How about instead of making them arenas, make them an entire system that you have to speak to an agent to get into, and only certain size ships are allowed into the systems.

Lately it just seems like our regular PITA Joe Risolo is coming up with blatantly stupid ideas that would indeed be game-breaking. You want an Arena? Go play WoW or some other lame MMO that caters to that crap.

List of reasons this is a bad idea:
1) Takes away from the spontaneity of low sec combat
2) Creates PvP without risk, thus basically watering down PvP altogether
3) It is stupid
4) It would ultimately result in a rigid, rule-driven "feature"
5) It would result in whole **** ton of new exploits, as people always find a way around the system
6) It is stupid
7) It would pretty much kill activity in low sec, which is already a ghost town due to people like you
8) It would kill the ability for groups to truly go hunting in low sec, as all the typical victims would be in their safe little Arena with their bunny slippers, snuggie and hot cocoa
9) It would create MORE ISK generated from PvE
10? Did I mention that it is stupid?
11) It would completely illegitimize the "Bounty Hunter" career path by creating stupid Arena bounties (rather than bounties earned by hunting down targets and mercilessly killing them)

TL;DR

Stupid idea is stupid.

UP AGAIN

Two bumps in one day eh?

Reported. Stop spamming this forum with your terrible ideas.

Just freaking no. The biggest problem atm is neutral remote repping without any risk at all.

Seriously, if you don't like it then suggest good valid reasons why it won't work.

I have every right to be on here that you do. Perhaps you should be reported for trolling, cause I can't think of any other reason you'd report me other than trolling.

I've seen you on several forums that someone has bumped several times.

GTFO

Follow the rules idiot.

And I already said why this is a bad idea, or did you just ignore it because its....the precise reason this will never happen.

This is a sandbox game. We already have the means to do what you want, but you want it regulated and controlled by CCP. That is a terrible idea. Get some people to regulate it. Have them in pvp ships ready to destroy anyone that enters your little "arena" to mess with it. Wow. Your own personal security.

Seriously, there are so many ways this could be implemented BY PLAYERS with current mechanics. Effort is hard amirite?

O wait, you just want CCP to hold your hand. Carry on.

Seriously, if you don't like it then suggest good valid reasons why it won't work.

So wait? I'm an idiot because I want CCP to regulate something that could be taken advantage of?

But yet, the droves of people that want CCP to push ice just into low/null sec, that want CCP to find a way to make PVP more viable and easier to find in low sec, and want CCP to make faction warfare more viable, they're not idiots?

Did you catch what I just did there? These are all things that PLAYERS can control, but they want CCP to jump in and fix it cause it's not working the way they want it to.

For some of us high sec dwellers pvp isn't working the way we want it to because we can't get involved without someone interupting the fight, baiting us, or gate camping us on our way out to find pvp.

If i'm an idiot because I want some regulated pvp that keeps people from steam rolling with gate camps and capital blobs, then I guess everyone who wants CCP to fix low sec pvp, ice, wormholes, FW, and all that other crap must be idiots too because they can't regulate it themselves?

Cause that's what you're saying. Keep saying it's a sand box and players should be in full control, but yet when other people suggest CCP take a leaf blower to the sand box in order to fix all this other player driven crap, it's cool, BECAUSE IT DIRECTLY BENEFITS YOU!!!!!

You're in the F&I forum... it doesn't work like that here. YOU are proposing an idea to US. The onus is on YOU to convince US that this is a good idea, that it won't break other areas of the game, and it won't step on the toes of others who choose not to partake in it.

In any other game, I'm sure you'd find widespread support... however... given that this thread is already on page 3, the majority of the posts here are from the same 5 or people, you aren't being relentlessly trolled to oblivion, and you're now starting to bump the thread to keep it on the front page... I think it's safe to assume that the general community neither dislikes your idea, nor likes it either.

How does one fit so much assumption and stupidity into one post?

Form a corp (ala red v blue) and do it that way and bam, pvp for your high sec pubbie self.

As for everything else you stupidly mentioned, some of those things are legitimately broken; FW mechanics are a joke and easily taken advantage of; low sec is a barren waste and the risk:reward ratio needs tweaking; wormholes...nothing; ice should not be in high sec (personal opinion, completely separate topic).

Your entire point that you don't want people gate camping/blobbing/etc is wrong though. Those are all in-game mechanics that are designed to be the way they are. You have the potential to defend against them. As I said, do it in high sec; create an "arena corporation/alliance." Or do it in low sec and have protection/security. Or do it in wormhole space and just be careful. Or do it in null sec. So much potential to create this "arena" yourself but you don't want to because its "hard and other players will be mean to you." That is pathetic.

Now, as far as suggesting to low sec dwellers that this is a good idea, that won't happen because they feel obligated to have all the pvp brought to them.

Although, with this scenario situation, they could easily come to the pvp arena and duke it out whith way more people than they could trying to find them in low sec.

Now, this also doesn't necissarily step on toes either. What it actually does is get more people involved in pvp that normally wouldn't because they don't like low/null sec pvp. Which in turn also gives those who want more pvp and to have it easier to find, exactly what they want, while allowing it to be more controlled the way high sec dwellers would want it, but still risky since you can lose ships and pods just as easy.

And here's where we run into a conflict of principles. I cannot support "PvP with controls."

Note: For reference... I find the Alliance Tournament to be nothing more than a ISK-making farce and I do not like the plexes in FW.

Again, these are all things that were CREATED BY CCP, but yet still player driven. Players would be the driving force behind these arenas the same way they are with the way low sec has become, the way null sec has become, and the way wormholes have become. CCP implements it and it's up to the players to do what they will with it. These arenas are no different.

I'm not the only one that doesn't want low sec gate camps. There are many people in eve that dislike them, and for a lot of those people, it's the exact reason they dont' get involved in pvp.

FW and several other things we've talked about are all mechanics that are designed to be the way they are, but yet players have problems with them as wel.

Players hate capital blobs because it's "hard and other players will be mean to you" with their blobs, but yet players want that fixed, so CCP is fixing it. I agree it needed to be fixed as well.

So pvp'ers have the right to complain and ask for a fix to their issues, but high sec dwellers don't have a right to complain and ask for fixes to their issues?" That's kinda biased

I was just asking myself the same thing on your posts.

Isn't low sec the same general concept I've put out with this "arena" suggestion?
I mean, it limits the pvp actions you can take in low sec the same way it does with these arenas.

The only difference is the limitation I'm putting on the arenas with the sizes of ships that can fit through the accel gates.

Which based on missions and their accel gates, totally makes sense.

Not exactly. In low-sec you have the option to run, lead/corral/chase the enemy to certain systems/locations, make safespots, set up traps, set up counter traps, bring in ships/equipment to do certain jobs better, get caught with ships equipment that will not do the job effectively (or at all), deal with people who you didn't intend on dealing with (then your l337 PvP skillz will really be tested), at times you really don't want to deal with them, forcing you to bring in new equipment/people that you really don't like bringing in, only to have it all smashed to bits because you didn't see that Falcon decloak 70km off and you didn't bother to fit an ECCM because, well, who the **** brings a Falcon to a cruiser fight? Then watch as a Titan warps in at 230 km, insta-locks and insta-pops said Falcon with RAILGUNS and get the bright idea to scare the Titan away by forming up a small gang of HICs.

Actually, it's closer to FW plexes and how they operate. Speaking from experience, an FW plex is either the best thing for you (have 3 people in a Dramiel with long points and Loki bonuses and have them point people from 30-something away while the rest of your group alpha-snipes them with arty-fit Thrashers) or the worst (being at the receiving end of the aforementioned example).

Personally I'd prefer a marked out arena, near to some major hubs, where people can fight to the death as a form of entertainment (lore) for the masses. You can try and interfere but there will be jamming towers and lots of guns on you if you do. Start small with 1v1 only, each paring gets put in the queue to use the arena, occasionally there would be 'true' tournaments perhaps every other week in a standard tourny strucuture and perhaps group opportunities later

Tell me precisely why you cannot use current in-game mechanics to simulate an arena of this nature.

That's kinda another reason why i'm trying to implement this. With this you will be able to come prepared for pvp with a pvp fit and ship. You'll also be able to choose a ship class in which you want to fight.

I wouldn't say it's "controlled pvp" but more "prepared pvp". You know, the kind we all actually want to get involved in.

It's a chance for players to come prepaired for pvp of a certain ship class without worrying about getting alpha'd at a gate, or blobs dropping in of much larger or smaller ship classes that will pwn you.

Again though, I just want somewhere to pvp where I know what i'm facing and have a better chance of actually getting a killmail. Although i'm sure you like how low sec is working out for you in a sense, I'm willing to bet that you would enjoy having somewhere to go every once in a while to pvp and have a chance of knowing what to expect.

Yeah,the problem I have with getting into FW is being dropped on by none FW players. When I was in FW I wanted to kill other FW targets so I wouldn't lose sec status, but the way the system works out, you're getting hit by non-FW targets more so than faction targets.