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

Anyway, you do not have to agree with everyone here but you also do not need to make this your personal crusade, let ppl have their say and if you do choose to respond, try and do it without being insulating.

GǪa mechanic that was broken by CW2.0 and which is now being restored to its pre-retribution state. Just because there were (incomplete) work-arounds for this broken state doesn't mean it was working properly. Again, this restoration was promised the same moment CW2.0 was presented, and now we have it.

So why are people so upset that this return to the old system has happened as promised?
The only reason I can think of is that neutral logis will be comparatively neuteredGǪ so far, I haven't seen any better explanation.

I would prefer to ignore irrational and unfounded concerns about unrelated topics, yes, because they areGǪ you knowGǪ irrational and unrelated. On might even say off-topic.

But sure, indulge me: how does a restoration of lost functionality GÇö as promised GÇö relate to an implementation of instances and sectioned-off space and no-loss combat (which is what most arena requests are about, and why they never get any traction)? Oh, and why is it that people are so upset that this lost functionality is being restored, again as promised?

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

Thank You.

How about pets?

like with every mechanic in Eve, people will find some way to abuse it.

no you cant due to crimewatch...

Can we also get some Tekken or Street Fighter sound for when the round starts and the Opponent dies?

Yes, you can. It's very easy to have a 1v1 without anyone else interfering with the current Crimewatch mechanics.

But whatever, we better have the ability to block ALL duel requests indiscriminately without blocking other forms of invites or communication at the same time. If we don't then I and many, many people will be quite pissed off.

Furthermore all killmails resulting from this duel mechanic should be shown as such, although that's not as important.

next step, battlegrounds...

While I want there to be a way to do relatively consensual 1v1s (since the last mechanic was stupidly removed due to some poorly though out crimewatch changes), this is dumb. This is Eve, not WoW. No duels, no arenas, none of that.

Is it possible to add a Friendly Duel check box that terminates the flag at structure? This would be a fantastic learning tool. :)

They aren't proposing a safe style of combat beyond anything other than two people being able to fight in high sec without drawing the ire of concord. The word arena doesn't show up in the blog at all.

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You see? Magic bullets.

Because agreeing not to shoot further than armor is damn too hard.

When are we getting raids?

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.