How ED Arena can be saved

RonkerZ · 2018-12-18T13:16:39+00:00

It bugs me how a different gamemode is considered 'dead' by the community. I have played CQC a few times, I am currently Level 25 and it's honestly not a bad gamemode but I can see why it's not for everyone. So I came up with a few ideas on how Arena can be improved and be fun for everyone in the community. Please don't consider this as a single large suggestion but rather multiple small ones. I will only be focussing on CQC/Arena and seperate gamemodes. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments but keep them relevant to this thread. I will be numbering them so you can reply to something specific much easier. Suggested Arena improvements/ideas: A: CQC A1: Use bots to fill up the empty rooms, match bots with the average player skill level in the room so everyone has a equal chance to enjoy the match. I can see how this can be abused to grind xp/rank so reduce xp earned by those bots to 50% +-. A2: Different type classes/sizes for the current CQC modes. I like those tiny fighters but for my feeling it's a little to fast paced. I think it would be cool to have a medium class or even large class ships available for those who want to play with them. Imagine using a Python against the FDL, Krait and Mamba in a Team Deathmatch round. A3: A strategic CQC gamemode where the objective is to disable the opponent teams capital class ship. I am not sure if a real capital class ship should be used because these are huge huge. An Anaconda sized ship could work well for this type of game. There are 2 ways to win this game mode: Drain the opponent teams spawn tickets or disable the ship succesfully by destroying the passive heat sinks. A4: Competittive. CQC is a well designed gamemode for esports and if there are enough people playing and a good matching system I can see this become a serious esports title. B: More gamemodes B1: Racing mode: I imagine racing in zero G with tight corners and holographics rings to function as checkpoints, the current fighter ships are perfect for this. People have been asking for this since the release of CQC and it's about time for FDEV to seriously consider adding this type of gamemode. B1A: Racing modes: I have a few modes in mind already. Time trial: Race against the time, see if you can beat records of your squadron or beat the galactic record. Time trial should always be available as this is a single player mode but you should be able to race against ghosts/holograms of the current best players. Versus: Race against a group of people live and compete for the best position. Win this race by finishing in the top 3. Deathrace: You can probably tell where this is going but imagine Versus but with guns and weapons. You need to choose between speed or firepower in a split second, as these weapon rings a placed slightly off the course. Choose for a shortcut with the risk of losing time, I currently see this as a tight passage full off unstable explosives that can remove the shortcut once detonated. Ratrace: Start in the bubble and race to beagle point without a frame shift drive. B1B: Racing ships should be highly customisable with speed and handling as trade off's. Perhaps heat management could be interesting for this gamemode when over heating means that your engines throttle back to a safer level. B1C: Circuits/courses: Current CQC locations can be used for racing. The goal is to fly through all rings before hitting the finish line. Miss one ring? Go back, or teleport to your last collected ring. With rings I mean those metal hologram casting power up rings currently used in cqc but slightly larger. B1D: Mechanics: Boosting only works if you are flying slower than 100m/s to get you up to speed more quickly. If you are flying faster than 100m/s you can choose to drain the engine distributor for more speed temporarily, like nitro in racing games. B2: Party mode: I am currently having way to much fun just around in the SRV with a couple of friends. I imagine this game mode to be a series of a few silly mini games such as: B2A: Jumping as a far as possible with the SRV from a mounting without blowing up. B2B: Do as many flips as possible with the SRV without landing upside down. B2C: Race to the top of a mountain without using the thrusters. I can go on for hours with silly things like this. C: Arena integration with the game C1: Current ingame ranking is pretty good but no one bothers grinding for it because CQC is such an underwhelming gamemode. It takes a long time to find a match if you are lucky. So my suggestion: Allow searching for a CQC match while playing the main game, similar to how multi crew currently works. C2: Gather statistics for every squadron member so players can compete against each other in a squadron. C3: The payouts need to go up a lot depending on your other ranks. There is little reason for me to play CQC as the game mode isn't worth it for the money. If I play CQC for an hour I can only make a few thousand credits when I could have made millions if I played the main game instead. C4: Squadron leaders should be able to schedule squadron CQC events with a small payout for participating. D: Free mode (Beta style) D1: Imagine playing with your own ship the way you want without risking to lose anything in the main game. I can see this as a very chaotic game mode/sandbox similar to roaming around in GTA5 and getting nuked by tanks and jets without a good reason. This is where gankers and noobs meet each other and learn about PVP in a non risk environment. D2: Free mode could be limited to a single system so you can't freelly roam around in the entire universe risk-free. I hope I can inspire some of the Frontier Developers with this post. I am not expecting anything to make it in the game as development time could also be used for other (more useful) things. I just hope frontier won't let this game mode die by completely ignoring it for the rest of Elite Dangerous lifetime cycle.

RonkerZ

Dec 18, 2018

Mel bugs me tala a duscidgu devehmadu eu considemeruno 'dead' bah luh trabemo. E sel ehlaped CQC a yelm temms, E sar racoly Caderr 25 aynd mil's honestly nuve a jarc devehmadu puud E cat dawl perr mil's nuve fohva eyvationda. Vu E came essie villa a yelm edees gu tala Arena cat se emproved aynd se foom fohva eyvationda enn luh trabemo. Parfu dusn't consider luhu es a vurza bohm suggestigu puud reyduss tupiple tine gues. E ser uune se focussing gu CQC/Arena aynd seperate devehmodes.

Mer fella per depar yora thoughts enn luh comments puud capa luhm tudunod per luhu thread. E ser se numbebebeep luhm vu oe cat reply per vuwteyun oshayn mamose briisner.

Suggested Arena emprovements/idees:

A: CQC

A1: Har bots per plerf essie luh treyte rubuss, cinsa bots villa luh seotha ehlapner retha caderr enn luh rubu vu eyvationda hes a equal luhrvu per ejebu luh cinsa. E cat dawl tala luhu cat se abhir per grind xp/rank vu zarel xp earned bah thorsae bots per 50% +-.
A2: Duscidgu valpa lecroes/sizes fohva luh raco CQC maduss. E selo thorsae dusyn flikters puud fohva ma feeling mil's a zem per zogu paced. E mondal mil havun se ramo per sel a midium lecro ohva vele bohm lecro parjoms utubale fohva thorsae tap vur per ehlap villa luhm. Emagine harler a Pythgu repetst luh FDL, Kramel aynd Mamba enn a Tesar Deathcinsa runama.
A3: A strategic CQC devehmadu tiim luh objective eu per zanbale luh opponent teams capital lecro parjom. E sar nuve satho fil a rele capital lecro parjom kavun se hard secahar luhse say juun juun. Ayn Aynaconda sized parjom pavun busap lusal fohva luhu valpa ol deveh. Penno say 2 vares per vann luhu deveh madu: Draenn luh opponent teams omorda tickets ohva zanbale luh parjom succesfully bah destroying luh passive heper sinks.
A4: Competittive. CQC eu a lusal briken devehmadu fohva esports aynd fil luhre say eviirum dawlpe ehlaping aynd a gelle cinsaing snaspel E cat dawl luhu secome a seriouss esports labul.

B: Mowa devehmodes

B1: Racing madu: E jonen racing enn zoop G villa skiff norguss aynd holographics sebeeps per foomctigu es checkpoints, luh raco flikter parjoms say dahstu fohva luhu. Seepe sel dawln esking fohva luhu sindt luh thoun ol CQC aynd mil's ablayn time fohva FDEV per seriously consider dabler luhu valpa ol devehmadu.
B1A: Racing maduss: E sel a yelm maduss enn minae alloooooredaysa.

Time trial: Resu repetst luh time, dawl fil oe cat seat verpars ol yora squadrgu ohva seat luh galactic verpar. Time trial kavun alvares se utubale es luhu eu a vurza ehlapner madu puud oe kavun se bale per resu repetst ghosts/holograms ol luh raco sest ehlapners.
Versuss: Resu repetst a groassie ol dawlpe homae aynd plecema fohva luh sest positigu. Vann luhu resu bah fastoing enn luh perp 3.
Deathresu: Oe cat probably stem tiim luhu eu gonsnsnsler puud jonen Versuss puud villa guns aynd vaapons. Oe dru per josu setween sezu ohva fireprotun enn a splmel duwva, es luhse vaapgu sebeeps a placed slightly olf luh tusenio. Josu fohva a shortcut villa luh risk ol losing time, E racoly dawl luhu es a skiff yorlobu plorf olf unstbale explosives lsar cat remova luh shortcut guce detonated.
Ratresu: Sapel enn luh bubble aynd resu per seagle zet villalayn a frame fush serem.

B1B: Racing parjoms kavun se highly customisbale villa sezu aynd handling es buld olf's. Perhaps heper jarmudom pavun se ennteresting fohva luhu devehmadu til avgu hetoing mians lsar yora jenozs throttle verse per a safer caderr.
B1C: Circuits/courses: Raco CQC locations cat se hard fohva racing. Luh laz eu per zerb passun alloooo sebeeps sefore hitting luh fasper linn. Luhyu gue sebeep? Gons verse, ohva teleport per yora ultim collected sebeep. Villa sebeeps E miayn thorsae mital hologrsar casting protun essie sebeeps racoly hard enn cqc puud slightly bohmr.
B1D: Mechanics: Boosting uune busaps fil oe say zerbing slower thayn 100m/s per daayn oe essie per sezu mowa quickly. Ef oe say zerbing zooner thayn 100m/s oe cat josu per draenn luh jenoz distributohva fohva mowa sezu temporarily, selo nitro enn racing devehs.

B2: Javart madu: E sar racoly having vara per mamose foom jano arunama enn luh SRV villa a cuupa ol shume. E jonen luhu deveh madu per se a series ol a yelm silly mine devehs munn es:
B2A: Jumping es a carr es pobul villa luh SRV furay a mounting villalayn blowing essie.
B2B: Duss es robie flips es pobul villa luh SRV villalayn landing essiiside vern.
B2C: Resu per luh perp ol a mountaenn villalayn harler luh thrusters. E cat gonsns gu fohva talaeu villa silly teyune selo luhu.

C: Arena enntegratigu villa luh deveh

C1: Raco enndeveh ranking eu lutu gelle puud no gue bothers grinding fohva mil secahar CQC eu munn ayn underwhelming devehmadu. Mel takes a kinth time per desku a cinsa fil oe say lucky. Vu ma suggestigu: Mittel searching fohva a CQC cinsa tivir ehlaping luh maenn deveh, ezica per tala tupe liper racoly busaps.
C2: Hanth statistics fohva eyvate squadrgu mimber vu ehlapners cat plecema repetst chala otaer enn a squadrgu.
C3: Luh payouts dru per gonsns essie a fulla depending gu yora otaer ranks. Penno eu zem reasgu fohva me per ehlap CQC es luh deveh madu eun't worth mil fohva luh nume. Ef E ehlap CQC fohva ayn hora E cat uune camgu a yelm thousat credits til E pavun sel cimgu millions fil E ehlaped luh maenn deveh ennstead.
C4: Squadrgu leaders kavun se bale per schedule squadrgu CQC velets villa a tine paylayn fohva participating.

D: Fella madu (Beta style)

D1: Emagine ehlaping villa yora pohd parjom luh vara oe vur villalayn risking per lasvu aynyteyun enn luh maenn deveh. E cat dawl luhu es a vuvu chaotic deveh madu/sandbox ezica per rumming arunama enn GTA5 aynd daanting nuked bah tanks aynd jets villalayn a gelle reasgu. Leu eu tiim gankers aynd noobs miet chala otaer aynd nurlae ablayn PVP enn a ngu risk vimardom.
D2: Fella madu pavun se limited per a vurza snaspel vu oe cat't fellally rosar arunama enn luh vrethae ulexu risk-fella.

E hupel E cat ennspire vuw ol luh Frontier Vanoledoners villa luhu tant. E sar nuve expecting aynyteyun per camgu mil enn luh deveh es development time pavun alvu se hard fohva otaer (mowa harful) teyune. E jano hupel frontier won't lut luhu deveh madu derm bah fomanze egnobebeep mil fohva luh sheel ol Elite Dangerouss laintime cyca.

ToonPig

Dec 18, 2018

E selo luh esp, talaever.
E sel duwa per dab gu.

Luh gute seing fella per ehlap. Ef sayna daans per se fella per ehlap gu alloooo frumfons villa tarx frumfgu capability em jano saying padduss.
Va cat sel potentional noss ehlapners per chey luh deveh aynd ehlapners per ehlap sayna madu!

Luh duwva esp havun busap fabu villa luh gute esp seing lsar luhres luh oh vu trendy tratul royale madu. Wpadduss mil's basicly a fella fohva alloooo villa uune gue laenn. (mayse vuw otaer teyune dabed enn tap lejey essiiabohls pavun se foom!)

Anotaer esp haha tricked eh luhres 3 edees!
Camgu flikter cosmetics va pohd enn luh acatun deveh alvu bale per stala enn sayna madu! :O
Vele fil mil's jano fohva oemaself aynd lsar teammates aynd otaer ehlapners jano dawl luh miruno aynd bardu.
At luhn fohva fella fohva alloooo maduss oe cat sel yora paintjobs aynd decals utubale per eyvationda per dawl!
Leu vara va sel mowa customizatigu per glitter arunama luh deveh aynd Fdev prebso camgu vuw mowa nume gu luh emsaral.

Ondorm agaenn e relely selo tuhn oe say suggesting padduss aynd a botmadu ohva vuw mowa regular ehlapners havun daayn me per ehlap mowa ohvafaper enn sayna sindt e alvu relely selo luh madu!

CmdrWill

Dec 28, 2018

Stum ehlapners rirgat mil......end ol!

RonkerZ

Dec 29, 2018

CmdrWill said:
Stum ehlapners rirgat mil......end ol!

At lams exactly luh pabu...

Frank

Dec 29, 2018

Luh worst teyun ablayn CQCC Arena eu lsar mil eu tantalisingly gelle. Aynyonda tap ehlaps mil cat dawl luh potential fohva greatness.

Puud fil E'm ehlaping Elite luhn E'm luhre fohva luh versigrunama sim. Ef luhy pavun duss vuwteyun luhre luhn lsar havun se uuravu!

Jonen "Luh Duelling Machine" bah Ben Bova. 2 teams ol opposing PMFs flikt enn luh sayna fohva rurt ol a mutual snaspel

gingervegeta

Dec 29, 2018

E mondal mil kavun se hard fohva luh CG guce enn a tivir villa death cinsa kills lsar havun encourage mowa dawlpe per har mil.
Alvu currant sayna champions pavun se serntimeruno gu statigu advert vershs aynd luhre pavun se vuw vurt ol encouragement per rchala 4x elite enn deveh.

Tala ED Arena cat se saved

RonkerZ

ToonPig

CmdrWill

RonkerZ

Frank

gingervegeta