I'm sure we all have had our own run in's with other players we dont get along with and we always look for there names to pop up on the BT before we attack anyone. To that end i was thinking....why cant we flag others as a rival ship?
Meaning you can have a lock on them if you wish and pick a fight with them. Granted there would have to be a few things to keep from others abuseing it to farm lower ranks say maybe you can only have 1-3 rivals at a time, and you can only give them one disable,hack,raid a day also you cant legion alert a rival.
Also you can only pick someone as a rival if they have did some kind of attack at you in the past few days I.E. invaded one of your planets or disabled you, also you dont get badges for attacking/hacking them. Becuase lets face it when you have someone like that all your wanting is to put them down am i right?

Your reasoning is flawed.

If someone invades (or tries to invade) my planet, then that's is a legion alert+zero. Not "Hey dude, you totally jacked my planet, but I only wanna hit you once a day maan. Love not peace..."

The underlying idea is nice, but easily abused.

Fine then disregard the part about the planet out side that im more talking about a more "unfriendly rivalry".
After all this is only a game we dont want to leave it open for someone who will take it over board like we all know some would if they could.
But then there would be a limit on how it could be abused then if you take the planet out of the mix in that they would of had to badge you normally on the BT for you to have the option to mark them as a rival.

how about a special reward for disabling your rival so many times ?

you mean like a farming badge?

lol
well not in so many words

the rival would have to be someone near you in rank... or possibly size class, to prevent farming of weaker players