Originally posted by fuzeman
How aboout an arena where if you die you are exited from the arena and have to wait an hour or another specified time to re-enter it.
Working on my second cup of coffee, sorry for the wacky cogitation.
One question, in this setup, why ever engage? You aren't really fighting for anything that really matters so all engaging does is risk a big penalty.
The only time people would engage in that kind of environment is with massive advanatges, and they'd bug out as soon as they felt it slipping away too.
Remember, you need to balance the death penalty with the desire to fight, otherwise you end up with competely unhistorical timidity.