its called a fleet and wtm... so no not 99% fixed you ding bat!

I don't like the direction this is taking us quite honestly. What's next, the loser of the duel reappears in a ghost ship and has to warp to his wreck where everything re-materializes?

Edit: Also, will "everyone spam duel request" be the new "everyone spam convo"? Or perhaps both?

All fine for fun, but please, put under game client generic options a checkmark for auto declining all duel requests.

Thank You.

Corrrect numbnuts it IS called a fleet.

Want a 1v1 then fleet up with opponent and warp off somewhere. Opponent brings in help then live and learn. Much like life outside the happy clappy bubble

sounds a little... http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html

This is simply the return of those methods after Crimewatch accidentally removed them.

Greetings most honorable space pilots!

Did that ever happen in the old system?
No. So what on earth gave you the idiotic idea that it would ever happen under the new one?

You knowGǪ maybe it would help if you actually read what you're commenting on before posting. Oh, and if you understood some basic game mechanics before complaining about how something that has always existed is somehow new and scaryGǪ

You do realize that the 'slippery slope fallacy' argument does not somehow mean that it is now impossible that the feared result can never come about.

Allowing dueling just makes me think OMG this is WoW

It's not the announced mechanic that is bad, get it. It's the growing demand and thus the chance of a weird direction to MMO arena stuff.

GǪit just means that connecting event A and event B is irrational and lacks logic.

Why is that? Have you been confusing EVE with WoW for long? I've been playing this game for more than half its lifetime and never confused the two in spite of EVE allowing duels all that timeGǪ

I don't know how this adds any substance to the eve universe as a concept. It just seems like this a mechanic that is in other games and so was added to this one.

I think this detracts from eveonline. Its hard to put into words but the idea of two pod pilots agreeing to duel sounds stupid. It would make my gameplay less enjoyable if I saw two people dueling in eve.

To me it seems like this makes it more like any other game. Why would two capsuleers duel each other why the hell would concord allow it ? It detracts from the violent vicious and subterfuge nature of eve and makes it less.

Tippia, if all your going to do is spam ppl here your more in touch with WoW then you might think...try and be constructive and come up with something that actually contributes to this topic.

Seeing as how the Gǣgrowing demandGǥ was a demand for restoration of lost functionality, there is no change in directionGǪ or indeed any growing demand to begin with.

GǪwhich is why I keep returning to the same question: why is it that people are so upset with the restoration of lost mechanics?

You can plain ignore the point and try to look clever or plain do a forum search.

Oh, you mean that thing that has nothing to do with what's being discussed here (viz. restoration of lost mechanics), and which doesn't seem to exhibit any GÇ£growing demandGÇ¥?

Why would I search for that?

I am. I'm asking a question that tries to shed a light on the rather unreasonable emotional response people have to things getting fixed. Apparently, no-one can come up with a rational answer.

This mechanic was heralded in the exact same breath as CW2.0 was presented. The devs immediately covered their rears by saying that they wanted to retain the option for players to enter into some kind of structured ad-hoc engagements even after the change to theft flagging, and people kept asking for exactly this kind of thing to remedy that lossGǪ and to absolutely no-one's surprise, here we are: the old duelling mechanic reimplemented in a way that works within the new Crimewatch.

So why are people so upset that lost mechanics are being reimplemented as promised? The only difference between old and new is under the new systems, the challenger can't call in neutral logis with impunityGǪ which makes me suspect that all this crying has nothing to do with duels being reinstated at all.

So you want to ignore the point. Ok then.

There is nothing broken as my first post in this thread explains there are already the mechanics in this game.