Is it possible to mod the arena challenge out?

iceboy · #1 November 1st, 2007, 04:23 AM

Is it possible to mod out the arena challenge out of the game? It gets rid of a lot of the AI's strongest units and it would be nice to have this as an option...

WonderLlama · #2 November 1st, 2007, 11:22 AM

I don't know for a fact this works. Just speculation. I have played games with no deathmatches. And games with lots of them. It seems to me the game always zooms in on a province when you replay a deathmatch battle. In some games it's always the same, in others it moves around. I got the impression it took place in provinces with the Arena site.

So if that's correct, you may be able to disable it by modding the Arena site to frequency 5 (or whatever the frequency is that doesn't show up randomly).

NTJedi · #3 November 1st, 2007, 12:07 PM

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WonderLlama said:
I don't know for a fact this works. Just speculation. I have played games with no deathmatches. And games with lots of them. It seems to me the game always zooms in on a province when you replay a deathmatch battle. In some games it's always the same, in others it moves around. I got the impression it took place in provinces with the Arena site.

So if that's correct, you may be able to disable it by modding the Arena site to frequency 5 (or whatever the frequency is that doesn't show up randomly).

An official response would be great because removing the deathmatch would be very useful. The deathmatch definitely hurts the AI... especially its pretenders.

I would definitely use this mod if it became available.

Arralen · #4 November 1st, 2007, 10:55 PM

"Correct" solution would be to make pretenders and prophet unable to enter the deathmatch: wouldn't take away something from the game entirely, but would remove the unfun options ... .
Shouldn't be too hard to do - both are flags on the units which should be easy to test for.

Sir_Dr_D · #5 November 1st, 2007, 11:36 PM

I think priests should be banned from the arena. It is always a priest casting smite that seems to win. And smite battles just don't hold the same appeal as one on one combat.

sum1lost · #6 November 2nd, 2007, 01:22 AM

Preists only win if you don't have other decent fighters. Fliers with some mr wipe the floor with preists, as do decent mages.

darkchampion3d · #7 November 2nd, 2007, 02:58 AM

Is the only award from the arena that 2h weapon? I won it for kicks once just to see and found that it forced my arch devil to unequip his lucky coin and weapon.... for a 2h spear that really wasn't that great.

He was doomed to killing everyone every arena event thereafter with no chance of unequipping the weapon

Burnsaber · #8 November 2nd, 2007, 03:10 AM

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darkchampion3d said:
Is the only award from the arena that 2h weapon? I won it for kicks once just to see and found that it forced my arch devil to unequip his lucky coin and weapon.... for a 2h spear that really wasn't that great.

He was doomed to killing everyone every arena event thereafter with no chance of unequipping the weapon

You get freakishly large amount of exp. IIRC a guy with no stars gets to three stars just by winning the Arena. The trident isn't bad actually. Many people just don't realize that it gives quickness (two actions per turn, +3 to att & def).

Lingchih · #9 November 2nd, 2007, 03:30 AM

Yeah, the Trident is actually a kick-*** weapon. It does great damage and I think (with quickeness) 3 attacks a turn. If you have a good blessed Prophet, you can really turn him into a killing machine if you win it.

darkchampion3d · #10 November 2nd, 2007, 03:43 AM

Yeah I know in the future to try and get it put on somebody who's primary role isn't casting firestorm