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