The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **Jeep?** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:57 am

Psychout wrote:
Burn wrote:a lot of people want variety in the game.
Problem is, I fail to understand how the arena is 'variety'.

It may have a different name and have a different link, but you activate, arm and deploy your minion in exactly the same way as the misisons, payouts are calculated in exactly the same way and any alts and tactics used are all exactly the same.
Even the score page at the end is almost identical.

If Mkall and Caelus added in one on one missions into the mix, how would they be any different to the arena? At least then you could pick your opponent.

The only 'variety' I can see is that you can be 100% certain you will only face 1 opponent at a time as opposed to the missions where its currently only a 50/50 chance.

Dont get me wrong, im not pissing on any bonfires here, nor do I expect to be listened to, I just cannot comprehend why the arena should be regarded important to this game at any level as it currently stands.

The arena also hampers variety in set-ups, as ram is stupidely powerful one-on-one, while repair does absolutey nothing.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:00 pm

Challenge pit FTW!

Like Me, Grimlock! on Facebook · by **Me, Grimlock!** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:57 am

Phew. Finally finished reading this. I voted to keep the arena, mostly for the reasons Burn stated about not getting enough XP in missions and for quick deployment (I have a baby, and when that baby's hungry, she's hungry!).

Anyway, what would make the missions a little quicker is, in the Join Missions page, a tiny box that says how many of each level is in each mission, like 3: 1, 4: 2, 8: 3, etc, or an image with that data in the alt tag. That way, we could evaluate each mission without clicking on a link, checking it out, and then going back (at which point we've lost all our choices already). Or at least a link that opens a pop-up instead of going forward. (I know we can't really implement any new stuff in HMW, but this last one is really easy, though I know not everyone has pop-ups enabled.)

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:30 pm

Me, Grimlock! wrote:Or at least a link that opens a pop-up instead of going forward. (I know we can't really implement any new stuff in HMW, but this last one is really easy, though I know not everyone has pop-ups enabled.)

This is where Firefox and it's browser tabs (I know IE has them but I find they load slower) comes in handy.

by **Malicron** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:54 pm

I must ask, is this thread really going anywhere? The nays have been in a very comfortable lead for quite some time now.
I think Seibertron has spoken, shut down the arena already.

News Credits: 2 · by **-Soundwave-** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:05 pm

Just because the people have voted doesn't mean its the right think to do. What if you lost your net and could only play on a cell phone and the arena was the only option it allowed?

Would you want this vote to take a way your playing?