[K Peculier]

INTRODUCTION

The great Empire of Sigrogana, a land with bustling trade and rich grounds for farming. It also has an arena, it's pretty neat, only for commoners and the brutish sort however.

Chataran's have their famed black knight mercenary economy. Oniga has their casino (and inns). The Empire should capitalize on their huge landmass and construct a mighty arena, a Colosseum for the masses, bread and circus policy to keep the masses of the Empire content and happy as well as attracting mighty warriors to the land of the Empire, raising them up to be legendary heroes of the Colosseum!

Long live the Emperor! Long live the EMPIRE!

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My suggestion is not simple for it involves further improving our little arena into a world wonder!

First of all, the arena should be expanded with the central theme of being the 'best' and 'strongest'. Essentially we would have a matchmaking system in place for the arena for dedicated player versus player. Of course, there has to be rules set in place to prevent this from becoming something entirely OOC. The biggest rule in place being that players can only be on the top of the arena 'leaderboard' for a certain category. Here are some example categories I have in mind.

Players can only compete in only one category at a time to prevent omniclassing and to encourage more unique and creative builds with different characters!

No magic! Just steel! 1v1 - No spells allowed.

No items allowed! 1v1 - No items allowed, anything else goes.

Brawls with no items - 2 versus 2, no items allowed, anything else goes.

Team battles with no items - 4 versus 4, no items allowed, anything else goes.

Free for all! - 8 man free for all! ANYTHING GOES.

The list and possibilities are endless! But I feel those five would be an awesome start.

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Custom Battlefields! (Donation shop item integration)

The Arena will allow the creation of custom battlefields, allowing for the creation of 'cover' and using line of sight to your advantage. Spectators should be able to see everything though.

Both parties must agree to using the same mutual map before they begin to prevent any funny business.

With custom battlefields it allows for more dynamic and interesting battles rather than a fight always being outdoors!

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Custom Introduction + Battlefield Music + Fanfare! (More donation shop item integration!)

Before the battle begins there will a short introductory announcement by the almighty Tarson, introducing who you are and what you specialize as well as showing your selected face icon for all spectators and the enemy to see! If you have a marching band it will also play the first six seconds of your marching band to spectators and your enemy.

The integration of a Fun-O-Gram can also be implemented if a party agrees to it to set the tone what should be a long and heated battle!

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For Blood, Profit and GLORY! (Betting?)

This could be ignored but a betting element could be added in the fights. The two combating parties will be able to bet a certain amount of murai, winner takes all. Spectators will also have the option to bet but maybe a percentage will go to the arena administration (aka Tarson and gang).

Fights will not be instant because of this and also with the added air of customization. Things might need some organization before-hand. A new window pop-up might be necessary.

The main reward for fighting in these matches in the beginning will be for bragging rights. A large sign will be displayed at the arena with the names of those on top of the leader-board. If someone on the leaderboard is challenged by a player and they are unable to respond in time or refuse they will go down a rank until they completely knocked out the leaderboard.

I believe Top 10 would be a good number for initial introduction.

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The Grand Tournament. (Monthly?)

Every month there will be a tournament with special rules. Either in teams or one versus one. Winners of the tournament get a special trophy similar to fishing contests but should probably be a more unique icon for more bragging rights. You can place them in homes.

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That's all I have for now folks! What do you think? Should we add onto it more? What else can we do for the arena?

Also I purposely left out anything that rewards players with combat advantages such as legendary items only belonging to one player. I don't think this should be a thing. Most of this is to encourage roleplay and for the sake of bragging rights ic'ly. Categories are also there to prevent same builds winning over and over as well as one player character hoarding all the leader-boards.


ROUND ONE! FIGHT!

[Oni Princess]

"Both parties must agree to using the same mutual map before they begin to prevent any funny business." Might need a 'Map Preview.' feature so both parties can see what they are agreeing or disagreeing to. Keeping things fair. :3

(Edit) Also, I hope the PvE aspect remains in tact and gets upgrades as well.

Like maybe a consecutive battle challenge, Where a person or team can challenge teams of monsters with no break between. The goal being to see how many battles one can win in a row. No items allowed and with each win the number of badges gained at the end increase?

[Snake]

*whines* Now nobody will wanna leave the Arena.

Take the chance and make it mobile too. It should move move to from Sigrogana to Chaturanga, Gold and Alstalsia monthly, so people can get their asses moving from the main land.

[K Peculier]

Agreed with both of the above posts. A pve aspect would be great. Also making it mobile would definitely breathe much needed life to the other continents!

If it was on Gold, people could chill and relax in Oniga whilst the arena is just a short distance away.

[Lolzytripd]

make multiple arenas around the world.

An ice walled one in lordwain, sand stone in Gold, Chess themed/magical in Kysei, ect.

Make them abandoned until the arena crew travels there and sets up their tent on the map.

Every IC month they switch locations to keep it fresh.

[Snake]

I like Lolzy's idea, themed Arenas are an option too but how will we know if they're empty or not?

[Oni Princess]

how will we know if they're empty or not?

Chat notices kinda like with the fishing contest and black beasts.

Something like "World: The arena attendants will be moving to [Insert location here]!"

Also you know, if you go to the arena in question and dont see tarson and remedia there..

[MegaBlues]

There could be different icons for an active and inactive arena. Maybe some party balloons or a visible tent.

[Egil]

You could keep Sigrogana's arena the way it is now and make this new PvP-based, Tournament-style arena in Kysei. It'll give more people to hang around Chaturanga, anyway.

Otherwise, +1

[Snake]

'PvP based' sounds more like a Gold thing, in my opinion. Due to you know, Law's End and stuff. But if we are going for thematic Arenas. It should be the least like this:

Sigrogana: PvE challenges only with teamplay in mind, due to the IC way the Empire 'enjoys' seeing needless violence against humans/similar. So nothing changes when the Arena is active in it's main place.

Kysei: PvE challenges with survival theme, with a little of PvP challenges and rankings based on chess puns, that could be better viewed in a 'sport' or 'game'-ish way, ICly.

Lordwain: PvP/PvE challenges under an intense field hazard, or limited resources, such as skills and spells eating away twice as much FP, and same goes to durability, while all parties are suffering a rather crippling frostbite or burn.

Alstalsia: Honored PvP fights, in which all the matches should be balanced around the fighter's playstyle. So people who use basic hits will only be allowed to fight other basic hit users, while magicians will only fight other magicians in a 'fair' fight.

Gold: Mass PvP in a free for all style, no rules but Tarson's 'no-killing rule'. In a place that doesn't quite have good ears for it.