Gambling City

[Kiva]

True true! If you have enough buildings, it\'ll become a city sooner or later. Anywho, about the duelling gambling thing, we allways have \"The Arena!\" Venge said so himself... And it\'ll -MAYBE- be used for tournaments and duels where you can put bets in or something, but mainly it\'s for people who just wants to do some PvP.

[Drilixer]

betting arena *drool* I\'ll be one of those guys that makes an arrangement with a friend who bets everything on a nOOb and then I A: take a dive or B: take a dive and buff the nOOb , then share in the profits of course

[Wedge]

Right, which is exactly why there won\'t be an NPC based betting system, it would have to all be handled by players so you can\'t make a bet like that unless someone is dumb enough to take it.  Meh on second thought that just leads to lots of deception that will lead to people getting ripped off.  Any formal bets should only be allowed to be made between the combatants.  Yeah that would be cool actually, if you could put up items or money on a fight with someone.

[Drilixer]

no - spectators should be able to officially bet as well, and if anything goes wrong someone could report it to a dev - like my buffing dive idea

Being able to race and bet on the races would also be a fun medieval pass-time that Planeshift could use

[Wedge]

Um, no.  They should not be able to bet, period.  It is waaaaay to easy to fix it, and I don\'t think the devs want to deal with a bunch of reports of people fixing bets.  That would be an absolutley horrible idea and a huge loophole for people to cheat, and the less oppurtunity there is for cheaters, the less there will be.  Outside betting could only be done on NPC based battles and races.

[Drilixer]

ah, but NPC battles are just boring... *oh oh waves hand franticly* maybe for outside betting, copies of the dualists\' characters could be sent into the ring to fight it out without their original owner\'s control... just good ole fashion artifical intelligence, haha

[Wedge]

Yeah auto-battles like in FF VI, that would be a fair way to match up characters with no cheating, maybe you would even be able to make a little pseudo-code strategy for your charcter to follow (when opponent does x respond with y, when health is low do x, etc.).

[Drilixer]

as long as it isn\'t a matter of coding I would be for that - afterall some character builds would be hard for a computer to understand and take advantage of in a duel... nonetheless It better be point and click so people like me can use it