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Well...celebrating the season of the NCAA tournament and such, our guild has decided to host a PvP, ship to ship tournament.

I was wondering if any of you have been in one, what is the best way to go about it.

Thanks for all the help

Jigan Sterling
Master Smuggler/Master Commando
Smuggler Alliance Ace Pilot
M'hael of the Pirates of Obroa-skai
Captain of the Cha Faile
Proud member of The Syndicate
Member of The Tribe Multi-game community
www.thetribeclan.com

I did an event on intrepid, and can offer some pointers. First, turnout can be real low, many people don't care about space, and few have mastered. Since this is a guild event you should be ok. In my event we only allowed tier 0 ships, the idea was to keep to cost down due to decay and to open it to all pilots, but a few people didn't want to play unless they could use their uber master ship. Later onin the night we let people use any ship,and equipment, but limited them to level 2 guns. This worked pretty good, made the fights last longer, but we had a smacktard show upin a decked out master ship and lay waste to one whole side There just isn't any way to enforce the rules. I think that the anyship/equipment/level2 guns works the best, as long as you have people who will follow it.

Ican't really offer any tips on running it, my event wasn't a tournement, I flew a decimator, my side had to protect it, the other side had to destroy it. Once one side was all dead we restarted the round. One tip I can give is to make sure that both factions have station in the secotr you are using, it appears that Tatooine has no faction stations, so eveyone had to jump out and back after declaring in another zone.

My idea was using the starting ships only (tier 0), and using the /duel function, so no one will come and ruin the event.

this is what I have so far

1. Duelist are separated by 4000-5000 meters

2. Declare duel

3. 1 judge follow each participant

4. Winner moves on, loser has a quick stop at the space station

For this first event I was thinking about letting peeps repair between battles, but soon I was going to have an "Ironman" tournament, where you are not allowed to repair between matches.

Also haven't decided the final prize yet, maybe a makeshift trophy and credits....not sure yet.

Jigan Sterling
Master Smuggler/Master Commando
Smuggler Alliance Ace Pilot
M'hael of the Pirates of Obroa-skai
Captain of the Cha Faile
Proud member of The Syndicate
Member of The Tribe Multi-game community
www.thetribeclan.com