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UPDATE: Official rules and HYSTERICAL video out. (http://www.eve-online.com/fanfest/2008/pvprules.asp)

For those of you blocked from the EVE site, this is the latest dev blog:

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This year’s fanfest PvP tournament will be a competition like no other. It will shake your perception of combat to its core, redefine the way you think about making other people explode, and force you to think long and hard about how to fit your ship.

Yes, pod pilots of New Eden, at the Eve Fanfest 2008 you will have the opportunity to experience firsthand...

The Super Ultimate Eve Online Mining Tournament of Awesomeness

Now, before you start worrying that we’re going to make you sit in a team of barges and see who can activate their strip miners faster, I'll give you an outline of the rules:

The Super Ultimate Eve Online Mining Tournament of Awesomeness: Rules Overview

• Teams are composed of five players, all of whom will have ‘super characters’ with every skill at level 5.
• Each team will be allowed to field a maximum of four tech 1 frigates and one tech 1 cruiser. All basic, un-named tech 1 modules, rigs, drones (including remote repair drones) and ammo will be allowed, with the exception of ECM drones and remote repair modules.
• The combat zone will be laid out like so:

(http://www.eveonline.com/bitmaps/devblog/pvp-tourney-diagram.gif)

• The distance between the station and the warp-in point on both sides will be 3au, and the distance between each object in the arena itself will be 20km.
• Combat will only be allowed in the arena around the asteroids. Combat will not be allowed outside the stations.
• The objective of the tournament will be to see who can get the most points worth of ore into their Rorqual in the space of fifteen minutes. Any method within the rules can be used to accomplish this and stop your opponent from doing the same. Mining ore for yourself, killing enemy miners and looting their wrecks, stealing from enemy jetcans, or just outright destroying the opposing team are all within the rules. The Rorquals will be corporation locked to each team so stealing from them will not be possible.
• Each stored unit of Arkonor is worth 500 points, each unit of Gneiss is worth 100 points, and each unit of Veldspar is worth 1 point.
• Ships are all replaceable. You may, at any point, warp to your home base and pick up a replacement ship, or switch the one you are currently piloting for a new ship.

And there you have it, the basics of this year’s PvP tournament!

The full, official, detailed rules for the tournament will be posted in late August along with signup information. Hopefully this overview has peaked your interest and it contains all of the rules necessary for you to be able to start considering setups and tactics. The full rules will contain more specifics of the arena and how the guidelines will be enforced, but none of the essentials should change.

So we’ll be back soon with that final update – and until then, may the sound of many practising Miner I’s ring out among the stars!

-CCP Claw

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Reaction: YES! yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes

*wheeze*

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Are the setting this up on sisi?

And this is going to take the place of the usual alliance tournament?

It is the alliance tournament, so yes.

While this does sound like it could be entertaining I just hate the way CCP announce and publicise these things. Announcing it in a devblog like that just makes it feel artificial. Like a game of CTF or kick the can or something.

I mean, the whole of EVE is supposedly in the middle of a huge (factional) war. How does a mining competition fit into this universe? Where's the backstory? I know they'll shoehorn one on, but one (of the many) thing(s) EVE seriously lacks is immersion and gripping storyline. The alliance tournament should be a major part of that IMO.

Anyway. Who wants to buy a researched Osprey BPO?  :awesome_for_real:

It's just a fanfest event, not even occuring on the main server apparently; everyone get all skills at level 5, for instance. This isn't the normal EVE TV thingamajig.

No.  It's the fanfest tournament.  It's not the serious business PvP tourney.

Ahh OK, fair enough then :)

the chinese will eat us alive...

While it seems to go a bit against the general design philosophy they should make these kinds of games available to everyone in every station. Some sort of virtual reality pod pilots can plug into and experience fastpaced pvp games in t1 ships with t1 modules while they wait for the next fleet op, skillchange or whatever they do in their 'real' eve life. Something totally removed from the sandbox as we know it but easily accessible and without consequences.
Just some mindless eve fun you can dive into to kill half an hour.

As long as you don't get any reward for it, sure.

Who was it that said "anything that keeps people inside stations instead of out playing the game..."

Good point there. The choice, then, is between offering more (non-rewarding) options for people who will probably log out otherwise and offering more bored, complacent targets for gankers like me  :drill:

Official rules and video out. (http://www.eve-online.com/fanfest/2008/pvprules.asp) Did anyone notice a hint of irony in the "actual mining footage"?