minion training idea (in General)


{cb1}dyno February 7 2006 3:31 PM EST

I am open to the fact that the thought that I'm about to share could be completely stupid, but I thought it could spice the game up possibly.

We have fighting, we have forging. Those are the 2 main things you can do in this game. But there's nothing in between. However, what about the idea of something in between? Allow me to dream...

What if someone wanted to get one minion significantly stronger, as you felt that if it could just get a bit stronger, it could greatly help your strat? My idea is this: Have someone called a trainer/mentor/sensai/whatever, where someone can use their ba to take on someone's minion and give it special training, all while the person who lent the minion can still fight with the remaining minions. To simplify, it's sort of like "minion forging". This allows for one to get extra exp trained on that minion while at the same time still having the other minions fighting, thus not losing clan points. It does, however, force one to adapt their fightlist appropriately.
Another thing would be that this wouldn't be able to be too cheap, as a high roller could have 3 minions trained by 3 separate people while getting huge rewards for the one minion they have left.

I know it's raw, I just wanted to get some feedback. Perhaps I'm just crazy :). Flame away!

Vaynard [Fees Dirt Cheap] February 7 2006 3:57 PM EST

Well, it's an interesting idea at least. But I can't ever see Jon letting us break up teams and send single minions around. That seems like it would be ripe for abuse. Another point is you could say a RoE is exactly the same as this idea. One minion gets extra xp while the whole team fights. Name it Sensei if you want the added effect. And anyway, we don't need another way for USD spenders to take off in XP by sending out all 4 of their minions to get 'trained' at once. And how unfair is this to Single minions?

So again, an interesting idea, but unfortunately it has some problems.

QBRanger February 7 2006 4:12 PM EST

Ill pay 20 million for Imp's AS minion.

Game over.

{cb1}dyno February 7 2006 6:28 PM EST

Fair enough. So we scrap the idea of buying/selling minions. That still allows for the possibility of loaning minions for training purposes. There could be stipulations, such as those minions cannot fight for whomever they are loaned to.

QBRanger February 7 2006 7:07 PM EST

Cool,

So all my minions go to the "friend, dog, wife, son, brother etc.." who just started a NUB character with its massive bonus to get powered exp.

Game over again.

[T]Vestax February 7 2006 7:17 PM EST

Removable minions that can be traded already exists. They are called familiars. As for getting one minion higher then the rest, that's called a RoE.

Ranger would buy a larger tattoo if he could, but he can't. Why? Because his is the largest. Game over.
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