Re: [DMM] Taimanin Asagi
Also, forgive me for my ignorance but who is Sasayama? On that note, ¥6000 to try and get Murasaki...? Hum...
Ittousei Sasayama: one of Lilith Soft's main directors and planners. Also credited as a scenario writer in many games. He was at the helm for both TA3 and KS3, so that should speak volumes about his position in the company, although I'm personally unsure about what stake he holds in it. Regardless, I don't feel terribly bad for him as he's probably making a substantial profit off Kessen Arena anyway.
I don't remember which server he's playing on (probably Tokyo Kingdom since that seems to be the oldest one), but I have occasionally spotted him in the rankings with the handle "sasalilith".
Well, unsurprisingly, the game is down for emergency maintenance. From what little I saw of the arena, it seems like you select from a list of players to battle against which are the same level as you are. Might be tough on players that managed to get by without good cards for this. Didn't see the reward system in great detail, so can't say much about it.
Update as of 8.20pm JST: Seems like they have disabled the battle arena. Brilliant execution!
I didn't actually see the revamped arena before it went down again for emergency maintenance, so I don't know if level is a criterion for opponent selection, but from what they've revealed so far, I gather the playerbase will be split into fourteen tiers, with competition driven by the limited space available in the highest and most exclusive tiers.
Rewards will be distributed on the basis of one-time prizes for first getting into a given tier and staying prizes, received every Monday for remaining in a given tier for more than seven days. The assumption here is that the higher tiers offer better staying rewards, inciting players to keep climbing the ranks and defending their positions there. Rank 1 (the highest tier) only has 100 seats. Ranks 2-9 have their carrying capacity determined as a percentage of the number of active players in the past week:
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Rank Capacity
1 100 players
2 1% of the previous week's active playerbase
3 2% of the previous week's active playerbase
4 3% of the previous week's active playerbase
5 4% of the previous week's active playerbase
6 5% of the previous week's active playerbase
7 10% of the previous week's active playerbase
8 20% of the previous week's active playerbase
9 30% of the previous week's active playerbase
10-14 Everyone else
At ranks 10 and below, winning 5 battles will allow you to rank up. Losing 7 battles (only counting those initiated by yourself) will cause you to rank down.
Once they are filled to capacity, entry into ranks 9 and above will involve promotion battles to challenge a higher-ranked player for his seat. The only way to be demoted from those ranks is to lose a promotion battle (sort of... more on that below).
Once you are elligible for promotion after winning 5 battles, you will be granted a 60-minute period during which you can initiate an unlimited number of promotion battles (at the cost of 1BP each). Once the 60-minute period has passed or if you choose to forego the opportunity, your win counter towards promotion will be reset and you will have to win another 5 battles before becoming elligible again.
Your opponent for the promotion battle is selected based on the following criteria, in order:
-Lowest result of (Wins - Losses), only counting battles initiated by oneself
-Above being equal, most time elapsed since promotion
-Above being equal, most time elapsed since last login
Promotion battles are two-round affairs. In the first round, your attack team will take a stab at the opponent's defense team, and vice versa in the second round. You must win both rounds in order to advance. For the sake of fairness, you will only be allowed to initiate the fight with 1BP.
As stated previously, a rank's carrying capacity is based on the total number of active players over the course of the previous week. You may have noticed that this means ranks will shrink if the active playerbase does too. In this case, players are demoted to lower ranks based on the same three criteria as those above for opponent selection in promotion battles.
Finally, you will no longer be limited to only facing off against players on the same server.
I like the fact that they seem to be moving the focus of the game to PVP. It will make pot farming a lot harder since players will have to actively split their BP between raising/maintaining their ranks and fighting raid bosses.
And at least the title makes a lot more sense this way.
