We put up these answers, and then you ask the same questions again, except demanding that if we don't show up in your particular thread, that that somehow means something. But I live to oblige:

1) You don't have to go into the PvP zone. When you're not in the PvP zone, you can't be attacked unless you have a flag up.
2) Part of the fight is planning the engagement. If you expect to just drift around by yourself, you have to work harder at setting up the fight.
3) We regularly work on tuning the ships and costs so that the conditions of the fight are more balanced.
4) There are some tactics that we've discovered that work around the game rules to allow players to gang up on others in ways that are unavoidable, even by a good player. We've worked to close those holes, and are continuing that work.
5) If you want to PvP with guaranteed equal odds, we're working on the Player Skirmish system that will provide that experience.

Here's what we're not promising: That you can enter into Open PvP at any level, with any ship, with any number in your party, and be invulnerable to attack except by equal, or lesser forces.

On the other hand, if you a) identify where you think that ganking is happening in an unvoidable way, or you have an idea that would incent encounters that you think are more fun, then we're certainly willing to listen.

It's part of the flood of new ships coming in build 1.9. Check it out.

Majestic, yes?

Unfortunately we're not going to have avatar dueling without instances at this time. Towns zones are built to not have fights in them on several technical levels, and while we could overcome that, with enough work, it would be a lot of work.

Separate from that, we would really want to restrict duels to a small part of the town, because it's fairly irritating to have to walk through 5 duels to get to the store. That adds on a bunch more work.

We are looking into spectators for skirmishes, and by extension duels, but unfortunately that's not likely to be a first pass feature.

Avatar Duels in instances should be in 1.3 however, and we should be able to give you the preference to auto-decline duels.

You should all thank Wes (WHather) for his hard work on these last minute additions.

Duplicate thread closed.

Duplicate thread closed.

+500 Dani points for this thread.

That's what I was thinking.

You're incorrect. I don't play on Bonny at all.

What we *do* care about is the forum rules and many of the threads lately have been violating them.

Per the PM I sent you the other day, if you have an issue with the Community Rules, the moderation team or anything related, you should submit a support ticket. It will be routed to the appropriate department.

We've been working on a plan for a while to address pop/balance issues. I suspect we'll be starting to talk about it next week, although that's always open to change.

Thanks for the info. I love it when fans do research for us. Makes my job so much easier.

That sounds like a good idea to me, I will talk to the Conco department about it.


We could make another coat with that option, sure.

I think you are right.

I will look into this. All Nation based stuff is not entirely my department. I will have to discuss any changes with the mission designers. I need to make sure I don't break anything on there end by changing the content.

I don't think i understand your comment here. Do you mean you should be able to turn off and on the cuffs while wearing a coat? If so, currently the avatar system does not support that. I don't know if that is possible in the future. Oddly It would take a lot work to make that possible.


This is something we are looking into right now. Stay tuned.

Thanks again for you comments and the time you took to do the research. It is very much appreciated.

K