Small Pankration Idea

[Chilloa]

So I've been doing Pankration recently as something different to do lately and honestly, I've been enjoying it. But, of course, I get the few LS members asking me:

"Why are you wasting your time doing that?"

Which got me to thinking, SE should add something to make it so people will want to do it more. An incentive of some sort, that way it isn't a completely dead system. So keeping the PS2 limitations in mind, I came up with a nice little reward that would make some of the population give another go at Pankration. Monster Belts, costumes. This idea sort of popped in my head what with it almost being Halloween and SE made costumes usable in the field.

For those of you who don't know, the max level in Pankration is level 50. So I was thinking if you get a pet to level 50, you can turn that pet into a Monster Belt or give the Soul Reflector a 1/1 Charge that you can use every hour to turn into a costume of said monster.

A long with the costumes, maybe make a new 5000 Jetton item or a Pankration Tournament reward that increases movement speed +25% while under the effect of a costume.

Would this make anyone interested in doing Pankration again? What do you guys think would make people want to do Pankration like when it was first released.

I know, inb4lolpankration, inb4loltoaucontent, inb4gottacatchemall, inb4ps2limitations.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I know, inb4lolpankration, inb4loltoaucontent, inb4gottacatchemall, inb4ps2limitations.

You forgot inb4pokemon.

On siren there's a handfull of people who monopolize that one where you don't leave as long as you win So you yourself can't get any real progress, but you can PL yourself on them. The whole system was realy nothing more then a passing fad that fail realy quickly. I would like to see some viable rewards, but I don't think it will breathe any new life into it.

[Chilloa]

You forgot inb4pokemon.

inb4gottacatchemall

No I didn't. :P

[SpankWustler]

Pankration is the only mini-game in FFXI that ever felt well-made to me, so I wouldn't mind seeing some actual rewards added to it. It's apparently possible to make gil off of chocobo racing somehow, so why not half-way decent item rewards for being the best there ever was at Pankration?

[Chilloa]

for being the best there ever was at Pankration?

1) lol.

2) Exactly what I was thinking. To me, it just seems like there aren't any real rewards to Pankration. I mean aside from technically being the start to ZNMs. But even then you can skip the actual fighting by purchasing Jettons with Imperial Coins. I would love for the Tournament Battlecage to have a reward system: Gil, Items, IS, Imp. Coins, Zeni. Anything would work.

My idea just came from thinking it would be cool to play as the Monster you fought with. Running around as the Opo-opo or the Goobbue you spent a few days leveling up just sounded fun. Running around Port Jeuno as a Shadow Dragon or Soulflayer anyone?

[Jerbob]

I love this idea. Pankration is great fun, doubly so because there's the appeal of finding a good monster to photograph and hunting for the best plates you can find, as well as the battles themselves. I'd be in favour of any new rewards.

So far the only real rewards are the beastmen hats, I suppose - so why not focus on "upgrading" them with jettons? The first upgrade will implement the costume idea, transforming you into the monster in your official reflector, the second gives the movement speed... and you could add pankration-specific enhancements too, like removing the "Vs. Family" restriction on the original hats, or even allowing soul plates of beastmen taken whilst wearing the hat to be transformed into reflectors. So many exciting possibilities!

Basically I want to be able to zoom around Vana'diel as a light elemental or a malboro whilst wearing a silly hat, lol.