I would like to suggest a "Tier Based PvP Tournament" open to all players. Bring out your big guns and go head to head with the best in the game!

How the tiers would work:
* Each tier would have a value and it would be tied into a ships base build value. **Shipwright Tech/Duke bonuses do not count** (or should they?)
* Example - Tier One has a Value to Enter of $100,000. Meaning you can enter any combo of ships as long as their base build value is not more then $100,000. A Sloop of War has a base build value of $50,000, Sloop is $12,500, Cutters are $10,000. I could see a fleet of 1 SoW, 4 Sloop for a value = $100,000 and able to enter that tier contest. Level of ship is up to contestant and ATT count and stacking is up to them as well.
*Example of a higher ranking tier - Tier Five has a value of $2,500,000. SoLT base value is $750,000, LF is $450,000, Frig is $200,000. I could see a set up like, 3 SOLT, 1 Frig and a SoW. Or maybe someone puts up 5 Large Frigs that are stacked with great ATTs.

- These tiers would allow newer players to compete in some of the lower ranks while still gaining great battle experience and rewards
- These tiers would allow players to test different attack fleet lineups
- This would allow players to play with proper ATT stacking
- This is PvP so any Tech a player has researched is in play and for sure a deciding factor on which ships they use and how to stack ATT points.
- Buffing Voodoo is allowed, Bless and Drums. Harmful voodoo at this time is not. (Maybe in future we could look at it. Kraken/Fireship)

** You must field a fleet of 5 ships **
Tiers
T1 - $100,000
T2 - $250,000
T3 - $500,000
T4 - $1,000,000
T5 - $2,500,000
Unlimited (able to field a fleet of 5 MoW if you wanted)

There would be a leader board for each tier. Each tournament you would need to pick which tier you wanted to be in, you are allowed in 2 tiers at once. If you select one of the top 2 tiers (Unlimited or T5) you may not enter the bottom 2 tiers (T1 or T2). Each tournament is held once a month and lasts for 1 week. You are allowed 5 attacks in the tournament per "server" day. You will be matched against other players in the same tier (Nation or Guild affiliation does not matter).

Point System - 5 points per win, 1 point for tie, -2 for loss.

End of the tournament week prizes will be award to those in 1st, 2nd, 3rd in each tier class. Admin to determine prizes.

As it is proposed, it's for veterans only cause they have the tech and voodoo that carries the day.

May be have 3 or 4 levels of competition;
1 beginner (up to frigs)
2 Advanced ( up to large frigs)
3 top level ( up to MoW)
4 unrestricted ( all voodoo allowed)

Higher level higher rewards.

the new proposal has the tiers that allow all players to participate. looks good

Maha wrote:As it is proposed, it's for veterans only

I truly love this community as it very much looks out for everyone. New and Old players.

However, in a tournament there has to be a top dog and all prizes cannot be the same. I know that the players that have been here for 3-5 years have the upper hand, but I will still give it a try. I've been here for 10 months now, I think I would place around 10-15th (I think).

I say that this is a tournament for everyone. As even if you participate and get a reward for 200th place, that is still more loot than you had with no tournament. Take it and invest it in a new ship, new tech, whatever. Build and get stronger and shoot to place in top 100 next time.

Again the main point of this is however is to dust off those old war ships and get them into action, give them purpose and have some fun while doing it. They will be safe.

Always good to have more activities in the game.

+1

It needs more specialization options or else the toughest fleet wins. Except if we set perquisites like max attributes allowed and max fleet worth allowed. Or create tiers based on fleet worth.

Then see who wins at the the up to 100k fleet worth tier, then 500k etc.

I really like the idea of a tournament where one can show off their prized ships a bit .

+1

Categories would be fun to for the various levels of players, rewards should be lesser in lower skill levels and tier upward as you enter a better class.

I love the idea of a PVP tournament. I am thinking of ways that might improve what has already been said and can post them later. Great idea Shadowood! A big +1

Slindur

Sorry. -1.

There is 0 strategy in it as it goes. Just basically "whoever is richer wins!" And this would just be a huge p2w feature.

If you could implement or design some type of player input strategy based mechanic in it. I will change to +1.

DoS wrote:Sorry. -1.

There is 0 strategy in it as it goes. Just basically "whoever is richer wins!" And this would just be a huge p2w feature.

If you could implement or design some type of player input strategy based mechanic in it. I will change to +1.

Open to some ideas here Chin. Give me some thoughts. But again, the main purpose is to show off those top guns. I wouldn't consider you a p2w player and yet you have stolen your fair share of some great ships. This is where the strategy comes I would say.. Other strategy is proper stacking of att points, which a lot of players don't know about (shhh, keep this one secret).

Let me know your thoughts though.

I got an idea. Tiers of ships.

Each player picks how to stack their attributes to a 45 attribute Cutter, and they battle.

Whoever wins goes up a tier to a better ship with a few more attributes and battle with others who have the same ship but picked different attributes. The attribute placement on the ships are never shown.

This can be for any ship.

And keeps going up until the best 2 attribute placers for ships battle. Then a prize for the victor, etc.