So Henrik has already talked about this in some stream chats and hopefully, this is more realistic than the boats.
The arena was added in MO1 as well and honestly, the implementation wasn't great, clearly, there was a different idea behind the arena in MO1 but from what Henrik has been saying, it's hopefully going to be something more useful in this game. There are a few things I hope SV has down to get it right this time.
If you are to make a ranked ladder, make it equalized. Queuing for a "ranked" match in full tungsteel or oghmium is retarded. If anything, have one queue that is ranked where all gear is equalized whatever way it needs to be solved to account for armor weights, etc, and a separate queue where you can sign up for a full loot match.
Have a few different ladders, like 1v1, 3v3, and 5v5. Maybe even something bigger like 15v15 30v30 etc, with randomized teams. There should be options for randomized 5v5 and signing up with a team etc.
To actually have a successful arena system I think the signups should be possible from any town at some kind of big leaderboard. This way it would be something that would bring activity to the game and get ppl to log in without having to move halfway across the map, being red and all that stuff.
An arena system is a MAJOR piece of content and I know there are MANY people who would play the game solely for this if it was actually made right, kind of like WoW arena, etc. It's a lot of resources to get all features implemented but if it is actually made fleshed out like that, then it won't just be some dead random piece of content that nobody uses after a month.
The arena was added in MO1 as well and honestly, the implementation wasn't great, clearly, there was a different idea behind the arena in MO1 but from what Henrik has been saying, it's hopefully going to be something more useful in this game. There are a few things I hope SV has down to get it right this time.
If you are to make a ranked ladder, make it equalized. Queuing for a "ranked" match in full tungsteel or oghmium is retarded. If anything, have one queue that is ranked where all gear is equalized whatever way it needs to be solved to account for armor weights, etc, and a separate queue where you can sign up for a full loot match.
Have a few different ladders, like 1v1, 3v3, and 5v5. Maybe even something bigger like 15v15 30v30 etc, with randomized teams. There should be options for randomized 5v5 and signing up with a team etc.
To actually have a successful arena system I think the signups should be possible from any town at some kind of big leaderboard. This way it would be something that would bring activity to the game and get ppl to log in without having to move halfway across the map, being red and all that stuff.
An arena system is a MAJOR piece of content and I know there are MANY people who would play the game solely for this if it was actually made right, kind of like WoW arena, etc. It's a lot of resources to get all features implemented but if it is actually made fleshed out like that, then it won't just be some dead random piece of content that nobody uses after a month.
