Arena?

[Phantom]

Does anyone play in the Arena mode? I tried it out but couldnt find a game. How long does it take to find a game and which mode is being played the most?

[Arya]

Area is effectively dead, as Elite's open PVP offers a better experience with more tactical depth, more unpredictability, more ships and more on the line.

[76561198335825264]

They should just close this abomination and concentrate on creating some ingame content for pvp.

[Arya]

Originally posted by Algomatic NaCl:

They should just close this abomination and concentrate on creating some ingame content for pvp.

I agree. Arena was redundant from the instant it launched, FDev would be better putting their resources into better PVP. Or even integrating Arena's combat into Open somehow, perhaps via tourneys.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Wolfey:

Or even integrating Arena's combat into Open somehow, perhaps via tourneys.

Yes. More people would try it, and an Arena rank wouldn't be perpetually 0, unlike for most of Commanders now.

[Turih]

Originally posted by Algomatic NaCl:

They should just close this abomination and concentrate on creating some ingame content for pvp.

Calling it "abomination" is exaggerated. It is great fun, unfortunately it wasn't implemented in the right way and even the later stand-alone version did not suceed (which I find curious).

[Boomer]

Yeah there are a few groups that go into CQC. I love team v team but the full deathmatch seems to be the most popular

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Wolfey:

Area is effectively dead, as Elite's open PVP offers a better experience with more tactical depth, more unpredictability, more ships and more on the line.

What about when we just want to practice without having anything on the line?

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

I think if there was a few places to go que for arena PvP in the world, and you used your own ship matched against people with simmilar ships, it would get used a lot more. Maybe joining PvP that way halfs or negates rebuy costs :)

[Turih]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

I think if there was a few places to go que for arena PvP in the world, and you used your own ship matched against people with simmilar ships, it would get used a lot more. Maybe joining PvP that way halfs or negates rebuy costs :)

So instead of joining instantly from the menu, you would have to fly all the way to the destination? I highly doubt that would give Arena more popularity.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Originally posted by Turih:

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

I think if there was a few places to go que for arena PvP in the world, and you used your own ship matched against people with simmilar ships, it would get used a lot more. Maybe joining PvP that way halfs or negates rebuy costs :)

So instead of joining instantly from the menu, you would have to fly all the way to the destination? I highly doubt that would give Arena more popularity.

And use your own ship with a halfed or no rebuy cost, so its like sparring for when you do get jumped in the actual open world. I did say a few places aswell not just one ;)

[76561198335825264]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

I think if there was a few places to go que for arena PvP in the world, and you used your own ship matched against people with simmilar ships, it would get used a lot more. Maybe joining PvP that way halfs or negates rebuy costs :)

Rebuys are irrelevant with cash cows like Robigo. 100mil per hour, who cares about rebuys?

[Dread Lord]

Originally posted by Turih:

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

I think if there was a few places to go que for arena PvP in the world, and you used your own ship matched against people with simmilar ships, it would get used a lot more. Maybe joining PvP that way halfs or negates rebuy costs :)

So instead of joining instantly from the menu, you would have to fly all the way to the destination? I highly doubt that would give Arena more popularity.

If it was in the galaxy with our own ships and there was something to loose and a ranking I would actually partiticpate in it a lot!

The outside Elite seperat eminigame is a complete joke and I agree its an abomination :D

[Dread Lord]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

I think if there was a few places to go que for arena PvP in the world, and you used your own ship matched against people with simmilar ships, it would get used a lot more. Maybe joining PvP that way halfs or negates rebuy costs :)

would be great!

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Originally posted by Algomatic NaCl:

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

I think if there was a few places to go que for arena PvP in the world, and you used your own ship matched against people with simmilar ships, it would get used a lot more. Maybe joining PvP that way halfs or negates rebuy costs :)

Rebuys are irrelevant with cash cows like Robigo. 100mil per hour, who cares about rebuys?

I dont do chees runs so 28mill rebuys on my combat conda stack up. Even if i did your saying play an hour to get 3 respawns in pvp.

If they want people to engage in pvp thats not a very good ratio for it to be fun. Play 6 hours and get 15 respawns that could be used up in 1/6 that ammount of time.

Id kill for a no consiquence pvp arena to go and have some real fun in :)

[Turih]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Originally posted by Turih:

So instead of joining instantly from the menu, you would have to fly all the way to the destination? I highly doubt that would give Arena more popularity.

And use your own ship with a halfed or no rebuy cost, so its like sparring for when you do get jumped in the actual open world. I did say a few places aswell not just one ;)

Halved rebuy costs mean still nothing. It is a game of numbers and even that half-rebuy cost would be perceived as too high after some time.

IMO Elite simply lacks the playerbase to make this gamemode happen on a sustainable level. As for the places, I still don't know if you would like it to be instanced - like in WoW where you had to queue at BG master to get into the BG. OR open-world - simply get there with your ship and start fighting right away (or after some countdown).