This sounds neat, however it also goes against the entire purpose of this game.

If you want battlegrounds, instant action and no loss, then you are looking for a theme park game.

If you are looking for meaningful fights where dying actually means something and winning is so much better for that, then you are looking for a full loot game like Perpetuum.

Open world PVP wouldnt be going anywhere. It would be just a thing people who want could do.

dont over react to the no loss thing. this idea may need some adjustments, but in the basic this is a nice idea.

well you can put out the no loss thing. why not do this with t1 fittings only? so not much to loose anyway.
have some sort of minigame sonds intresting for a lot of ppl. this might be a good way to show ppl how this game works and maybe will give a lot ppl some fun when other things are unavalible.

give it a thought. you could do a fun thing out of this, if its done the right way.

personaly i dont care enough about this. but for you ppl to say. just try to think outside of your box instead of just saying this is not sandbox...

You dont get it at all Scyylla.
I am not saying anything about loosing what we already have. It would be something completely different. Heck, it even could have some specifically made equipment just to fight in the system. It would fit in the lore perfectly since we already have dematerialization inside terminals and teleporters.
And where does sandbox end and themepark start? If you look at the things in Perpetuum, you could easily see it already has tons of "themepark" features.
You should just think what is fun and what is not and not so much about breaking the sandbox.

Yes indeed it breaks it Burial, and that's where the sandbox ends and theme park starts. When you are given a choice of not risking your items/NIC .What's the point  of doing what we already have in place?.

This breaks the market too, where is the demand if you lose nothing?

Don't worry, once Lemon builds his arena it will be fine

where is written that perpetuum cant have this?

and where exactly is written that Perpetuum is a Sandbox?
Not even the DEVs have used that definition:
http://www.perpetuum-online.com/Features

also - theres a topic about Sandbox definition:
http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … e-sandbox/

but on topic: this must be the 20th topic about such a feature and it always ends with flaming and religious interpretations of what is allowed in a sandbox and what not.

this is sooo true

this is even more true

but
this is a discussion to bring up new ideas. we dont discuss what is important or more important then other things. this is just about the posibillities and ideas and to discuss them... so no harm done anyway.

Making an arena, well they have one.

Making it non-FFA loot?

You could of course make bots non-destructable, but why? One of the challenges of new player pvp isn't in replacing the equipment, its in finding fights with players of comparable skill and equipment.

Just providing an arena that allows even EP/equipment battles would be incentive enough for most pvp players to enter in, and the cost of replacing thier bots is the price of battle if they lose. The game provides numerous ways for players to earn NIC and modules to equip themselves.

For those that want just instant gratification pvp, not having to go grind out nic to replace bots, will never 'graduate' out of the arena and into world PVP, because the loss to recovery time ratio will be too discouraging. Mixing no-death PVP arena's with a full FFA world PVP game... is there any examples of this? Has it been tried before?

WOW PVP servers look at how many people just sit in the safe citys and do battlegrounds....
Bet its the same in SWtoR PVP servers.

while I do like the idea I must -1 as it gives people a safe pvp outlet.

LOL one of my best memories of 62nd was when Nova got fed up with us and stopped logging in, we set up 4 vs 4 out side of Galoly with ourselves fighting to 1/4 armor then you were out. We did that for about 3 hours, was some of the best pvp I ever had. That was the night I learned that a zenith could shut down 2 ictus if you were on top of your game.

TL:DR Set up your own learning PVP to find your strengths and weaknesses before you go crashing head first in to a pvp loss, but this Idea isn't a learning curve its a free pass which is not needed.

I did some open world pvp (on a PVP server) but really not many do it what you say is mostly true for SWTOR..

big -1 for this idea

@ the OP do live fire training ops within your corp or other friendly corps. keep the fits real for pvp & practice..

Im also sure you could organise an equal pvp fight with many corps for fun & learning

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?