Re: ARENA: stupid ideas

From: turowski@cyberquest.com (Hank Turowski)

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 23:44:01 +0000

In article <39ueg5$7bf@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, dstone@phoenix.cs.uga.edu (David Stone) says:
>    I was wondering if it might not be possible to implement some way for poor
>or broke gladiators to make money.  Its kind of tough getting started when
>you are like me and end up blowing all of your money on skills, and then cant
>leave the arena to replace a piece of equipment 'cause the entry fee would
>be too high.  Maybe there could be a horse stables or something, that would
>allow an out of luck gladiator work for cheap, like 5 gold a day... at least
>a decent gladiator wouldn't have to retire.  I realize this is probably
>contrary to the idea behind Arena, so I can understand why something like this
>does not, and should not exist.
>    Another idea I had was to implement some sort of "fatality" message that
>is read when you defeat an opponent in battle that could be defined for each
>character.  For example, if Willy fights Joe, and Joe dies at the end of
>the battle there would be a message like "Willy walks over to the crumpled
>figure of Joe and strikes a pose, planting a foot on his face!".  I know, this
>is very stupid and juvenile... but it would still be kind of fun!
>I hope this is not too annoying to the creator of Arena, I know you don't have
>a lot of time to  add things to the game.

A little hard on yourself, werent ya, David?  I like the idea if alternate ways
of making money.  Stable work sounds good.  Another idea that crossed my mind
was a cheap (free?) death arean, where you can fight a very hard opponent for
very little money, but if you win, there is a large purse.  Maybe a few hundred
dollars.  That way, if you run out of money, you get a fighting chance to keep
playing... you arent forced to retire.

As for fatality messages... sounds like we've peen playing too much Mortal Kombat!
:)  Actually, the idea is not a bad one... kind of a salt in the would thing...
And if there were some sort of challenge system started, I can see some long term
feuding starting as a result of a really good taunt.  And what about a bounty
system to go along with challenges... I could put a price on Willy's head and the
one who kills him wins it.  Could be fun.

Well, thats it for today's rambling

Hank
turowski@cyberquest.com

References

ARENA: stupid ideas
dstone@phoenix.cs.uga.edu (David Stone)
Fri, 11 Nov 1994 00:39:33 +0000