Is that because people like arenas better than ganking?

The OP did not say anything about stopping PVP anywhere.
He was suggesting the addition of an arena feature.

The RvB alliance basically already does that and has not ended pvp outside of it.

I think the addition of a CCP controlled arena system would do a lot to teach PVP.

I think a lot of players do not PVP because they don't know how.

PvP Arena maybe?

Thats why its killed pvp in every single MMO that has added arenas. They are the single worst thing you can add to a snadbox PvP game.

Oh this new and exciting topic again.

Can you imagine EVE where nobody undocks; all they do is click "Queue for Arena" and go in with a simulation of a ship fitted with their Arena Points which will result in losing nothing except arena ranking when they lose the battle.

And people actually think that will be a good thing for EVE Online? I can see why so many veterans post one-line, GTFO type of responses.

I think its a shite idea.

What's all this 20 jumps crap?

Amarr is 3 jumps from low-sec and 10 jumps from null;
Rens is 3 jumps from low-sec and 8 jumps from null;
Jita is 3 jumps from low-sec and 10 jumps from null.

Learn to play the game or **** off back to whatever game you played before

so basically you mean: what would please ALL players of this game is BAD.
great point of view.

another option: your "nobody" and "all" words mean just some group of Eve Online players? If this is right then give any reason why you automatically prefer another (let call it "second") group of players (who will not use this feature) to this group (let call it "first")?

I can guess this is because you are from second group who based on killing players from first one. And if they will evade your aggro you will need to fight players from seconds group which will make big risk

I thougth we had alot of arenas?

Literally every single game that added an arena ended up with no pvp outside of it.

False. Played for a long time in Wow pvp servers where you don't have the choice but to pvp because it goes absolutely everywhere unlike many troglodytes think, you can do Arena in those servers too and you have guys doing it, but say there was less or no pvp outside the Arena is a lie.

People talk about Wow pvp when they never knew anything else than Normal/PVP servers -yeah those you can trigger pvp flags or avoid them- please be my guest to make your new character in a full PVP server and come here tell me how many rabbits you could kill per hour and how fast you got to lvl "whatever crap"

Arena in Eve would be good for several reasons:

• Majority of players are in high sec would want to pvp in some defined environment/rules (like tournament)


• A large part of those players do not refuse to pvp, they refuse the systematic abuse of game mechanics/failures from other players or death traps not worth the effort for an instant loss.


• They want to play their character not their mandatory alt scout, for many of them.

Now, how bad would this be to null or low sec if those players would have some sort of arena?

Simple: It wouldn't change a crap, they will not GO TO LOW SEC OR NULL SEC, thus the fantastic PVP you guys talk about being already nonexistent, this wouldn't harm the game at all.

SWG added an arena and pvp outside of it ended. There was nothing but restus.

STO has arenas and there is no pvp to be found elsewhere.

Sorry Baltec1 but SWG and STO are what those are: bad pvp games from the beginning and I wouldn't pay a dime to have those in my computer, even if those were free wouldn't be bothered to DL them.

Lineage2
Guild Wars
Age of Conan
Aion

Even these shiny elves/pimp karat+¬ bimbo games are by far more of a pvp game than those you mentioned.
Like every MMO and Eve is not an exception, things are shaken down up a bit from time to time. One day one class is above the others but this is how MMOS go, and so does Eve.

Give a try to Lineage2 if you really like pvp everywhere every time without pussies crying their mom because they got gank.
You'll have no more trouble with high sec miners, no more trouble with low sec you can't bomb etc. Everything goes every time everywhere.

We already have an arena, its in Catch.

We call it HED.

People will join the arena meaning less targets so more will join the arena to get fights meaning less targets meaning in order to find a fight you have to look even harder or click a button and join a fight now.

one note: people who enjoy Pvp in current style won't leave to arena (why will they?). So only people who will leave are those who don't like PvP in current state. It means they possibly don't engage in PvP already (so called carebears).

So again: there will be no loss of active PvPers. There will be only some increasing of PvP in arena from those who don't like (and possibly don't do) PvP in game already.

Yes. You can lose some targets. Who are they? There are people who want to do PvP but they are constantly getting roflstomped/griefed/camped/etc and at the result they are getting tired of PvP. And yes, when arena is present they will leave in-game PvP and went to "honourable" PvP on arena. There is few notes here:
- not sure there is considerable amount of these players
- these players will leave PvP at some point anyway. If there will be no Arena they will just leave the game or become "carebears".

Its a cascade effect and it will happen because it has happened every single time to every game that has added an arena. It will not add new pvpers because the people who dont pvp now will not pvp in the future for the exact same reasons they don't pvp now. The only people who will join the arena are the people who pvp now and that is how the cascade happens.

been there many times.... 20+ ships kill one.

yea, this is something honourable like Arena

That one ship died an honourable death!

well. maybe you right after all.

i have no such experience in MMO (Eve Online is my first).

However i can say: i would join Arena because i like to PvP but have no interest to meet bottom feeders.

I cant imagine a worse idea!

I do not want WoW - f**king pink pony crap.

The non pvpers who want to pvp - they can find it, they can learn how to do it, like everyone else. Large scale in nullsec, medium scale in NPC null, small scale in lowsec. Just go and see what to do. Ask pirates if thats your thing, or anti pirates if thats isnt.

For those that wasnt t 1 on 1 - go to Sisi.

You really need to get out of you little world bubble and see by yourself what happens in SISI then use your brains to understand why there is no more people over there playing with free stuff.

I see a problem with your reasoning, SISI is risk free and you get stuff for free but players are not playing there, can you explain us why?