suggestions

Just a random thought since the one that just ended showcases pretty much everything wrong with the tournament system as is. Those being the following:

1) One clan had 302 members participate. I think everyone else had a grand total of maybe 40 or so. This is just stupid. It was better when Apex was around and Lusitania had an opponent but now it's just overkill.

2) All the tournament builds have already been found out and the same result happens every month pretty much. There needs to be more randomness.

I bring this up as a way to suggest ideas to fix it so it's not so...dumb? Like an actual competition of sorts that people actually want to participate in vs. just getting their asses handed to them? Some random ideas I had:

1) Max out tournament bots slots to 20 or so per clan. I'm sure Lusitania would just make 15 different clans though this way. Not ideal but it looks less stupid than 302 bots in one clan.

2) Randomize the levels or have a scorer/basic bot tournament category. This way normal players could also participate or at least it would change up the winners.

3) Be able to sign up for the tournament for a week or more. Barely anybody even notices it's there and boom, 2 days later it's over.

Just throwing out some ideas since it just looks broken af at the moment.

3) Be able to sign up for the tournament for a week or more. Barely anybody even notices it's there and boom, 2 days later it's over.

Now, I've never remotely cared about this part of the game and am not trying to notice... but it has felt to me like in bots2 you couldn't help but notice... and I've literally never noticed since coming back - minus the one day I saw hundreds of bots joining the top 2 clans and thought that seemed like something and figured out what was up.

Definitely feels like there could be some big blinking neon lights on homepage or something though... not that I, personally, would care too much... but still.

Also... never understood why it should cost kudos to enter the tournaments, tbh. Sure, kudos don't mean much... but even a small disincentive is still some kinda discincentive.

I'm in favour of randomising the tourney cats. Firstly this would add more complexity, as you would have to figure out the best build at every level. The fun with building tourney bots is the theorycrafting. In contrast it's extremely boring to build the same bot 10x to give yourself the best chance of winning a tourney. The tourney already maximises randomness by allowing only one fight against each bot, so this would just be an extension of that idea.

Btw as an aside, and I know I have harped on about this a lot before, but the con rule should be removed and/or downgraded at minimum to level/3.5 like it was in bots2 rather than level * 0.35. This would paradoxically allow better tourney builds to be made and more theorycrafting possible

Just dont allow freaked builds to participate. fixed haha