Hellbinder

I have been thinking about this for a while now. I know this would be some work but i think it would instantly add to the enjoyment of the players and increase the player base through word of mouth.

A new Island Floating above the central ocean. The purpose of this island is to replace the current arena system.

Arena Island.

You have to get to it via 4F ocean tower but it is visible from the ground. Its just higher than can be JP to. Once on the island you sign up with a bot. Once signed up you are instantly PK ready regardless of level. You can not lose anything on this island everything is ND. Every 15 min the game type auto changes. Team Death match, capture the flag, Capture and Hold, Rabbit (where one player is the rabbit and everyone else is after them whoever kills them becomes the rabbit, you get VP points for every second that you are the rabbit.) The winning team or player gets Victory points which can be used to either buy special items or skills bonuses or special ranks that display above your head etc. Again everyone from level 1 to 18 can participate. If you don???t sign up with the bot you are exempt and can spectate freely. There would be 4 towers on the island and maybe a central tower. these would be for Capture and hold or King of the tower at the central tower.

Everyone playing would have a Red or Gold "glow" around them signifying the team they are on or that they were participating in the matches. Example in rabbit the Rabbit Glows Gold and everyone else glows red. In CTF or Capture and hold the Gold Team plays the Red team and the captured towers Glow with the team color.

Personally with the weapons and Jetpacks this game has i think this would attract a lot of FPS players especially people who used to play Tribes.

Then you can Quest, have all out griefer wars in FT if you want, and also have a totally open team, community oriented Arena. When people are sitting around between quests or tired of leveling or just wanting some serious PVP action with a competition atmosphere (with rewards) then this game will have it all and i guarantee attract a lot of new players.

i know this would be a lot of work. But the rewards from a financial aspect and attracting a player base of a few thousand are very very appealing imo. If you guys started now i bet you could implement this in 4-6 months. Or maybe a rudimentary version of it in 3 months.

Thats my idea.

spiritwind

Didnt read all that but the beginin sound good. But one problem.. Sky collision box, and a polly fully charged could prob make it up there... =p.

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Hellbinder

Well thats ok... I guess we could make it teleport only....

And i think the sky box is pretty high.

Vehicles... i dont think RP's should be allowed on the island. Maybe HB's.

this is intended for a Classic FPS combat atmosphere. If you had RP's on there it woud unballance the game quick. Of course i dont know how to prevent that.

spiritwind

lol they could do an item limiter idk. But yeah it is pretty high, but to make it to where high lvl jetpacks cant reach it.. and teh island low enough you dont reach it flyin around.
But its a good idea. It wwould be cool. They should also have some sort of spectator mode. Because even tho i cant PVP it would still be awesome to watch and make vids and stuff. It w ould also be good for people to learn tactics.
Something like Counter strike and most online fps, u can see what they see.
dang g2g

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Hellbinder

I have that covered. Read the whole thing :-)

Everyone can PVP on this islanfd . No limits. And everyone who does not sign up with the bot is automatically a Spectator.

Also, its ok if people wit High JP's can get there. That adds to the cooleness factor. High level players can JP up there and swoop in to their team or clans rescue. i can see everyone seeing player "X" racing accross the island to join the match and everyone shouting Yeah!. or something like that.

Imagine the aweosme Clan matches that would ensue. Where everyone agrees to go Gold or Red and then they get it on!. Would add some serious Prestige factor to the came for Clans or players that have high Arena Ranks above their name.

BlanK

Maybe have a few different areas on the island or the ability to "rent" it out for clan matches. It'd be pretty freakin sweet to have a fairly large island floating above your head with all different land types from forests to water. I've always wanted to have a water fight with someone.

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Pfaffgod

That sounds like a great idea. I loved Tribes and this feels like bringing back memories back when Tribes was populated enough to have decent matches.

mrbreakit

Or we could just keep the current Arena and have more wars on the IIA.

Pfaffgod

There's a current arena?

aplepiez2

omg dude you are a genious this would totally rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason Lee

There is a current arena however it is bugged and spawns everyone into separate instances when it ends.

We'll be adding multiple types of arenas soon, as well as a completely "PvP Friendly" area where there's nothing but fighting going on.

I like your idea tho, its pretty good but will require quite a bit of additional coding to get it implemented, probably wont happen for a while.

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Hellbinder

ufortunately that is siimply not the same thing. This is not "wars" this is Competition with game types and a reward system and spectators.

major difference.

Hellbinder

I appriciate that you like my idea. I know its a lot of work but honestly it would add a whole new dimension to the game and bring in a host of new players.

There is nothing like the rewarding feeling of goal oriented team competition in any FPS game. Also the open arena idea where anyone can go to and watch would be apealing. Witht he players "glowing" their team color it will make it easy to follow the action and participate as well.

I could see everyone just kicking the crap out of each other and telling the stories about it later or in the forums. And it would add a whole new reason to get quests done. You could also add special armors and such (purchaced via the VP system) that are specially enhanced for PVP. Or simply have awesome crazyness to them so that everyone knows when they see you that you are a bad dude in PVP competition.

Also when you think about it this game really lacks a "reason" for doing things in teh after life. The cain thing has pretty much gone by the wayside. The reason could be the "eternal competition of the games" or something like that.

Anyway i really hope that some form of my idea is implimented at some point.

Hellbinder

one more thing.

The island would have a vault and shop access to buy ammo and heals.

mrbreakit

What if competitions were only held on certain days? Make them major in-game events and not an every day occurence. Have the current PVP arena in 4f for daily PVP then once or twice a month have a series of games where clannies can get together, team up, and battle it out for some prizes and spectators can throw down bets in either Tokens or Credits.

Now that I've thought about it a little more. This could be pretty rad.

Gamefish

I agree that we need some sort of arena. I like the concept of a map, not an instance, where anyone can go and spectate or sign up to play. Would have to be all items nd so lower players will participate. It would give a central place to hang out when not questing/leveling but yet have something to do (spectator option would be necessary for this). The game lacks that now. The game types sound a lot like those in other games i.e. Halo3. But that isn't necessarily bad.

Air Kingdom would be the perfect map for this. Large, varied terrain, use of vehicles or ss would add to strategic play on a map like that. It has towers, stores, forts, caves etc. An initial implementation of this concept shouldn't require much to implement. First version would be the AK map with no mob (or maybe some to make it interesting. PVP with the danger of a mad kidion joining the fight). No sign ups, no organized teams, no reward system, just a large map to pvp and not lose items. Players will get creative and organize their own teams and game types. Safe zones at forts like before. Then, add features as they're developed.

**New quests could even require you to go and retrieve something from this map and force you to have to travel through the chaos of all the pvp**

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Hellbinder

That is a good idea to use AK for this initially.

Although you ahve to be careful to make the game area to big. It needs to be fairly tight so that there is good action and intensity as well as good for spectators.

Perhaps the AK Zone with everything but the vault island removed or closed off some how.

The area that actually came to my mind first if we cant do a new custom island is the old Boom town. or at least the central area of the old Boom town. Even the new Boom town may work if you close off most of the map.

if you remember AK actually has control towers in it already but the concept never panned out becuase imop the map sizes are simply to big and spread out for this style of play.

We really need a new Island or Map that is tailor made for team gaming. The top of AP island is about the perfect size.

solodynasty

Too much reading I just skimmed but yes an arena would be cool to have but I think it would take a while to make and to work out the bugs and stuff. IF this would be made it wouldn't be done for a while unfortunatly.

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Pain

Itd be cool if any arena was brought back. You don't have to make it all that complicated, just give of all levels the option to arena on any map the way it was before.