Additionally, the highest value solo kill per area (at zKill rates) will be awarded a 1,000 PLEX bonus.
Quite funny how CCP says this and does not use the ingame valuation. 
They also realized how utterly bad it is. I wish this realization would transpire to other aspects and ingame activities as well.
For me, this FestPvp brings absolutely nothing except a week of being annoyed by other players. If we want to do something other than fight each other, why put up with it? I’m going to pause the game for the duration of the event. I wonder what kind of idiot came up with this kind of event. Create combat zones in space for those who want to be killed or do the killing
Only 1K PLEX (per area)? That’s some rookie (newbro) number. Even just a regular player like myself puts at risk 4.5 times that to generate content (and killrights) and don’t mind losing it in the process. Is CCP poor or something? 
Completely unrelated screenshot…
A good reason to take a break from EVE for about week.
A kill gives you leaderboard value only if it satisfies two personal checklists:
Unique pilot checklist (global):
You only ever score once per victim pilot, period.
Ship type × space type checklist (per killer):
You only ever score once per ship type in each area (HS/LS/NS/WH/Poch).
So to score fast you need:
A constant stream of new victim pilots
A planned rotation through ship×space boxes you haven’t ticked yet
That combination heavily rewards certain social structures.
If you have:
Hundreds/thousands of members
People who can fly lots of hulls
SRP, staging, logistics, doctrine stockpiles
…then you can run the event like an internal “league,” where everyone wins except the spirit.
Why it’s rewarded
You can supply:
Victims on demand
Multiple hull classes on demand
Multiple space types on demand (you control where fights happen)
Emergent behavior
“Corp Fight Night” becomes a point factory
Members rotate through being “victim” and “scorer”
People with broad hangars/skills become high-value “victim assets” (not opponents)
Because “solo kill” accepts normal killmail quirks, and duels are easy to structure:
Behavior
A dedicated system becomes an arena
Victims arrive in a pre-agreed hull
The scorer kills them “clean” and moves on
Rewarded traits
Social coordination
Scheduling
A roster of participants (victims)
A doctrine list of hulls to cycle through
What it replaces
Since ship×space is part of the scoring, the optimizer does this:
Pick a short list of hulls you can reliably kill
Run them through a 5-region route
Each stop: one fresh victim, one new box ticked
Who is advantaged
Groups with:
Wormhole infrastructure (seeded statics, rolling discipline)
Pochven access/standing/comfort
Nullsec pockets they control
Hauling and staging capability
A solo roamer can be lethal and still lose to a logistician with a clipboard.
Because your ship×space checklist is finite, staying competitive means steadily expanding hull variety.
So groups will:
Provide hulls at scale (SRP/hangar programs)
Tell members: “Bring me Hull X in Space Y today”
Use veterans as “flex victims” (able to sit in many hull types)
This is the specific incentive you called out:
A large org with lots of pilots who can fly lots of hull classes is absolutely advantaged — not because they’re better at fighting, but because they can manufacture variety.
Since each victim pilot can only score once, the scarcest input is fresh identities.
So the efficient abuse is:
A pipeline of low-skill disposable victim pilots (shuttles/frigs)
Combined with a smaller set of skilled pilots used as “hull variety victims” when needed
This rewards
People/orgs willing to devote accounts to being livestock
Players with time to manage character slots/creation/training logistics
Not infinite, but very “industrial.”
Because victim uniqueness is global-per-killer:
If I can get you to “spend” your unique kill on someone low value to you, I can reduce your effective pool later.
This shows up as:
“Baiting” top scorers into killing disposable pilots early
Forcing them to burn unique pilots on junk before they find valuable/rare targets they’d rather use for points or value-bonus attempts
This isn’t the main meta, but it’s a real second-order incentive:
Highest zKill value solo kill per area is tailor-made for:
A very expensive ship flown by a cooperating “victim”
A controlled scenario guaranteeing solo attribution
Minimal risk for the scorer
Who is advantaged
Rich orgs with:
Officer/deadspace inventory
Willing participants
Ability to isolate the kill and control third-party interference
Experience manipulating killmail conditions
It does not primarily reward “doing the impossible.”
It rewards engineering the most expensive loss cleanly.
Prolonged rivalries (repeat kills on same pilots don’t count)
Fighting outnumbered (risk doesn’t scale reward)
Taking hard fights (ship value doesn’t scale points)
Roaming for content (time-inefficient compared to appointment kills)
Learning/sparring against the same opponents (the natural “arena ladder” loop)
So the event’s dominant behavior isn’t “solo PvP excellence,” it’s:
organized point production under solo-kill constraints
In order:
Big alliances / coalitions
Large victim pool + hull diversity + space control + logistics.
Well-run mid-size corps with strong ops discipline
Can run scheduled “box-ticking” sessions efficiently.
Wormhole groups / Pochven groups
Because they can control rare space types smoothly and repeatedly.
Individuals with alt infrastructure + lots of time
Can compete via industrial victim pipelines, but it’s work.
Least rewarded:
Genuine solo roamers without infrastructure
Small gangs (kills stop being “solo”)
Players who like repeated duels/rivalries
Reduce industrialized farming, victim factories, and checklist optimization by introducing uncertainty about when kills count, while preserving the existing PvP Fest ruleset.
The intent is to reward:
Pilots who are actively roaming
Opportunistic solo PvP
Players already undocked and engaging organically
And to disadvantage:
Scheduled kill trading
Victim stockpiling
Large-scale coordination and logistics
Alt-based throughput optimization
PvP Fest runs for the full advertised event period.
Only kills made during active “scoring windows” count toward the event.
Scoring windows are:
Short (e.g. 30–90 minutes)
Occur multiple times per day
Not announced in advance
After a window ends, CCP retroactively flags which kills counted.
Outside scoring windows:
PvP functions normally
Killmails appear as usual
But kills do not advance PvP Fest leaderboards
To keep the event readable and exciting:
CCP announces when a scoring window starts
The end time is not announced
Announcement goes out via:
In-game notification
Event UI banner
This creates urgency without allowing preparation.
You cannot reliably schedule victims to die “on demand”
Alts sitting idle are wasted effort
Coordinated pipelines lose efficiency
Players can’t plan when to burn rare ship×space combinations
Hoarding hulls becomes risky instead of optimal
Opportunistic kills outperform planned ones
Pilots already roaming have a head start
Being in hostile space matters more than staging
Logistics-heavy groups lose their timing advantage
Solo roamers already:
Stay undocked
Move continuously
Take fights when they appear
The scoring window converts normal roaming into success, rather than requiring special behavior
Most advantaged
Independent solo roamers
Players who live in space
Opportunistic hunters
Less advantaged
Large alliances relying on scheduling
Kill cooperatives
Alt-heavy farming setups
“Appointment PvP”
No additional rules are required to target these groups — timing alone reshapes incentives.
No changes to:
Kill definitions
Ship rules
zKillboard integration
Existing leaderboards
Only requires:
Time-based scoring toggle
Retroactive tagging of killmails
This keeps the event simple, legible, and low-risk to deploy.
PvP Fest should reward the pilots who were actually roaming and fighting when it mattered — not the ones who optimized hardest for certainty.
Why would anyone take part in a cheat fest?
In fact why would CCP allow it?
It probably reflects on the calibre of devs we have right now as they haven’t been any good for a few years, and they’re getting worse and worse.
Their attitude is akin to the organisers of the Enhanced Games.
Not reading AI Slop
Could you please summarize the copious amount of text that you so lazily generated?
If you ask me the burden of communication should be on the writer to make the message enticing, but instead you automated that burden away to the reader and and ask readers instead to put in the effort to wade through near endless AI-generated slop.
This for Valentine’s Day? Bad taste.
He doesn’t know how. People who don’t want to develop their reading/writing skills should be rightfully ignored and weeded out of the social pool. Let him use the AI slop and get no-one to talk to him. He can continue to sit in that corner until he’s tired of silence and learns to use his own brain, if he has one.
Dream on.
Don’t bother. You’re not my type. Also I’m taken.
This summer, can you guys do an event for Hulks? You could call it HuntAHulk, or maybe something like Hulkageddon XIX?
people act like its alot, you can get that much plex for $400 on sale lol
Just as a general note, both PushX and Red Frog are running heavy discounts on freighter rates this week.
Top 20 in each area of space.
Does this mean Princess Aiko will have all of Highsec prizes for herself?
$400 is a lot of cash for some and could be the difference between paying their rent or buying food for the month.
You talk like it’s pocket change.
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