PVP Tournaments

[Haba]

Heya!

We were having a talk about organizing a giant "AD v.s. Sodom v.s. everyone else" bloodbath at the end of this world and an idea came to me.

Would it be possible for the developers to create an area where murder wouldn't be possible? If yes, then we'd be able to organize some larger scale PVP tournaments. Currently, the risk of dying is a bit too high, no matter how deep the trust is between the players. And "accidents" do happen...

You know, a large enough zone where all combat would be considered sparring (but maybe with longer downtime). Would spice up the otherwise so boring everyday grind a lot.

Thoughts?

[ElGato]

a test server with all current characters would also be an option when that time comes

Like the one Jorb and Loftar made for the current combat system before it was implemented in the game.

[DigDog]

Even if that's not possible a tournament wouldn't be completely out of question. It couldn't be one big brawl then though, it would have to consist of many 1vs1 matches. I like the idea even though my char is far from competitive.

[ElGato]

imo the best way to go about it is to do group fights.
like maybe 5v5s

[sabinati]

you could do whatever you wanted, 1v1, 2v2v2, 5v5, 20v1, who cares

the point is that for any of it to happen there needs to be some kind of spar zone set up... some kind of new special-case claim placed by the devs

[rye130]

+1

Definetly thinks recreational sparring needs some luvin'

[DatOneGuy]

you could do whatever you wanted, 1v1, 2v2v2, 5v5, 20v1, who cares

the point is that for any of it to happen there needs to be some kind of spar zone set up... some kind of new special-case claim placed by the devs

While I do note that that is one of the few ways of not having it completely abused, anything like this or not should be something that players build as a pretty-much-fuilly player built world. :v

[rye130]

Maybe a special authority figure called a Tournament Idol or something? Limit one per village and needs to be placed so the area it covers is already covered by the village and within the area only sparring may occur. Not sure what sort of mechanic can be placed to prevent it being used as a safehouse to avoid raiders.

[Repercussionist]

+1 for fun
Similar to rye, I was thinking about a village item (I thought coliseum, but whatever), but instead of extending an area around it, maybe it could open an interface so that you could set up games, etc. to your liking (XvX or time or whatever). Then it will transfer you into a separate "arena" map with the given options. DOG was opposed to it being a dev project, but maybe it could be built externally and the devs would implement the code for the coliseum into the original server/client (I'm not entirely sure if you can patch characters through to an alternate server like that, but if the devs do decide to make it their own project with the same server, perhaps on an isolated area of the same map, that should be feasible). I'm not sure about how to do it with the language their using, but I used to do something similar when I was experimenting with EO (had some unaccessible maps, and after the players set their options, sent checks to make sure there was clearance for them to go, set up the options, and warped them there). Just conceptualizing.

[DatOneGuy]

Just make it so that nothing short of warping in/out, and sparring can occur. You have to build the area before hand, you can't put up walls WITHIN it, you can warp out despite being in spar-mode when in there (so that you can't be caught infinitely), the tournament idol needs a special way of being broken, and no LP or FEP can ever be gained within the area, and no animals can spawn.