn't have to have a scrambler because you would win even if they warp out. (unless you wanted their cargo)

It doesn't hurt to try. I'm sure there are people interested in fights where there is guaranteed to be no OGB, or other outside interference. (Without forfeiture of their stake.)

I doubt it will be easy, you'd need to get enough people interested to have fights on a regular basis, as well as enough of a reputation that people trust you. A reputation as a competent pvp pilot wouldn't hurt as well.

Good luck!

It's easy to find them.

Use the map.


Where are the most people? Go there.
Where are the most player ships exploding? Go there.

Or join RvB.



You want a solution for a problem that has been solved long ago.

CCP can't seem to understand that customers are walking away because they don't like, or can't, spend 3 hours at a stretch (or 8 if you want to sov grind) at a keyboard. CCP needs to create a 1v1 arena PvP where people can spend 15 minutes getting having a great time, recharging the batteries for those long grinds and roams.

Here's what you can do:

Set up in a system next door to a "dangerous" system. Villore for example, right next to Old Man Star.

Skill up for one particular ship and fitting. With proper skill planning you can be very effective with a small ship and still stay in a very cheap clone, even at all level 4s and hitting level 5 skills on all of your (1X) skills which can be done relatively fast.

The kinds of ships that you can consider are those that are popular with PVP. Much is said of the Rifter and there's even a "Pirate's Guide" for it. The Incursus comes to mind. If you want to go "high stakes" later, you can even pick a hull that has a comparable Assault Frigate version so when you get Frigate 5 you can train AF and be in the same skill vector that you already built up flying your cheaper ships.


Set up a pile of ships in the station next to the dangerous system. Fit them all ahead of time, one kind of fitting too, or variable to your liking (what, am I supposed to do everything?).

Go into dangerous system and get into fights.

If you get podded, you are right there in the next system with a ship ready to go - don't forget to upgrade your clone before you undock again.

Otherwise if not, and in a dangerous lowsec system it's not so likely to get podded (base out of Torrinos and play in EC-P8R if you want to get podded more) run back and get another ship.

And that's as close as you get to an arena and a respawn point. Cheap ships and cheap clones you can probably feed your habit with an hour of L4 mission running a day or PI or maybe even Market Fu.

It could work, just try it!

A chat channel is a good starting point.

The 'Arena' could be any spot in Jita system: max traffic, easy to reship.

Just find a small bunch of guys that wanna blow eachother up in arranged fights in highsec and duel away, inviting people to watch and make bets. It could grow from there.

Good luck!

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