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Random Arenas
Sooo, just like Hotjoin?
Its like Gw1’s Random arenas. Where you are forced into a team of 4 have to deal with it and can’t change sides and no auto balance (you are stuck with what you got but it was always even teams before you began)! If you don’t like it, you can’t leave as you will just get dishonor and by dishonor, banned from joining any matches for hours.
Random Arenas was eventually removed cause the red side always resigned (called red resigns days) cause they would get terrible teams and hated having to be forced to play with the bad players or get dishonor by logging out or leaving early.
Now after saying all this, I’m pretty sure this would be a bad idea.
Yumiko Emi Ishida 80 Ele, Hikari Kyoko Ishida 80 Guard TC-NA. Active RPer of NA megaserver.
Yeah, exactly. I’m not sure what the OP’s intentions were in making his post, but if it was due to the usual complaints about unbalanced teams, afk’ers, or “Autobalance Wars”, I think he would find that locking players into teams and the removal of autobalance wouldn’t change a thing. People can, and did, still ragequit all the time back during the days of Random Arenas; dishonor isn’t going to stop them, and you’ll still be stuck with a 4v5. (Even worse, because now that the teams are locked, there’s no chance of a 5th person now joining in and evening the odds.)
The matches would last for a few minutes and there would be just plain death matches in small groups with a simple objective – defeat the other team. Makes for quick simple scrimmages and practicing.
Another spvp gameplay type couldn’t hurt too much.
Ahh, right. So basically, you’d like to see a new PvP mode that involved more maps like Courtyard? I’d support that, yeah. Conquest is fun and all, but it does get a bit tedious capping/holding points all the time.
It’s not always a perfect situation but play another pvp gameplay style if random arenas isn’t your gameplay type.
For some it may just be death match practice that’s easy to get going.
GW1 didn’t remove random arenas.
A 5 to 50 player team death match may be good practice to help players practice setting up group configurations and builds to improve their wvw gameplay and in addition to capping/holding gameplay.
Yeah, exactly. I’m not sure what the OP’s intentions were in making his post, but if it was due to the usual complaints about unbalanced teams, afk’ers, or “Autobalance Wars”, I think he would find that locking players into teams and the removal of autobalance wouldn’t change a thing. People can, and did, still ragequit all the time back during the days of Random Arenas; dishonor isn’t going to stop them, and you’ll still be stuck with a 4v5. (Even worse, because now that the teams are locked, there’s no chance of a 5th person now joining in and evening the odds.)
Yeah as the winning side kept their team locked as well. Which is what happened when the team arenas before it also got removed.
The mode of random arenas usually starts like this:
*you enter lobby
*hit “enter battle” on the party formation window
*wait for the queue to set you up with your 4 player party and the opposing party
*let it all hang loose and fight till you drop.
*if you win you kept your team
*losing team was ejected and had to make a new one and start over from match 1 of 7 or w/e it was.
Problem with the team being kept was if one dced or left, you are now stuck with 3 until you lose.
And Zahld, I realize now it was Team Arenas that was removed in favor of Random Arenas, but the same problems persisted.
Yumiko Emi Ishida 80 Ele, Hikari Kyoko Ishida 80 Guard TC-NA. Active RPer of NA megaserver.
Problem with the team being kept was if one dced or left, you are now stuck with 3 until you lose.
That’s a part of the beast that is random arena.
It’s a quick team death match practice that isn’t perfect but if you get lucky, your random team may get through 15 or so matches.
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