I’ve wondered how these could be implemented. Since you’re fighting one person and not a thread, the battle system should be slightly different.

I pictured a system somewhat similar to summoning monsters in YuGiOh or Phantasy Star Online III (minus the cards). You and your opponent would try to hack each other by summoning bots/viruses/popups and move them around like troops ala Advance Wars or similar. Perhaps this platform could also be a basis for PvP too outside of Domination.

Other things I considered are status effects, such as popups lowering attack effectiveness/accuracy, some kind of poison effect that could sap your ego each turn, firewalls that could block certain skills…Basically, give the later threads extra options for attacking outside of just normal blows.

What do you guys think?

L2 Posted:

I could see IM battles, or maybe battling the admin after the rest of the forum’s been pwnd.

Combine the two—the admin IMs you over sTalk and attempts to hack you to death, hence that leads to the aforementioned battlefield game, but I’m still unsure of how that’s going to work out.

Way to stay in character. XP

Maybe you should get clbum-specific units in the boss fights, now that I mention it…That could be interesting.

It seems like an intresting idea, but with the way the game is structured is seems like it would be difficult to implement.

Boss battles are still, and will continue to be, bad ideas. The game does not support boss battles. And they don’t make sense. You fight forums, not bosses. The closest thing to a boss battle in the game is the 200 HP threads in Headbanger’s.

I dunno. I think it’d be kind of cool if you had a different kind of forum-fight—-where, like, you were trying to sway an audience, and

as fabulous persony as this sounds, think a parallel from Pokemon

The contest, as opposed to battling.

Nillo Posted:

The idea of having an IM battle with a ****ed admin amuses me. You could make it similar to the insult swordfights in Monkey Island, where you have to retort whenever he attempts to insult you. If you lose, the admin laughs at you and restores the forum to its previous state. If you win, the admin bows down to your incredible pwning skills and you receive lots of cred.

Of course, these boss fights should be used very rarely, and only in the story mode. We don’t want them in regular forums where they get old fast and mess up Domination.

you are like the anti-big brother Log in to see images!

You guys are just skeptical because you haven’t tried it yet. Just give it a chance, who knows. ET might agree…He could be working on it right now!

LemGambino Posted:

You guys are just skeptical because you haven’t tried it yet. Just give it a chance, who knows. ET might agree…He could be working on it right now!

the only good suggestion itt was nillo’s Log in to see images!

Nillo Posted:

The idea of having an IM battle with a ****ed admin amuses me. You could make it similar to the insult swordfights in Monkey Island, where you have to retort whenever he attempts to insult you. If you lose, the admin laughs at you and restores the forum to its previous state. If you win, the admin bows down to your incredible pwning skills and you receive lots of cred.

Of course, these boss fights should be used very rarely, and only in the story mode. We don’t want them in regular forums where they get old fast and mess up Domination.

http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view/4108?page=4

Check my post, I pretty much explained how I feel duels/bosses should work there.

as for what environment the boss/duel should take place, I think it should be either like one last forum or a incit style IRC

no community boss fights?! what the hell are you thinking man? XXS & FBO is one thing considering they are both storyline based, but bosses/duels aren’t so “Attached” to the storyline, it wouldn’t make sense to make them storyline exclusive, and it would make multiplayer more boring.

note that the eight/four (or hell even twelve) forum “refresh time” I suggested for bosses, that should make it less predictable (although It could potentially screw up domination… then again a predictable game is a boring game IMO.)