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Tournaments: How to increase participation?
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I wouldn't change that rule. When I'm playing hardcore I only S&E from town just to be sure I'm not doing something cheesy ... but maybe that's just me being crazy.
If the mechanics of S&E in Single Player were the same as on Battle.net (where the game keeps going, and the monsters keep coming to kill you when you hit Esc) I might feel differently. Hitting Esc, and then Save and Exit, while the monsters are still trying to kill you, and you're probably in a panic is something of a skill. I've certainly read hardcore posts from people on Battle.net who tried to S&E, and in their panic ended up in some random game menu while the monsters finished off their character (um yeah, they would've been better off continuing to play) ... But in Single Player, it's totally different. All you have to do is hit Esc and everything stops. No skill involved. You just need to know where the Esc key is located ... (I'm not impressed).
I guess bottom line: Are we Hardcore or not?
Hardcore
noun
1. the most active, committed, or strict members of a group or movement.
adjective
1. highly committed in one's support for or dedication to something.
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Well you know, there are two kinds of hardcore players: the good hardcore players, and the bad hardcore players.
The good hardcore players...<i let you go there>
Anyway, for me the discussion here is about the little things that can be opened to have more participation.
IMO those kind of tournaments are a shared personal journey in a given set of rules. Some could be tuned (MP/SP, HC/SC with elimination on death, Extended stash or not, etc.), and in the middle of that the S&E could be. Score is here for bragging support, showing how far it went, or how well, but that's not a strict competition as it can be with MF/RF tournaments.
So... yes, basically there could be a Hardcore set of ruling, and a Softcore one. Or accept each player to tune down/up his journey constraints.
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Why not go a bit further and do events in two groups? One for the HC/single death players who love the extra challenge and another one for less experienced or people who enjoy a more relaxed playstyle where a single death isn't the end of the event for you?
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If an event had points you could halve the points for each death ending at 1 min.
Eg. Kill Baal = 8 points
After 1 death kill Baal = 4 points
After 2 deaths = 2 points
After any further deaths = 1 point.
But generally it is the same question as we have with PvP. Changing the rules isn't the biggest barrier to entry. It is time and the adjustment to think about the build in a different way.
Eg. Kill Baal = 8 points
After 1 death kill Baal = 4 points
After 2 deaths = 2 points
After any further deaths = 1 point.
But generally it is the same question as we have with PvP. Changing the rules isn't the biggest barrier to entry. It is time and the adjustment to think about the build in a different way.
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Life. Virtually no playing time right now, so I've been on lurker mode more heavily than usual. I'm still around, just not a lot of progress to report on the D2 front.
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