I've been thinking about something that would increase interest in AL for some time now. I used to post my ideas on this forum, but it's been a couple of years since I've posted any big ideas. But here is something....
How about building a mechanism into the game to have regular PvP tournaments. Not something that needs to be organized by players or by a moderator, but tournaments that can be built into the game. How would this work?
1) Have a new arena -- it could look like the arena where you duel.
2) In each town, there should be a second leaderboard-like sign, that lists the current day/time, and day/time of the next tournament.
3) When the time of the next tournament comes, a button will appear on the tournament sign and the first 32 players (could be 16, or 64, 128, etc.) to press this "sign-up" button will be signed up for the tournament, which will begin 60 seconds later (i.e. Players who have registered will have 60 seconds from sign-up to equip the pet/gear they need before being automatically summoned to the first fight)
4) Players will be randomly matched against another player for a best of 3 battle (same as a duel), and the field of 32 will then be eliminated down to 16, then down to 8, 4, 2, and then the winner.
5) There can be brackets (maybe of different sizes?) for different level groupings. Obviously endgame would be a bigger bracket with more players, but maybe have smaller brackets for some twink levels.
6) These tournament duels count towards your duel totals in your stats.
7) The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers in each bracket receive a non-tradable, non-stashable unique banner in Gold, Silver and Bronze colors which will stay in their inventory and can be worn temporarily until the next tournament in that same level bracket begins, at which time it will disappear from their inventory to be awarded to the next set of winners.
8) The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers for the most recent tournament in each level bracket will be listed on the leaderboard.
9) And here is what I think is the most interesting part: If you click on the tournament sign during the tournament, you can see live updates on who is winning against who as the field narrows down. And maybe the final match in each bracket can be watched later on replay (if this is possible).
10) Perhaps have these tournaments scheduled for once per week, and vary the time they occur so that players from all different time zones will have a chance to participate at some point.
This is just an idea I've been thinking about for a while. Not sure how big of an undertaking this is, but all the parts are in place, so no new graphic design has to be programmed, just the organization part of this.
Any thoughts?
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