When it comes to an event sector or w/e... why not literally make it an arena? Aka, a very large box (EDIT: could very well be a sphere) in a sector (the box would be made out of the blue-whatever that the tubes are made of so that spectators could watch). The box could have a very small (defensible) entrance point, or the entrance point could even be a short tube for a really defensible box. The Box(es) could be permanent, so people could just go and PvP in them if they so desired. These arena's could even have roid clusters in them (if desired for close combat), but these roids would have to have near-worthless ore in them, and have to be permanently superheated (there's gotta be an easy way for a dev to create a roid that is just stuck at 1000K). These Arenas could be placed anywhere... even in the fields in b8 or a small trip from the station at d14 (sedina). These arenas as described would not be "safe", nor would there be anything to do in them except PvP. These Arenas would be defensible, however.

If it proves necessary, the Arena's could be run/controlled by Event leaders and specific players allowed/barred from the Event (as described by others in other threads)... but that would be a last resort.

I feel like permanent Arenas for Events could fit far better into the VO backstory than a separate sector with super-powers.

Maybe a particular greyspace faction realized the potential for tournaments and decided to allow pilots who brought them a certain amount of X goods to build an arena of size Y that could be used for a couple hours. Maybe tying in crafting to this idea is taking it too far... but the main idea is solid nevertheless.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

I'm sure many of you are tired of the recent threads on this topic, so my apologies for making a new one, but I think this idea has merit.

EDIT: I know this has been suggested before by multiple players, but I think this particular rendition is A) subtly different and B) appropriate given recent in-game events. Also, the basic idea put forth in the first paragraph shouldn't require too much dev time to implement (I hope).

I already suggested this atice use the search function

This also plays well into the station idea ... call it an arena station if you will ... spectator / observers can enter and still have the back story of who controls the station. One could say that is a virtual-reality simulation occurring inside the station if one must RP it.

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21281?page=3#263378
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21281?page=3#263396
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21281?page=3#263404
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21281?page=4#263436

pey, you suggested gladiator stations set up with rocks and the like. I remember it. It was suggested in a different context and with a different setup.

If you would like to link your idea here, go for it. Though I'd appreciate it if we stuck to the topic at hand. Also, I assumed that those posting here had already seen the other threads that prompted this one, though if I assumed wrong, then thanks for the links Gulian.

pfft i suck at the search function :P but anyways i like the idea but can we put it in UIT space cause like everyone can go there and this way its not making corvus look like some consenual pvp pushovers

this has been suggested a few times, in fact i suggested it about a year ago, but there is no way im searching for it, don't have the time.
there would need to be a lot of stipulations for this to work. one of the biggest problems i see is greifers shooting the combatants.
i would love to see a place where fighters can go fight in a killer empty station, or a giant box (i would prefer a sphere) with colored walls like the race trax. i think Sedina b8 is pretty lame for the pvp capitol of the universe, especially since all of the NPC traffic that goes through and lags out fights. i also think if in this PvP Sector (when intra sector transport is available) there could be a few places just dramatically spaced. maybe an over sized station, when i say oversize, that is an understatement. these spheres could be all over the sector as well, along with huge asteroid fields and such.

(i just tried to search for my post. i typed PVP in the search and no results were found ? if we could search for posts by author, i believe that would help tremendously, but i guess that's another thread.)

but can we put it in UIT space
No... think about faction-loss and faction-forgiveness. No way that would go over well in a furball. If you have an issue with corvus RP then maybe Orion or Xi Xang or one of the other factions could "host" the arena... but that's again on the RP idea.

there would need to be a lot of stipulations for this to work. one of the biggest problems i see is greifers shooting the combatants.
I was hoping that the small-ish (tube-like?) entrance point would be defensible enough that a guard or two would be able to prevent much damage from taking place from a one-man suicide pilot. If you don't guard your event in grey... then that's sort of your fault isn't it? This arena idea (and I'm down for a sphere) would make an event defensible.
Also, should be noted that if an entire guild wanted to take out an event... it would be one hell of an epic close-quartered battle.

And re: the large-station-to-fight-around idea... YES. Granted that idea has a different purpose than the idea I'm proposing, but again, YES.

"No... think about faction-loss and faction-forgiveness. No way that would go over well in a furball. If you have an issue with corvus RP then maybe Orion or Xi Xang or one of the other factions could "host" the arena... but that's again on the RP idea."

Most of UIT space is unguarded/unmonitored, ergo... no faction loss. You just have to make sure it is not in a station sector, WH sector, or mapped roid sector. Everything else is unguarded/unmonitored and would there for be fine.

(The same applies to Serco and Itani space)

Lecter seems to have taken this idea and ran with it in another thread:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/21281?page=4#263627

would seem this thread is dead, and that one is live, so gogogogogo :).