Combat in the arenas!

[Valdaglerion]

<p>There are no doubt problems with the current implementation of the arenas which is a shame because they have potential to be a fun place.</p><p>For starters how about the following changes -</p><p>1. Combat goes on all day, every day - always a fight!</p><p>2. When you show up to the arena and there arent any players qued up for your level you get matched with a NPC that is scaled WHITE (even) to you.</p><p>3. Rewards should be offered for all fights which are scaled white (either you are matched with a NPC or another player of your same level). Rewards would be coin scaled to the combat tier to the winner of each fight. (Would be interesting if coin was also scaled for PVP combat based on the rankings of the fighters but thats another improvement for later)</p><p>There are tons of other improvements that can be made but these I think would be a good start. If there is always activity people have a reason to go there. if more people are going there, the odds are increased you can fight another player. I would like to see these be a useful piece of content, they just need a little love. We could take all those SS and QH dock duels and take them to the arena! You know you want to watch!</p>

[Sinful One]

just fix level scaling .... the coin thing could be abused by people who use a few accounts, a NPC that required a bit of skill to beat would be great <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> then could get the titles!

[Valdaglerion]

<p>Yes, agreed. One of the things I thought about was restricting coin rewards to NPC battles but that means there would be more of an incentive to fight PVE in the arena vs PVP. perhaps code to check the combatants and make sure someone isnt just falling on their sword to help you.</p><p> This is another reason I would like to see queing added. You sign in to fight as a level 20 whatever and get matched up with either another level 20 or a NPC at random. Would be kinda fun if you didnt know whether you were fighting a NPC or PC too til afterward.</p><p>There could also be challenge matches where you picked your combatant but they would be none reward fights.</p>

[Lornick]

The arenas definately need some kind of love.  I don't think coin rewards are the way to go though.  If anything SOE needs to come up with more ways to pull money off the servers... not artificially inflate prices even more!  I think a good first step might be to make arenas "serverwide".  So if I host an arena match anyone, from any server could see it and join if interested.  After the match is over everyone goes back to their own little worlds.  Now I can understand if this is just impossible for player characters, but how hard would it be to set this up with the arena champions?  It's not like your playing your own character in those matches so the character data could all stay on the server.  I dunno... just a thought.

[Dutchgrrl]

<cite>Valdaglerion wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>There are no doubt problems with the current implementation of the arenas which is a shame because they have potential to be a fun place.</p><p>For starters how about the following changes -</p><p>1. Combat goes on all day, every day - always a fight!</p><p>2. When you show up to the arena and there arent any players qued up for your level you get matched with a NPC that is scaled WHITE (even) to you.</p><p>3. Rewards should be offered for all fights which are scaled white (either you are matched with a NPC or another player of your same level). Rewards would be coin scaled to the combat tier to the winner of each fight. (Would be interesting if coin was also scaled for PVP combat based on the rankings of the fighters but thats another improvement for later)</p><p>There are tons of other improvements that can be made but these I think would be a good start. If there is always activity people have a reason to go there. if more people are going there, the odds are increased you can fight another player. I would like to see these be a useful piece of content, they just need a little love. We could take all those SS and QH dock duels and take them to the arena! You know you want to watch!</p></blockquote><p>Hi..</p><p>There is a rumor going around that may or may not be true.  I personally hope that it IS true, but I have no way to know for sure if it is or is not.  The rumor came from somebody who attended the fanfaire last year...</p><p>According to the rumor the Arena was supposed to be getting a revamp - the present system was to be replaced by a system that is more suited to solo and group play, with encounter style matches available from an NPC fight official.  The revamp was also supposed to replace the rewards (titles and trophies) with new different awards and small cash purses depending upon the type of match.</p><p>According to the rumor, the implementation of these changes was put on hold due to some layoffs and shifting the programmers to the new expansion, and then the new additions to the game.  If there is any truth to it, we should see some changes to the Arena before November - and as I said before, I am crossing my fingers and hoping that there is in fact atleast *some* truth to all that.</p><p>Kat </p>

[Valdaglerion]

You would think a server wide arena champions arena would be a fairly simple implementation. The arena itself would be a separate server instance. Hitting it would be akin to logging in behind the scenes with your account to take you to this "instance". Once logged on, the only information needed here would be the arena champions you have at your disposal, rank, num of kills, wins, etc which would be transferred back when you log out to get back to your home server, thus updating the database on that side.

[VizP]

Oh my goodness - i hope the arena changes rumoured above are implemented. Do you hear that SOE - honestly, one of the coolest features of the Splitpaw expansion was the fact you could take part in that cool arena. It was so atmospheric and fun! Allow us to fight npcs and also each other with title etc - even cosmetic rewards are rewards and many people arnt bothered with levelling but just having fun! Titles, trophies, small cash purses are all great -  just look at the Isle of Mara and the number of people that did that tedious pebble quest just to get their 'Decimator title'. People will do it and that wasnt the most fun - imagine adding fun with various titles, cool particle effect but no real use wearables or pets etc. The cool factor is always something people push for and will fight for! Bring us the revamped arena!!

[gradyma]

<p>Arena? Well I will say this, On the server I play on and have played on for the last 2 1/2 years I have yet to see anyone in the arena......Anyone except myself. I got a cool arena pet that sits in my house never used. Not one time have I seen the arena being used on this particular server. It's a shame really, seems like it would be fun but right now I just go there to be alone and get away from everyone.   <img src="/smilies/1cfd6e2a9a2c0cf8e74b49b35e2e46c7.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>P.S.</p><p>Something really cool would be, Instead of having the arenas server specific, Create it so your toon logs into a Universal arena with players from all servers. That would be pretty sweet, Dont know how they would do it though.</p>

[Skua]

add pvp rewards........is a mmorpg doing something just for fun? NAH not gonna happen , put rewards (rare craft items , some mount , weapons? armor? )