Make a big sphere in Sedina C-5 about 2000m in diameter of the racetrack glass wall stuff with a bunch of roids in it and two gates. Inside the sphere along with the roids is a ring that if you fly through it it reps your ship. Any player that enters the opposite gate you did automagicaly appears hostile on radar and once you enter the only way to leave is to die or clear out the other team.
There should be no insta-travel to this, you should go there the normal way. There could be an arena scoreboard that displays the most arena pks.
Perhaps also there should be a timer on the gates that prohibits anyone from entering a match after its been going thirty seconds, so people dont show up and ruin a good match.

I think it sounds like fun, +1

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More PvP!

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-1 Not worth it in current form.

And cue the trident owner who enters the arena and immediately drops 20 lmines at each entrance.

I know I would.

-1 There have been other suggestions in this same vein that I think are far better. The lack of insta travel really undermines the point of having an arena imo.

If nothing else, I would love to see the capture the flag brought back as a periodic mission that can be taken. Perhaps once every 4 hours.

+1 ONLY for the structure which you jump into and the only way out is /explode. Only being able to /explode out would keep pirates from checking the sector(s). When you jump in you jump into the structure itself. I suggest multiple structures with unique layouts so players/teams can pick one and fight to the death.

biretak: I'd be fine with the structure alone, but I think there should still be a gate to enter. If I'm randomly jumping to avoid a rat, I don't want to end up in a place I can only /explode out of or die.

Death Fluffy: There can be no insta-travel to the arena. The whole point is to bring players together and if they get pirated on the way there so be it. Also, the l-mines would be easy to clear with an avalon torpedo to the structure nearby.

If you have to travel somewhere to join in the fight, then you might as well head to B8 or some other agreed upon sector for combat and quit with this arena nonsense. Besides, if sides are not randomized like the capture the flag even managed, then you pretty much end up with the same situation that currently exists. Players will group up with people they like by choosing the same entrance. If you fail to include some magic friendly fire protection, then the default targeting could easily be abused- and never mind that it would most likely be over written by the plugins players are using.

Also I interpret this as a sudden death arena, in which case I'll add another -1. The sudden death nature of nation war was the primary reason I next to never could be bothered to attend.

There is absolutely nothing about the OP that appeals to me. If it works for other people great. To repeat myself, as far as I am concerned, there are better suggestions out there in this vein. You seem to be wanting to just put a magic shield around what already exists and add limits to when you can join and make it sudden death and add a bit of magical repair- which translates to a battle of the X1's to me and maybe a few svg's as everyone runs to the repair ring as soon as they take too much damage.

Actually, I take that back. I do like the score board idea.