Toribash is a wonderful game, it's innovative, challenging, fun for all ages, and best of all: free. Toribash breaks the rules of gaming by
being fun and unique without being produced by some huge company or having millions of kids who play it and line up outside of game
stores just to buy it. But unfortunately like all videogames it does hit a bump in the road here and there, which is why I would like to point
a few things out that I would change if I were in charge.
A big problem with toribash multiplayer is that when you're in a server the wait to get in a fight can seem like it takes forever. And this
doesnt get any better when people start to get draws. A draw is when two players have the same score or dq at the same time in a
match, when this happens, instead of one of them going to the back of the line, they both get to play again. This can obviously be
frustrating to the people waiting in line, especially if they are playing a mod where the matches last longer than normal due to more
frames. So imagine how mad they get when someone tries to draw on purpose. Of course this is hard to do in mods like Judo or Aikido,
but in a mod with a greater starting distance like Wushu, it is easy for one or both players to move in the wrong direction or not move at
all to avoid fighting, which then leads to a draw. They can do this repeatedly without consequence, which is why I would make it so that
whenever two players draw, instead of playing again, they both go to the back of the line. But because some mods rarely have draws, I
would make it so this rule only applied to official mods with greater starting distances. And to make sure people can play how they want,
it would be able to be turned on or off in private rooms regardless of the mod. Having this feature would make waiting in lines go by faster
and reduce a lot of frustration.
One of the fun things to do in toribash in challenge people to duels. A duel is when two players go to a private room and fight eachother
for money or items. But a problem with this is that sometimes the losing player might not want to give up his hard earned cash and try to
leave without paying up, which leads to the other player reporting him and takes up the time of admins who have to deal with these
problems. This is why I would add a new feature, one that lets you place bets in game. The in game betting would work like this: One
player challenges the other to a duel, the other accepts and when they go to the room the person with control could make the room
recognized as a duel room, which would change a few things. Firstly a small box would appear where each player places their bet of
either tc or an item which is then placed in the pot until the duel is over, secondly the room would be automatically made private so that
anyone that joined could not interrupt the duel. And thirdly you could change the amount of rounds being played. The duel room would
recognize each win and then know who the winner is, it would then transfer the winnings and turn back into a normal room. Also, if one
person decides to leave because they are losing or simply have to leave they forfeit and the winnings would be automatically transferred.
This saves time for both the players and the admins and prevents greedy sore losers from sneaking away with their cash.
One last problem I would like to adress is scamming. Scamming is when people say they will give you an item after you send them x
amount of tc, and then dont give you the item or vice versa. This is done easily because trading amongst players is always done manually
and many problems can ensue, which is why for my third change to toribash I would add an out of game trade system where you can
arrange to trade with other players, similar to the duel/bet feature I talked about earlier, each person would log in to the website and go
to the trade area where they enter the names of the other person and are redirected to a trade window, this would be pre planned by
each person most likely in the forum where people sell items. Once they are both at the trade area they would see eachother's names
and a 'tc amount' and 'item' slot. Then they would place in their items/tc and when the other person placed their items/tc you would be
able to view it and if both players agreed they would press a button which then automatically swaps the items. I realize that is probably
hard to understand in writing so I will upload some pictures later if I can to show what I mean.
Conclusively, I believe these three changes I talked about would make Toribash much more user-friendly and reduce a lot of common
frustration. I realize those things arent easy to do, but if I were in charge for a day I would do my best to make them happen.
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