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I love it. I'd like to see the destination not given out until right before
the race begins. I can imagine sitting at the starting line in somewhere
outside Booty Bay and hearing, "Ladies and gentlemen, your destination is
Darnassus. GO!" Oh, the mad scramble!
<trawetstrebor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I love the idea of a Cannonball Run or a Gumball Rally across a
> continent.
>
> Definitely with different categories so that those on foot are in one,
> those on mounts, another, etc.
>
> I'm not sure how you'd separate Paladins, from Hunters (with Aspect of
> the Cheetah), Shaman (with Ghost Wolf), and Druids (with Travel Form),
> but maybe have categories for each.
>
> Have an entry fee to this race. The fee you start with determines the
> prize you are contending for. If you're just interested in seeing the
> sites along the way, pay a fee of 50s, say, and win a commemorative
> trinket at the end. Pay 50g and compete for the choice of an epic
> weapon perhaps. Or just a cash payout.
>
> Contend for the title of "Fastest Hunter on Kalimdor" or "Fastest
> Shaman in the Eastern Kingdoms". I suppose to add some
> lightheartedness there could be a race for "Slowest Dwarf Paladin on
> Two Continents".
>
> Give runners/riders a special "Race Tabard" that will indentify them as
> participants in the race. The Race Tabard can only be "equipped" on
> the character by a race coordinator, and removed by them at the end.
>
> This Race Tabard could also act to turn the PVP flag Off regardless of
> the server type. Racing from one end of the continent to the other
> will be tough enough without worrying about gankers. While wearing
> this tabard only mobs and npcs will be able to attack the racer. And
> the Race Tabard will prevent use of boats, zepplins, and the flight
> paths.
>
> Another prize might be a special racing mount. With a much longer
> mount, dismount time, but faster overall than anything else.
>
> Maybe ... a flying mount!? The Air Races of Azeroth.
>
> Perhaps there could be mounts that are simply rented for each race?
> Let folks try out different mounts as they race across the continent!
>
> Some folks might spend there time in the BGs, and spend their money to
> improve their performance there, but there must be some who'd spend
> their money to improve their chances in the Grand Races? Or mix it up
> and do all three. Instances, BG, and Racing.
>
> Might need to rework the world a little bit and add some passes through
> lands not already so provided.
>
> And until race day I imagine a lot of folks would be out doing
> reconnaissance on the trail to see how it would be done on actual race
> day.
>
> And there could be waypoints through which the racers must pass and
> that could be populated with players. (I'd suggest no special benefits
> for the spectators and if there's duels and pvp, so be it.) Sell
> doohickies to the spectators like leather throwing balls, or snowballs,
> or fireworks. You could have a Race Day Dance Off.
>
> Yes, the world's at war, but the ancient Greeks held their Olympics
> every four years, and a truce was called to allow all to participate.
> "It is important to recall that respect for the Olympic Truce was the
> key message - and perhaps the greatest achievement - of the ancient
> Olympics. For 16 days, all the warring city states of ancient Greece
> would lay down their arms, allowing athletes and spectators a safe
> passage to and from Olympia. This truce was honored for 1,200 years,
> almost without exception, making it the longest peace treaty in
> history."
>
> In light of that, a race across the world might prompt the world to
> force a truce (no pvp flags) for 16 days. (16 days every four years, a
> week in a year, or 1 day every 3 months.)
>
> If every 3 months, each of the cities could host this. The Undercity
> (to which humans could then freely go as an act of pilgramage),
> Darnassus, Thunderbluff, Stormwind City, etc. (Check out the action
> house in Ogrimmar if you're an Elf, or in Iron Forge if you're Undead.
> Imagine the cash spent just being able to do that?)
>
> So, perhaps more than a mere race could be attempted but an Event every
> 3 months. (Certainly could be incorporated into a patch for a week.)
>
> A pretty cool random thought Marshall.
>
>
>
> Marshall wrote:
>> "moif" <moif@macburgerdonaldsking.com> wrote in message
>> news:3hvt9sFj0aeoU1@individual.net...
>> > Are we happy with the current money sinks? I have to admit I'm always
>> > pretty
>> > brassic. I've only ever got iver 100g once. Mind you, I had ditched LW
>> > and
>> > Tribal in favour of Eng / Mining when I turned 40 and that was a pricey
>> > move
>> > as I bought most of the components I needed to build my engineering up.
>> >
>> > I had a few ideas about some more money sinks one of them being a
>> > betting
>> > system. Albeit there will be winners but there could be more losers.
>> > Betting
>> > on things like the outcome of fights in the pvp arena. Or races, if we
>> > ever
>> > get to see vehicles ingame.
>>
>> Odd you should mention races- I was just thinking last night how
>> it might be interesting to set up some kind of mounted (also foot?)
>> races across the length of Kalimdor, from the farthest northern
>> point of Darkshore, to the gates of Uldum in southernmost Tanaris.
>> Kind of a WoW Baja 1000.
>>
>> Races could be anywhere from 1 vs 1, to 20, 50, 100 or more par-
>> ticipants. Official race-completion times could be recorded, and
>> there would be prizes for beating the track record, as well as in-
>> dividual race purses for the winners. And betting... yeah, didn't
>> think of that part, but could be a big draw, even if only unofficially
>> on the side
>>
>> Would have to be seperate race classes for those with normal instead
>> of elite mounts, natch. And everyone would have mithril spurs and the
>> ol' carrot charm, I'd imagine. What would make it interesting, is the
>> combination of racer's choices in where/how to cut corners, jump
>> something vs. go around, and the random encounters with various
>> monsters and mobs wandering along the way, etc. Sneaking off to
>> hop a flightpath would have to be prevented by FP monitors at all
>> nearby FP's, of course... or by race officials following along on their
>> own mounts keeping an eye on strays.
>>
>> Just a random thought
>> -Marshall
>
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