[OOC] Arena Chat Thread

[MelonHead]

@MelonHead Sup Melon, what's good in the proverbial hood?

@Dynamo Frokane

Alright man, not much, took a short break but I'm back for now.

I think a sign up thread would be useful, if you're going to have leaderboards then you'll have to sign up, and it would be useful if you're looking to challenge someone to have all the current active fighters visible in one place. (This would incorporate into the leaderboards themselves I suppose, depending on how Mahz does it.)

The issue raised about judges in tournaments competing is a valid one, there is a possibility of subjectivity creeping in if you yourself are also competing, due to wanting a certain opponent to be defeated for example (because they are a worse match-up for your character at a later date) or even because they've beaten you at an earlier point in the tourny.

Not saying it's likely, but it is a possibility.

[Innue]

I think it is entirely reasonable to have a judge who is not participating if available (such as myself). If they aren't available to make a ruling, say within X amount of time, then it defaults to another who may be in the tournament but not in the fight.

Just an option.

[ShidenBlades]

I think thats a good idea Innue.

[Rilla]

I trust that most of you are actually not that much of a dick. Hahaha.

[Green]

Looking forward to seeing this in action!

@Schradinger

Maybe even get that rematch going. Gods knows it's been long overdue ;)

[Skallagrim]

Maybe someone can take down El Presidante Rilla. . .kick him in the babymaker a few times.

[Innue]

Maybe someone can take down El Presidante Rilla. . .kick him in the babymaker a few times.

@Skallagrim

I'm too old to be overthrowing things.

[Rilla]

Gonna message Mahz.

I'll see about copy/pasting what I send him, as well as his reply to.be directed her as well as my inbox.

things didn't go as planned with my phone. stupid straight talk.

[ShidenBlades]

Awesome.

[Dolerman]

Cant wait!

[Rilla]

Dynamo, do.me a solid.

Clean up the Arena Battlegrounds thread a bit. The first post is fine, so really just add in sort of a "table of contents" with links to each battleground in it.

[Rilla]

Hello Mahz.

So we figured some things out, and it'll come down to whether or not you can code in the point system.

Basically, we want to know if you can code in a automatic point addition/deduction system in which,

100 Points for winners
50 for draws
25 for loss

If possible, we would like it if this was something we could adjust as we plan on having 3-4 tournaments a year for points as well, with possible different points for each. This would also help with the proposed wager system we want to include.

For the wager system, we would like the minimum wagerable points to be 25, anything over 25 would.constitute the point deduction. 25 Itself would just take away the point gain for a loss.

Also a "verification" system, so either the mandatory judge, or both participants have to verify the results before points are alloted.

We are also looking forward to the win/loss thing. And wondered if you could make it opt-in/out, as well as add our changing ranks under the profiles like where the bio and status is.

The point system is similar to the Hall of Records one, but that included a 10% gain for winners and 10% loss for losers. So in theory coding the points should be possible in some fashion.

If you can't, we can more or less make due, but you mentioned you wanted to put some more shine on the arena so I thought we would try. You can check out the Chat Thread for our progress so far.

If you have any questions you can direct them to me, or post in the chat thread yourself, and someone will answer you - most likely.

As a possible, could the last tournament be promoted by the Guild? As far as I'm concerned that could be the biggest tournament as it would take place towards the end of the year.

Any word on the dice system?

[Rilla]

Do you guys have any ideas for special tournaments? it May get a bit boring if all the tournaments are regular single elimination. The last one, surely, would be the big one. Single elimination. Perhaps worth 1000 points as a prize.

I was thinking of a "stipulation" tournament, sort of like WWE's extreme rules tournament, or maybe a team tournament(first second and third place teams get the point, or split.off into 1v1 matches between themselves to see who gets the points), or a Joker's wild tournament, where teams are randomly assigned. As well as potential "themed tournaments", where maybe the theme is hand to hand, scifi, otherwordly creatures, or.something.

[Dolerman]

Well I would be in favor of 2v2 tournaments with a split prize for the winning duo.
Also maybe a 4 man free for all for the semi finalists of a standard tournament.

If I, as the BattleGrounds 'groundsman' were given the authority I could make all sorts of cool death trap style arenas for special themed matches. Suspended platforms over an Acid pit? Frozen indoor arena with rabid polar bears? Fighting on top of a Colossus Eagle?

Dynamo is your man.

[LeeRoy]

What's going on in this thread?

Oh lord.

So much to read.

[Rilla]

You can more or less read my message to Mahz, Leeroy. That's basically it really.

Dynamo that's mostly stylized Arenas. I'm mostly looking for different types of styles. Such as ones I mentioned earlier.

Interesting ideas though. You can go ahead and make those if you want. Did you make those changes I requested to the battleground thread?

[Dolerman]

Oh crap, I've got to do hyperlinks for the list now dont I? I'll give it a shot

[Rilla]

Yeah. But it should be easy. o assume it spend like OldGuild, so you can probably name them as well.

[Dolerman]

well this is embarassing I dont actually know how to get the links for individual posts, I guess I just never had to do it before until now.

[Rilla]

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