The little "?" button at the lower right of the Battle Terminal bring up an instructional manual which has tabs just like the badge window... scroll ALL the way over on the right, and you will find an Arena tab; with futher subsections down the left--it's not the *most* helpful guide, but it is more help than clicking the loquacious-but-empty contacts in the Rikti Monkey Fight Club in Pocket D.
Some days I just wake up cranky. Today might be one of those days...
One more thing... clicking the "Invite" button in the Battle Terminal setup window *does not work* for me, yielding an "CHAR NAME ## is not online" style error. Typing "/arenainvite CHAR NAME" into the main chat window does work, however, and allows me to proceed.
Yes, that was my sticking point for a good long time, until it occurred to me to look up how to invite manually (like "/invite CHAR NAME", "/sginvite CHAR NAME", etc.)
After that, I was able to successfully start matches...
Some days I just wake up cranky. Today might be one of those days...
Glad you asked, Misterfish.
I'm having the same issue too. I did use the "?" button, and it is not at all helpful. I'm a newbie, but I thought, what the heck? Join an arena event - see what happens. That's how you learn, right?
I joined a solo event that was scheduled for 7, was at the arena in pocket d at 7, looking for a way to get in or start my event and couldn't find it. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but when I went back to the terminal, it had the same solo event only now scheduled for 8. So I think I missed my solo event because I didn't know how to get to it. What'd I do wrong?
I have been searching the message boards too, trying to find some hints or tips, but I can't find any to answer my specific problem.
:sigh: sucks to be new.....
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if you're not in the same zone, turn off observers to reduce the chance of crashing.
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Apparently our problems are due to inherent bugs in the system set up games. It might be safer to set up own or just wait for an invite... 
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Gud � Peeps
| Rice Krispy Treats
| Smores
Ebil - Circus Peanuts
Does anyone know of a good guide to arena matches ? I'm looking more for the front end of them i.e. how to join matchs , Set up matches , rating and so forth . I'm particularly trying to figure out if I want tojoin a system generated match if I have to hang around the arena forever