A Monster Arena

[Drilixer]

One thing which I have come across in a couple games (such as Neverwinter Night Mods and several Final Fantasys) that is always alot of fun is a monster arena.  The basic premesis is an enclosed area (usually with a spectator area) that contains some sort of merchant that activates monster spawning within for a price.  Easier Monsters would cost less to summon, whereas the larger monsters would cost more and might even need to be unlocked somehow via quests.  To keep the system from being ruthlessly exploited by powergamers (myself included) either the amount of money required to summon the monsters could be extremely large to offset rare item drops or the chance for item drops could be turned down.  Item drops and xp gains from these monsters should remain significant though (to some extent) or the system wont be worth using for most people.

I know there is a way to go before this could be implemented.  But, since I like what I\'ve seen so far I decided that I might as well post this.

[en3r0]

sounds alright, but some of the details might need to be changed...

perhaps people could be paid to go out and capture monsters for the arena... could in 1 arena turn it into a collisium like in the roman days. put the theives or ppl (who pk with in the city) to battle it out.

im curious if you will be able to taim every monster you come across...

God Bless,
-en3r0

[Drilixer]

since there is gong to be a taiming skill that is viable - people could capture monsters and then bring them back to unlock them

The reasdon I designed it the original way was just for ease of programming

[roguewolftamer]

good ideas, the capturing idea im guessing came from FFX, sounds good, but with capturing, u urself will have to capture it before u can battle it out, otherwhys u can just keep fighting till someone brings one in, then u would be able to fight that without actually having to have adventured anywhere, and it would be nice to have a team battle in the arena where a party can kill 1 special monster that can only be found in the arena and has to be unlocked by maybe a certain number of monsters captured by u, or certain number of quests, something unique so that a rare drop can be made that will drop something very good (very strong armor with a beneficial spell, or the same with a weapon, or maybe a special item that will allow for a certain thing to happend, such as an epic quest or such)