I have been working on a new tournament with the help of Wratha. I am hoping to run a test tournament this Thursday(9/16) about 10PM SYS Time(7PM on the west coast). I will explain the way the tournament works, then there will be a new thread if you want to sign up to participate this Thursday.
The World of Krynn has 21 Gods and Goddess'. Each of these has an Avatar which represents them. Groups of 5 mortals may put together a team(of their own choosing), all of the same alignment(thus, good, neutral, evil) and then pick a God/Goddess to represent. That God/Goddess must have the same alignment as the team you put together. Thus, if you want to represent Chemosh, you must have an all evil group. Once you have your group put together, you MUST find an immotal(level 33+) who will play your God/Goddess' Avatar in the tournament. Each group will have an immortal played Avatar join the group, depedant upon the alignment as stated above.
Any level 33+ immortal may play any Avatar, but it is the job of the mortal to find an Imm to join your group. After you have a group of 5 of the same alignment, an imm who has agreed to play the Avatar of your God/Goddess, you may sign up for the tournament(see other topic for signing up for the test run). Make sure your immortal can be around on the tournament date and time. Up to 5 groups may participate at any one given tournament, thus 25 mortals + 5 immortals playing Avatars for the groups. All the Avatars have different guilds, different special powers, etc. This information will only be learned by players testing out all the different Gods & Goddess'
The point of the tournament is to kill off every other Avatar while protecting your own. Each Avatar has a shrine to it's God/Goddess that the group will be permitted to enter. The shrines are mem rooms for all classes, and recup rooms, however they are not peace. If at any time your Avatar is killed, you will automatically lose the tournament, and your remaining group will be transferred out. The last Avatar alive(with whatever group members remain alive) will be proclaimed winner.
There will be no EXP or gear loss from death. Any gear fragged in fighting will not be replaced, any EXP lost from e-draining will not be replaced. Normal tournament rules apply. No prep: potions, scrolls, wands, any type of prep items are not allowed. Each team fights only for itself: there are no alliances, no clans, no friends in this tournament! The last Avatar alive wins, there is no runner up or 2nd place.
During the first test run of the tournament there will be no prizes. This tournament will be run multiple times in the future(if all goes well), however, and prizes will be handed out in the future. Those who help with the test run will be rewarded in some way for their time and efforts.
If you have questions you can try to catch me in-game or leave them here and I will try to answer them. Reply to my other thread if you have a team ready to help for the first test run.
One last thing, Krite deserves credit for the idea behind this tournament, while Wratha and myself have done the work to build the actual arena and set everything up. As always Noryl's assistance makes everything possible. Say thanks to your local friendly imms that work on these things for the players.
I forgot to add, this is a tournament for level 25+
-Sancho
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Neat Idea, excepting the requirement to get a level 33+ to come with you. Why not just make it groups of 6 and give someone a buff char?
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Its a lot easier for immortals to switch into premade characters than it is for me to take time and buff a character in such a way that no extra game information is given. This also involves the staff more, especially 33's who don't often times have much to do aside from regulating shouts/titles and handling rule enforcement. As well, it was my goal to try and get the players and the imms to talk and work together more, and hopefully let the imms have some fun at the same time.
-Sancho
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Team Mysidia Looking for an Immortal
Group of Healer, Healer, Basher, Barb, Druid. All Ranked.
Drop me an IM or something if your interested.
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I guess the main idea is some sort like capture the flag/base type of play popular in first person shoorters. That is refreshing indeed though some mechanism need to be in place to promote attacking play rather than defending as I forsee most teams will be doing.
If immortals are unavailable, perhaps some mob can be used...
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[color=blue]How hard could it be for you to buff characters sancho? I'm guessing not very hard. Hell, I'm sureNoryl and/or Aristox would understand it if you made some lim_dam hardbash +550hp +5 hit/dam norent item for the mortal avatar to use, or whatever stats needed to have the buff special char.[/color]
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Its not going to happen. Immortals will play the Avatars. I can already see the squabbling and disagreements among mortals as to who in their group gets to play the "buff" character.
-Sancho
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think this is a cool idea, way to get immortals involved. and yes he is exactly right about how there would be massive bickering
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I think the tourney is gonna be pretty entertaining, bad for europeans thing it starts at 6am russian/5am finnish/etc time, so the question is, how long is it gonna take ? Important for those who work/go to uni, including me and my possible groupies!
P.s. Thanks for making tourneys ,will look for non-testing ones after this, but if it was at least 1-2 hours earlier, it would get alot more testers, imho.
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I can already see the squabbling and disagreements among mortals as to who in their group gets to play the "buff" character.
-Sancho
[color=blue]No you can't, because you know as well as anyone else that 99% of groups will be clan groups, and the leader(s) of the clan would determine it before hand. Ofcourse you could make it random, perhaps the only basher ends up being the paladine avatar for the group.
You know it would work if you wanted it to, but it's clear you don't. :P[/color]
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Anybody remember when Mystic Isles opened and the zone creator managed to get a mob in that was higher level than he was? Then when he switched into it he had more god commands than his actual god character did!
And it was hilarious when the mob used the commands against those in it's hatelist, like goto :)
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The idea sounds great as all tourneys are!
I can imagine it would be a lot more fun for the immortals aswell like you said, always spending time trying to satisfy us mere mortals!
Too bad on the test time, hopefully the tourney will be on a weekend as always :)
-ralf
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Great idea. Sadly, I won't be around to help testing, and I'm away for 2 weeks after the test. Hopefully when I'm back there will be some more tests to help on.
YAY! for Imms
Beta test 2
Beta test #2 for this tournament will be tonight (Jan 31st) between 7PM & 9PM PST. I need at least 12, hopefully 15+ characters, level 25+ to help out. No death or exp loss is involved and the entire thing is alot of fun. There might be some small reward for those who help as well.
-Sancho
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[color=darkblue]it's been WAY too long since a tourney was posted here[/color]
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I second the call for a tournament. Now that I've moved countries and time zone, I might actually get to go in one.
Paul