Reviving PvP & Ballista

[pfrogs]

Changes I'd like the most:

- Tournaments: something like four 4~8-man teams, the winners of the first two matches would then play each other and the final winning team would get the pot of gil/points (could raise the participant fee higher for a more serious atmosphere).

- LS/Official teams and rankings: like the OP said but maybe you could register your LS with the Herald so when you earn points in a match it gets added to your LS ranking and at the end of every month it would calculate your linkshells points per match per person average and if your LS was first you'd get a special title/aura/hat for the month.

- Solution for 30/40/50 caps ''getting in the way'' + new areas: this idea is a little farfetched/silly but if they added 2-3 more areas (preferably for me, Xarcabard and Kahzam/Norg) that would be one area for each cap they have now. So there would always be a 30/40/50/60/uncapped happening or happening within the hour.

-Instant queue: maybe if there was a message that popped up every 15 minutes in a town (that could be turned off, of course) that was along the lines of "Ballista (level cap xx) in xx at xx, join the queue now) and under the party flag on tab there could be a join Ballista queue button and at 21:00 a message box would appear to teleport you to the area.

-Ideas to garner more interest: Higher EXP (2500, 5000 for winners), Ballista earned gear/items (If you could use your chevrons to buy things like Ballista relics or ammo/pet food+items/HQ food maybe even abyssea drop items?), Special emotes/fireworks/furnishings, Ballista Royale (maybe 2-3 times a year)

-Rooks giving HP/MP/TP: when you score a petra you receive 10 HP, MP, and TP, so when you score 5 it's 50 each (nothing too overboard but it would put more emphasis on scoring rather than killing)

That's all I can think of.

[Alhanelem]

Queues are stupid.

Gear has aleready been suggested.

Anyone who plays ballista already doesn't need an incentive to score. The only time you don't care is in the diorama; Elsewhere, especially JPs play a serious game.

LS battles: they tried this, no one did it. Next. (Though it was a confusing and difficult to use system).

Just eliminating 30/40/50 is the best way to redo schedule. No one wants to do those. I'd like new venues, but not by level cap.

[AyinDygra]

I just added a bunch of ideas about this as part of my ideal expansion. Just thought I'd add links to them here to add to the discussion.
Arena intro
Ballista specifically
New arena rewards
They seem to overlap with some of the other ideas presented here, but there are several new thoughts that I think will help to draw in a larger crowd and make it more fun for those who already enjoy it.

[Evviva]

Such an amazing read... kudos to all the ballistars who posted~

Shame on you dev team, 15 pages and not even one response!!

[Worldwise]

With everything going on with Abbyssa and Voidwatch It's like nobody wants to do Brenner nor Ballista or even Eco-Warrior no more.

[Evviva]

Eco-Warrior!
Good times :3

[Karbuncle]

I Haven't done Eco-Warrior since I was level 20 Back in 2003 ish... For good reason though, It kinda sucks all except for Low levels >_>

Way back in the day though, 5k Gil and a Exp Scroll was the shit.

[Snoni]

When will PvP/Ballista/Brenner be active again on my server or other servers that are currently inactive? Not some 1v1 junk but the old school ballista team vs team scoring rooks etc. I missed the good old days, way to let off some PvE steam at least.

[Kristal]

Add a DOTA-style PVP system, perhaps?

[Umichi]

Work on ballista! lol im sure if more people get bored they might pvp now since everyone is on even grounds i suppose at 99....