Way back in 2006 on Pellinor (or was it Bossiney by then?)there was an arranged duel area every few days, after about a month a CSR appeared in-game and told everyone that if they continued to farm RPs they would be suspended.

People laughed and kept going; about 50 accounts got a week's suspension.

As far as Mythic/EA/Bioware is concerned, dueling is RP farming, plain and simple.

 

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Frequently 1v2 or 2v5 or 5v8 etc is a lot more balanced fight than 1v1 or 4v4 or 8v8.

 

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IMO, instanced PvP would only make sense if they were connected to events. If devs decided to hold an event where there would be an arena like setup 8v8, or 8v8v8 etc... or 1v1 or 1v1v1 or something of sorts. Aside from that, if there were instanced PvP, the action would be absolutely horrible. Warhammer comes into the mind. Although the scenarios were kind of fun for a while, but I don't think they'd fit DAoC. DAoC PvP is more fun, and not least because it's full surprises (both good and bad).


I'd rather see some new ideas to encourage people to go to RvR, small man, solos, groups, zerging, what ever rocks their boat.

 

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If they did it in a way where it made sense and you didn't get RPs for it, it might be cool. Maybe you could bet plat or something and the winner takes the pot. Then again it would take people away from RvR and certain classes wouldn't be able to compete since they weren't designed for 1v1.

I take it back, no instanced PvP.

it occurs in sandbox pvp games as well where the individual player's actions hold them accountable instead of being untouchable to half or a third of the playerbase simply because of which side you chose at startup.

for instance, try holding a tournament across all three realms and enforcing order. you can't, because the rules of the game restrict you from intelligently deciding who your enemy is for yourself.

 

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To the original poster,why would you want to dumb down your rvr experience by having an area to duel? Whats the point of a game with humans as the enemy when you want to strip down the game to a 1 on 1 duel? I get it,you want to see how well you can do against a class one on one but where does that help you on the field? Do you just want to have solo duels and never regular rvr? how boring is that?

I couldnt see myself dueling,it would take out the unpredictable and tactical nature of rvr. I have a solo RR3 shade and im managing to solo with him. You know whats the most fun? When i find a place i want to make kill,paitiently wait for a target,forumlate a strategy and attack. The randomness is the best part! Especially when you win in a situation you would think you would die and making it out alive. How cool is that?


Last night for instance i was in Albion's portal keep and i was on the ramparts of the keep with 2 FG of albs below me,so i thought there was no possibility for a kill. All of a sudden the groups disperse in all random directions and they left one player who was obviously AFK, so i said f@#k it,took the risk of being steamrolled by 2fg and drop down and perfed the target. A few moments later i drop him,1263 rps are mine and i stealthed and got out of the keep moments before the 2fg came to investigate and i got to watch them look in vain for me from the river.


Why would you want to take away moments like that? Moments like that are why i play this game.


EDIT: Also your an infiltrator FFS!,you have one of the few classes capable of truely soloing and your complaining about add ons and wishing for duel arenas? Why even have stealth if you want to have battles on equal terms?

^this. Its supposed to be a war. It's been said a lot, but if you want instanced PvP, there's a multitude of games that are right up your ally.

 

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