The idea is simple.
Create a system that players can go to that will only allow you to initiate combat with one player and only if that player isn't in combat and hasn't been in combat for 5 minutes.

This will hopefully give the winner of the previous battle a chance to recover or get out of Dodge if they can't repair before they would be engaged again.

I really like the idea of fights being ship class specific. for example cruiser vs cruiser, frigate vs frigate, BS vs BS.

This could really be a fun way for players to mix is up without losing your favorite ship to a roaming gank squad.

Personal Disclosure:
I"m fairly new to the game and haven't done any intentional pvp, I'm not in a player corp yet, but I am curious to see some PVP action, without having to take someones bait cans.


In closing I would like to say that EVE is a big universe; surely there is room for just one solo pvp system.
It would also make since that 0.0 players would have a direct jump point to it that wouldn't involve traveling Hi-Sec space.

0.0 space is expansive, but from what I hear not well populated. The Arena style system would be a great place for players to hone their combat skills and not automatically get smoked becuase someone has more friends in closer proximity.

As the saying goes more pew pew pew = more fun..

Comments Welcome.

Arenas and instanced playgrounds have ruined enough otherwise enjoyable PvP games thanks.


You want arena's play WoW

I understand what you are saying, but we are only talking about 1 system out of how many 1,000?

7500, and the answer is still no, this goes against the very fundamentals of eve.

Its pointless. Want to go PvP then you don't need an arena system. Just undock and head to low-sec/npc null.

Hell we're back at October 2008 population levels, low-sec is empty (apart from FW areas), null npc is dead and most of sov null docks up when a neutral comes into system.

In short there has never been a better time to try solo PvP. The probability of being ganked away from busy routes is extremely low.

Edit - actually finding a target is likely to prove harder than killing it. No joke.

This exists already. For years actually. This is how it works:

"Hello corpmate, would you like a 1vs1 ? "

If you're in a NPC-corp you're clearly stating you DON'T want to interact too much. Thats fine. EVE is a sandbox. YOU decide what happens. That includes PVP. If you want an arena, set it up.

Small edit: I complety agree with the post above

The idea is simple.

yet so stupid


PLEASE STOP POSTING

yet so stupid


PLEASE STOP POSTING

Arenas and instanced playgrounds have ruined enough otherwise enjoyable PvP games thanks.


You want arena's play WoW

yet so stupid


PLEASE STOP POSTING

Please don't give CCP any ideas they might make this a NeX consumable or something.

Goggles and a GIF with SpongeBob?

Yeah, he's the stupid one...

You want an arena? Ok, let's do this the easy way.

Step 1: Go to Jita 4-4.

Step 2: Put a can with a piece of ammo out.

Step 3: GLORIOUS COMBAT.

But wait, there's more! Let's explore another idea.

Step 1: Go into low sec system.

Step 2: Find another player.

Step 3: GLORIOUS COMBAT.

Oh my, I'm still not done!

Step 1: Find a wormhole.

Step 2: Find someone running an anom.

Step 3: GLORIOUS COMBAT WITH ARENA HAZARDS.

Yep, that about covers it.

People are against your idea because one of the fundamental aspects of PvP is that it's unpredictable; anyone in the game can interfere in anyone else's fight. From what I've seen, most PvPers would rather put up with unfair fights and blobbing rather than sacrifice any of that freedom.

Now I'm not remotely interesting in ruining Eve, but until I started this post I had never heard of Red/Blue (which does sound interesting). The only issue I have with that mirrors a comment by someone in another post that I read earlier today.
He said and I agree that he wasn't interested in having his hand held through the early stages of tactics and strategies, he prefers to go at his own pace and figure it out himself.

I understand what you are saying, but we are only talking about 1 system out of how many 1,000?

Why don't you try playing eve for a bit before you make suggestions.

why not just play on test server? There are already pretty much arenas like this in the test system on SiSi. If you're afraid of losing stuff to uber blobs test server has added advantage of no risk of loss.

why not just play on test server? There are already pretty much arenas like this in the test system on SiSi. If you're afraid of losing stuff to uber blobs test server has added advantage of no risk of loss.

and who are those who are allowed to enter this only system?

if all 50000 online eve player decide to have solo pvp who would you limit who get in and who not?

Make it a null system

close to uh, byx please, or in deklein/fountain

To be honest I'm against the idea in principle.

Not because of any specifics with your idea (I didn't even read your post), but because part of the reward in the risk versus reward of solo pvp, is when you actually just find and get a decent fight.

To artificially manufacture that experience inherently diminishes its value, and hence ruins that risk versus reward.

I only liked your post to give you false hope.

Go on the test server and goto the PvP system and spend a few hours there.

Then you will see why this is a bad idea - except it would be 623649864x worse on TQ.

You will build a battleships or battlecruiser - get dropped by 8 thanatos and die instantly. Repeat.

It's really not as fun in practice as in theory.

What part of "sandbox" do people not understand?

Apparently, just the "sandbox' part

I for one don't understand the sand part.

It should be called a spacebox.

first of alll half of you are trolls childish people like for real....at any rate i think this is a great idea i totally agree with this post to give the choice to engage players will learn what they should engage and what not too people will start to have thoughts in there head like hes probly got this fit point being i think it would be dope ;)))

Apparently, just the "sandbox' part

(Sandbox games) "A video game with nonlinear gameplay"

Dear god man, what sort of sentence structure is that?

@OP: Honestly, this game is horrible solo, but hey, I like people.


Go play an FPS...or duel someone in world of warcraft.

(you can do this on the test server, op is a dumb ****)

Takes one to know one.
I haven't called anyone names.
If you want to disagree thats fine with me, but don't insult my intelligence.

first of alll half of you are trolls childish people like for real....at any rate i think this is a great idea i totally agree with this post to give the choice to engage players will learn what they should engage and what not too people will start to have thoughts in there head like hes probly got this fit point being i think it would be dope ;)))

My god...

Oh man, and it'll totally have a queue to jump in for your fight at a certain spot, and there'll be titans guarding the line like a huge bouncer, with amarr ships shooting lasers and playing bad techno inside while the gallente ships get hit on by caldari bros and this whole idea is the MOST EPIC PVP IDEA EVER.

moar drivel pl0x ^^

after reading all 5 pages here of flame after flame. im sure u already know this is just not goin to happen based on the reponse u have gotten from all the posts.
to give u more of an understanding of how pvp works u have to think of it like gambling. ie theres a drake rattin in the belts of a low sec sys. most common question that comes to mind. is it bait? if it is how many ppl should i expect to drop on top of me? whos is flying the drake based on those in local? does he have a cyno? if i find him want can i do to GTFO if **** hits the fan?

all questions that a pvper aks when hunting for his/her kill. ( this is a solo situation by the way ) as much as u think an area just for solo pvp would be good, it takes away from all those great unknows that can happen in low sec/nul sec. ( null sec sucks btw y ppl even go out there is beyond me really the lag is unreal plus the fights are boring as **** )

yes 1v1s are epic, but wat makes them good is the fact that they even happened with all the unknown factors the are involed with the situation. i refer back to the drake. lets say i find the *** rattin away. im in my myrm ( drone boat that gets a bonus to repp amount if u dont alreadly know ) i point him and start to drop my dps on him. he aggros back. during the whole fight in spamming my d-scan to see if anything in in route to help the drake at the same time im watching local for any jump in to help the poor drake about to die by my hand.

all this is being done while in watching my cap use, drones distance from target, how fast he is moving and the dmg he is taking. next common question that comes to mind. ok i have him half shields now is he calling for back up? is the back up a cyno? is there a cloaky ship in route? how many cap boosters do i have left? do i want to sell his loot or keep it? i wonder if i can get his pod?

drakes dies, pod shows up on the overview and pod dies not long after. collect loot. collect corpse. dock make contract of corpse back to player for 10 mill and send kill survey.
none of these things can happen in a closed off box arena wheer everything is controlled. try to understand that this is pvp. being outnumbered is the point. coming out on top when the odds are against u is better then a fair *** fest fight where rules are applied.

hence y this is a bad idea.

Join Red Versus Blue.

I don't know all that much about Eve.

Is anyone else seeing the irony of comments? "Eve is a sandbox.... blah blah. You must be free to do what you want.".

"BUT YOU MUST DO WHAT WE WANT!"

I hope I didn't lose too many of you switching between Eve proper and my basketball analogy.

#1 Posted: 2011.11.24 07:13 | Edited by: Meng Ren'Du The idea is simple.
Create a system that players can go to that will only allow you to initiate combat with one player and only if that player isn't in combat and hasn't been in combat for 5 minutes.

This will hopefully give the winner of the previous battle a chance to recover or get out of Dodge if they can't repair before they would be engaged again.

I really like the idea of fights being ship class specific. for example cruiser vs cruiser, frigate vs frigate, BS vs BS.

This could really be a fun way for players to mix is up without losing your favorite ship to a roaming gank squad.

Personal Disclosure:
I"m fairly new to the game and haven't done any intentional pvp, I'm not in a player corp yet, but I am curious to see some PVP action, without having to take someones bait cans.


In closing I would like to say that EVE is a big universe; surely there is room for just one solo pvp system.
It would also make sense that 0.0 players would have a direct jump point to it that wouldn't involve traveling Hi-Sec space.

0.0 space is expansive, but from what I hear not well populated. The Arena style system would be a great place for players to hone their combat skills and not automatically get smoked becuase someone has more friends in closer proximity.

As the saying goes more pew pew pew = more fun..

Comments Welcome.

I''m missing something in most of the replies I see.
Are you all saying that Eve PvP is fine the way it is?

Common are comments about 0.0 space being mostly abandoned.
Common are comments that the game is fine the way it is.
I've read comments that the Devs are looking for ideas to improve the 0.0 space participation. I'm just pitching an idea.

If the current participation of pvp is fine and working as intending and what does it hurt to add another option to a sandbox?

Are you naysayers concerned that a solo only system would become so popular that it would threaten the activity levels for the other 7,500 systems?

I'm seeing some good comments and I appreciate you all taking the time to share with me.

Actually, all that is required is for CCP to give the ability for players to challenge each other to duels in high-sec, and for 1 minute:
1) provide random a safe spot for both parties to warp to
2) disable the ability for anyone to warp to either party
3) disable all gang links and remote repairing
4) CONCORD will not shoot either
It can easily be justified via in-game lore by considering it a Capsuleer's tradition of dueling that is regulated by CONCORD.
It won't damage the sandbox nature of the game, because it would only be some new rules by CONCORD in high sec.
No new solar system, just a modification to aggro rights and fleet bonuses.

People duel all the time already in high-sec.
It is just a great hassle to make bookmarks, ensure there is no one else in system to prevent warp-ins, to fleet up, and to use cans for aggro rights.
This duel system would simplify things tremendously and result in more people willing to participate in more equal exciting fights.

Just go on sisi and do this, it's almost the same.

This is true except for 2 points.
1) On TQ, these is real ISK loss, so this gives more drama and consequence to make the fight more meaningful.
2) You get killmails on TQ if you win.

I understand what you are saying, but we are only talking about 1 system out of how many 1,000?

The idea is simple.
Create a system that players can go to that will only allow you to initiate combat with one player and only if that player isn't in combat and hasn't been in combat for 5 minutes.

This will hopefully give the winner of the previous battle a chance to recover or get out of Dodge if they can't repair before they would be engaged again.

I really like the idea of fights being ship class specific. for example cruiser vs cruiser, frigate vs frigate, BS vs BS.

This could really be a fun way for players to mix is up without losing your favorite ship to a roaming gank squad.

Personal Disclosure:
I"m fairly new to the game and haven't done any intentional pvp, I'm not in a player corp yet, but I am curious to see some PVP action, without having to take someones bait cans.


In closing I would like to say that EVE is a big universe; surely there is room for just one solo pvp system.
It would also make sense that 0.0 players would have a direct jump point to it that wouldn't involve traveling Hi-Sec space.

0.0 space is expansive, but from what I hear not well populated. The Arena style system would be a great place for players to hone their combat skills and not automatically get smoked becuase someone has more friends in closer proximity.

As the saying goes more pew pew pew = more fun..

Comments Welcome.