E man Industries wrote:
So is there any drive behind the CSM to have quicker PvP in 0.0? Not all 0.0 players are from huge alliances and love the huge alliance ops.
Big fights are great and alliances need to have them, but day to day smaller scale skirmishes need to be taking place. These skirmishes need to be accessible in a 1-2h play slot.
0.0 needs to be fun!
Thanks I hope to shoot you soon.
Edit:
I sure you are aware of the above issue as you are attempting to set up a similar thunderdome of pvp-ness to address this via goonswarm.
Pilots in every area of 0.0 space shoudl have access to good fights.
not asking for cpp to change 0.0 or sov or anything as big fightd have there place but currently good fights are hard to come by. I'm in a similar mental place; most of my pvp these days is ganking or gatecamping or World of Tanks. I don't like waiting for hours on major fleet ops to fight a fight; I'm lazy. This is a common problem for veterans, who have been playing for ages - this is also why vets end up in cap ships, because you can play a game in another window until it's cyno time, and then you either fight or die or go back to playing in another window. Less 'schlepping'.
It's extremely controversial and the CSM is divided on it, but personally I'd like to see some kind of an arena or instanced PvP setup which would allow professionals with busy lives to log in, blow some dudes up, and log off. The actual mechanics of such a device don't interest me much - it could be a gladiatorial arena with spectators who can place bets, a 'combat simulator', an arranged 4v4 team game, whatever.
The macro-level issue is what concerns me: the fact that, as a PvPer, it's very hard to get a PvP experience within a short time of logging in. Missionrunners and miners can boot up EVE and begin slaving away at their PvE in moments, PvPers not so much.
One of the reasons you see EVE's PvP population in BF3, LoL/HoN and WoT is precisely that they allow us to get PvP fixes on demand. It sure would be nice if we could get an on-demand PvP experience involving spaceships, too.
However, some are hostile to the very idea of arenas or instanced combat or even 'quick PvP'. I haven't focused on this as a 'CSM Issue' because it doesn't much matter if we get on-demand PvP or not while the Sucking Chest Wounds need to be patched. Once the game is not being driven off a cliff hopefully I can step back and push for stuff like this.