i wanna say something to duels on battle servers:
short:
1. i am pro duels for last enemy on small servers
2. i don´t care much about multi
3. i can only talk for playin on EU_4
detailed:
For me, i can only talk about EU_4 in this case.
I personally really enjoy giving/ receiving duels to/ as the last enemy standing!!
I always try to give duels for the last enemy and when i get ganked by 7 enemys i abuse them!
As it is much more important to me to have fun and a nice playtime than always have x5 i really am cheesed off of gankin 6vs1 at ends of rounds...
There is no skill needed in that.
As this is a roleplay game, why u should not play the role of a honourable fighter on the field of battle??!?
With givin duels for the last enemy standing, u show respect to the guy who managed to stay alive! (and for earlier comments: on EU_4 i didn´t really notice anyone who has hidden himself the hole round just to ask for duels at the end...just seen my old friendchers hiding and shooting or HA,HX delaying every round and piss others off...)
On the other hand, if u receive duels, the others show respect to u and it just feels nice.
No idea how it is on EU_1 but i can´t imagine any honourable behaviour is possible there...
I like to play on small Servers (EU_4 smallest left, since melee-server´s down...) because there are mostly the same guys around. When u get to know them a bit the most are very friendly and it´s nice to play with them. I think most guys who play there feel the same way. So if u see a "friend" out there, u don´t wanna gank him together with 5 others if u see he´s the only one left and can´t get any help.
The ones who do that and like that....well...it´s a matter of character....
So in my opinion, givin/receivin duels is no kind of e-peen thing. It´s just a part of good behaviour in a melee-roleplay-game.
Because others care a lot about their multi i have to AGREE that it should also be a part of good behaviour for the guy who receives duels, to throw his weapon away and let himself get killed from the last enemy of the group who granted the duels.
In that way the team who supposed to win doesnt loose their multi. From now on i will do it that way!
To make a rule that forbids the option of giving duels will piss off playes like me, and i guess i´m not the only one who thinks that way.
As the contra-duel-fraction guys say "go to EU_3" if u wanna duel, i can say don´t go to small servers if u just like to gank?!
For those who say "if i am dead, i don´t wanna wait the time the duels take" i could say there are so many HA, HX, my old friendchers who just come to small servers to piss people off [the words some HA-player from Bloody-clan said to me
] that delay every round what takes a hundred times longer then some nice duels (which are great fun to watch)!!
resumee:
Let duels take place if people want to duel!
Gank if u can´t leave it be (what makes all cute puppy´s and baby Kittens in the world cry) but don´t complain if people hate u and abuse u for that!
BUT IN GOATS NAME, DO NOT FORBID IT!