Another Colosseum Idea

Its just a tinee bit, borrowed from King Symeon's colosseum idea.

Instead of teams,you can just go free for all. What i mean is..you enter the coloseum by urself, or you can bring ur friends along, but u CANT set up teams. You can gang up on people with ur freinds, but u can also turn on ur friends right after. The colosseum still has the spectate area, but people from the crowd can just walk in and get in on the fun. But to stop people from doin those stupid "hit 'n runs"(people do dmg to you, but once they do, they head straight back up into the spectate area) people who enter the arena cant go back into the spectate area. The spectate area is just for looking down at evryone killing each other. Its also an area where the "gladiators" cant harm anyone in those stands.

Also, people can resurect anyone they want, heal anyone they want. But the thing is, you get no benefit from any of this. You can kill as many people as you want, but you gain no faction, no fame, nothing. You gain the happiness of pwning random people for no reason at all. Thats wut i consider fun. The colosseum is just strictly for fun and entertainment. Also, to stop crowding, only a certain amount of players are allowed in the colosseum. Maybe about 60 or less players going all out. OR if Anet makes it big enough, 80+ players.The players include the spectators and gladiators added up. There is, of course, different districts.

And another thing, the colosseum should be something like a competition arena. It deserves its own place on the map. Just incase you die, and no one wants to ressurect you, you can just zone out into another place, like lions arch, and zone back into the colosseum. The coloseum should have that little red icon, like the team arenas or tombs, so you can just click on it and enter the colosseum.

Well thats my idea.

the only problem with this is that whammos would just take over because they can deal damage, take damage, and heal themselves. The perfect gladiator.

thats why there are such classes as mesmer...to shut down those whammos. Then a warrior can just swoop in and take that whammo out along with the mesmer. Remember what i said, you can bring friends along and gang up on those self healing and dmg dealing characters. Keep in mind...you can also turn on ur friends to thank em for the help***

I've always thought about having a 1 on 1 arena like in the previous MMORPG i played runescape.

Having the ability to choose who you fight, set rules, and even stake gold/items.

pretty much, eoe bomb would destroy everyone. literally. you would get like, 10 people to run out in the middle and eoe the crap out of everyone. if done right, this would kill EVERYONE in the arena. thats the only bad thing about your plan. i would personally love to see a free-for-all arena.

thats not always a bad thing i'd love to be in the stands where it wouldn't kill me and watch everyone down there die all at once i'd lmao

In runescape a neat thing about it was that you could watch fights from rafters above, was very fun. (could even throw tomatoes)

Would be very awesome if you could here as well.

The whole point is just to have fun, and since you gain nothing from slaying other players, it doesn't really matter if it's perfectly balanced.
So what if a few players can take out everybody else. Have fun watching the massacre, then just wait and see what happens now that there are only a few players left.
Or if only one player is left, I wonder how many people might simultaneously rush him/her.

I love this idea. I think it would add much replay value (does this game really need more??), but unlike money sinks like FoW armor, this would be pure fun. No farming here.
My only worry, however, is that it would be very difficult for many computers to handle this..

I think some minor changes should be made.:
When everyone is dead there is one winner. And everyone gets ressurected within 20 seconds. And then the battle starts again..
The only thing i am afraid for is that it is gonna be a monks arena. Eerybody gets a monk. ANd thinks let someone else kill the people for me, they cant kill me by their own. or whatever.

People can't own a monk on their own indeed, and a W/Mo will be difficult to kill(not impossible though)

But as it open arena, it doesn't mean that people can't cooperate.

2 rangers will kill a monk
2 eles will outdmg a Wa/Mo

something like 1020282 times:
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I would love to see this idea implemented with a few modifications:

1) An entrance fee (the last person standing takes the purse)
2) Free For All & Organized
3) Spectators able to trigger spells (spike traps, AoEs... for a cost. This cost will add to the purse the winner receives

A massive chaotic faction-free blizzard is not what I am looking for. I think a more structured approach would appeal to more people.


/signed for better or worse

About the eoe...sheesh..smart players would actually kill the spirit once its set down...its like "o shit, an eoe spirit, leme take a sec and wand for sec to make sure that everyone doesnt get massacered". And about the computer problem handiling all of this, just decrease the amount of player allowed. From, lets say, 60 to about 40 people allowed in the colosseum.
Further more, the 1vs1 thing is alredy being considered by Anet. I seriously cant w8 for that.

i could see an invinci monk going in there... and one of those damn paladins... 20+ health when you attack them, only useful if ur a hammer...

/Signed

this is what I'd be doing all the time. Yup, definately. Anet please do this arggghhghghgh I want this to happen

/signed infinately

Chaos! Disaster! Destructon! Excitement! I like it!
It actually reminds me of those programs with robots fighting eachother (i think the program was battlebots?). What Anet could do, is that the people who are spectating the match, actually are waiting to go in: a bit like the random arena’s island. And people are ‘put’ into the arena every 10 seconds, so that there will be more and more people: a wammo surely wont be able to kill a character in 10 seconds, and if there is a character dominating the arena, everybody will, ofcourse, turn against him! I hope they will add something like this, it really sounds fun! Oh, you should still get faction and xp per kill you make, however, it should be devided by the people in the arena at the time: that way people get more competitve, and will easily break any pacts theyve made, which will be more fun for the crowd!

this is a pretty old post but a great idea.. wonder if it's being done because it's exactly what guildwars needs.

I could see the whole spectator thing getting laggy but the main idea here is an arena you can just go into anytime and fight without making a team.

A plain lineage2 style arena would make me happy.

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Sounds like good havoc

This could be proven to be very unfair, with the purse thing. Let's say the maximum group is 20, and half of them are guildie friends who are working together to own everyone else, and ending up trying to cheat their way for their purse. It'd be unfair for those people who just want to have fun, b/c they'll be getting owned by 10 people on them, unless of coures, they echo mending. But that's just my 2 cents.

/sign
only with some changes to balance this all out.

lol the Purse things would make people try to farm it, that build gets out, everyone uses, etc etc. No Monetary Reward. just Destruction : D ANYONE, who has ever seen a EoE Nuke in AvA knows just how awesome it looks. Even if it killed me, Id love to see a huge amount of people let out their death gurgles!

/signed. Ftw. Woot.

I think this is a great idea too!

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