Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- Spinoff Discussion

...Hmm.

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Hmm... if a part of Installation 04 will be used, then a map for it will also be required. What are we going to do, imagine what it looks like and cause contradictions?

edited 7th Apr '16 9:54:05 PM by SymeSynth

I have just the thing to solve that issue. The Installation 04◊ map from Halo: REACH's Firefight mode could be used, with the Pillar of Autumn parked right next to it.

I'm going to want to take a closer look at it in the morning, but Installation 04 seems like a good map.

Generally, small map. At the moment, somebody could blow up a mountain and people couldn't see it. That should change.

I could go with Stormer's idea, it would give a good mix for some close and long range combat. Plus we could vary the weather there and have some interesting terrain hazards.

Here are a few (maybe bad) arguments for a small(er) map:

1. We never use the gigantic size of the current arena/it is actually a hassle since characters need hours to get from one point to the other,

2. A small arena actually stops fights/power levels from absolutely escalating. A nuke kills everyone and their grandmother and grandchildren (especially since there is no way to dodge an explosion that big).

3. Stage Hazards/ Different Environments:

• Large map="Heya wanna go someplace where there is a thunderstorm instead of a nice day? It is only a two hour march from here".
• Small map:"Open that door, beware of lightning"

edited 8th Apr '16 6:50:35 AM by Blackie

Since Blackie seems to support small maps... I think I need to say something.

Small maps can become crowded at peak hours, while large maps can indeed be a nuisance when it comes to realistic travel. However, having a hassle to realistic travel can be considered the lesser evil to having an area absolutely crowded with characters to the point that it's completely unrealistic for the characters to even be there.

Also:

• Small maps can disable others from not joining in a major battle when the players don't want to join in, making Boss Battles obligatory and utterly unavoidable unless some kind of magical ignore barrier is erected, which, as we all know, just makes the players doing that look like dicks. Bosses with attacks that are mostly AoEs can also be trouble to the ones fighting against them.
• Large maps, while they can make battles escalate, will not result in a nuke or something that will wreck the entire Arena unless a player has the gall to ignore the rules of the OP. Players ignoring an overpowered attack's effects is also a bit more realistic and reasonable, as the map has a large area.
• And, with the environmental things... again, not everyone wants to get involved there. For people with big plots and limited time to enter the Arena, this is a big hassle.

edited 8th Apr '16 7:32:52 AM by SymeSynth

We can try find some kind of balance, if there is one.

The Tenroujima island could possibly works. It's a large island like Solstheim though, so if we wants to change...

Anyhow, the main island could be the fighting part, with the nukes and all that stuff. But the catch is that the main tree is large enough to form a second, smaller platform, so people who want small maps to interact can use the surface of the tree for that.

I'm not sure if I'm even going through with this plot, but just in case-

Would there be anyone okay with having something happen to their characters?

edited 9th Apr '16 8:01:58 PM by Daydre

And what would that thing be, Daydre?

Just going berserk or getting drunk with power. :3c

edited 10th Apr '16 2:15:00 PM by Daydre

Sounds like fun! :)

Probably going to do the Black Cloak boss fight friday.

Woohoo bolded, Imma be there for that one

So, this snowball fight thing gives me an event idea... Joke Weapons Day, where everything is literally nerfed into preferably amusing forms, and nothing can kill - not even normally Lethal Joke Characters (cough, Engie, Destriers).

edited 14th Apr '16 6:37:20 PM by MicoolTNT

I've introduced an artifact for a lil plot of mine, hit me up if you want for one of your chars to get a... special power :p

also posting a warning, don't let Vide take back his full power. Unless you want someone who can No-Sell magic, be ultra strong, tough and fast, with an immunity to Mind Screw (and the ability to Mind Screw himself), telekinesis, telepathy, a powerful healing factor and the ability to even re-open past wounds if he can touch people with it.

Don't worry though, I'll (Ass Pull) huh, use ways to defeat him even with that.

edited 18th Apr '16 1:21:24 AM by Bolded1

Vide? Meet Isaac XD, king of the dodge.

Ghosting is frowned upon.

Actually, not ghosting, just really good at explaining a dodge that makes complete sense.

Aelver is a powerful, draconic being who, at first, visited dimensions to amuse himself, taking human identities and such.

His own dimension was his personal playground and collection storage, too, and he often visited worlds to collect stuff and watch occurrences for the sake of entertainment.

That is, until in one such world he visited, he become more deeply involved than he had wanted. He fell in love for a woman who had befriended him, and soon enough, he married her.

At first, everything was happy and such, until, on the eighth month of his wife's pregnancy, his true nature was discovered by one of the humans.

As such, they began calling the unborn child an abomination, and a large majority of the humans condemned the woman and her family for becoming involved with a dragon.

Aelver set out to intervene, but, he was captured by the humans soon enough. However, they told him that they would give him a chance to see his wife and family...

...only to have him watch them executed, and his pregnant wife burned at the stake.

Utterly outraged and horrified, Aelver unleashed his dragon form on everyone, and slaughtered each and every human that he could find in that world.

Once he was done, he fled back to his dimension, and set out to make it a perfect haven for draconic beings like him, soon creating the Draconic Sanctuary.

Once more, he travelled to other dimensions, zealously seeking to find dragons of all kinds to 'free them from the clutches of the scum known as humans'.

He changed his views, however, when he found worlds where humans and dragons lived in harmony.

Okay, well that's kinda dark