This idea is about as out of place in EVE as a "summon magical love ponies" button.

This idea is about as out of place in EVE as a "summon magical love ponies" button.

Your idea is not going to be received well. It has been suggested before and shot down before. Arena combat has little place in EVE is the general consensus.

This idea is about as out of place in EVE as a "summon magical love ponies" button.

Drop a can.

As long as it's restricted to "click butan, get mutual aggression", yes, why not. But no safe zones, no instances, no forced ship or equipment restrictions, no stopping ship destruction, nothing that wouldn't happen in a canflip scenario.

Exaclty...nothing special...just mutual aggression - no special room or arena...just start shooting.

This idea is about as out of place in EVE as a "summon magical love ponies" button.

No,

because then it is formal and i can already hear the noobs 2 months later crying for instanced fights because the other guy last night had a friend with a logi "...and that is clearly an exploit to a system that was invented for 1v1 PvP..."

No No No No!

This idea is about as out of place in EVE as a "summon magical love ponies" button.

You know, it wouldn't be hard to code the inability to rep someone in a duel. Just make it so that isn't possible - you know.

You know, it wouldn't be hard to code the inability to rep someone in a duel. Just make it so that isn't possible - you know.

Why fix what isn't broke. The can's have worked just as well as your little button for the past decade without the worry of seeing 20 pop ups from the spazmatic wonder over yonder.

+1, but no private instance. Having the computers shut off the weapons before exploding would be spiffy.

It would open the sandbox up to entrepreneurs (i.e. players) holding tournaments and whatnot instead of relying on CCP to provide such content.

Dueling Button - would you like to see one?

Why is dueling so bad?

Ccp already confirmed a few months ago they are working on it as part of crimewatch 2.0...

So would anyone be open to the ideal of a "Dueling Button" ? All it would do is flag each participant is an temporary enemy and allow for the players to shoot it out - but only to the point of almost destruction. You can't pod your opponent. Before you can destroy their ship both parties weapons are made inoperable and a winner is declared.

Is this a bad idea

The can trick won't work when they introduce the new crime watch changes, if you loot someones can aka commit any type of crime you go flashy to every single person in eve.

The duel button would be to allow those people doing competitions like the Eve Radio types to hold their frig/dessie fights without getting blapped by 30 people nearby I guess.

This would be a huge boon for gankers, just sit outside of 4-4 and spam and wait for misclicks. No more worries about sec hits or lost ships.

Edit: The reason dueling or arenas are disliked by many is the fear it will siphon players away from the forms of PvP combat currently in the game, like low sec roams or FW. Those traditional forms will then die from lack of participation.

Its not clear that will happen. It may siphon off some players, but it may introduce others to PvP, and make them want more.

Counter proposal:

How about fist fights against enemy pilots after your ships explodes / you eject. Just add some big boxing gloves on the Capsule and make it a minigame (big red button, each time you press it you hit, first pilot with 100 hits wins).

If it goes well you could add trainable space animals that can fight against each other and possible Panda shaped spaceships.

on another thought:

you know what game needs a duel button? Hello Kitty Online.

but only to the point of almost destruction. You can't pod your opponent. Before you can destroy their ship both parties weapons are made inoperable and a winner is declared.

If you hate the ideal - tell me to go biomass.

A "Duel button" would simply be another way to grief newbies.

This idea is about as out of place in EVE as a "summon magical love ponies" button.

Yes they did. But there will be no "stopping before ship destruction and winner declared". It will be just like now when two players drop cans and steal. Ships will explode.

What is not known is the actual game mechanic, or if it will allow 3 way matches, or fleet matches.

Edit: The reason dueling or arenas are disliked by many is the fear it will siphon players away from the forms of PvP combat currently in the game, like low sec roams or FW. Those traditional forms will then die from lack of participation.

Its not clear that will happen. It may siphon off some players, but it may introduce others to PvP, and make them want more.

No. It already exists. It's called "Jettison".

Just an ideal

A horrible "ideal". You want duels? Check out Aion... Played that game last year for one week free, felt glad to uninstall it.

Really....really...

No, terrible idea, then the next thing is people would want 1v1 balanced and that would basically trash the concept of ships for roles in fleets.

1v1 would ruin EvE, if people want that kind of PvP they should be playing a FPS.

Why is dueling so bad?

This idea is about as out of place in EVE as a "summon magical love ponies" button.

Reasons why I really dislike this idea:

1.) You don't blow up your opponent.... WTF.... really??? That little "Concord forces us to stop in structure" addendum is an instant "HELL NO". EvE is about risks. Whenever you engage in combat, the least you should risk is your ship!!!

As an alternative. I think you should have to dial for CONCORD, not have them automatically show up and blast the aggressor. And to make it interesting, throw up a CAPTCHA to complete the call.

I realize that all the bots and afkers will rage ... well .. rage on.

*Victim calls on the phone*

Concord GM - "CCP-911 what's your emergency?"
Victim - Hello, I'm being ganked, shields are gone!
Concord GM - Please remain calm sir. I can not understand you if you are screaming. On what system are you located?
Victim - I'm in Perimeter, at the Jita gate... hurry, I'm half armor now!
Concord GM - Did you said you are in Jita, at the Perimeter gate?
Victim - No! In P*E*R*I*M*E*T*E*R! At the J*I*T*A gate!
Concord GM - Sir, it's difficult to understand you if you are screaming. Please calm down.
Victim - The ship blew up! Now my POD is scrambled & webbed!!!!
Concord GM - I still can't understand you sir... hold on while I use a locator agent to get your location...
*Victim is placed on hold*
Concord GM - We are back sir, our records show you are not currently engaged on any fights. The agent tells me you are in the Kisogo system and by the way, you need to update your clone. Please hang up, this line is for emergencies only.