Something that I think I would enjoy.....Being able to compete against other teams while doing a TF or Trial for fastest time to compete a Trial or TF. Maybe there could be scheduled events and entry fees costing in game currency to compete. Run a competition for a limited time to allow people to plan for the event and offer rewards for 1st thru 5th place or some such. Maybe even have a way for others to bet on the event with In game currency. There should be a list of registered teams with a cutoff for registration before the actual event takes place. Or some way to be able to compete directly against other teams.....just thinking out loud here.
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Does server latency or individual player bandwidth or upload/dowload rates affect that in meaningful ways?
Also, I could see making some sort of points system where it's not strictly fastest run through the end of the TF. Maybe you track total defeats earned and defeats sustained by the team or something.
I'm not sure anyone would pay real money for that unless you had either A) real prizes (T shirts, mousepads, etc) or B) really good reward drops.
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We won't know until we get our hands on the game.
Seriously, we won't know how good or bad the game is at high/low/unstable latencies before hand.
Upload/download rate *shouldn't* be a problem. If it is going to be a problem, then the person would have issues playing that content normally.
Why limit the competition to the here and now? All you really need is a leaderboard system. Top Times for such-and-such TF, and maybe have a victory point system so you can have top scores, too. (Sure, team A was fast, but team B found all the glowies and did all the optional stuff!) Have the leaderboards span different time periods: this week, this month, this quarter, this year, and ever.
And you know what would be really crazy? Replays of the top runs. Watch the exciting parts of each TF from their eyes!
And then we could put in a thing to let you annotate the replays with popup word balloons, that you can vote up or down like Reddit... [i]* blows fuse[/i]
As for betting, I doubt that would take off. Much moire fun to do it than to bet on it.
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Oh you mean just like the City Info Terminals that used to track the number of kills in a zone/how much healing/damage etc done over a period of time in the zone/in the game...
Which were then turned off for one reason or another.
Would be a good idea to take from CoX. And other games DO do the "leaderboards" style for fastest runs/most points scored etc.
I can see how it works, and it wouldn't be *essential* to the game, just something "nice" to allow.
Hell, you could even have it so that the "points mean ingame prizes".
Wildstar does this with their dungeons and adventures, where the faster/more you complete of the dungeon the more points you get. And how many points you get dictate if you get gold/silver/bronze for it.
And you don't even need to do *everything* to get gold. You don't have to kill everything[1]. Just the vast majority of stuff... and if you skip a "big points objective" then you will have to make up those points elsewhere.
[1] It is also worth noting that the Gold/Silver/Bronze just awards you with "MORE" loot, and not *exclusive* loot. You will always get a chance of getting the "best" drop from the dungeon even if you get bronze. You just get *more* shots at it with a gold completion.
What if there were things, not like Badges, but more like Trophies whereby when you record the fastest run through a given Tf, you get the Trophy, and then when someone else beats your time they take it away from you. I think this has been suggested before by other people.
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transferring prize....interestin. although, I suspect that such items would only move around amongst a small group of folks and would also promote the idea of "must have X in the group" which isn't a good thing. assuming it was implemented, it should not have any value beyond "bragging right" don't associate any sort of ingame gain to it.....otherwise I like the idea.
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If something is transferable between players/groups of players like this, then I agree. It would just be a "bragging right" award.
I think someone somewhere suggested in another thread that this could be a thing for SGs . Like you have various items that can be placed in your SG base, including a Trophy Case, and when your SG does the fastest run through a TF, you get the trophy in your trophy case. I forget who originally suggested that, and where, but this wasn't originally my idea.
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