Forum Challenge Game?
Been thinking it was about time to start up a new forum challenge game, and I wanted to solicit ideas about what people might be interested in (assuming there is interest at all).
I guess the most recent big challenge game was AdomPossible in 2014. This was a team, mission based challenge where teams ran multiple characters having to complete various objectives "Find an artifact; Kill Gaab'Baay" for points. I like the format, though in the most recent implementation, some people ended up getting stuck playing really long turns to catch up when they started to fall behind. I was thinking that exploration mode (or even story mode) might help resolve some of these issues in one way or other, maybe open up some more interesting possibilities for missions/rewards/whatever as well.
A few years back we did a couple of head-to-head competitions between players in a ladder system, where you'd play a couple of rounds diving in the ID and try to outlast an opponent. ID runs may be a bit repetitive these days, although it's possible we could spice this up using some of the "Challenge of the Week" characters that have access to vaults and other fun stuff.
Even longer ago was the The Weakest Link that sort of kicked off the competitive challenge games AFAIK, where a group of ~6 people all played a single character in the ID, and tried to outlast each other similar to the Duel to the Death above, except with a larger group.
Of course, if people have other ideas, we can always do something else...
Other thing to think about is version compatibility. Latest public release is r60, IIRC, but it would probably be nice to encourage the Steam crowd to play, so r64 for them. r65 seems fairly unstable, IMHO, so I don't think that one should be used. r60 and 64 aren't compatible with each other, but if we do a Weakest Link/AdomPossible type thing, we can at least have Steam teams and a public teams.
Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?
Hoping to win with every class, doomed. Archer, Barbarian, Bard, Beastfighter, Druid, Elementalist, Farmer, Fighter, Monk, and ULE Priest down.