Would you be interested in these proposed changes to the Forsaken Arena?
The Concept:
We are thinking about making Forsaken Arena (not the FAT) absolutely free and giving players an easy way to find and enjoy watching highly skilled players in FvF matches.
Key Points:
- Forsaken Arena will be free-to-play. No uranium required and repairs will be not be necessary.
- Through a new filter in the Locator, you will be able to find and view live FvF matches between the highest-level players.
- There will be slots up to 10 viewers allowed per battle to make viewing easier and more engaging.
- With the Arena being absolutely free of any costs and repairs, there will be no VXP rewarded for these battles.
How do you rate this concept? Vote below! Please feel free to leave your thoughts on your vote in the comments.
We are thinking about making Forsaken Arena (not the FAT) absolutely free and giving players an easy way to find and enjoy watching highly skilled players in FvF matches.
Key Points:
- Forsaken Arena will be free-to-play. No uranium required and repairs will be not be necessary.
- Through a new filter in the Locator, you will be able to find and view live FvF matches between the highest-level players.
- There will be slots up to 10 viewers allowed per battle to make viewing easier and more engaging.
- With the Arena being absolutely free of any costs and repairs, there will be no VXP rewarded for these battles.
How do you rate this concept? Vote below! Please feel free to leave your thoughts on your vote in the comments.
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Would you be interested in these proposed changes to the Forsaken Arena? 1439 votes
I like it!
64%
926 votes
I'm neutral about this
18%
267 votes
No, thanks.
17%
246 votes
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Forget this - you're not talking about the tournament.
I still like the changes to regular Arena though
Battles can be over pretty quickly, I would consider adding a timer before the battle, say 3 minutes, and bumping the players who can view the battle, up to say 50.
One of the things that brought in a lot of players back in the day was PvP with ships. That has declined a LOT with the repair times going up. This would literally be just for fun. Something that Kixeye hasnt done for awhile. As long as there is no cost this could be a hit.
Love this idea
I like the idea that the sellingpoint is that it is free too, but you know how it is Doom. Things don't normally play out as good as they sound.
If you're trying to make arena more playable, it's really the queuing that needs a revamp, though- if I could sit in the queue and know I had more than 20 seconds to finish my current battle, i'd spend a lot more play time in the queue- right now, odds are the battle will be over by the time I get to it, so in turn, I don't queue much, because I basically have to sit in my base waiting for a match. Maybe up the start wait time to 1-2 minutes?
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There's nothing wrong with the changes per se but there's other areas that require wayyyy more attention a hell of a lot sooner than the regular arena (especially if any incentives to play said arena are going with these changes)
Focus on the stuff that you (Kixeye) said you were going to address (build times, repair times, trust, quality control and communication) and leave the fluff until after you've addressed the major issues that are making players laeve the game.
You can reduce Dock repair time to 1 hour, that will reduce one of the main pain point via a simple solution for all. Simplicity, means we get less bugs, by adding complexity, we get tons of problems.
Rockets (from base) just sucks the fun out of it.
Load up the sandbox with every ship, and every special/gun/armor currently out.. AND WOW you guys just created the test environment for fleets that everyone have been asking for.. Let us test our ships before we build em. Only thing that would be better is if we could somehow have bases to hit and test on.
IF this is our own fleets. meh wouldn't much care for it cept as a time killer.
BUT most important of everything.. I want build times and repairs seriously addressed before you start on other bull crap like this.
sweet as, gonna lov using my oldschool fleets 4 a laugh.
pvp with no repair, what more can u ask 4. stop **** about repair times on every discus pls
Nearly everytime we want something improved; Kix has to throw a coingrab into it. ( rogue crew changes, FM changes, Dredge fleet changes, R&D);
so whats the catch?
{With Kixeye's track record of offer with one hand and take massively with the other; I am not yet ready to believe that the changes to the Forsaken Arena are being done for the good of the game and not have some hidden coingrab attached to it. So hopefully they prove me wrong. Time will tell. }
Tho i understand the desire for kix to revamp an almost abandon content in the game (let's be honest very few do arena anymore), the center problem would not be solved with those changes, hnce why i voted neutral on this.
The main problem with the Arena (just like the FAT in the end) is that its imbalanced and offer little to no enticement to participate, other then practice/test with your flt for free. It a nice option and doin somethin for free aint bad, but without any rewards(even little ones), there will be no point in it and very few will participate in it.
Viewing others battle is nice if your waiting o nreapirs or are bored not knowing what to do in between downtimes.
But i highly recommend some rewards (nothin fancy) be added to it.
Here is an example:
1-Uranium payout( doesnt have to be a huge amount= 500U for example) for winning x number of fight
2-Daily Crews
3-Regular VXP to your flts like any other fights
4-Older (non available random blueprint) for winning x number of fights - Many blue print that many may wan in there collection who have been mottballed could be put there. (Vulture turret as an example)
Without a minimal payout for your time spent, most will skip it since they ll know they only be facing top end flt in it.