[OOC] Arena Chat Thread

[Vordak]

too lazy to fite
but wow melon's still alive

[Doc Doctor]

Got permission from the Rubester to judge casual matches. I know the Arena sorely needs judges so anyone needs a ref gimme a shout.

[Maglar]

@Doc DoctorI wanna fight, I wanna see my arena score look good under my name :) There's a lot in this thread, and I've read a good bit, but it's still unclear how all of this works. Can you work with me to set up a judged match?

[Doc Doctor]

@Maglar

Wow somebody's here. Heya! Sorry it took this long for me to revisit this site. I can judge any fights you get into, but finding opponents is a trial in and of itself. I've been really busy irl so I can't help in that regard, but if you ask around you might find some action.

[Maglar]

@Doc Doctor

Hey there Doc! Here's what we have so far: I have one person who has created a character for the Spartan thread and is ready to fight next week, we have Stomflyx who has volunteered to announce Arena fighting as an event and clean up these sticky threads to make them more accessible to people who might be interested in fighting.

If other folks who have participated in the past want to help put things together that would be welcome. I need help making the Arena section something that a person new to Role Playing or new to Arena fighting would be able to understand how to get involved and how to play, and I need help building excitement about the fights.

I've also brought up the debate as to changing the Arena stats that show up on our Status to something other than wins, losses, and ties. It would be better to feel like it rewards people for playing not just winning.

The fight next week will be between myself and the other guy who's character will be posted in the character section without his stat numbers, if you could read and judge over that it would be a great test to see how the fighting system works. In a tournament fight the judges would know the stats and the fighters would not, this allows the judge to have a less subjective reason for how they might rule the results of an action. This might not work, but this is the system I've come up with so far.

I know that a bunch of you guys have done arena stuff, and you have an idea for how to set up fights and create arenas and all that, but the section hasn't been active in almost half a year, and when I reached out for assistance I got crickets, so I created an entirely new method for setting up a fight and determining how to judge them. I'm not apposed to working collaboratively with you or others if it increases the quality of the system and interest in having more fights.

Let me know your thoughts, I'm excited to see some excitement in the Arena section again

[Zmija Sebastian]

@Doc Doctor I've got word from @BangoSkank that you'll Judge for us. I know people arn't me, so, Bango may have gotten you without full details given. It's going to be a RANKED ARENA fight. I've respectfully registered in the Arena Ranking Headquarters for the RANKED ARENA.

[BangoSkank]

I suggested him as a possible judge

[Zmija Sebastian]

Ohhh, my mistake.

[Rezod92]

Okay, this has been tickling my curiosity for far too long. What's a guy gotta do to participate in the Arena around here?

[BangoSkank]

Find someone to fight, find a judge if you want one, then you both come up with characters

[Hedgehawk]

While I promos myself after ten years of fight RPs I wouldn't go back to the competitive scene. I am more than happy to be a judge for these things.

[Zmija Sebastian]

@Hedgehawk I want to have a ranked fight against BangoSkank. You can judge our fight (at least 1 post a month) at the ARENA Battleground "Prince's Private Arena". We're just idling by in the arena interest section, please do bring yourself over to finalize us.

[BangoSkank]

Hopefully Dr Doc is still around

[Zmija Sebastian]

@Hedgehawk I apologize, my challenger is concerned with who will judge. Thanks for that generous ablige, but I'm going to let them see to the tidings as well. To be fair.

I will keep you in reserve, though.

[Doc Doctor]

@BangoSkank
@reaping Adder

Okay, I can judge for y'all. Been super distracted for awhile, but I'll start checking in daily now. Have you guys decided on a setting?

[BangoSkank]

He seems to want to do it in "The Prince's Private Arena," which will probably be fine with me once he explains what that means.

[Zmija Sebastian]

@Doc Doctor will it be an official ranked fight? I only play for my arena score.

[Doc Doctor]

@reaping Adder

I can judge, but I personally can't change any scores. You'll have to talk to a moderator about that!

[BrokenPromise]

@reaping Adder when you make a thread, you can select if you want it to be ranked or not. If it's ranked, you can call a moderator in once the fight is over and points get distributed. At least that was how it worked in the past.

[Galaxyfighter4]

will someone tell me how to devise a good arena man for turnbased combat? I understand anything is possible. but I want to know about abilities that will Omega some ass.