Can look back at this also to help grow pbase, perhaps a new look at gladiators...
IDEA:
Everyone has an option of creating their own gladiator character, one per person. All the previous contest gladiators will be NPC's of a sort. Playable as Immortals, or perhaps others with a unique flag... Gladiator characters can battle each other to gain experience or something more prestigious, if it were a contest. Or fight rankings against the hero npc gladiators to gain money or something of that nature, to buy minor weapon/armor upgrades, mounts, pets, these things will simply more for show. It gives something to work towards.
Gladiators are already in game and primarily already coded. I'd imagine to do something of this nature would just take a few minor tweaks here and there. But it would open up a whole other aspect of the game and put everyone on more of an equal footing and it would be based entirely on skill. It would certainly in time help to see what classes are in fact the most imbalanced.
Is this idea too farfetched or something do-able without a lot of work?
Thoughts?