KOTM / KOTY rules discussion

[erwin]

I think..KOTM should be a way to use all the skills/spells you have at your disposal, and think out whatever tactics to defeat the other party, something like what LH does to outthink fighters.

That said, for my four matches in KOTM, I used different tactics for each person, because I tried to guess what the other person would use and hence counter. All my tactics had available counter tactics (for the people I used it on, except save for LH), so I don't see anything wrong with it.

PS, if heal potions were allowed in KOTM, I would definitely have dropped the DJ voids on the floor and quaff them when wounded, just to lighten the load in my inventory.

[Fizban]

PS, if heal potions were allowed in KOTM, I would definitely have dropped the DJ voids on the floor and quaff them when wounded, just to lighten the load in my inventory.

And I would have sacrificed the voids...

[erwin]

Well, there you go. Tactic against tactic.

In KOTM, the battleground is already chosen, in normal PK, it is not (unless by consent). So therefore, 'dirty fighting' there is limited to what you have on hand, not on the environment.

Eg, I can't lure you into mazes or push you into DTs, or get high level aggro mobs to chase you.

[Xeriuth]

Then you get back to the 'knight' concept. The Knight of the Month shouldn't win by fighting dirty.  Wouldnt fit the name well.

[erwin]

True.

Maybe evil knights or crafty knights? There are a lot of these in fiction and games. Bah. I'm just quibbling.

[Xeriuth]

New name EOGKOTM Evil or Good Knight of the Month

[Virisin]

For gods sake.. Reading this makes me angry. PK is so far different from anything held in the arena it's not even funny. You (Lionheart) and Xeri should know this. Just because the bloody tournament has the word 'knight' in it, doesn't mean we're all meant to dress up in armor and fence..

The more 'rules' you add into KOTM, the more it becomes suited to certain classes.. If you make it no healing, or no mounts.. You're just making it easier for certain classes. Centaurs for example - seeing as they're always mounted. Why don't other classes get to share that benefit? Sure, I agree that people shouldn't abuse bugs in KOTM, but that's totally different to just using all the skills you have available to you, as Erwin said. Letting us use all of our skills or spells doesn't turn it into a PK tournament, PK is when someone has the element of surprise..

Blah, blah.. How much more could I say.

[Xeriuth]

Yeah I know, I'm a fan of anything goes, except for blatant bug abuse. But just making a point.

[Estidn]

I'm a fan of blatent bug abuses and anything goes.

[erwin]

Well, even if there are blatant bug abuses and such, KOTM would be a good way to get it fixed, because then the players involved would highlight such bugs.
Eg, I think trap aware, snare, retreat, mythril bracelet got fixed during the last KOTM.

Besides, those who use such bugs and win the KOTM would then be the Knave of the Month

[Fizban]

*cough*

I think Erwin just called himself a knave.

[erwin]

I'm a thief