BALLISTA TOURNAMENT

[Urteil]

I am going to be hosting a 1 v 1 Ballista Tournament! Anyone is welcome to participate as the buy in will be 25,000, in addition to a 500,000g prize I will be furnishing myself.

The first place winner will also receive 50 x single pieces in a currency of their choice.

(Do not worry - as I will not be participating during the official proceedings and will be ineligible for the tournament prize.)
(However I will be up for battle, for anyone that wishes, after the event has finished.)

Anyone and everyone is welcome to join, the more people that turn out the better.

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Where: Upper Jueno / Abdhaljs Isle-Purgonorgo

When: 11/5/2011 12:00PST|14:00CST|15:00EST|19:000GMT

Why: The Champion will recieve 75% of the entry fee + 500,000g + Bronzpiece Or Whiteshell Or 1 Byne x 50!


The champion will have the opportunity to face me in a special three round showdown after the tournament is concluded for a chance at an even greater prize!

You aren't wusses are you?! Well most of you are, but here's your chance!

(The remaining 25% will go to the runner ups.)



Rules:

Any job combination of any level is allowed to join, I personally suggest a 95 one.

Two hours are prohibited.
There are no items allowed during matches, and food is prohibited.

You are not allowed to change your main job.
However you will be told the main job of your enemy, you must immediately declare a main and sub job in /tell and this cannot be changed.
Both participants will have no knowledge of their opponents sub job selection, only main job.

You will be given time to recover hp/mp between rounds.

Both participants will be in a party, with witnesses to see vitals and discourage shenanigans.

All bouts will consist of two rounds, the first person to two victories is the winner.

TP resets before and between rounds, both participants start each round with 0% TP.

Both participants in a match will begin at their camp, and have two minutes to cast enhancing magic / prepare for the encounter, meet on the beach and begin fighting. Kill on sight.

If you do not make it to the beach and are not actively pursuing your enemy in two minutes you will be disqualified.


All matches will be held on the beach on the north side of the map, kiting is allowed and encouraged for jobs that must make use of it.

Running close enough to the Posten so that your enemy cannot pursue you is an instant loss, and you will be disqualified.


All matches are process of elimination, the brackets and matchups will be decided when everyone is present.

If you do feel that you wish to come send me PM or /tell me in game and show up on the desired day.







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Anyone, and everyone, even if you have me blacklisted I will not refuse you. I can not stress enough how little I care about who you are etc.

Feel free to show up and kill each other for money! (And Glory.)



**Notes**

For pet jobs you can go to your Mog House and recover your pet between rounds.

Remember! Utility is golden.

Resist gear is never a bad idea, its a GREAT idea.

/Sprint is there for a reason

Gear swaps penalize you, so use your brain and make an advantageous gear set, unless you're retarded.

If you have /ANY/ questions about PvP or ballista feel free to talk to me, I will be glad to assist you with basic questions about gear swapping, differences to the battle system, etc.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Pointless superfluous events. {No thanks.}
Also.
This is a coop game, not a PvP game.

[Selzak]

Pointless superfluous events. {No thanks.}
Also.
This is a coop game, not a PvP game.

Are you serious? >.>

This is an MMO, and it's the sum of its parts. I spend most of my time these days soloing currency in Dynamis, that's not coop.

I think it sounds like a lot of fun (PvP is still the most fun I've had in this game, even though it wasn't implemented very well), and the fact that you don't want to be a part of it doesn't make it pointless. Just because PvP makes you feel uncomfortable or maybe you never learned to do it very well doesn't mean it just doesn't count as part of the game and no one else is allowed to enjoy it.

In my experience, this sums up most people's feelings about PvP in FFXI:

I'm not good at PvP...oh well, no one cares about PvP so it doesn't matter. Wait, you're doing PvP? Stop, no one cares about that.

[MDenham]

I don't think anyone's going to change servers just for this, so maybe posting this in the Phoenix server forum would make more sense.

[Alhanelem]

Would consider it if I was on your server and if it was normal ballista, not 1v1.

FFXI's PvP is not built or balanced for 1v1. party synergy is the key to success. Some jobs are at an inherent disadvantage in 1v1, so you'd only end up with the same few jobs no matter how many people participated, making it a rather uninteresting competition.

Opposing players should never be in the same party. What kind of "shenanegans" could people pull anyway?

This is a coop game, not a PvP game.

This is a whatever-you-want-it-to-be game. You don't dictate what the game is or isn't. Some people like PvP as a "for-fun" activity, and it exists to throw said people a bone. You're fully welcome not to participate, but don't project your personal feelings about it on others.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

This is a whatever-you-want-it-to-be game.

This from the kind of person who'd berate someone for their choice of sub?

You don't dictate what the game is or isn't.

I didn't dictate anything, it IS a coop game. Otherwise there would be more PvP then some random corner in some hole that no one has cared about for the last 5 years.

[Arcon]

I didn't dictate anything, it IS a coop game. Otherwise there would be more PvP then some random corner in some hole that no one has cared about for the last 5 years.

Assumption and fallacious implication. It is not a co-op game, and even if there wasn't any PvP at all, it still wouldn't be. There's competition at every corner, ironically even more so recently, despite SE's intentions. Ballista is just another form of competition. Not many have cared about it simply because there was nothing to gain from it, and people rather spend their time doing something productive than something fun, which has always been the case with FFXI and which is precisely what FFXI runs on, the desire from players to get better. That's why everyone is annoyed with current content, even though there's a massive number of things they could be doing for fun. And that's why Ballista was at its height when endgame people ran out of things to do and got the gear they were looking for. As to the thought of Ballista's popularity, while not recent, you apparently forgot that despite the lack of rewards, there were massive Ballista tournaments organized by SE, cross-server, with hundreds of participants each.

You're the typical hater that makes up reasons against something they personally dislike. Thankfully, most people already know that and ignore what you have to say.

[Alhanelem]

I didn't dictate anything, it IS a coop game. Otherwise there would be more PvP then some random corner in some hole that no one has cared about for the last 5 years.

There would be more PvP if it was designed better and more rewarding. That said, there are people out there who enjoy it for what it is. That of course does not mean that the people who enjoy it now don't want it to be better or that it couldn't and shouldn't be made better. It can be and it should be, and if it was, more people would participate. I know many people who do not participate not because they don't like PvP, but because of certain specific flaws in the implementation (e.g. gearswap restrictions, lack of attention to balance after major content updates). FFXI is no more or less a "coop game" than any other MMO, whether or not it has PvP elements. WoW has lots of PvP- but it still has lots of PvE too and it's still a "coop game."

This from the kind of person who'd berate someone for their choice of sub?

I don't berate people for their choice of sub normally. In fact, I'm probably the first one to encourage people to try atypical subs. The rare exception is usually in jest or one of the very few combinations that have no redeeming qualities whatsoever (Usually pet job/pet job)
Considering I didn't berate anyone for their choice of sub in this thread, or anytime recently that I can recall, I don't know why you're trying to troll me here.

[Urteil]

There would be more PvP if it was designed better and more rewarding. That said, there are people out there who enjoy it for what it is. That of course does not mean that the people who enjoy it now don't want it to be better or that it couldn't and shouldn't be made better. It can be and it should be, and if it was, more people would participate. I know many people who do not participate not because they don't like PvP, but because of certain specific flaws in the implementation (e.g. gearswap restrictions, lack of attention to balance after major content updates). FFXI is no more or less a "coop game" than any other MMO, whether or not it has PvP elements. WoW has lots of PvP- but it still has lots of PvE too and it's still a "coop game."

I don't berate people for their choice of sub normally. In fact, I'm probably the first one to encourage people to try atypical subs. The rare exception is usually in jest or one of the very few combinations that have no redeeming qualities whatsoever (Usually pet job/pet job)
Considering I didn't berate anyone for their choice of sub in this thread, or anytime recently that I can recall, I don't know why you're trying to troll me here.

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[Alhanelem]

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