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Old November 2nd, 2007, 01:27 PM
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Default Re: Is it possible to mod the arena challenge out?

The death arena was a great feature, yet it's current state makes provides little interest in MP and provides pain in SP.

In singleplayer it's painful watching many AI blindly send their pretenders to the deathmatch.
In multiplayer the prize of 100 experience and the Trident is not worth risking the life of a good unit... especially not worth risking the life of a prophet. In multiplayer ususally one or more humans will enter opponents to cast curse, horror_mark, blindness and/or give cursed items such as slave collars. The trident and experience have little value for the winner when he/she/it is cursed and blind with a slave collar.

**Ideally the death match arena prize should provide winnings which would be worth risking the life of a good commander. During the days of Dominions_2 I suggested the prize provide gold and gems based on the current game turn since a fixed prize would make the death match arena less and less valuable as the game proceeds. Thus the winner on turn_10 would recieve 200_gold and 10_random_gems whereas the winner on turn_100 would recieve 2000_gold and 100_random_gems. (Few games reach 100 turns)

I really do like the idea of the death match arena... unfortunately the prize sucks.
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