Psychout wrote:Can't talkmuch as I'm supposed to be working but thetournament system here needs a despirate overhaul, but a thought ihadwas based in collecting - were all toy collectors so my suggestion is this:
A player sees an alt they want on the opposing team and if they want it they have the chance to earn it, all they need to do is kill an opponent with that alt 12 times andpost it here, with the name of the TF they want to have it. The mods who can will do the rest.
Doesn't require participation from the opponent and doesn't have a time limit, perfect for the current state of the game.
Thoughts?
Well, I am not much of a toy collector but I am actually liking this idea. I know that one of my characters ended up with a bad build for two months only because I didn't want to reformat him and lose his alt mode. The only issue I see is the alt mode selections. About 90% of them don't jive with me. I actually started writing my back story for my characters and stopped after about 3 characters because the characters didn't match their end game alt modes. For example, Nyteshade is a female bot for me (in my twisted mind). Her alt mode matches her vanity and speed (Light vehicle - Attack Cycle) at the low level games, however keeping her with similar alt modes at high end to make her a strafer / avoid would force me to redo her alt mode to a fighter to keep her vehicle based and have her with a small yet sleek design. While looking over the many, many, many cons that defeat me on a regular basis I typically see the same alt modes and the same builds. I don't know how many of the alt mode characters vary from faction to faction, but I don't know if this would work. I know that doesn't make sense right now, but in my sleep deprived mind it does.
Let me know however which idea works the best for tournaments around here. I took a previous idea and have been running with it, developing a story line and an elaborate system of hunts and trials. My rules are not 100% set into stone and are about as properly defined as a two piece on Bea Arthur. If you want I can pm you tomorrow once I have fleshed it out tomorrow. Personally, I had another thought. Seeing as how BumbleVivesector was the only one to respond back with questions about the last tourney and seemed confused and set off by the rules I was actually thinking of creating two things. A hidden rewards system for one week and an Olympics style event the next. Again, I realize the time difference is an issue, however I wanted to work on the ideas before bringing them up.
For the hidden rewards system I was actually thinking of just posting a single Day tournament each day. The tournament would be based off of something simple and easy for me to post and monitor. For example, the person that I kill the most in battle wins and the person that kills me the most in battle wins. I post all my fight logs the next day and then talk with one of the cons that would help me run this week long event and have him/her mail this un suspecting person a set amount of energon (say 300-500). I then PM the person and explain that they pretty much hit a poor man's lotto and that if they come to the forums and check each day something similar will happen as we are running this event all week.
The following week after I had received enough players that I pm and sent energon rewards to attention I would run a faction tournament again and set it up Olympics style. Each day a faction can enter so many people in to run an event. For example one day might be the tough man style event. The person with the highest single non tactic damage wins but wins as a team. So if we accept 5 bots and 5 cons for that day's events and everyone posts their results, the next day we would tally up all of the damage results and the team with the most damage receives an award with the players receiving individual bonuses on top of that in regards to how much the contributed. The following day we could run it for tactic:avoid and proceed from there.
That way people aren't being forced into redoing their specs and they can participate in the events they feel that they will perform the strongest in. You see I think I went overboard with my original tournament still only because maybe some people may be lurking and read it, but though (No way I can ram 5x in a match... I am out of here).
Either way I am going to try to pass out for 30 minutes more then get ready for work. Let me know if any of this makes sense or sounds do able. I am willing to put the work in if you all think it would effective in any shape or manner.
