18th century pistol duels often resulted in death.

You really are failing even at a strawman argument as nothing we have said imply anything you just said. So basically you are pulling these words out of your ass.

Once you challenge someone, your fate is in their hands. There are warnings before you enter lowsec that say "hey you're entering losec, you can be killed. Do you wish to continue?" Why not with duels?

Okay kid, I'm going to teach you to read. The guy said that he thought there should be a confirmation; The duel invite is on the right click menu and appreciably easy to click by mistake. He is simply suggesting that a confirmation window appears to ask you that you're sure, just like the confirm button that you have to press when you disengage your safety settings.

This seems fairly reasonable to me.

Strawman. CCP would never do such a thing

And anybody whose played this game long enough knows not to accept the duel from the rookie ship. I'm not falling for that one.

I'm still lacking knowledge on RR alts in this mechanic.

Be glad that EVE is more PvP optional than ever as it is, stop asking for space battlegrounds

You know...every time I undock I get a duel request from some asshat. I keep declining them and haven't turned on my auto ignore yet. I figured I would try it. Now that I know that CCP herp derped and made it so that duel's destroy your **** when you lose, I won't.

A duel is something you do to test your skills on someone else. A duel should not incur a loss. If I want to kill someone in 1v1 PVP I will do it without asking their permission and with full consequence of Concord.

I am not going to go into why this duel system is a complete fail. I will just end with saying that it doesn't belong in EVE at all and should be removed entirely.

Is a pop-up saying
really making the game into hello kitty online?
It doesn't stop duels, it doesn't stop anyone from getting podded. It just means that you don't accidentally issue a duel to a cane, in your frigate.

I'd argue the problem you speak of has nothing to do with warnings and safeties but with the player community's attitude toward new players. Those warnings and safeties are nothing more than a symptom of CCP trying to address the very problems you speak of. At least that's my point of view.

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Please forgive me. I come from the days when noobs were not instaganked at every gate camp by people pretending ship-raep was PVP.

It would be kind of cool if noobs had a dueling starter mission where they had to duel another player in order to finish it. That would even get them started on PVP.

So... I don't know when it's "time to collect" but hopefully most can agree that there should be a time "when not to."

People play video games as an escape from reality, as a general rule...to have fun, distract themselves, etc. People play MMOs to further add to the social element of their game play time. If they're trying to do something "carebearish" when they first start out, my general philosophy is "let them be." I'm not just referring to one-day-old characters. I think people like you have forgotten what it is like to be new. You start off with hardly anything, and to have it all taken from you after working so hard for it, well, that can cause you to lose enjoyment pretty quickly.

Your post tells me you really don't know what you're talking about in relation to new players -- they are harassed, griefed, and bullied relentlessly.

I have alts in merc/pirate corps. I call BS.

Ha!

Yeah. You're cute.

I'm not talking about one-day old characters in rookie ships. Thought that was already clear?

I'll define new for you: Characters less than a month old. Corps made up of newbs?

Still feel the same way about killing them? (Of course not.)

Surely the game would not do well being encumbered with warning dialogs every two seconds, but something should be done to make sure the new players have nobody else to blame but themselves. I think the integrity and reputation of not only the game but the player base is protected when measure are taken to make sure that those who do get blapped hard knew they had it coming and not for "failing to learn every little thing". For people to be willing to harvest kills from that does not reveal them to be anything beyond a douchebag. Ultimately I'm tired of having to defend this game (admittedly it's getting easier thanks to DUST and the epic backstory).

Thus proving my point about you.

I disagree. There's nothing wrong with a group of like-minded newbs getting together and starting their own thing together. It's often better than the alternatives. God knows I wish I'd never joined the first two corps I did with my two main characters. Both were stringent, requiring I follow a specific path in order to be part of their war machine. Sorry, not interested. If people want to get together and create something that appeals to them, why do you care? Why do you feel it is your job to "obliterate ... idiotic newb hives?" People tried that with mine. They failed, but we're an exception, not the rule. And we've created something we feel is pretty awesome and special.

Anyway, I somehow got sucked into a wormhole with you and I'm going to escape from it now.