Re: ARENA suggestion

From: bonder@netcom.com (Bruce W. Onder)

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 02:56:41 +0000

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

: 	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.  :-)

Or that it takes a bit more than 15 minutes to recover from a sucking chest
wound and a severed artery.  :)

: 	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).

What about a general fatigue level that carries forward from fight to fight?
Gladiators can recover their fatigue based on their Constitution, or start
fresh the next game day (8:00AM ET?).

Of course, if you go this far, you could probably just implement a full-blown
wound system, so that those hits you suffer take some time to heal.

: 	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.

Of course, even if each gladiator was restricted to one fight a day, you could
do seven in a week.  With three gladiators, you can still get three reports
per day.

: Doug

Bruce
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References

Re: ARENA suggestion
bonar@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Doug Bonar)
Mon, 13 Sep 1993 19:00:43 +0000

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Re: ARENA suggestion
bonar@gnumath.rutgers.edu (Doug Bonar)
Mon, 13 Sep 1993 19:00:43 +0000