Ryzom

Acid Tag
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[Note: First played this game in a guide-run event and really enjoyed it. Nice, fun, team-based, non-combat game!]

Number of players: 8-18 [4v4 - 9v9] (+1 referee)

Object of the game: Taggers - acid tag as many runners on the opposing team as possible. Healers - keep the runners going by healing tagged runners. Runners - try to avoid getting tagged by the opposing team's tagger.

Game Rules:
The referee tracks the game time in 5 or 10 minute matches and counts tagged players on each team at the end of a match.

Teams start facing each other in the center of the Matis Arena. Each team selects 1 player to be their tagger and 1 player to be their healer. The rest of the players are runners.

When the match starts, the tagger begins tagging runners on the opposite team with LEVEL 1 acid spell, no area of effects are to be used. When a runner has been tagged, they take a seat and wait for the healer to heal them. A runner is considered tagged once the acid spell is cast on them, regardless if it lands and does damage or is resisted.

The taggers and healers CANNOT be tagged, only the runners.

When the referee calls for the match to end, each runner that is TAGGED is counted +1 against their team's score.

If multiple matches are played in a game, the referee adds the scores from all of the matches with the lowest score winning the game.

If the tagger is caught using an acid level higher than 1, 1 point is added to their team's score per runner kill at the end of the match as a penalty.

If a runner is caught leaving the PvP bounds of the Arena, then that runner is considered tagged at the end of the match and 1 point is added to their team's score as a penalty.

If a team is caught miscounting the number of tagged runners at the end of a match, or if a runner stands up to be considered not tagged after the match end is called by the referee 5 points are added to their team's score as a penalty (on top of the incorrect score given).

Winning the game:
A team wins if they have the least number of tagged runners at the game's end.

Strategies and Tips:
Teams should choose players who can cast the fastest for their tagger and healer.

Taggers keep an eye on the opposing team's healer and be ready to tag the player that is being healed.

Healers keep an eye on the opposing team's tagger and be ready to heal your runner that just got tagged.

Runners be ready to sprint as soon as you see the heal spell effect cast on you, and be ready to sit as soon as you see the acid spell effect cast on you.

Runners keep away from the tagger! Try setting up a strategy that keeps the tagger having to turn around alot such as running laps in opposite directions and spreading out.

Runners keep your healer informed for when you are tagged, the visual chat bubble can help alot when the healer is looking to get runners up fast.

Hmmm, I would like to make a few suggested changes to this.

- A runner is tagged if the spell lands on him, whether it is resisted or not. This means you can run out of range. Also easier to referee.
- A healer nor tagger may not use an enchanted item, but must actually cast the spell.

Why these changes?
- You can run away, more easy to see for referees.
- The reason we won the first match. Itemspells have no delay in castingtime, only in cooldown. All I had to do was follow you, target your target while you where casting and use the directhit itemspell (a lvl1 heal with only a hp credit gave me 97 casts on a fully loaded amp).

Strategy:
- Macro to target tagger, target his target and heal at the same time.
- Tagger switch targets fast to prevent this.

I saw this at work in the Arena Olympic event.

All I know is, at the end, the GM (the wonderful Theai) yelled 'who's sitting down?' and not one (or maybe just a few) were sitting, and people were milling around and wondering what was going on, or staying quiet that they forgot they were supposed to remain seated and not move around after it's over.

Funny stuff.

I bet Theai wanted to play tag with her big sharp sword on all the players right then and there.

Anyhow, I am adding this suggestion to help eliminate some of the confusion as to who is on what team.

Have it be shirt vs skins. One team should play with shirt and one team should play shirtless (pantless too if you want to make it funnier to watch )

This was suggested by a person at the Arena that was just watching, and we suggested to the GM, who in turn suggested to the players, but nobody complied