Battle Arena Discussion (Round 2)

Second release of the Battle Arena is live. Please use this thread for discussions, feedback and questions.

New features and updates include:
-Improved overall speed through caching
-Increased XP payouts per battle
-Removed dead players from fight list
-Fight response inline stamina refill button
-Extra stats in profile view
-Save target for later bookmarking interface
-Dynamic leaderboard payouts (adjusts based on quantity of players)
-Recent attacker indicator
-Update defensive stance button
-Increased hit point payout for kills
-Kill health award now shows below targets
-Start in defensive stance option (in profile)
-Targets killer is exposed while attacking
-Fixed refresh issues with feed/fight list
-Your armed and item loadout strength values are now saved on arena start
-Final 4 surrender option
-XP and Strength multipliers added to final rounds of the arena (more damage, more xp)
-XP reward for joining the arena
-Min attack requirement, if after 10 hours since arena start and under 100 attacks, health is halved
-Fight response inline use stamina boost button

If you would like to catch-up on earlier battle arena discussions please see this thread (note some topics may be outdated) http://forums.kanoapps.com/showthread.php?7628-Battle-Arena-Discussion

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The start for the uk is 20:00 and Europe is 21:00 / 22:00.
Thanks for improving the start time.

 

There's been alot of talk around the arenas that the defensive stance button is not very usefull in gameplay. We're proposing having the ability to toggle it on and off with the one catch, everytime you toggle it off you lose 5 minutes. The reason for the 5 minute penalty is so you can't endlessly abuse it by attacking someone, toggling on, toggle off, attack someone toggle on....

Let's hear your feedback on this, at the moment the defensive stance currently doesn't really play any part in active gameplay.

 

Thanks for the improvements +1 in principle from me

The Ranking Rewards are looking more appealing I wonder if you could elaborate more on 2x XP, 6x Strength in battles ? does this mean you get double the XP for everything and is this a time bound reward or a permanent % upgrade of your character ?

I like the idea of toggle defence button and the 5min Penalty for using it

 

have u fort of making an amatuer battle arena for people level under 660?

 

Yes there are plans, once we iron out any bugs and finalize the feature we will look at lower level battle arenas.

 

This thing is bull. Never again.

 

I totally agree. This BA is BS. It ONLY supports those who have High Levels/stats. If you can't break it into at least 3-5 tiers, then it will stay as a suckfest for me and many others under lvl 500.

The other thing you need to change is this: If I'm attacking someone, then I should Not have more than One player attacking me at that time. There is NO way I can fight 3 at once, or even "Save" them for later if I get killed while trying to deal with my one opponent.

This whole this isn't worth the few thousand exp given when signing up.

 

Hey Dean please read the above post a couple postings up. From Eric. Sorry you had issues in the game battle arena many of us are still. The most important part is just giving the feedback so the developers can continue on improving the arena until it is finally out of beta phase.

 

Hey Bad ass name. Can you give some feedback as why you feel this was bull on this time around in the arena. Any feedback given will be able to help the developers look over the arena features that players are still having issues or concerns over.

 

Wow, 2nd time i came home from work and was dead! no sense joining the arena again, 2 times i joined and never got to attack anyone??? I understand you have folks all over the world, different time zones etc., but a lot of good players being left out in the cold, we are nothing but fodder for the others!

 

shame ....thing is YOU need to keep your name ..SUPER QUIET ...tell no one i saw things tonight ...and friends were taking friends out VERY FAST.....

 

THINK i d LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THAT....fisrt time to use the def mode after 14 hrs play ....its def an improvment on the last round ....still issues with the ROBBIN ...seems unreal u can sit it out not attack except to grab a kill and still be in the game now ....kinda makes a mockery of those that ACTUALLY fight ....

but HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE fun ......great improvments .... exp ...was fine ....just pls look at the losses ...the amount of comment s im getting now .....u should see all the fights u lost to me .... 1400 levels below ...ROFL

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Would be a useful feature as on the rare occasion you catch a kill it would help to stop someone trying to take away the health bonus, all because they didn't get the kill.........

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ok here is your solution to the problem of people waiting it out and sneaking in for the kill, when it list the name of the person who got the kill, kill them.
and also when you r looking for someone to battle click on peoples names and it will bring up there stats. attack the ones with zeros,
IF EVERYONE DOES THESE 2 THINGS THE PROBLEMS WILL SOLVE THERE SELF

 

hmmm bad ass name and dean siekart, sorry you ONLY got 5 percent of xp needed to level up for joining the arena (at no stamina cost to you) and the xp and the rest of it wasnt worth your time....thats too bad, cuz once again i thought game play was smooth, again no glitches, it was fun either killing or being killed and the highlight of my week.
I loved the new additions to xp mulitpliers and damage multipliers, this weeks arena was completed in 21.5 hours, nothing dragged out except trying to keep my eyes open in the wee hours of the morning.

I wonder if i can propose something else on the subject of sniping, is it possible to give two bonuses? a bonus to the slayer that did the most total damage and bonus to the slayer that killed it, with it being possible to get both bonuses if you achieved both, but both bonuses not exceeding the total reward. so if you did the most damage you would get half, and if you killed it you would get half, and if you did both you would get the whole thing, that way you reward the people that put in the stamina to take the persons health down, as well as the person who dealth the death blow. i think this would eliminate alot of complaining about being sniped (where is that camera above my desk that everyone else can see who im working on????)

another fantastic experience
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Neon Pink - battle arena 6/23/2012

 

This may or may not have been asked elsewhere..but if so I haven't found it... Bi monthly.(from Kendall's post in the "what's been happening this week, he says they hope to do arena "bimonthly". )

according to the dictionary:
Definition of BIMONTHLY
1: occurring every two months
2: occurring twice a month : semimonthly

which is it? every 2 months? or 2x a month (approx every 15 days)?

multiple ppl have been asking, so... here it is.

 

Defense still didn't seem to matter which sorta bugged me. I actually attacked 100+ times at the beginning (though I had forgot when arena even started so started with low stamina) and still lost the majority of my fights on defense after still being the highest defense player in zs. Also is there any point in having a 3 day set up to join and a 3 day timer when the arena ends in 1 day? Could we maybe have a 1 day sign up 1 day arena time? That way we can squeeze an arena in 3 times a week instead of only once a week.

 

lol at jessica, you are a glutton for punishment!! i need two weeks to recuperate....stop trying to kill me!!

 

I wonder if i can propose something else on the subject of sniping, is it possible to give two bonuses? a bonus to the slayer that did the most total damage and bonus to the slayer that killed it, with it being possible to get both bonuses if you achieved both, but both bonuses not exceeding the total reward. so if you did the most damage you would get half, and if you killed it you would get half, and if you did both you would get the whole thing, that way you reward the people that put in the stamina to take the persons health down, as well as the person who dealth the death blow. i think this would eliminate alot of complaining about being sniped (where is that camera above my desk that everyone else can see who im working on????)




i have to agree with this b/c sniping does happen hell its how i tryed to play for the most part, i honestly think this could work well 4 the arean...

other then that it was great fun...