RA = Random Abuse

Originally Posted by Chicken Ftw

Getting mad at people in RA for having bad builds is a lot like going to the slums and getting mad at people living there for being poor. It's just where they dwell.

Originally Posted by pumpkin pie

Thank you for starting this thread.

Random Arena is on the declined when I stop playing there, It is in the gutter now. Okay, so you caught me playing in Random Arena, I could only stand it for 2+ hours, while trying to fill up my Zaishen Menagerie a few days ago, the task turns tedious and boring, so I went to RA, then, .... unfortunately, events and happenings reminds me why I had left it in the first place.

In the 2+ hours that I have temporary return to RA, I did not speak one word, because you know what that would result into, a flame and report war. Even when I do not respond, I get abused. Beside the abuse, in the 2+ hours, every battle I enter is unsuccessful to get to the end of the battle in a sportsmen like fashion. At least 2, I said 2, players would /resign on entering the game and forces the other players to do so, (now you know where the abuse comes from even when I do not respond) because I refuse to /resign.

I proposed this once again:
NON-CONSECUTIVE 5 WINS gets one gladiator points, if you get consecutive 5 wins, meaning without a lost battle in between 5 battle that you have entered and won consecutively, and not 5 consecutive battle with the same players, then you get the bonus as if you were in a streak wins (like what we have now).

When I say non-consecutive, it means that every player is return to the Waiting Area/Random Arena Island after every battle regardless if they win or loose.

Reasoning behind this:
When non-consecutive 5 wins is achieve, We reduce the needs of players ever having to talk to another players in the short one time battle - hence less verbal abuse. We reduce the needs for players to use the /resign command to try to get into a "good" group as according to their own standard. If its a one time battle, you better play it to the best of your ability or you will be spending time entering battle the whole day without ever playing one game, (that's what happen during my 2+ hours, players kept /resigning, I've thus wasted my 2+ hours clicking enter battle only to get verbal abuse and returning to the Random Arena Waiting Island).

Other possible changes if the above is not to be:
1) Limit the use of /resign to once every 10 battle.
2) Ramdonmising the Random Arena, If we win the battle, we get to the next map/battle as we do now, BUT you get group up with another 3 new players (who have also won battle) other then the one you have now. So that we still get consecutive wins only with different players.
3) Impose a Penalty in the form of deduction from Gladiator Title Track, for instant 10 gladiator points if you verbally abuse another player in the game. or etc, as Arena Net sees fit.

Imposing a restriction, limitation and penalty is a good way to curb the population bad behaviour since we won't do it ourselves.

Originally Posted by Wish Swiftdeath

Quickly scanned through the thread and found this, don't mean to be horrible but these are terrible ideas. If implemented RA would just turn into a crapshoot (more so than it already is).

Originally Posted by Regulus X

That's why I'm 411ing tha President (aka: Live Team) to rectify this issue and turn tha 'slums' into a beautiful park where family & kids can play freely.

Originally Posted by Wish Swiftdeath

For starters: At least with a set team till you lose it still depends on your skill.

If you reset the teams every round then it just comes down to luck, glad titles will just mean whoever got luckiest with teams.

Originally Posted by Anon-e-mouse

Only problem with this is that the people who lived in those slums still have to live somewhere. Telling them to move out, bulldozing their homes, just so you can have a park is not really fair on them, especially as they are really not wanted by any other part of the community (elitism ftl).

Random Arenas, for the most part is exactly what it says on the tin, RANDOM!

Originally Posted by Regulus X

Tell them to stop being slumbags and get a job, find an apartment, efficiency, shelter, etc.. so that they aren't sleeping in the streets or alleyways. I don't like 1337ism either, but 1337ism really has no bearing on this subject matter. Random Arenas is random, but fun games need to be FUN as well, not this frustrating bullsh!t abusefest we now call RA atm..

Originally Posted by Anon-e-mouse

The mere act of wanting to discrimate against someone based on your perception of their skill level is Elitism, doesn't matter how you want to cloud it, or paint it, that what it is, no if's, no buts.

The entire point of RANDOM arena's is that sometimes you will get a good team/players and sometimes you will not, it's the entire principle behind the word RANDOM.

It's simply not possible to regulate randomness.

Originally Posted by Anon-e-mouse

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It's simply not possible to regulate randomness.

Originally Posted by pumpkin pie

Actually it can be done, NON-CONSECUTIVE wins like JQ and FA, the system is already there, use it on RA but change to 5 wins gets 1 gladiator points.

All thos elitism you call and people denied is the cause of having to reach 5 and 10 wins in RA to get gladiator points, if you don't have to depneds on that factors, there will be less flaming and QQ going on, because afterall , its just that one game you have to tolerate other players in. then you are done with them.

Change RA to non-consecutive 5 wins to get 1 gladiator points , case closed.

in the same time, it also make it moot to sync hahahahahah