I have a GREAT IDEA for Gold saucer mini game!! hear me out!

Okay remember in FF7 where you had to battle a series of monsters in hopes of building enough BP to buy items? This should come back but allow groups to do so! It should consist of several rounds of bosses/enemies that once each is defeated the next round adds random buffs and debuffs to the team before the next boss encounter.
But here is the kicker! Add a spectator mode!!! So while the battle is going on people wandering can choose to spectate!

There should also be 4 man encounters and 8 man encounters with the enemies being random so noone can go in anticipating the fight lay outs! The items and weapons that drop should also look unique and cool with ilvls matching a tier lower or maybe even one on par with highest coil gear! something for whm/sch cowl and something odin's armor can vanity with, if chosen to do so!

This is actually a brilliant idea. Kinda like a battle Arena type thing.

If you agree, please like this post! This is brilliant, in my modest opinion ^.^;;

thank you!! This should also have difficulty levels as well that effect the reward andor the amount of BP your given! So not everyone has to be a top FC to enjoy the arena!

Please do this. Please *-*

I like it gives a challege check, random encounter check 4-8man mode check, not fate related so random people can't zerg mobs down have to apply teamwork check. All left is what rewards would we get with the BP besides minions lol.

This is already in the game, it's called a duty.

I'd like to see Skirmish come back now that you mention several rounds of bosses. That was fun even if it wasn't very challenging. I could see it getting made into a mini-game at the Saucer.

My idea for Golden Saucer consists on making it a major casual content that's lots of fun and worth visiting every day with rewards spread throughout the entire day with daily/weekly rankings that give additional rewards for players to collect if they rank in the top 50 as well as daily-weekly special events.

This is just single player content so far, group content can be more elaborate.

As an example We can have 2-3 special events that can happen throughout every week in which has it's own unique rewards we can get and we can get special hosts from the Scions or exclusive Golden Saucer hosts.
Super Trivia hosted by Urianger
Treasure Chests and Mimic hosted by Thranced
Punching Machine hosted by Yda
??? hosted by Minfillia
??? hosted by Papamylo
??? hosted by Y'shtola
??? hosted by Alphinaud & Alisaie

Later on we can maybe get hidden special events hosted by leaders of current major cities and future major cities.

Each of these events have their own host tokens. In which we can get classic FF hairstyles, vanity gear, and other special goodies. They will all have their own unique loot pool for us.

You can also see as how they spend their time in the Golden Saucer throughout the day and every 2 hours they announce that the event is still going on.

Main attractions As an example are spread throughout the day for 2 hours.
Mount Racing - Not exclusive to Chocobo's. Can enter any one of your mounts for this but you must register them before the competition.
Monster Arena - 100 Monster Gauntlet
Sport - Hopefully blitzball
Triple Triad - or some form of poker?

These are the best sources for making money, seals, venture, low tier tomestomes, etc for participants. Other players that wont participate can also gamble. Each main attraction has it's own shop with it's own rewards so that you can spend the points you make. Mainly a good source to get Materia, Tokens, or Money.

Mini attractions As an example take place all throughout the day but you have limited tries for rewards yet you can keep trying aftewards just for fun.
Super Dunk
Small Fishing
3D Battler
Excavation
Slot Machines
Wood Cutting
Water Balloon
Etc

Apart from the tokens recieved here for a generalized loot pool to choose from. The Best rewards for these events consists of Minions afterwords it's just a mixture of x amount of ingredients for DoH/DoL Mega/X-pots and gil pouches.

Then we have the little events like Roller Coasters, Swimming pools, fireworks, eating, Music, etc. that are there just to people to idle and have fun in.

The whole point is to have spread content that people can do for fun throughout the day if they aren't leveling or raiding.

Also would be nice if some attractions change for Halloween.

Only if I can buy OmniSlash!

Oh man. Heck yeah. I use to do that all the time when I use to play FF7 when I was a child.

How about a sort of BossRush mode? The random encounters could be bosses from previous dungeons and have different tiers

I liked Battle Arena in FF7 and the various renditions of it in many other RPGs. Would like to see this.

An incredibly hardcore Boss Coliseum would be sick.

Do something different too, like make it 3-man & permit any mixed composition desired.

Have it in a pit where passerbyers can spectate you in real time (the open world, not instanced) from overhead.

Your group can queue for their turn in the arena, server-side only.

iLvl cap it so it's entirely skill-based.

Maybe it automatically gear-swaps you into appropriate gladiatorial garb/weapon.

A battle arena would be very fun to participate in and spectate.

Wasn't that...expected after the chocobo races?

What I want is an FFXIV form of Twister. Here you pair up or larger teams and have to either dodge standing in certain colors or have to stand in certain colors together to score points. Have things on the borders that if you get to and throw "difficulties" at your opponents like in Mario Kart,

Or...a solo form of FFXIV DDR. heh

I LIKE DODGING MECHANICS SO SUE ME :O!

simply spectating would be awesome to give people a chance to see how others are doing and also to kill time while you wait for duty finder or your own party to fill up!

It sound good.
But the arena shouldn't be a boring standard arena. Make it an island. And the enemies the bosses from all dungeons.
This would be the perfect opportunity to bring Skirmish back ^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Jtk58fqVA