Free Use Duel Arena

Im sure this has been suggested before, but I dont see what it would hurt to make the duel arenas free reg use. It would promote PVP some I would think.

Test server.

I personally think the idea of telling people to take their fighting off the server so they can save some regs is pretty damn silly.

It used to be free use but it was getting abused.

Let me guess, GM magery in the duel arena?

Yeah apparently Punt thinks this is common knowledge, not everyone is a sleuth lord though.

Think it was a guy named Barbarian and someone else, they GM'd magery in there.

Honestly, I had no idea it was ever free use. Apparently your detectiveness has been gmed, whereas my sleuthyness is only in the low 80s in skill level. I am ashamed.

It's not even remotely surprising someone abused it in some way though. Which is what I meant by my comment and one of the multitude of reasons why I say if you want free use pvp areas go play on test or play CTF.

I agree about test server.

I think 1v1 & 2v2 tournaments are in testing or near testing now. There should be an increase in duels when this comes out.

be nice for some free use regs in duel arena

agree

i could really care less about the regs myself, but I feel some newer people it could be an issue. Either way, if it was abused then I guess its done been tried.

but i mean honesty, if people jus reported people abusing it, i dont see the magery gains as that much of a problem

[REDACTED] guild was caught hosting training sessions in Moonglow in the brief time that it was Free Use.

That said, this was long before the arenas had the control interface. Perhaps it's time to revisit Free Use arenas so folks can get out there and hammer out as much practice as they can muster without the restocking. I know I could only handle about 15 minutes of Pax smashing my face in (ie: like 20 wins in that time frame) before I had to restock. lol

Considering you can't just idle in there and there's timers it would not only be a pain in the ass to abuse, it would be pretty obvious and players could easily intervene to fuck with anyone abusing it by killing them in the waiting areas.

Is there currently a duel arena on test with reagent stones and equipment chests?
Here's a zip file of nearly 40 template building macros I made specifically for test center:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qq7seqbsss2yh4o/TestCenterMacros.zip?dl=0

Yes there is a duel arena and equipment stones and whatnot on test

who wants to goto test tho forreal? and beside the hassle of switching to test, newer players don't know the information. I was just thinking making dueling and pvp more accessible to the newer crowd is more of a benefit than the chance of someone abusing the arena.

I mean, farming for the money to do magery would be easier IMO than making a macro to include joining the duel arena, and all that hassle.

Can the duel arena areas be set to allow zero skill gain whilst in them?

I don't see how they could be abused so long as you can't GM magery in em.

But I also don't know what kind of coding that would take or if it's possible to set skill gain restrictions based on game locations.

yeah im no coder either jupiter, but i do know that if we simply relyed on simple player intervention itd be more of a hassle to GM magery in there then itd be worth

Is scraping together 200 of each reagent really a problem for people?

I honestly thought this thread was a joke the first time I saw it.

How about this...

Give us a regular vendor and bank access there.

Are u guys really too cheap to pay 600 gold for a duel?

The region vendor(s) and bank access would be nice though..

I honestly don't think this thread has anything to do with saving gold. It has to do with saving time. If you can go duel repeatedly and no one has to sit there twiddling thumbs while others go restock, things can progress more smoothly.
Tournaments organized by players would also have a huge benefit from this because having to wait for a restock with 10+ people around is pretty lame.