Free For All arena...

[ARSNishi]

I've already donned my flame retardant suit anticipating purist resistance.... But here goes anyway.

 With the dwindling DA numbers and sometimes a downright empty room.... Lots of people clamoring for "the fight".... And the obvious allure of frenetic paced instant action evidenced by the popularity of GV spawn camping, I'd like to humbly suggest a version of.... and personally attest to the popularity of what Fighter Ace called the "Free For All" arena. 

 It was a room complete with close proximity aerial spawns...  where everyone is a red/bad guy, unlimited ammo and relaxed physics.  You flew and fought until you had no plane left.   

 It was an excellent room to practice your gunnery, improve your SA and fine tune your ACM.

 For those who would say "why should we do anything the way of a failed flight sim from yesteryear".... save it, That's an argument for another thread....  FA had a good long run with lots of loyal followers and did lots of things right..... But one of them was NOT.... advertising...IMO the reason for its demise.   But one thing is for sure....  the FFA arena remained popular until the day they shut the doors forever.

Flame away... 

Nish

[Butcher]

Why not just turn the Training Arena free for everyone?

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I Like it...except with out the relaxed physics.

[ARSNishi]

Why not just turn the Training Arena free for everyone?

I doubt morfiend or other trainers would appreciate having their room hijacked like that.

Nish

[ARSNishi]

I Like it...except with out the relaxed physics.

I agree, the relaxed physics something that could fall by the wayside. 

[The Fugitive]

Make a custom arena, call it FFA. Advertize it and use it. If you can keep it full ALL the time you might be on to something. My guess is it will soon get the same reputation the DA lake gets and soon it will b e as empty as that.

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I agree, the relaxed physics something that could fall by the wayside. 

it is an excellent idea for the guys that only have an hour or so to kill....in the MA with that time you almost may not find a good adrenaline pumping fight...

in an arena like this you would find many in that short time.

no ICONS would be even better...all enemy so NO need for them....

or maybe a setting that just makes the icon a small dot for those that have bad eyes or small monitors.

[Rogue9Volt]

+1!!!

Often times I have only a little while to fly during the day..  I would be in a free for all arena all the time.  In fact, if someone makes a custom arena to test this idea, you can count on me participating.

As far as physics, I say make 'em harder than normal so that it's like hardcore training.

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[Tinkles]

I've already donned my flame retardant suit anticipating purist resistance.... But here goes anyway.

 With the dwindling DA numbers and sometimes a downright empty room.... Lots of people clamoring for "the fight".... And the obvious allure of frenetic paced instant action evidenced by the popularity of GV spawn camping, I'd like to humbly suggest a version of.... and personally attest to the popularity of what Fighter Ace called the "Free For All" arena.  

 It was a room complete with close proximity aerial spawns...  where everyone is a red/bad guy, unlimited ammo and relaxed physics.  You flew and fought until you had no plane left.  

 It was an excellent room to practice your gunnery, improve your SA and fine tune your ACM.

 For those who would say "why should we do anything the way of a failed flight sim from yesteryear".... save it, That's an argument for another thread....  FA had a good long run with lots of loyal followers and did lots of things right..... But one of them was NOT.... advertising...IMO the reason for its demise.   But one thing is for sure....  the FFA arena remained popular until the day they shut the doors forever.

Flame away...  

Nish

Just got this idea after reading your post.

Training arena - free, but limited to 2-3 hours. Potentially less if the person if being a troll/jerk.
Dueling arena - free, but limited to 1 hour being in the DA per 12/24 hours. (Not in flight time, but in actual time, so the second you enter the clock starts).

All other arenas are blocked off (incase we get some random trolls under new names starting trouble, at least in the DA players could get a taste of the MA or some combat without being a bother.)

 

[ARSNishi]

Why not just turn the Training Arena free for everyone?

Just got this idea after reading your post.

Training arena - free
Dueling arena - free, but limited to 1 hour being in the DA per 12/24 hours. (Not in flight time, but in actual time, so the second you enter the clock starts).

All other arenas are blocked off (incase we get some random trolls under new names starting trouble, at least in the DA players could get a taste of the MA or some combat without being a bother.)

 

Apparently some clarification is called for.....   My suggestion has nothing to do with "free" as in not paying a subscription....  That's just what the arena was called in Fighter Ace.....   And it was called that because it was basically an "everybody for himself" type arena

Nish

[MrKrabs]

Custom Arena...

Lack of things to shoot at? Ai fill in with staged missions...

[morfiend]

I doubt morfiend or other trainers would appreciate having their room hijacked like that.

Nish

  The only issue I see is that damage would need to be set to MA standard and that will cause issues with training. I know you're not asking for free to play time,you want it so everyone is an enemy{free for all} fighting.

  I'm not an expert on the game coading but I would think this in itself is a problem as the game is setup with 3 sides and you must choose 1 side to play. So therefore you'd need it coaded so that the game saw every player on a different side,the AvA only has 2 sides but I suspect even that would be a slight problem.

   I flew FA way back when and a couple other sims that were setup in this format,I agree it could be great fun,but I also think the same could be had in the DA.


    

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  The only issue I see is that damage would need to be set to MA standard and that will cause issues with training. I know you're not asking for free to play time,you want it so everyone is an enemy{free for all} fighting.

  I'm not an expert on the game coading but I would think this in itself is a problem as the game is setup with 3 sides and you must choose 1 side to play. So therefore you'd need it coaded so that the game saw every player on a different side,the AvA only has 2 sides but I suspect even that would be a slight problem.

   I flew FA way back when and a couple other sims that were setup in this format,I agree it could be great fun,but I also think the same could be had in the DA.


    

1 country.... friendly fire is on..

[ARSNishi]

1 country.... friendly fire is on..

Yup, I would think this shouldn't be too hard.....  Though I've never set up a custom arena.   

Saroot! Ki84 inkmaster-san!

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Yup, I would think this shouldn't be too hard.....  Though I've never set up a custom arena.   

Saroot! Ki84 inkmaster-san!

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