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haha jay wilson must be tired of repeating the same ol philosophy explanation for diablo 3 and defense of the art style. Seen so many interviews where he has said almost the exact same words.

I think that a some clarification as to how the winners would be chosen in the original post would have been appreciated. Generally a contest implies an actual competition so it is in no way surprising that people would be extremely let down by this rather lazy approach to selecting the winners. I actually thought that creativity and thoroughness in my suggestions would be at least considered an edge in the contest. Having read some of the winning replies I can not help but feel that this was a mere mosh-pit of people simply spamming "auctions plz", "PvP Titlez", and "Mor like WoW :D". Replying that it was no where explicitly said that winners would be chosen for quality is ridiculous. Furthermore, how exactly can you hope to inspire any effort in future "contests" when this is the type of reward given to those that actually displayed some effort. If we wanted to get to blizzard then Bashiok clearly would more likely read a single well crafted post on the actual Diablo 3 forums rather than pouring through hundreds of posts repeating for the most part the same actual ideas in a moronic attempt at a contest. Needless to say this entire ordeal has been overwhelmingly disappointing.

Hey these are just some things I would like to see considered for Diablo 3's PvP and Trade systems.

PvP

Banner Planting/Corpse Humiliation- Kind of aesthetic-only but adds an option to plant a banner in another players body after killing them. Could give your character a cool animation to do after a tough 1v1 PvP situation and a nice screenshot to go along with it. Merely a bad-ass /flex feature to make PvP a bit more rewarding. Blizz could even go further with this, allowing you to do cool gruesome things to other player's corpses like impaling their bodies on spikes as we saw done to some of the Rogue sisters in Diablo 2.

Video Playback System- An option for allowing you to replay awesome kills. Almost as in Madden games, you could have it play back the last 10-20-30 seconds of game-play footage before every PvP kill. Players can select how long the video is based on their own hardware limitations so that not everyone has to be lagged out by it or anything.

Dueling System- A true Dueling system that allows for more bravado in the realm of Dueling, setting it apart from just random PvP. Challenges could be issued with wagers or taunts that could be broadcasted over the entire game world. When other players doing other things see the broadcast they could have the option to become a bystander in which they could witness the duel. Then players could select an arena in which to fight. Players could wager items or money on the duel, though I am not sure what the limitations are on gambling for online games and ratings or whatever. Basically sets Dueling apart from plain ol' PvP.

Momentum Building- An orb or item that functions similar to the health orbs already seen. When the player kills another player the orb appears over the dead player's corpse which the victor could pickup for a random buff. Could be anything from +1 to all skills to a basic hp regeneration or even an increased attacking speed. Buffs could get better if you pick up more orbs, so chain killing three people would make your character pretty pumped up just like you as the player would be. Would basically allow for those all out slayerfest style battles to have a kind of spiking adrenaline level to them that further engages you in PvP.

Player Run Dungeons- An option when creating a world, allows a player to be assigned a randomly generated dungeon of a certain selectable overall type in which other players could raid. However the player has mobs on his side and/or a small amount of other players in which to fight the invading dungeon runners. Meshes a PvP environment with a PvPvEvPv eh you get it.

Clans- Introducing a clan system could bring some interesting PvP mechanics to the game as seen in other games such as Lineage 2. Clan vs Clan and other events could be encouraged to further develop the PvP system, For instance a type of game where clans compete to kill the most demons in a battlefield style area although PvP is allowed throughout the map making it a cooperative team effort. Furthermore it seems like a successful part of other games that Diablo 3 could only improve upon.

Anti Ganking Measures- Well personally I think that ganking in Diablo 2 made sense and was fun. But a good portion of people thought it indicated no skill or some other such nonsense. To remedy this a player could perhaps tick an option when creating a world that would introduce a small anti-ganking system that could go something like this: Player A, level 80, kills Player B, 24. Player A then receives a debuff which temporarily makes him level 24. Thus when Player B respawns he has a chance to at least get away or fight back. I feel that it would be a total wuss move to go the WoW PvE realm style and get rid of ganking in general for Diablo 3 so something like this option could at least mix it up a bit.

Trade

PvP and Trade Achievements- I think it is an obvious addition that Blizzard will implement eventually to all their games. Being able to compare your "Most Players Killed without Dying" achievement to your friend is a great concept. I think that Diablo could take the WotLK inspired mechanic by applying it to trade as well. Things like "highest amount of gold earned in an auction" and "number of items sold" could make the trading economy of Diablo 3 a game in itself. Achievements could give way to novelty items or even Titles like everyone seems to be clamoring about.

Auctions- A certain problem in the Diablo 2 economy was that gold had no worth. So a few have suggested that gold become the true currency in Diablo 3. Others have said that it should be hard core bartering again. The solution lies in between. A system that implements Auctions or Brows-able Wares outside of the game world could be a great way to address both wants. Players could put up an Item for a certain amount of gold/ a list of different items acceptable for bartering/or nothing but their name so that a player could barter with them in person. Furthermore trading would have to be allowable out side of the individual game worlds. Blizz still hasn't confirmed how Diablo 3 will even run on battle.net yet though so this is merely a system that would have greatly served Diablo 2.

Trading PvP- OK this is a weird idea. What if Players could trade stocks of sorts in other Player's PvP results. Almost like a Fantasy Football or Baseball league of sorts that revolves around active PvPers. So let's say a group of players buys up stocks in a certain player. Then every week they receive a certain amount of Gold or Points or something to the effect of some type of return. The amount of Gold or Points or whatever is determined by how well that player has done in PvP. Thus we have a system that is both PvP and Trade oriented. If the weekly return was some type of point system then certain rewards or goodies could be available to people when they had enough points. Then at the end of a "season" (like in a fantasy sports league) players with the most points would get some kinda big reward. Of course there would need to be regulations like a player can only invest in three different people or one of each class or something to that effect. It is also cool cause it kind of makes celebrities of good PvPers which adds incentive and something extra for the PvP aspect of the game as well. Not to mention the fact that fantasy sports leagues are f-ing addicting and combining that with Diablo, another wtf-addicting game, leads to you having no life left.

Thanks guys, hope this entertained some people. I know some of those ideas are kind of out there.