Is it possible that certain weapons behave differently in certain arenas?

[qackerjackerjohn]

http://www.neopets.com/newfeatures.phtml?arr=2007-03-05

"If you are fighting in the Ice Arena you might want to consider some snowballs from the Ice Crystal Shop. "

For example, some fractionals might be full (spooky weapon in a spooky arena) and so forth? I don't have the resources to, but just thought I'd bring it up for the interested.

[Shattered Rift]

I had completely glanced over that. It would be a fascinating thing to look into, though most of its application would be in Two Player (but who knows, there might be easier tricks to beating some of the DoN and Avatar Opponents).

I'm more inclined to think that icons would be different, or there would be more icons (rather than simply full fractionals). Hopefully it's not just TNT making an idle comment that's meant to trick us. Hopefully, if there's a difference, it will be an obvious one.

[GIR]

I am fairly certain that it's just TNT trying to make it sound more... catchy, for lack of a better word. Something to add a bit more excitement to the mention of snowballs in the news.

Aside from that, I seriously doubt there is any weapon that has any different effect in specific arenas. That would require TNT to add to and change some of the existing Battledome code, which they seem to go to great lengths to avoid.

[WiltChamberlain13]

I doubt that this is actually true.  I think that the different types of arenas are just for fun, not really doing anything.  Lol, Gilbert Arenas...

Anyway, GIR, Internet Explorer 7 is so much cooler than Mozilla FireFox 2!  Change that signature of yours...

I just realised... 700th post!

[cutejohn291]

I think different areas just represent different servers. It's bad to use names called 'Server 1' , 'Server A' , you know

[kagemucha]

cutejohn291 Wrote:I think different areas just represent different servers. It's bad to use names called 'Server 1' , 'Server A' , you know

Neo's servers don't work that way; you can't choose which one to go on. The different arenas just changes the color scheme.

[fox248]

The idea of field advantage would be a very nice prospect for battling.

Not so much of weapons behaving differently, but possibly like Species Resistance/Weaknesses. Certain arenas prove to be advantageous to certain pets and increase Resistance of your pet or Weaknesses of your opponent.

In terms of weapons, that would be a tough one to handle. If say FSS did full icons in the Island Arena then everyone owning an FSS would battle ONLY in the Island Arena which would cause tension in the battling community.

The same could be said with the Species idea, however, not to the extent like that of a weapon.

[thesovereign]

I was thinking about this as well, and it would really only be fair if there was a random way of placing you in an arena, because certain people would only stay in certain arenas. It would be interesting to look into though.