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[Yung]

This is great! It seems like just the thing to get a couple thousand players back online again!

Unfreezing accounts would be the next best thing...

[Turnip]

Hell fucking no :V
Unless they actually managed to get a decent programmer this is probably going to be another huge n flashy whip n slashy Flash application with loads of sparkles and bugs/broken things everywhere.......

Watch as people are going to be complaining about how bad it (probably) is then leave :V I don't think TNT know how to keep their customers ahaha
hah

[Perona]

While I wouldn't be surprised if TNT bung the whole thing up I'm still hopeful. The Battledome has been needing an update for a very long time now.

I see a lot of people who want a war or BD plot, however these days the interest in the BD has been dwindling so I couldn't really see it happening again with the old BD. If the update is good and manages to get more players interested in the BD, then it would hopefully lead to a plot or at least more regular updates like new challengers, new DoN etc.

[Waser Lave]

Should be a good time to stock up on some battledome-related items which will probably inflate as people get ready to try out the new system.

[Bone]

I predict this change will be as popular as conversion/customization.

[Nalah]

Surely whatever they do, it can't get any worse. Although why couldn't they leave the old BD up as well..?

[Cript]

Surely whatever they do, it can't get any worse. Although why couldn't they leave the old BD up as well..?

That's the part I really don't understand. It's fairly obvious that they don't have a dev environment and that they test all their changes against their production systems but unless there's some sort of shared system both BDs would leverage, I just don't get why they couldn't leave the old one up. The fact that they won't leave it up tells me that they're making changes to existing systems - whether that means changing what certain stats do, what certain weapons do, etc, I don't know...but it has to be changing something that the existing dome uses.

[Pilot]

Surely whatever they do, it can't get any worse. Although why couldn't they leave the old BD up as well..?

Beggars can't be choosers I guess.

[Waser Lave]

You remember they just updated the Species specific abilities? I don't want to hazard a guess if battling and/or training will be reborn in such a manner that current weapons have the same usage.

I'd guess the weapon stats will remain the same unless they add some kind of new abilities or new icon types but I can't really see that happening.

[kidbit]

Think they'll get rid of all the old challengers?

noooooooooooooo I hope they don't, I haven't got all the avatars yet :<

[Waser Lave]

I do, that would make sense why they are shutting down

I'd say that's so they have adequate time to install, debug and test it all fully before final release to avoid looking completely incompetent if they released it full of bugs.

[Waser Lave]

Then why take down the existing system.

So they can clear the fight records during testing as they mentioned in the beta sign up page? If you had people using the beta and the current one at the same time you'd have to track player stats separately whereas they can just use the one system if they take down the current version.

[Hydrange]

Do you think they will retire the normal oponents? I still need a few upgrades to my DoN1 trophy.

[sbetta]

My guess is that they're going to incorporate agility somehow--maybe NQ2 style, where it affects how fast your turn comes. Perhaps spruce up the faerie abilities (make levels actually do something?), maybe even re-incorporate the idea of petpets helping in the battledome. Or they'll just make it some ghastly Flash abomination. It's TNT, so who knows?

I'm praying the prizes will be codestones/neggs. Codestone training has already been ridiculously expensive lately, and if more people start training in anticipation of the new battledome, it's going to get even worse.

[Waser Lave]

My guess is that they're going to incorporate agility somehow--maybe NQ2 style, where it affects how fast your turn comes. Perhaps spruce up the faerie abilities (make levels actually do something?), maybe even re-incorporate the idea of petpets helping in the battledome. Or they'll just make it some ghastly Flash abomination. It's TNT, so who knows?

I'm praying the prizes will be codestones/neggs. Codestone training has already been ridiculously expensive lately, and if more people start training in anticipation of the new battledome, it's going to get even worse.

I'd be really surprised if they went with flash since it's on the way out now in favour of HTML5.

[Pavement]

To be on the safe side, you should probably get the rest of the BD avatars now in case TNT fucks up something again.

Also, consider investing in codestones because whatever changes (it's not like they're really gonna go from scratch) they make in the BD, the crappy levelling system won't be one of them.

[Michaelhex]

has anyone here already got picked out to test the beta ? any specific date TNT will tell you ?

[kidbit]

has anyone here already got picked out to test the beta ? any specific date TNT will tell you ?

the 'old' battledome hasn't even gone down yet, I think it will probably take a while until they start picking beta testers

[tri]

the 'old' battledome hasn't even gone down yet, I think it will probably take a while until they start picking beta testers

Well they said in the next week or so, so October 4 and today is the 10 so ya they could start choosing them.