#2 - New Ideas for PVP

[Mariner-1212]

Todays’ Discussion:
NEW IDEAS FOR PVP
I've gone through the LAD thread and separated all of your great ideas into 2 main categories - WANTS (changes to current PVP) and NEW IDEAS. This thread is meant to expand on the NEW IDEAS presented, to form some more concrete thoughts around these. When we ran the Trooper thread, all of our opinions came together to form some really excellent, well thought out ideas. Let's do the same here.


Directly from Sparton:
We want the Arena to be a reflection of people's capabilities to compete against other players' teams, and to be able to reward both active participation and high win rates (with end-of-week rewards primarily benefiting win rates more than participation, and store purchases primarily benefiting participation more than win rates, but being good in both areas helping for both reward mechanisms). Overall, I'm interested in everyone's ideas for what would make PVP more interesting, or engaging, or different from week to week, and then we can see either how we'd tackle that after we release the teased new game mode (either by updating one or more existing game modes with changes or by creating a new one that takes into account what the community is interested in).


Proposed Solutions:
- Addition of guilds (Slauki)
- Addition of raids (Slauki)
- Trooper team up? (Amarthir)
- "Go blind" - RNG will randomly pick any of your 3 defenses so anytime you fight the same player you won’t fight the same defense (Kamuz)
- give a twist to pvp every month like been able to bring a second Eddie but not like in pve where you can switch Eddies; Character class restrictions, Talisman or power move limitations (Kamuz, Ezz)
--- other ladders in PVP (above concepts, but done in separate PVP instances) (+ only sentinels, no power moves) (surfingwithdje)
- New Competition formats, such as Monthly rewards for top cumulative point standings for the entire month, Tournament of some sort (Ezz)
- Hall of fame (slauki, surfingwithdje)
- A "skin soul" that would give the winner a toon with different color (same abilities and stats) - something like a black nomad, that would be awesome and clearly would reward a player to fight for a top spot. (Carlos)
- Fragments drop for special characters, not an event but something ongoing where you needed 5000 or so before claiming a special character (chaosego888)


Ideas for different ladder models:
- Multiple Eddies mode - ability to bring in All Eddies, not just one
- Only [Class] mode, where it's Sentinels vs Sentinels, etc.
- Powerless Mode - no power/fury moves allowed
- Talisman limitations, such as only being limited to one use of a talisman set per team (can't use 2 sets of Energy, etc).
- ...?


General Guidelines:

For all solutions, please keep these things in mind:
1. Sparton's guidelines above
2. NF needs to make money.
3. There needs to be a ‘free play’ aspect to whatever solution is proposed; it can't be something that requires a purchase to participate.