Right, I'm bloody back, and this idea is still interesting to me -- especially with Frontlines just having come out.
Sadly, there's no /duel function in this game, and one vs one arenas aren't even a thing -- nor should they be, with how badly balanced PvP is in this game (and if you want to call me on that point, check the FL standings for Balmung this week and then shut up), so while I have fantasies of actually getting people to play the gladiators and the like, they'll have to do it in an RP fighting way.Â
Now I'm not big on RP fighting, but the only alternative I can see has a major problem -- if we did make 8 man premade teams to break up and go into wolves den for battles, no one would be able to see the fights, which takes away a lot of the spectator business on this whole deal, and what good is that? What, are we meant to believe that fatcat investor from Ul'dah just sits around and eats grapes and waits for someone to walk out and tell him who won? No.
So RP fighting it is.Â
Now, great, there should be fighters, but what else can people do around this? Well, we'll need investors, cooks, bookkeepers, waiters/waitresses to see to the spectators, we'll need security and other heavy types, healers, and hell, we could also use some hippie types who want to get the whole thing disbanded. Also entertainment for when there's lulls in the gladiators beating the hell out of each other.
So if you could see your character playing any of these roles, don 't be shy.Â
A system for fights will need to be worked out, as well as a prize pool and any betting rules, but that's for later.
Earn your glory in the ring. Earn a beating for trying to fix the fights. Take the apple of your eye on a date to see two people beat each other senseless. The possibilities are endless.
Sadly, there's no /duel function in this game, and one vs one arenas aren't even a thing -- nor should they be, with how badly balanced PvP is in this game (and if you want to call me on that point, check the FL standings for Balmung this week and then shut up), so while I have fantasies of actually getting people to play the gladiators and the like, they'll have to do it in an RP fighting way.Â
Now I'm not big on RP fighting, but the only alternative I can see has a major problem -- if we did make 8 man premade teams to break up and go into wolves den for battles, no one would be able to see the fights, which takes away a lot of the spectator business on this whole deal, and what good is that? What, are we meant to believe that fatcat investor from Ul'dah just sits around and eats grapes and waits for someone to walk out and tell him who won? No.
So RP fighting it is.Â
Now, great, there should be fighters, but what else can people do around this? Well, we'll need investors, cooks, bookkeepers, waiters/waitresses to see to the spectators, we'll need security and other heavy types, healers, and hell, we could also use some hippie types who want to get the whole thing disbanded. Also entertainment for when there's lulls in the gladiators beating the hell out of each other.
So if you could see your character playing any of these roles, don 't be shy.Â
A system for fights will need to be worked out, as well as a prize pool and any betting rules, but that's for later.
Earn your glory in the ring. Earn a beating for trying to fix the fights. Take the apple of your eye on a date to see two people beat each other senseless. The possibilities are endless.
