Re: ARENA suggestion

From: bonar@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Doug Bonar)

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 19:00:43 +0000

One suggestion to make Arena better, limit the number of
fights in a 24 hour period for a given fighter.  If you must have
a rationalization, say the fighter gets tired from fighting 3 fights
an hour for 8 hours.  :-)

Even with a ranking system that takes into account losses,
someone who sits at the terminal all day can fight much more than
someone who only logs in once or twice a day.  The rules suggest
that people should only mail one turn form per day, but this obviously
isn't enforced.  That seems too strict, plus it is vulnerable to
people making a number of characters (from different accounts) and
fighting them against each other 10 times per day (with only one of
the character meant to win).

The reason I care about how many fights is that the only real
benifits for fighting are money and the stat bonuses.  Money isn't so
bad, it isn't really very usefull.  On the other hand, by doing lots
of fights, a character can get lots of stat adds (if he wins).  If he
looses, he just tosses that character and gets a new one (since it is
free).  To someone who is just playing once or twice a day (and not
challenging his own characters) it takes a long time to get
signifigant stat raises.  To someone playing 'fast' it is only a day
or two.  If there is going to be any real sense of role-playing (ie
boasting and propaganda mailings, etc.) it seems a little awkward if
a newbie fighter can appear one day, and be as good as many long term
vetrans in 2 more.

Doug

References

ARENA Open Again
srt@aero.org (Scott 'Dr. Pain' Turner)
Mon, 13 Sep 1993 17:03:45 +0000

Referenced By

ARENA Open Again
srt@aero.org (Scott 'Dr. Pain' Turner)
Mon, 13 Sep 1993 17:03:45 +0000