Sunday, October 21, 2007

Runescape Clan Battle Arena Suggestion

Currently on RuneScape member worlds the wilderness is void of player versus player pking and mayhem. Jagex need to address this as many people do prefer to fight against other players but it is currently pointless due to the number of 1 itemers that swarm in and destroy any arranged battles.

One proposal is to have a Clan Battle Arena where a clan leader can challenge another clan leader and then agree set rules. The idea of a battle arena is not entirely new, however, Jagex have never really catered to clans and therefore this may only be a pipedream. Anyway, this is how I would like a clan battle arena to be implemented into RuneScape.

Location:
The battle arena would be located between the level 38 wilderness altar and the Forgotten Cemetary. Although this is a free to play area, the battle arena could possibly be made a member only feature - in effect, a player vs player minigame. It would not be a safe minigame and therefore items would be lost if pked.

Rules:
The rules would be agreed by the clan leaders - this would include options such as melee only, melee + binds, range only, mage only as well as flat arena, obstacles or mixed. Combat levels could also be set (making it possible for events such as only people between levels 100 - 110 could take part), as well as maximum number of people on both sides. It could be set to allow only people of a certain rank on the clan leaders clan chat channel - and lootshare would also be enabled.

However, lootshare would be different. Instead of how it currently works, all armour/weapons would automatically be looted and stored in a reward chest. At the end of the war, the victorious leader would be able to unlock the chest and then every member who had been involved in the battle would randomly get some loot that had been stored.

This would make wars more common on pay to play worlds as well as making it free from any outside interferance. This is something that I feel would not imbalance the p2p wilderness as it is already void of most wars as it stands.

Anyway, this is just a rough outline of how I would see a clan battle arena being implemented in the runescape wilderness and how it would help ensure more p2p wilderness wars and challenges. In addition, it would mean less loot lost to 1 itemers and the so called no-honour clans who have virtually made p2p wilderness pking pretty pointless.

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