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At registration, players will specify their ship (fitting info not required).

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Timing would be accomplished via the issue of private contracts and a piece of unique cargo racers would not have knowledge of prior to the race.

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• Rat Race
• Eveball (reference to Gumball)
• Death Race (As people are allowed to shoot eachother)
• Eve Le Mans (reference to the 1000 miles/1600km Petit Le Mans race)
• The R1/Rule 1 (reference to Formula 1/F1 and your char name)
• Stock Ship Race (Reference to Stock car racing/NASCAR)

Originally by: M To

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First of all i would like to say that this sounds like a good and fun idea.
The first thing that came to my mind when i read this was:
Why not let every player use the same ship? This sort of equals the chances. Everybody can fly shuttles and everybody should be able to fly any t1 frig within a couple of hours. But than i realized it all depends on the type of race you want.
If you want something like Rat Race, it doesn't matter what you use as long as you get to the finish.

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Originally by: M To

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But what happens if somebody gets blown up? That way they will loose the cargo and can not complete the race. Unless they buy the item somewhere at the market (if possible), but that is a potential exploid as people can buy that item in the correct location and than finish the courier contract.

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Originally by: M To

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How about this idea:
You find a quiet system, let everybody gather in the same station. That way you can check who is present and participates. At the specified start time you say in local what the destination is. You have a second char in a station in the destination system. If somebody finishes, they say it in local or a private chat/channel hosted by you and you can check if they are in station to confirm they finished.

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Originally by: Rule18

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Interesting, it would take a little more doing but could work... the issue I see with it is what if some random person (or a racer) chooses to gank my character at just the wrong time? Lol, maybe killing the refs could be just another part of it.

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Put him into position a few days ahead of the contest. And if the alt is cloaked and sufficiently far enough away from things that can decloak him, he is invulnerable. A cloaked recon or covert ops is good enough.

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I have also had this idea but could not find anyone else to help me, I would love to help you with this, I think it could be profitable, and even a good buisness to start a corp arround.



Name ideas:
Sell the name to make isk
Eve Rally 1 (just number each race)

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Originally by: Q OSC

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Good stuff , nice to see your taking it all the way :-)
Count me in!

It might be a good idea to make this race abit more accessable to different timezones , setup 4 parts to it or something in that direction...

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Originally by: Droidster

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Edited by: Droidster on 10/02/2011 22:51:09
Back in 2004-5 there was a race, I forget what it was called. Man, it was unbelievable fun. I was one of the 50 finalists. It was so cool jumping through every territory in the map and leaving the tacklers in the dust. Back in those days you could fit dual MWD on a Taranis and go like 20,000 km/hr. It was just like the Gumball rally, no holds barred. We were blowing through gate camps like they weren't even there. In those days there was no cloaking or anything like that, just pure speed.

Nowadays it would never work. The alliances would set up bubbles and take down every ship in the race. You would have to make bubbles temporarily inoperative for the race to be feasible.

The way the race worked is that there were "sponsor" corporations and each corporation would sponsor, I think, 5 racers. You picked your qualifier for a given corp and if you qualified you became one of their racers. For example, my sponsor was Hyasoda. I got +5 standing with Hyasoda for being one of their racers.

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Originally by: John Tacos

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The betting could be done by a 3rd party, or at least underwritten or insured by them (there are corps that do that)

Having a short cut through low sec would make the race even more interesting, and dangerous.

More naming ideas:

Eve Racing League
The Roundabout
Toure de Galaxy
Toure de Eve

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Originally by: Droidster

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The way the original race worked is that it was run by CCP GMs. Each GM chaperoned one of the teams. There were 10 "corporate sponsors", all NPC corps like Hyasoda or Duvolle. First you raced in a qualifier. Each corporation had a separate qualifier. The qualifiers were in empire space. The top 5 finishers in each qualifier were seeded to the final, so there were 5x10 = 50 racers in the final. The final was a cross-cosmos race across the galaxy. The route was not announced until the moment the race started. As I recall it started deep in Genesis, sort of the bottom of the map and ended way up in Branch or Tenal or something, deep in 0.0 space. The destination location was camped by CCP so if you got there you were safe. We all collected in a starter system and then the destination system was named and the race was on. As soon as the destination was announced every single gate camper, pirate, alliance patrol, you name it was setting up along the route so about 1/3 of the racers never made it to the end. Some of the bigger alliances were trying to let their members pass and block the others but it was way too chaotic for those efforts to have much effect. Be aware that back in those days "alliances" were purely unofficial, they did not exist in game.

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