I would remove the part where you bump people off the map and keep it to bumping them into various traps and what not, otherwise people would gang up on free for all matches without anyone else knowing or everyone would be running away from each other the whole time. In fact, it should probably be teams only so people can do something other than run around forever until everyone else logs out.

It looks like there are no weapons in this minigame, but shields could use your actual shield for defenses and health. However, every time someone successfully shield bumps someone else their own shield takes some damage. People can also use their shield to defend against field obstacles and what not seeing as players would have no means to attack each other. You would have to choose between bumping someone into a spike pit or defending yourself from a Trojan smash.

Trinkets would also be disabled to prevent the obvious. Health can also be based on normal health, meaning Ancient Plate can be useful; except for its movement speed loss.

Those are great concept images. The Trojan map reinforces the idea of Trojans being guards, giving the people bumping each other around in the danger zone. For the Snarbolax map, seeing as each of the four directions has three tunnels, they could coordinate to charge from the same tunnel if they were all facing the same direction. If the left tunnel on the north wall charges so would the bottom tunnel of the west wall, the right tunnel on the south wall, and the top tunnel on the east wall; it would be a coordinated dash. For the gremlin map there should be more traps involved. Mortafire rockets are not famous for covering a massive area, though Roarmulus/battlepod rockets can help there. Maybe some thin laser bunkers with togglable switches around the map. The battlepod map image shows two bullet waves going in opposite directions, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise. How would people survive that? Shield when they get trapped? If they go the same direction, everyone would have to walk around all the time and have more opportunities to bump.

To keep things interesting this minigame could use some upgrades:

• Shield bump modifier
  • If we go by teams, each team would have their own color; whatever that color is, it would be suited to the shield icon under the two team colors; for example, red or blue. Say you are on red team. If you pick up a red shield bump modifier, your entire team gets +10% shield bumping force for sixty seconds. If you pick up a blue shield bump modifier, the enemy team color, the enemy team loses 10% shield bumping force for sixty seconds. Since this is a team upgrade anyone on a team can pick it up and either their whole team or the entire enemy team is affected. Teamwork, baby.
• Shield bump resistance
  • Going by teams again, since this section is for team upgrades, this upgrade works the same as above; but instead of modifying shield bumping ability, it gives your team 10% resistance to shield bumping. Unlike the above upgrade, there is no negative version to mess with the enemy team. Instead of a team colored upgrade its icon would be a gray tower/rectangular shield icon. This upgrade also lasts sixty seconds.
• Defense/Resistance upgrades
  • Damage defense upgrades give three bars of defense, status resistance upgrades give five bars of resistance. This upgrade applies to your whole team, meaning if one member picks it up everyone gets the bonus, but only one defense and resistance upgrade may be active at a time; this upgrade lasts sixty seconds each. There are no normal defense or curse resistance upgrades. If your team already has both a damage defense and status resistance upgrade active, but you pick up another defense/resistance upgrade anyway, it will be added to your party cache and activate in chronological order of being picked up. Say you have a pierce and fire upgrade active right now, then you go out and pick up a shadow, element, and shock upgrade in that order. When your pierce upgrade times out the shadow upgrade activates. When the fire upgrade times out the shock upgrade activates. Then your shadow and shock upgrades both run out, activating the element one, but since you have no status upgrade waiting none will be activated until someone picks one up.
• Movement speed upgrade
  • Increases movement speed by 10% for your whole team. Derp. This upgrade is the rarest among these upgrades, not appearing often on the map, and only stacks up to +50% movement speed and only lasts sixty seconds just like the other upgrades.

Yes, these are all team upgrades. Otherwise people like me would steal all the upgrades and derp around to mess with the game.

Did you read it? Cause it doesn't seem you did. This is not bumper cars, you are weaponless in a trap-infested arena and trying to use your shield and the environment to kill your opponents while staying alive yourself. Even if he's using that one grammar issue doesn't mean you can't read it; it's a pretty good idea.

Yeah, we don't agree on much, not really sure why :/

At least we can agree that changing the RSS was stupid.

Love the idea!

+1, Awesome concept, awesome artwork. About the map "You're Fired," the Mortafires might not provide enough of a hazard, seeing as their rate of fire and area of effect are rather low. Maybe there could also be some rocket or fire launchers?

Could I get some clarification on the shield meter mechanics? Can you just hold your shield up, and deplete the meter when you hit/bump something? Or does it just come up for a split second, after which you need to wait to bring it back up? If it's the latter, that might be a problem due to connection issues.

Could I also get some clarification on the single weapon? Do you get to chose your own weapon, or is it an assigned weapon? I assume attacking another player with your weapon would either drain their shield meter or deal some damage.

As for an idea of my own, maybe there could be a Candlestick Keep themed area. It would have four Grimalkins and no candles. Maybe some floor traps scattered around too.

I'm not too sure about the unicorn helm and rainbow aura.

@oat
by "single weapon" he refers to your shield.
also, you stole my idea about candlestick ;)
Our current thinking for the shield meter is that it expires as you damage it, and you lose some every time you raise it. This is to prevent players from raising and lowering their shields infinitely fast, preventing anyone from approaching.

@benightz
thanks for giving this a second look

I like this.

I think a Grimalkin CK level would be fun, although I tend to run through CKs even in T1.

I think it could be better, if there were Candles in the level which light randomly and unlight randomly.

Or Candles that light for a short time, but you can light em by shielding into them.
They could easily make the snarbolax stun and damage you, And 8 Mortafires will do. They fire slow.

I think nothing you have with you can come into play, like BN.

I will like this. I know I will.

Typo. Addisond*

Oat is correct, my main is addisona (we're in ITJ together). And I was kidding, no need to apologize.

Ok thanks for the clarification.

I approve that this idea will go well

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Benightz, owner of the company BRZ

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I approve of this it sounds fun, won't be unbalanced. I do have a few questions:

1. With the trojans playground would the trojans be attacking people? or would they just be running around?

2. Would sheilds always be up or would it be manualy holding "X" or whatever button the knight uses for sheilding.

This is a really good idea! I would really enjoy playing this PVP mode, sounds like lots of fun. I can already sense the fun thrill and panic that would emerge from this PVP mode when pitted against other players while at the same time being cautious not to run into hazards and monsters hitting you. Chaotic fun!

I agree with most of the things that have been said in this thread. Though I'm unsure with the powerups. There are already several players, monsters and hazards in the map. It might get to be a bit too complex with different kinds of powerups. Might be better to leave it at first and maybe add it later if it would be needed. Enemies dropping health sounds good and simple. But I do also see the potential of having powerups in the game and making things even more interesting.

Bash the thing you said about people not falling off the map and hiding in corners. It is prevented with having shock or whatever in the corner around the maps so they can't hide. It would also work if the map didn't have walls around. They could fall down or get shieldbumped out, no hiding with that method either. This would add another way for a person to get killed and make the game more interesting. Carelessly going around the map near the edge? Let me shield bump you out! So there would be one hit KO (which would be person falling or getting shieldbumped out) or getting either shieldbumped into hazards, getting hit by monsters which would drain their health.

The map pictures you've made look really fun : ) Would be the perfect kind of maps for this game mode.

On the other smaller things: A Krogmo coin prizewheel would be really good. Players that haven't gotten some of the rare bombhead masks would have a better and another way of getting it. The krogmo coins would get more use too since many players just rack them up. This would be a more reliable way to get it if you insert coins, and the more you insert the % chance gets a bit higher.

Increasing rare loot chance or adding a bit more wouldn't hurt, I agree. It would make the tip at the loading screen feel more true too (the one about rare monsters offering rare loot).

And permanent trojan disguise and love puppy costume is something I would also like to see.

Great post bash! : ) And nice to see a lot of positive response and more suggestions to the mode.

YOU NASTY NECROMANCERS!

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there should be one with the roarmulus twins firing rockets at you

I don't know why no body has already suggested it

Awesome idea. This would be a great part of the coliseum. It really does need mor games and stuff.
I hope GMs read this thread.
Yusshh!!