LVP Fight Club

[Ronald_McDonald]

I came up with an idea to have organised fights between players in a sort of Fight Club. The basic idea is a group of participants and spectators will get together and a player will request to fight another player in that group in a controlled contest - this means both start with full armour and health (or just full health for quick matches ) and there is no outside interference i.e. other people shooting. There are also no health/armour pickups allowed during the fight. The players not fighting during this time are the spectators and are not allowed to shoot at those players currently fighting. So far two such contests have been held with a very small number of players, some which were only spectators, it went very well. With a small group of players each player can fight every other player at least once, but larger groups may benefit from a 'Winner stays' type match (with health/armour pickups in-between bouts ). These matches took place just outside the ship near the armour pickup at the end of the casino and proved to be quite entertaining! However, I think a nice spot to host the Fight Club event would be the motel (where the clowns and chickens fight for control of the base). Here are some screenshots:

   

The reason I think this is a good spot is because of the arena type setting it provides along with the isolation. The courtyard of the motel would be the fight area and is of a decent size I reckon (there's no-where to hide ). You've also got the balconies that surround the courtyard, providing two levels for spectators to watch the fights from! Players not fighting must be out of the way and on one of the upper levels - it's for your own good because there will probably be some stray bullets and they do provide some cover!

Here is a link to a video (5MB AVI) of Chillosophy vs. Biig Russ in the Fight Club event filmed earlier this morning. It give you an idea of what it is like, but I think it would be even more cool at the motel. This was a close match and as you will see I caught a stray bullet.

http://rapidshare.com/files/8636108/chil...igruss.avi

At the moment there is nothing to stop other players in LVP from interfering whilst a fight is going on, but perhaps we could have some admins guarding the front entrance, or maybe someone sitting in a truck to block it. If any spectator steps out of line, I guess admins could jail them . The possibilties for this are far and wide. 2 vs. 2 matches are another idea and with scripting it may be possible to add a betting system perhaps? Until version 0.2 of sa-mp when indoor controlled fighting may be possible, the motel might be the best place. There are also armour and health pickups nearby, which is handy. For something like this to work it requires cooperation from all players/spectators i.e. we don't want some loonatic going around shooting on the balcony during a fight or basically some idiot ruining it! Something like this would be best timetabled for when the server is quiet.

Anyway, that's my idea. What do you think? Suggestions welcome

[Chillosophy]

I love this idea!

In my opinion there are two ways we can make this happen: With or without help from the developers.
If we get help from the developers, we could have players signing in and out of the fight club, spawning them automatically in the arena when they're up for the match, create a ranking ladder, auto-countdowns, adding a health and armor pickup somewhere, and much more. I hope a developer will shine some light about the possibilities.
If we don't get help from the developers we could still do everything we want, including betting etc., but then we have to improvise a bit. Put some guys at the entrance with shotguns to prevent anyone from entering the arena, and spectators have to keep an eye out for players entering from other directions. This could be kind of hard when there's a small amount of players participating.

I see great possibilities when sa-mp 0.2 is (finally) released. We could shut down the entrance entirely with a wall or something. Also we could just use Big Smoke's Crack Palace, which has multiple floors providing huge arenas. It would be easier to block other players from the playground.

[THRILLERkarl]

What an amazing idea.
Hope to see it soon in the server!

[Sander]

I like the idea.
And with our planned move of the "gang base" property, the motel is free to use again for other things. (Scripting is already in progress of this "new" prop )
But I hope normal players which are walking or driving nearby the motel, won't be shot directly, as it is now with the gangprop. That's one of the reasons to move it

And otherwise we have another motel at the end of the strip, with some balconies, and a parking lot in the middle, with a "roof" above it. A little bit the same idea as this motel, only placed somewhere else

[ScarTissue[NL]]

I absolutely love this idea. And i hope to see it on the server somewhere in the future. 

[Kecin]

Great idea!

[Cyrix404]

Yup, gotta try this!

[ScarTissue[NL]]

I dont know if this is possible or not, but i got an idea to add something to this mode. Maybe its cool to place a bet on the player you think will win the fight. If the player wins you get back your money and some profit if he loses then you just lose your money.

[Sander]

Psst:

The possibilties for this are far and wide. 2 vs. 2 matches are another idea and with scripting it may be possible to add a betting system perhaps?

[theHolyCow]

Well, if you need someone to script it: I am in.
The whole scripting part shouldnt be too hard. What will be the most difficult part is to find the perfect environment for the matches so that the rules can be enforced by the script.
As an example of one such problem: the proposed location of the fight. It too open. Spectators can get in, and participants can get out. That can possibly be solved by setting their world boundaries, but the main problem lies in people that just walk by/in. Removing them from the terrain is a possibility, but very 'dirty'. Better would be if someone could find a more remote place to fight.

Another problem would be to make sure every contender has full health and armor. Armor cant be set script side. A solution would be two 'dressing' rooms where the contenders can pick up armor before the match. Perhaps even choice what weapons they want. After a minute/30 seconds they will be teleported into the ring.

As you see no problems that cant be overcome, please post here all your ideas. When all the problems have been worked out we can start to implent it.

Brutal violence will serve LVP well