Please get around to implementing the Colosseum, or tell us what it was going to be.

[Alhanelem]

No one really knows for sure what it was going to be for, but we do know that it was never implemented. Please, get around to implementing whatever it was you were going to put there; we at least deserve to know what it was supposed to be.

For those not in the know, I'm not talking about The Pit. The Colossem has two maps- One of them is The Pit, for Pankration. The other was a much smaller map, and has another entrance in Whitegate; but its true purpose was never established and it was never released. There's still an NPC there with a locked door behind him.

I'm pretty sure the consensus among the community was that it was going to be some sort of arena for people to have duels or something, but it was never officially established, as far as I know.

[Malamasala]

I just find it hilarious that they still haven't added it, and are already talking about "we want to work more on pankration"... like they've gone a whole cycle on whitegate content and gotten back to the start, without passing the Colloseum.

They should just make the colloseum let you watch all cutscenes you've unlocked in the whole game. That would be great.

[Alhanelem]

They should just make the colloseum let you watch all cutscenes you've unlocked in the whole game. That would be great.

That would be silly, because it's hardly a use befitting something called "the colosseum."

[Karbuncle]

That would be silly, because it's hardly a use befitting something called "the colosseum."

"The Colosseum" movie Theater!

[Raxiaz]

I'd like to know what its purpose was too, if the devs have no intention of implementing whatever it's intended purpose was.

[Korpg]

PS2 limitations....

...ok, now that is thrown out there, maybe they might realize now that they have something they could add to ToAU content.

[Byrth]

Is this the location where Assault rank up CSs take place? The location for those CSs doesn't exactly look like the pit.

[Zaknafein]

PvP arena or it is an egregious waste.

[Malamasala]

That would be silly, because it's hardly a use befitting something called "the colosseum."

The majority of people at a colossuem are in the audience. While it certainly isn't the whole point of the place, it would be nothing wrong with just sitting on the benches watching something.

[Annahya]

Instead of a PvP area, some type of BCNM-style content would be neat; but not a rehash of the existing content with a new kind of seal or anything...

Perhaps, instead of saving up seals and buying an orb or somesuch, you could do a series of quests to force an NM you want to be brought to the Colosseum for you.

Example:
Trade a farmed Ex "Eyeball Item" to the Colosseum NPC.
Be granted a Magian Trial-like KI that records Hecteyes kills that were worth EXP - complete the trial.
Return to NPC and pay 5k Imperial Standing to commission a "capture team" to be sent to the Maze of Shakrami.
Wait until the next Conquest Tally.
Return to Colesseum and be granted a forced spawn of the NM Argus, identical to the one that would be found in the wild.

Something like this would be fun, especially if there was a way to enter as a spectator for others' fights - unable to affect them in any way - and wager controlled amounts of gil on victory/defeat/drops/etc. Or perhaps a system where cheering for the participants could affect the outcome.

For example:
Cheering for the PC gives them small buffs - if /cheer were used, perhaps every use of /cheer or /clap by spectators paid the participants a small amount of TP.
Cheering for the Monster gives them small buffs, like the TP idea above, or perhaps an adjustment to elemental weaknesses, or some such - but doing so increases an effective "Treasure Hunter" level on the mob. So if people make the mob harder by cheering for it, the PCs in the battle have improved chances of getting their drops should they win.

I know this is an out there idea, and it obviously is not tested for balance, but something like this would be much more interesting than PvP duels.