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Orange Milk · Jan 28, 2008, 08:27 PM // 20:27

First off I understand that TA is not the focus PvP of this game, the high end GvG is, so I will include an idea for GvG as well.

One thing I like in the game is the announcement of HoH winners, it flashes on everyones screen, I would like to see more of this. It's already there in places when PvE max titles are achieved. The Chat would be like such:

for a Ranked GvG win:
"Seriously Wheres The Monkey[WHAT] has just won a top rated GvG battle"
this message would apear all over when a guild wins a match vs a top 100 guild during a rated match. For that matter I would like to see an IG announcement as to the monthy AT winner.

For TA I was thinking an announcement at certain streaks, like say 15 wins, I 'm thinking 15 wins for two reasons 1) RA can win 10 easy and they do not deserve an announcement for this, but get to TA and win 5 more, get your name in lights, may prevent some "gg guys good run" *poof* from half a victorious RA team. AS for 15 in TA, 10 happens, 15 is anchievement. Now add in a chat popup for like 30 consec then 40 and 50 and so on. The "banner add" in chat would have to go hand in hand with Idea #2

"Seriously Wheres The Monky[WHAT] has just achieved 15 conscutive victories in Team Areans"

OR

"Drop The Soap Plz's Team has just achieved 15 consecutive victories in Team Areans"

For those banner adds we would need idea #2 inplemented aswell. This idea would be like the team intro in HA and GvG, your guild name and rank/rating. If you have 3-4 people from you guild, it shows your guild name, if your a Pug its the name of whomever is in the #1 spot, like in HA. You know, the black box at the start of the match those things. I mean come on, it's the only areana thats not random at all that doesn't do this, HB, HA and GvG all do.

These ideas would promote both forms of PvP to the public. Let folks know whats going on in PvP land. The Intro banner for the two teams facing off in TA allows people to be a bit more noticed in TA, there is a small community of people who know or know about one another, but thats it, it would nice to get a little more familurarity and a little more recognition in that arena. It's impressive to see a team over and over on the HoH winner announcement, It would be nice to see one for streaks and big GvG wins.

Thats all I got, maybe this post needs to go in the general Gladiators arena thread area though, I dunno, I'm just wasting time at work.

Thoughts?

Wyat Hawke · Jan 28, 2008, 08:51 PM // 20:51

Don't you think we already have enough spam in the chat box?

zwitterion · Jan 28, 2008, 09:02 PM // 21:02

No i agree. Honestly I would care so much more that someone is rocking TA than that "X Shadow Dragon X" or whatever has finally farmed enough LB to get a tooltip

edit: If there is an X Shadow Dragon X out there, nothing personal. Your name is awesome don't worry.

pygar · Jan 28, 2008, 09:10 PM // 21:10

I would be way more interested to hear about teams' win streaks, as opposed to the game telling me when people who I dont know get a skill point. (I mean srsly, a skill point? How chump change is that for an accomplishment?)

I like the idea...../signed, especially if they replace skill point notice spam with your idea instead. Like I'm going to see somebody in a town and go "Hey, you're ____________- I saw in my random chat that you earned a skill point earlier, congrats!"

RhanoctJocosa · Jan 28, 2008, 09:37 PM // 21:37

No. If you want to improve TA there needs to be a ladder of some sort.

Billeh · Jan 28, 2008, 09:39 PM // 21:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wyat Hawke

Don't you think we already have enough spam in the chat box?

As Much as I love spam...

itsvictor · Jan 28, 2008, 10:02 PM // 22:02

More like 20 wins for TA and the GvG wins don't sound too bad

credit · Jan 28, 2008, 10:19 PM // 22:19

I don't know, maybe if you have the choice to turn off or disable specific messages. Like show the HoH and GvG but not TA messages, etc.

Sun Fired Blank · Jan 28, 2008, 11:14 PM // 23:14

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No. If you want to improve TA there needs to be a ladder of some sort.

TA's not worth a ladder right now. As much as I love the format, I'd say it's pretty broken right now. In my head, you'd have to change about twenty skills before it would be a format worth that sort of attention. Then again, you make cash rewards for HB, so what do I know? If you really want to improve TA, get rid of the crap that's not only abused in TA, but in other formats as well, then we can move onto talking about bigger and better things like a ladder.

RhanoctJocosa · Jan 29, 2008, 08:44 AM // 08:44

Oh, my bad, I wasn't clear on what I meant. To make it more appealing to newer players, or even current players, there needs to be a ladder. To make it a better and more skill rewarding place, and thus more appealing, however, there need to be major skill balances. When TA is how it used to be I'd say implementing a ladder would be an excellent idea. Unfortunately, skill balances are rare and when they do come they consist of 2-3 skill changes that matter, and of those 2-3 about 1 of them is a change that's good for the game.

I also think only HoH victories should be flashed across the screens simply because it's always been like that. The removing of favour from HoH wins and the adding of PvE titles being flashed has removed a lot of prestige from winning HoH, and that's less epeen.

damocles · Jan 29, 2008, 08:46 AM // 08:46

I don't think such a message will improve TA, neither will a banner add.

xx hells paladin xx · Jan 29, 2008, 12:56 PM // 12:56

I realy like the idea of a TA ladder if hero battles gets a ladder then so should TA.

yum · Jan 29, 2008, 01:28 PM // 13:28

Ladder + some kind of guild rating (not the normal one).

Orange Milk · Jan 29, 2008, 03:34 PM // 15:34

Yes a Ladder would be great, but thats not the topic of this thread. Please stay on topic.

Look what happned this weekend, Mistral Edge won the MaT for January, would'nt it have been to see that displayed IG?

"Mistral Edge has won the Monthy Automated GvG Tournament for January"

Having that pop up and scroll by would be nice, just like the HoH winner annoncement. I mean this game IS Guild Wars after all, and thats what GvG is. The average player has A) no idea the MaT is even going on B) Any idea what GvG is.

Newer people see the HoH anouncement and say "How do I get to do that?" With brief chat announcements about GvG and TA it could/should bring more attention to those forms of PvP and inform the GW comunity of whats currently going on there. It only makes sense. Great accomplishments need know even if its just in the PvP areas and GH where the chat pops up, kinda like the way the PvE title only show up in certain places.

Also if you want a Ladder, then Idea #2 has to be implemented, the Team banner at the start of a match to show a Guilds rank/rating in TA

Killed u man · Jan 29, 2008, 08:29 PM // 20:29

This is what they should have done in the first place. But no, we ALL know which gimmick form of PvP got the Ladder + AT's. Ye, HB.

I don't understand, WHY did they give all that crap to a form of PvP which is based on abusing bad hero AI?

TA was the one who deserved this privelege, not HB...

So yeah, Imo, just give people a reason to TA. Mayby add HoH system to TA, winner every 10 cons gets free item + faction boost. Or something like it (We don't want to promote hyper-defensive builds ^^)