Darkwind - Viewing Topic: Six on Nine Arena Combat

Korivak
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I'm not sure if it's a bug or just rotten luck, but I was just in an arena combat that was six verses nine. I still did okay (third place and still alive), but it looked pretty bad when I started.

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Posted Dec 29, 2006, 6:34 pm

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no, man. that's GOOD.

more stuff for you to shoot at.

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Posted Dec 29, 2006, 7:03 pm

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Yep Korivak. Joer is not completely wrong.

Combats are not always balanced. But you knew there was a risk when you joined the autoduellers league, didn't you?

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Posted Dec 29, 2006, 8:24 pm

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Okay, just checking that it was working as intended. It wasn't bad, just a bit odd.

And boy was it ever a target rich environment!

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Posted Dec 29, 2006, 8:44 pm

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Atomic Punks and I were just in one. It was five on one and we kicked their asses. I got 1st, he got 2nd and a flesh wound.

my guess is that it puts human players on same team and assumes they will have 2 cars each resulting in the skewed balance

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Posted Dec 29, 2006, 8:44 pm

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if some 1 want to fight aginst me in Combat i here on weakan's just send me instant masgge pick a Combat and let's go.

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Posted Dec 29, 2006, 9:23 pm

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These arena combats select the two teams to balance the number of gangs in each, disregarding the number of cars entered from each gang. Since NPCs always enter 2 cars, then anytime it's unbalanced like 6 vs. 9 it will always be human players that are on the smaller team. That's fair enough I think, since NPCs are such dumbasses...

Wolf: them's fightin' talk.

Makes me think we need to have gambling sooner rather than later..

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Posted Dec 29, 2006, 9:40 pm