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Why would you put so much effort into coding / programming a neutral duel area. If you can just add a new teleport location to Liron Malfurion to Gurubushi Arena.

Just a little idea since I heard a few people requesting neutral duel areas.

Firstaidkit wrote:Why would you put so much effort into coding / programming a neutral duel area. If you can just add a new teleport location to Liron Malfurion to Gurubushi Arena.

Just a little idea since I heard a few people requesting neutral duel areas.

Because Gurubashi isn't a neutral duelling area, it's a ffa zone.

Cube wrote:

Firstaidkit wrote:Why would you put so much effort into coding / programming a neutral duel area. If you can just add a new teleport location to Liron Malfurion to Gurubushi Arena.

Just a little idea since I heard a few people requesting neutral duel areas.

Because Gurubashi isn't a neutral duelling area, it's a ffa zone.

Oh yeah right.
Well maybe a little bit of coding then so it won't be a ffa zone anymore but neutral duel area =P.

getting ported right into the middle of an ffa zone could be kind of fun. there could be some kind of daily that requires you to kill 10 people or something.

Akatosh wrote:getting ported right into the middle of an ffa zone could be kind of fun. there could be some kind of daily that requires you to kill 10 people or something.

I highly agree with Aktosh's idea, that'll liven up the PvP in general. You're basically killing whatever is in the arena. Ofc, there'll have be a little "Sanctuary Zone" next to the FFA zone though.

no. Kill stealing. Teaming. may the flame wars begin.

its really good idea, things got boring like Hyjal ., and a new portal to a world pvp area would be really funny.

These suggestions have been posted numerous times over the years. The answer has always usually been the same.

Let me explain why doing this would be horrible.


Firstly, if you already dislike Hyjal or graveyard farming in battlegrounds, you are going to loathe FFA PvP zones. Currently, there is no methods to prevent grouping in such zones. Doing such would require a bit of programming and checks to see if you're in a group before teleporting and disallow group creation while in said zone.

Here's how normal instances work of Gurubashi without many modifications:


Player joins Gurubashi.
Player gets killed immediately by opposing players.
- or -
Player gets killed even faster than immediately by a group of random people that teamed up for 5 v 1.
Player revives.
Player is killed again.
Player revives.
Player is killed again and cannot leave the zone or hearth.
Player quits server.
Corpse is left behind to lower FPS and eventually 1000 other players do the same.

See the pattern? It's a nightmare usually. If we're already seeing corpses pile up at DUELING zones, imagine how bad it would even be in FFA PvP zones.

Not only would we have to spend time programming disallowing groups, but disallowing Honorable Kills. There is just NO WAY I could allow players to earn "honorable" kills from this. Firstaidkit, you alone would devote your every waking minute to having like 5 groups of 5 players kill stuff for you. It would become such an addiction like you were playing Whack-A-Mole, except it's players being "whacked" to raise up your score.

I just see this being a nightmare.


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Hardlight wrote:no. Kill stealing. Teaming. may the flame wars begin.

Well actually I suggested a neutral dueling area in Gurubushi Arena so you can only do duels there with Alliance and Horde. You won't get any Honorable Kills out of this it's just for fun so that Horde players can duel Alliance players and vice-versa, because now if I want to duel an Alliance I need to go to Caverns of Time or somewhere else and usually they don't even come alone...