Hi everybody! We're having a newbie PVP event today at the IFN training grounds. It's a fort located at 20479,17704. Right click on screen, choose "system" and "event list" to get your ticket. You can see the event settings on that page, what's allowed and what's not. Ammo is accumulated so the player who gets the most PVP points should collect the ammo spent, plus the prize. Not sure if 2nd and 3rd place winners get any of the ammo. This is the first event i've set up using the event system, so I'm interested in all feedback to make future events even better. Event time is 21:30-22:30.
Event starts @ 21:30, goes to 22:30, starts in 50 minutes. Everyone under 100 HP, come join in, even if you just stand around and get free skills.
Congrats to Ridia Starduster Ravenster, Kain Regal Darktone and Kadi Kadi Adrian! And thanks to the other participants too. I had a blast, especially when I "accidentally" kept hitting the hot key for my ark-500 prototype gun. :shrug: BTW, we did have a number of DCs that occurred around the same time and some cases of bad lag but I'm not sure if that was related to the fort or just one of those things that happens. Overall, the fort is set up well.
Could you give us a brief rundown of how the layout works there Neil? Is there a safe revive zone? If so, is it posible to heal there even with the no healing rule?
Yes, there are two safe revives, outside the corners of the fort (I think they're on the NW and SW corners), they're very close to the entrances and you can heal there. I had vehicles, healing, and armor turned off. Once I was nearly dead, jumped off the wall of the fort, healed myself, and ran back in... took about 10 seconds from start to finish, so yeah it would be possible for someone near the edge, say standing at the entrance to run in and out of PVP healing himself. There is a wall inside the entrance so you don't have a clean shot everywhere if you're just at the entrance. I believe there is one entrance on each side (4). It's set up similar to a firebase, with ramps along the outer walls and a televator leading up to a landing platform in the middle (there may be more than one of htese, I'm not sure). It worked great for newbies who spend 2 minutes trying get each others hp down... it would be interesting to see how well the fort works with more advanced PVPers
Thanks for the info, sounds good. IMO no-heal-no-armour events are always really annoying if you can't at least heal when you revive because otherwise its either one shot kills all the time after the first few minutes, or you have to stand around waiting for natural heal, so it's good that you can heal after you die. It does make it a little open to cheating but I've never found that to be a problem in PvP events I've done in the past, gentleman's agreement generally works fine. Hope they can get the hunting areas fixed soon so we can try those too
