Curse

Zardaeleon · Aug 13, 2007, 05:22 AM // 05:22

Even with no minis, some of us do it just to win and just for that pride. Adding minis to it would make it more interesting even outside of that and get people involved in the beetle racing. It would be nice to be recognized for playing and winning regardless. Especially recognized for something that takes work and good playing. Top 100 wins as a track would do that for the racing, and make people want to compete in it to win...not just pray for a good time run and /resign in order to make top 100 fastest times.

Don't make any mistakes, beetle racing is one of my favorite things evar. I love it. I just want to see a few changes to it to make it more enjoyable and more rewarding.

roflcopter ownage · Feb 08, 2008, 12:50 AM // 00:50

Its not just about luck to get on top. You obviously are not doing somethign that the top players do, because if you did, you would have high scores by now. I did not get 20 high scores based on just luck. In order to get on the high scores, you first have to know how, then its up to luck. If it was luck, then i would not be able to beat soemone who got echo and super 15 seconds before me. And btw, you can't get mini rollers anymore unfortunantely, ive been on the high scores for the last 2 events and they never gave them. If only i had been as good during the tiem they did... Its all about pride for me now. Being #1 at soemthing is pretty awsome

Thargor · Feb 08, 2008, 02:36 AM // 02:36

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Originally Posted by roflcopter ownage

Being #1 at soemthing is pretty awsome

Congratulations! You are number 1 at thread necromancy for the day!!!!

Seriously this was 6 months old, was there really any point in ressurecting this just so you could brag about how good you are?

credit · Feb 08, 2008, 02:37 AM // 02:37

Epic rez, I approve.

roflcopter ownage · Feb 08, 2008, 03:50 AM // 03:50

oh wow, i did not notice how old this was lol

Kanyatta · Feb 08, 2008, 04:05 AM // 04:05

Basically, your e-peen isn't as big as you'd like it to be, so you want to be t3h h0ts3X at rollerbeetle racing so you can brag to your guildies.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is, play sports or something.

therangereminem · Feb 08, 2008, 04:15 AM // 04:15

lol and the one thign is the rp of this thread got his wish no box camping lol and now 100 more mii willbe given lets see if the scores can get back to where they where lol not

Phoenix Tears · Feb 08, 2008, 11:38 AM // 11:38

I wish too, that the concept of RBR's would be changed and tweaked a bit. The Concept of RBR's could be alot better at all, its even one of the less minigames, that has so miuch good potential, to become a perma playable minigame, with that Anet could do also Tournaments, if they would just improve here and there some things, which would make RBR'S a good pvp playable minigame.

First thing would be, as already suggested... give us alot more Race Tracks
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...35&postcount=7

Increase the Number from 1 to 18 and place the Tracks somewhere all over the Worlds of Tyria, so that on all Continents are some Race Tracks to give us enough Tracks for a PvP Rollerbeetle Championship Tournament ala Formula 1

Then give us an other Skill Set and a new Race System, because the existing one is way too much based on Luck and lets people only Box camp, and Box Camping was sure not the sense of making a racing. Box Camping is CHEAP and anyone, who does this, is a cheap looser. At least I personally can only accept the racing skills of somebody, who wins without box camping.

This are the momentanous 8 Skills with their Effects: (bold = core)

1. Rollerbeetle Dash: Extreme speedboost.
2. Harden Shell: Speedboost and defense against knockdown.
3. Ram: Touch, which knocks down both the player and an opponent.
4. Distracting Lunge: Touch, temporarily disables all of opponents skills.
5. Spit Rocks: Projectile knockdown.
6. Rollerbeetle Echo: Echo skill, similar to Echo.
7. Rollerbeetle Blast: Knock down opponent.
8. Super Rollerbeetle: Extreme speedboost and defense against knockdown.

Change it to this:

All 8 Skills will be core and can be used, whenever the player wants to, but Skills will cost either Adrenaline (gained through a certain time of rolling) or Energy, there will be NO boxes anymore.

Beetle Stats:

HP: 500 Energy 50, Energy Reg: 4
When a Beetle reaches 0 HP, the Beetle will stop rolling for 5 seconds cause of massive Exhaustion (Energy will drop to 0 too, after 5 seconds, HP and Energy will be full again and player can roll further, while in this state, beetle the beetle can't be attacked/targeted)

Races will consist of 10 Beetles, instead of 6 and races will last in regard of the length of the track by 2-5 ROUNDS!!!

The 8 new Skills will be following:

1. Turbo Drive - 10E, CT 1/4S, RT 20s
You will become for the next 10 seconds 25% faster

2. Granite Armor - 15E, CT 2, RT 20s
Your Armor of your beetle will become as strong as granite, and the next 3 Attack Skills to you will deal to you only half damage.

3. Whirling Claws - 5A
Usable, while under Turbo Drive. if you attack with this someone, who rolls slower, than you, you will deal 50 Damage and your target will start Bleeding for 5 seconds

4. Mud Missiles - 25E, CT 2, RT 15
You will shoot at your target 3 Projectiles will will deal 33 Damage per Projektile and will slow down your target by 25% for 10 Seconds. Mud Missiles will cause Exhaustion

5. Hot Chitin - 5E, CT1, RT 15
For the next 5 seconds you will forget all your pain and the cheers of your fans will give you for this duration a Life Regeneration of + 10 and you will receive for these 5 seconds double adrenaline, while rolling. When Hot Chitin ends, you will receive a Heal of 25 Hp per second Hot Chitin was active..

6. Kamikaze Tackle - -15%HP, 7A
You will sacrifice 15% Max HP for this Attack and tackle all adjacent beetles around you with a whirling tackle for 75 Damage. This Attack will interrupt your foes.

7. Painful Scream - 6A
If you suffer on Bleeding, you will scream out of pain very loadly..so loud, that if will delete any Enchants on nearby foes, like Hot Chitin. Also it disables for affected foes the Hot Chitin Skill for the next 10 seconds (they won't hear anymore their cheers of fans XD, so loud will it be)

8. Will of a Champion - 15E - CT 1/4s, RT 20
For the next 10 seconds your beetle will receive while rolling 2 Energy per Second

That would be 8 Skills, which would require from the Player real Player Skills and not just only LUCK and Box Camping -.- what has nothing to do with racing anymore in any way. However, these are only Concept Skills of mine, maybe they could need a little tweak, cause of being a bit unbalanced, but I did my best to try to make the 8 Skills as balanced as i coukld think of and also, I thought of Skills, which would make as Build surely much fun. Also the fact, that the player has to use Adrenaline/energy for usage of skills will make a difference...with races lasting more than 1 round, this will be sure fun.
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Race Track Additions:

Instead of Boxes, which would be placed on the races track - each own of the 18 tracks should have their own hidden "Hyper Speed Stripes"...
Stripes on the ground, which will boost your beetle forward by a speed bonus of 100% for some seconds.

This will ensure, that only the really skilled players will be good, because only the skilled ones, will know then, where those Hyper Speed Stripes are hidden and will use them for advantage. Also, its impossible to abuse those Stripes, like Box Camping, because its senseless to return to the stripes, once they boosted you forward XD.

Next:

Also some traps on the race tracks would be nice, some which might knock you down, or poison you ect. these thigns will give bettle races more action then and players will have to take care also then more, where they roll. also it will give beetle racign more action ^^ and some good laughs, when you see someone rolling right next to you into a trap and seeing, that your foe became knocked down XD *g*.

Those traps can be then from race track to race track from those 18 totally different tracks different environmental traps or so.

When we race at a track for example, which I named "Highway to Hell" *g* - ya, we all know this Song XD, then we can surely expect there much fire environmental traps, which will cause burning ^^

Such a nice big concept change of RBR would be imo fantastic...for the love of this Game, I even would instantly buy me this also as "Mini Add On", when we would be just able to buy Rollerbeetle racing as Perma playable PvE/PvP Minigame, with my suggested 18 Race tracks and this concept or a similar by Anet tweaked version of my concept here XD