Ballista - Suggestion

[Konda]

After some thought into the matter, i have decided to Email the following to SE:

To whom it may concern,

I am writing this suggestion in hopes that something will be done about the current ballista system and the rewards involved.

I am an avid ballista fan, and enjoy it most out of all the activities found in FFXI. However, over the last few months, I noticed an alarming decrease in ballista participants. On my server (Caitsith), 60cap is the only cap that happens regularly. Uncapped ballista is cancelled the majority of the time, and I gave up on 30/40/50 cap a long time ago.

The whole system of Ballista (damage scaling etc) works very well, but I feel the lack of a material reward does not appeal to players anymore.

What I suggest is Increasing the experience points reward recieved in Ballista from the standard 500xp and changing it to the Ballista Points earned in a match multiplied by 10.
This would yield an experience points reward of between ~1000 and ~2500xp, depending on how well a player did in a particular ballista match.
This system would be similar to the way experience is rewarded in Besieged and Campaign.

Participating in Ballista should yield a healthy experience points reward because it can help you become a much better player overall, having to constantly adapt and react to different circumstances which are always different each time.

Implementing this would require little to no additional programming as ballista points are already calculated with the current system, and could be introduced very easilly.

I personally believe that the proposed changes would make low level ballista active as a potentionally large amount of experince would be gained towards a players next level.

An active ballista scene would add something new and fresh to players who are perhaps becoming bored with some of the more predictable aspects of PvE battles, and keep them interested in playing FFXI, as PvP is always different and is anything but predicable!

Thank you for your consideration.

Konda
Caitsith Server

P.S. The article about "Confict" is the third option under "Play Guide" on the offical FFXI website, I remember reading that when I first started playing FFXI and the concept of PvP seemed very exciting.
Please, do not allow this thrilling aspect of FFXI to die out! I beg of you!

P.S.S. Expanding Ballista into additional zones would have a positive boost in ballista participation in my opinion! Just something to think about!

If you agree with this, and would like to see it implemented, please copy/paste, replace my name with yours, and email to them by using the following link:


https://secure.playonline.com/supportus/index.html

Follow the Links under "Email Support" and then "Comments & Suggestions"



Thank you for your co-operation.

(Also posted this on KI PvP forum)

[Antithesis]

Good start. Maybe if they get

90000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000 responses they might do something :D