Your thoughts and what you would like to see for the Gold Saucer in the future?

[DarkDedede]

Monster Battle Arena

[Nyghtmarerobu]

Battle Square for sure. 4 or 8 man teams where you fight waves of enemies that get progressivly stronger. After every wave you will get a random buff or debuff that persists through the rest of the battle square round you signed up for with a boss at the end. Would be alot of fun I think. MGP prizes, and maybe item loot for bosses you defeat at the end to use to craft glams or other things.

[Welsper59]

Battle Square for sure. 4 or 8 man teams where you fight waves of enemies that get progressivly stronger. After every wave you will get a random buff or debuff that persists through the rest of the battle square round you signed up for with a boss at the end. Would be alot of fun I think. MGP prizes, and maybe item loot for bosses you defeat at the end to use to craft glams or other things.

Honestly, given the nature of the Gold Saucer, I'm hoping for a solo option as well. It'd follow not only the FF7 format, but also what the Gold Saucer is essentially designed as for this game too. I mean, the rewards for solo can be much smaller in scale, but it'd just fit more IMO.

Team games in general would be an interesting addition though. It's pretty fun to queue up with a lot of people you know for Chocobo Racing. It's especially awesome when you're with friends, and the one person that generally doesn't do very well, gets the Trollteor and /lololololol his/her way to 1st LOL.

[RobinRethiel]

No need for smaller rewards, playing alone can be much harder, you really are all on yourself. Group arena, so people can help each other and play coop, but why less reward for solo play?

[Welsper59]

No need for smaller rewards, playing alone can be much harder, you really are all on yourself. Group arena, so people can help each other and play coop, but why less reward for solo play?

Doesn't have to be smaller, but it really comes down to a balance thing that's why. MMORPGs are group related games, rather than solo. This basically translates to not encouraging solo play over group as the dominant method (unless there is no group version of said content). So if they do decide to offer battle arena or something, but only a solo access version of it, then by all means they shouldn't reduce the reward at all, so as to keep it in line with others. If they do design it around a group aspect however, then they'll probably have to reduce the reward to make the group version even remotely attractive of an option.

Mind you, "smaller rewards" is only in reference to being compared to the group version. So say the average payout was around 2000 MGP for it, the solo should keep in line with that, with group version paying out maybe 2500 or 3000. That sort of thing. Reward people for playing with others, which is what this genre is about, not to mention for taking the time to bother getting a group together (time that could have otherwise been spent doing the activity solo). Or don't, it's really just up in the air until they ever mention anything about it.

[Mimilu]

-An Inn so I can store all this glamour and get my hair did when I get more glamour.
-A Monster arena like the Grand Slam in Chrono Cross, where we can raise a party of monsters and have them fight other player's monsters, turn-based style.
-Better and more rewarding mini-games. Only 5 MGP isn't even worth the effort of playing most of them.
-I want a prison underneath, just like VII.
-Gold Saucer needs its own primal like Quezacotl (VIII summon that had abilities related to Triple Triad) or Cait Sith or even Godbert himself.
-Other mounts allowed in the Chocobo Races.

[DracotheDragon]

a battle arena where one of two things can happen
1) you bet on one of the two monsters and you can watch the fight between them.
2) you can capture and raise monsters in this arena and earn more MGP by playing AS the monsters (releasing them giving you bonus MGP if they are at a good level) and the traps are of fitting levels (all monsters arena level would be 1 to start with making it fair if someone caught a level 50 mob )

[Kaiser-Ace]

I want a "Magitech Speeder" mini game. aka The Motorcycle mini game from FF7 only with a "Magitech Bike/hovercraft" since Eorzea has never heard of motorcycles.

(Maybe make it an achievement prize to unlock it as an overworld mount too, especially with the hovercraft idea since 3.0 will have flying mounts)

[RobinRethiel]

Doesn't have to be smaller, but it really comes down to a balance thing that's why. MMORPGs are group related games, rather than solo.

If people don't want to play with others, it's no good idea to force them. For what? That's why both should be equal. There is no need for lesser rewards. Maybe give people a small bonus who randomly help, that would be something different.

Some people like to play together, they will do this anyway.
Some people like to play on their own, they don't like it to be forced otherwise.

It's always bad when you force players to do something when there is really no single reason for it.

[Nyghtmarerobu]

How about we not think about rewards and think of ideas to add to gold saucer instead?