Because it's a duel?
There's nothing about duels that makes it impossible for people to interfere GÇö it's just dishonourable to do so. If you choose pistols at dawn, the roving band of bandits that happen to find you, and decide to rob you blind, will not particularly care about the elegance of your second's cravat or the eloquence of the challenge you make to your opponent. They will just want you to hand over the guns, valuables and silk socks.

GǪand there have been methods to deal with this in highsec for years. This is simply the return of those methods after Crimewatch accidentally removed them. No new or special benefits are being handed out.

Yeah, because you couldn't 1v1 with the current mechanics.

To all the folks posting here and POSes, please stop. This has nothing at all to do with the POS system, until I can challenge another POS to a duel.

No its not as we'll see in the next 6 months.

You want to fight someone in high-sec then what's the problem? Don't do it on station - oh look 99% of high-sec warfare fixed

I bet that duel mode will boost lowsec pvp to a new level.

I hate the term duel,

Because it weakens

- the purpose of wardecs,
- the meaning of hisec vs. low /null and
- the sandbox approach at all.

Maybe because the solution they chose is anything but immersive. Contrary to the one that existed before. It may have been clumsy, but at least you had to interact more with your environment.

And the march to Theme Park Eve continues! Hey, why allow for random aggression when we can just institute a PVP flag? Heck, why do we need a global PVP flag when just an individual one would cause far less crying?