Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Dear CCP and Mr. Veritas,

Why would you think that this is a decent premise upon which to build a new PvP feature?

After having been unsubbed for a year or so I am back flying around in New Eden. Why? Because after touring around the MMORPG market I have discovered that you folks, and ONLY you folks, have managed to build a vibrant virtual world. Every other MMO has failed to do that and one of the keys aspects that has allowed EVE to do it well is the sense of interplay and interaction that exists in this virtual universe.

It is like the cliche goons recruiting line about any pilot being able to make a difference... They can, at very low skill points, as many stories have attested to over the years. It is the same sort of sense that pilots like me have about the volatile nature of undocking a ship in this game. While the opportunity cost of suicide ganking makes in unappealing to me, I COULD do it. We all know this. And it is one of the first things new players get ingrained into them. You are never truly safe when you undock. There is no instance or scenario where you can't be engaged with applicable consequence once you leave that station interface behind and start to play the wonderful experience that taking a spaceship through this universe is.

It is this sense of 'right' in the EVE universe that I think you are treading on in this thread and with this proposal. Much like Incarna as released wasn't right for EVE, this is a step in a direction that is dreaded by the type of people who, like me, come back to this game after a year away because it has stayed TRUE to the vision of a virtual world where player interactions, while properly guided by the rules of the world, still reign as the supreme factor on who lives and who goes home in their pod.

Please build an arena feature. Give the players some defensive tools so that given time, effort, and resources PvP matches can be 'fair' and free from outside influence. However, given more time, effort, and resources make sure that OTHER players absolutely can mess with the balance and cause a very EVEish and wonderful amount of fuckery. Please go back to the drawing board on the initial premise of this thread and reconsider what the proper way to bring arenas, if that is what you want, to this world.

Thanks for your time and consideration,

A hopeful customer glad to be home. For now at least...

If this concept survives Duality I look forward to see what it can become!
Mainly the vending machine mechanic seems a lot tidier than the usual Hunger Games layout of an arena.

Honestly indifferent about having a "Singularity" zero risk/reward instance. Instancing is not a feature I'd ever ask for. But I use SISI for that reason, so I can see our newbros appreciating it as another kind of FFA arena, and a way to set rules against boosts, etc..

If a team of 5v5 could get a private beacon to a deep safe grid, it's just automating an otherwise manual process. I'm all for saving people steps, without needing to impinge upon existing mechanics. Kudos for making Corp Fittings anything to do with it.

I rather suspect it is because subs appear to be down, so CCP are now hoping that instanced pvp in a protected area might bring in the 'instant gratification, I don't really want to play Eve, but will play protected shoot em ups' in an attempt to raise sub numbers.

It is sad that CCP have been reduced to this.

+1 great idea.

hope this never makes it to tq

i sugessted something like this a few times and never got any response. You really just need to add a gambling of isk feature lol :)

I can't think of any direction for game development which goes against the soul of Eve worse than "un-screw-with-able".

Terrible game development direction, and terrible idea in the OP.

This seems to theme parkish and like battlegrounds in other mmos. So I'm going to vote no on this one. EvE is about risk and reward not instant gratification.


If it stays on the test servers, that's fine that's where it should be, just not on TQ.

You are implying that dojos don't respect the risk vs reward philosophy, which is wrong. You understand that ships will explode right?

If eve isn't about instant gratification how do you explain that many people (mainly in nullsec) only login to put skills in queue and to jump to a cyno to press F1? Should CCP add a no-cyno timer after login?

I'd love arena fights, special store to buy & fit limited modules and ships usable just in the arena, and you can bet on
the winner and watch the fights from Captain Quarter.