There's been plenty of games that do this kind of thing successfully. Hell metal gear online did a great job of it, there was not only a training game mode with 1 game master/ host but there were later implemented games where stats weren't affected at all, both game modes allowed the use of whatever weapons available. Who cares if protostomping happens in these matches? Not like you will lose anything except pride, and you can only get better at the game by eventually finding ways to beat them. Or just screw around, I would come in with 200k suits and tanks everywhere just because why not, might even learn how to fly :)

+1 to all of these ideas! This would be amazing to have in an attempt to train new players and to work out tactics for a corp. Also having this be a no loss/no gain mode would make it so that people would still go into pubs to get their skill caps.

This is a genius idea. As clones, we don't care about live-fire exercises, because even if we die, we just respawn. An excellent way to learn tactics. Death becomes a learning experience.

As a dropship pilot, It would also be a safe environment with which to practice flying without worrying about a forge gun popping you.

I support this 100%.

D-Uni could really use something like this...last week I tried teaching a student how to fly dropships on the oceana server.....got demolished by some proto bears with proto tanks and swarms :(

Probably those Blauhelme from Germany. They're playing a awful lot of time on those oceanic servers lately. And playing for real with full squads, no idea why.

Seems like "Oceanic Stomping" is in the trend .

Btw: Bump

Maybe they are using Oceanic as a form of the topic of this post?

For training reasons i can understand that partially.

But i cant understand if there is a full six men squad in the enemy team chasing one to two guys on our side. Like doing a chivvy with proto gear and a tank in a small ambush (not OMS). That's pathetic . (mainly, not to blauhelme)


I saw that a lot in the past when i went there for testing. E.g. calculating run speeds, damage dealing or the specific weapon ranges.
But hey, thats exactly why we need some kind of test-, train- or private-mode .

Greets
Theex

I am on board for the training area but not a clone/suit/isk cost. The training area should be a NPE friendly area including a fitting room to test *ANY* weapon or vehicle on any socket set. Call it simulation. Allow contacts/squads/corp members to join you in the simulator. Think Eve Valkyrie with Dust inside Dust.

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With the rising costs of the War in Molden Heath reaching new highs, the researchers at Ishukone have come up with a piece of ancient technology repaired and repurposed from ancient technology to provide the user with a combat simulation, allowing them to learn how to fire a rifle, drive a LAV, Tank or Dropship. This project is has been hailed as the key to reducing costs for the average mercenary as well as for corporations around New Eden. Several assassination attempts by rival corporations (and by his own corporation as well) have been foiled by the brave mercenaries defending Professor T. Frink, trained using this technology, proving it's effectiveness at both training and reducing costs.

You have my support