Knomder & Zeus

[Davis]

Originally posted by TheRedMonk
I get your point but the money\'s gotta go somewhere. We could give them a greater share but that would discourage people from betting...since the odds will be bad.

The house always wins. Casinos do make a profit, you know. What are your chances of winning in a five-person game of poker? One in five. But people do it.

[TheRedMonk]

I agree with you Davis, except for that one in five thing. A person that is active and watch a lot of fights get to know the skills of the fighter and has a greater chance of winning then a n00b to the sport.

And Tyriel, that\'s a good idea. We could make like a top ten list...what we would need is a place to show this list ingame...like a sign or something. Dunno how to fix that, any ideas are welcome!

Thanx guys for helping out!

[Caldazar]

Good luck with this guys, can\'t wait to kick Zeus ass

[TheRedMonk]

well actually...Im glad you said that Cal! Me and Zeus have plans of fighting as well...So any person who wants to challenge us may take his chance...or you can even watch me and Zeus fight eachother

[Ionas]

LOL how could ive missed that you\'re redmonk . Anyway im glad to see that you guys do what i wanted to stimulate people to do. Organizing duels. Quite a coincidence .

Here are some thoughts i have (as far as i  remember them).

1: Like someone pointed out fraud could be possible. Not by you guys (wouldn\'t dear to say that ), but by fighters and the betting crowd. Like in a box match a fighter could be payed to go down. How are you going to prevent such a sort of thing?

2: I assume fighters can bet just like the crowd can?

3: Are there going to be seperate categories? Like a general one, one in which a npc is fought, one for fighters only, one for magicians. Maybe a rookie, veteran, elite as well.

4: When are you going to hold the first contest? I think it would be great to have one when CB is just out. Perhaps as a celebration immediately at release or somewhat later to let people earn money experience and armor+weapons first. Come to think of it, at the beginning everyone is just as unexperienced and basic, so a newbie could easily kill someone like Draklar.

5: You seem to say that sometimes all fighters go the arena at the same time and fight each other till one remains. However how are you going to prevent foul play (first a group kills the other players). And this can be extended. Like having two groups duel each other. Or having fighters duel one on one, then let the remaining ones fight again one on one. Here who a player has to fight is based on chance or when two agree they want to fight.

6: The top ten list is a good idea, maybe ask the devs if they would be so polite to provide an ingame place to hang this. And maybe you could post the result on this forum.

7: In my topic, someone stated that the devs will organize competitions, not sure though if this is true. However also someone said that anyone wanting to fight can go to the arena and fight anyone who is there. So you should make it interesting enough for fighters.

8: Maybe you could make (if this is possible in CB) a ceremonial symbol for the victor ingame. Perhaps a weapon or armor or something usefull. Maybe this changes every contest.

Alright this is it for now, if any new thoughts come up ill post them too.

[Icefalcon]

Isn\'t this the AGES Guild\'s job? Or have they kinda died out, I haven\'t seen Deddarus in a while...

[TheRedMonk]

wow..thats a lot of questions...Ill do my best!

1, We are not going to prevent such a thing. Gambling is about risktaking. Sometimes people are paid to lose and there is nothing to do about it. Knomder & Zeus can assure you that we will never be behind such an act of cheating. If we find out that a fighter has been paid to he is banned from the pit (we decide for how long). We will also make sure that the \"crime\" is known to the public, so angry players can get their revenge.

2, Of course, the fighters are NOT allowed to bet in their own fight. Otherwise he could bet on the opponent and lose by purpose.

3, Anybody is allowed to fight anybody. If a person wants to fight in the pit it\'s his own decision, so a mage can never be forced to fight a fighter.
If a fighter comes up to us and tells us he wants to fight then we could try getting him an opponent that fits him. Thats the closest we will get to categories.

4,

5, The rules for \"Last Man Standing\" are simple. Lots of people are put in an arena where they fight until one person is left. If 10 guys decide to kill the others than so be it. Nothing stopped someone else from creating an army of 11. In the end there is only 1 winner, so if ten guys group up they will still have to share the prize.
We can hardly interfere in a fight and say \"HEY YOU THERE! ONLY ONE AT THE TIME ON ZEUS!\"

8, We will have some kind of token or symbol if possible, it all depends on CB.

And here are some new adds: If a player whiches to fight more than one opponent at the time we could fix that. There might be some veteran out there that believes that he can take on 3 noobs.

There will also be team battles which might be a lot of fun. This way friends can form a team of 2 or 3 members to fight another team.

And about AGES guild...if they have any complaints they should tell us.

[DepthBlade]

Yah AGEs Guild was designed for exactly this, and if Deddarus was around he would flip the lid on this! But I haven\'t seem in in ages(lol) so do what you wish for now...

EDIT: Well it looks like their site bit the dust, so I imagine it has fallen apart unless the site just got moved, who knows. I wonder where Deddarus went, nice guy if I\'ve ever met one!

[Caldazar]

Originally posted by DepthBlade
Yah AGEs Guild was designed for exactly this, and if Deddarus was around he would flip the lid on this! But I haven\'t seem in in ages(lol) so do what you wish for now...

EDIT: Well it looks like their site bit the dust, so I imagine it has fallen apart unless the site just got moved, who knows. I wonder where Deddarus went, nice guy if I\'ve ever met one!

Plus, it doesn\'t really matter wether there are two gaming-\"guilds\" or not, that\'s just good for the customer.

[windwalker]

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