[Suggestion] GOLD SAUCER EXTENSION

[EDIT & UPDATES] I did remove some ideas, like Poker and Slot machine, hence to the feedback and the possible increase of the PEGI. I also took my time to rethink and add some minigames as well.

DO NOT FORGET: Since latest interview with Gamewatch and Yoshi-P, we will get Patch 3.5 Part 1, 3.55 and 3.5 Part 2! Meaning, we might have a chance to get something new in the Goldsaucer. And we all know, til 4.0 is still a long way to go.

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Originally Posted by Texa

Slot machines, poker, and black jack are a little dicey (snort) to implement because of PEGI.... push the game from the current 16 rating in Europe to an 18 rating.

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Update current Attractions

Lord of Verminion
LoV is the most unused mini game in the Goldsaucer. On my server (Odin-EU), I likely see not even 1 single person playing this game.
My suggestions:

• Enable us to play in different play modes like Team Deathmatch or Co-op mode (i.e. for the 24 trials). We have 3 gates to spawn our little fellows, why not allowing friends to take 1 gate and participate in a round or 2 for LoV?!
  
  http://i.imgur.com/sbJdRS3.png
• Different maps to give the game more variety.

Mini-Games
Mini-Games are all over the GS and accessable for everyone at once. These mini-games are appealing and definetly a good pastime, while waiting for DF or want to just hang out in the GS.

http://i.imgur.com/GoVzrNs.jpg?1

• An heavy MGP reward increase. The 10-20 MGP you get per game is kinda a shame. You should be rewarded if you do PERFECT in the mini-game and punished if you do not so well.
• I'm not sure, if people ever noticed this but; When playing these mini-games together with family, friends or your partner (even in party) - They can NOT watch you how you are playing. You only stay infront of the gaming machine and nothing happens.

Chocobo Racing

• It would be nice to have a "rematch button". It is kinda annoying that we have to leave the race and then reque and wait for 30s and then wait again at the end of the race that every chocobo did reach the deadline. Wait, wait, wait.... -sigh-
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  Originally Posted by Tint

  ... in the original FF7 chocobo racing we had 4 different classes: C, B, A and S. why do we now have 13? ... you can't race together with your friends because they are all in different classes...

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http://i.imgur.com/QIb5VCw.png

Ideas & New Attractions

Previous Events
Here, I was thinking about previous events and instances we had while doing them. I would suggest to implent them in the goldsaucer. They dont have to be on same map as the other GS attraction. I mean, the lift is working right?

Halloween 2016: Haunted Mansion
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Originally Posted by Sainya

What I wish is they'd bring back previous seasonal events they aren't going to repeat.

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Original Final Fantasy Minigames

• Battle Arena or Coliseum
  
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  Originally Posted by Evangela

  Battle Square... let us fight monsters for rewards.

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  http://i.imgur.com/F5yoF92.jpg
• Snowboarding
  
  http://i.imgur.com/tafS5HU.jpg
• Shooting Coaster
  
  http://i.imgur.com/qLK8ALD.png
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  Originally Posted by Brightshadow

  Monster Hunter (FFIX) (Hunter chance) (Big event like chocobo hunting takes to instance zones of cities like Ishgard, ul'dah) and you can even play as the monsters.

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  http://i.imgur.com/LH1CmUA.jpg

New GATE's

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  Originally Posted by Brightshadow

  Hide and go Tonberry (hide & go seek) (New Gate)

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  Originally Posted by Brightshadow

  Chocobo, Chocobo, Moogle? (Duck, Duck, Goose) (New gate)

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Other minigames

• Waitress
  I took these Minigames from Tales of Abyss, it was pretty fun and yea. Maybe you like them too?
  
  http://i.imgur.com/lUUaHbP.jpg
• Mini-Labyrinth
  Could be some sort of 2D Labyrinth?
  
  http://i.imgur.com/Wsm0E8A.jpg
• Relax/Dance Floor & Chess & Bingo
  We got so many dances, so why not? :D
  
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  Originally Posted by ebon

  Chess, bingo and a dancefloor with npc disc jockey

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TLDR; The Goldsaucer should be a place to enjoy with friends. You should be able to play various games when bored or waiting for the DF/PF. The Goldsaucer should be a place to relax and have fun - while having a lot of variety. The Goldsaucer should be a place to meet new people, new friends, new companions.

If you have any other suggestions, please write them down. I will make sure to add some of your ideas! Thanks and I hope you enjoy reading!

MAKE GOLDSAUCER GREAT AGAIN! please, SE

Slot machines, poker, and black jack are a little dicey (snort) to implement because of PEGI http://www.pegi.info/en/index/id/33/ . Inclusion of real-world gambling elements could push the game from the current 16 rating in Europe to an 18 rating. That'd be like going from T to an M in American ESRB ratings.

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Originally Posted by Texa

Slot machines, poker, and black jack are a little dicey (snort) to implement because of PEGI http://www.pegi.info/en/index/id/33/

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Ahhh, well thats sad. But guess you have a point there. I'd still like to see some proper stuff in there though!

Lord of Verminion doesn't need changing, you just need to get better.

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Originally Posted by GMERC

Lord of Verminion doesn't need changing, you just need to get better.

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Ohh its not about changing it majorly. Just making it a bit simpler to decoy more players to it. Anyway, hence I said I would like to have more modes like multiplayer/Co-op, so it would be funnier. Doesnt mean I didnt finish all 24 challenges just because I wrote something about it. :P

Yeah, I really hope we had the chance to re-visit some event instances. The haunted manor was too good for a one time thing, imo. You should be able to expand it with more challenges even. Give it a weekly challenge and some GATEs or random mobs spawning (Cyclops/Treasure Goblins) like in the Aquopolis.

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Originally Posted by xbahax92

Ohh its not about changing it majorly. Just making it a bit simpler to decoy more players to it. Anyway, hence I said I would like to have more modes like multiplayer/Co-op, so it would be funnier. Doesnt mean I didnt finish all 24 challenges just because I wrote something about it. :P

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Face it, if they expanded the number of minions you could summon at any given time you would still complain because mashing nothing but 30CP minions is a rookie mistake and you'll still lose to more balanced or better put together deployments.

Introduce Chocobo racing betting among players, allow us to register our bred Chocobos. It will draw social interaction and promote use of the current system.

Please do not change LoV... that would involve putting resources into LoV

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Originally Posted by Marcellus_Cassius

Introduce Chocobo racing betting among players, allow us to register our bred Chocobos. It will draw social interaction and promote use of the current system.

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As stated above, that would increase the rating for the game. Not only that, but in certain parts of the world it could lead to the game being banned. There's also matters of needing a gambling licence even though it's only an in game currency.

i would suggest to add more racing tracks to the chocobo race.

and: very important: shrinking the amount of different racing classes. now we have R20, R40, R60, R80, R100, R120, R140, R160, R180, R200, R220, R240, R300.... see the problem? in the original FF7 chocobo racing we had 4 different classes: C, B, A and S. why do we now have 13? that's way too much, you can't race together with your friends because they are all in different classes, and because you can't race together people don't bother with the chocobo racing at all... even the free class doesn't have a lvl synch, i destroy all my friends with my R300 chocobo :x

I really like the suggested mini games I would also like to suggest a few more.
2.) Hide and go Tonberry (hide & go seek) (New Gate)
3.) Chocobo, Chocobo, Moogle? (Duck, Duck, Goose) (New gate)
4.) Monster Hunter (FFIX) (Hunter chance) (Big event like chocobo racing takes you to instance zones of cities like Ishgard, ul'dah) and you can even play as the monsters.

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Originally Posted by GMERC

Lord of Verminion doesn't need changing, you just need to get better.

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If it wasnt a fail, there would be more then 7 ppl total enjoying it. It fails, totally

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Originally Posted by Mindylou

If it wasnt a fail, there would be more then 7 ppl total enjoying it. It fails, totally

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7 is being generous
http://i.imgur.com/qxhyAyL.jpg
Here's how many people entered the previous tournament on my server.

The most excited any of my friends got about it recently was when I told them they didn't even have to move to get the weekly challenge 10k mgp for playing it. You can just afk while the computer kills you.

Chess, bingo and a dancefloor with npc disc jockey

What I wish is they'd bring back previous seasonal events they aren't going to repeat. It could even be a single NPC entrance into a place with premade background areas which you can see but not enter (They already do this in cutscene areas such as the leader of Limsa's hall, any place in game that you can see the sky but not explore into. As well as the quest instance areas.) The game already re-allocates the resources needed - so right now when there isn't a lot of things going on (perhaps in 4.0 near the end) would be a good place to implement, vs at the beginning of an expansion.

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Please do not change LoV... that would involve putting resources into LoV

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I do understand what you mean and I can agree halfway with you, but in the end we are paying our monthly subs, we are buying stuff from the cash shop and not to forget, we are paying a lot of money for every expansion. I do not see, why we should leave a content which already got "resources wasted" on. In my opinion, rather than just letting it go into dust, renew it or add feature like I mentioned.

@Everyone. Thanks for your support and also your ideas. I made sure to mention them! Lets do this! Lets make Goldsaucer great again!

Battle Square.

let us fight monsters for rewards.

and also a new arena PvP.

Because swimming is being added. Why not some kind of water sport?

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Originally Posted by Dreggit

Because swimming is being added. Why not some kind of water sport?

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Why not flying Chocobo races? Give us some new courses. Let us race in the sea of clouds, or even in the ishgard snow.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

Battle Square.

let us fight monsters for rewards.

and also a new arena PvP.

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^This.

Also chocobo jousting. :3