Linkshell Fun (Chess)

[Rufus_Shinra]

Ok, last night my Dynamis linkshell and a friends shell decided to try something. Something so retarded, it was hilarious. It was a giant chess game in Port Bastok.

Warriors = Pawns
Monks = Rooks
Paladin = Knights
Bishop = Black Mage
Queen = White Mage
King = Red Mage

It was absolutely hilarious. We all got properly lined up, and the game started well.

Well, after about 12 turns, it started to get confusing. Since we had no squares to go by, people were moving in funny directions. The knights had it the worst because of their L movement.

My team was in Vagabond tunics (Yellow) and the other was in Fishermans tunics.(Blue). The kings were wearing Opo crowns. The knights had single swords, the pawns had GA, the queen had a staff and the bishops used wands. Rooks obviously used fists.

Whenever you take a piece, a designated BLM for the losing piece would D2 them off the board.

It was alot of fun but we never got a chance to finish. Their shell had to get ready for dynamis and unless they wanted to go in all Fishing gear.....yeeea....

Anyways, if you have an organized (and large) LS, and know someone else who does too, give this a try. Its a great way to break the boredom.

 

[Uzor]

lol, sounds fun ^^

Too bad it requires so many ;;

 

[Dejan]

Any screenies??? I wanna see the confusion!

 

[Rufus_Shinra]

Any screenies??? I wanna see the confusion!

Yea, let me dig them up.

Think of it as a Garrison. Now pretend you dosed everyone up on 10 bags of sugar. Now multiply that by 30.

 

[Tim Wakefield]

Thats really funny and original. I wanna see screenies too!

 

[Dez]

Interesting idea, but who was actually playing the game (ie. making the moves)?

{Photo} {Yes, please.}

 

[K. Ishitar]

you would need a few camera men for vid eh?

 

[Rufus_Shinra]

you would need a few camera men for vid eh?

Like I said, there were black mages around the "board" warping out people who got "taken".

Ill send an email to my bud. He got it all on fraps.

 

[Valoran]

That is amazing!!!!

I would love to see pics and vids.

Man . . . I wish I could've seen that.

 

[Everlasting]

Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiics this is an awesome idea

How can this be done so the board doesn't get messed up again? Maybe have people stand on the intersections of lines on the map and then move along those lines, or is that too big of an area? Perhaps subdivide the map squares into 4 parts and then move along those lines? How about doing some counting of the stones that make up the ground and then base movement off that (eg: when everyone moves they move 4 bricks/stones at a time for every one chess square)?

How about checkers too/instead? Connect Four?

 

[Khajit]

Umm use taru taru to make the lines? use a ton of those new fireworks that shoot out to make a laser grid?

 

[Everlasting]

Umm use taru taru to make the lines? use a ton of those new fireworks that shoot out to make a laser grid?

Dead poison potioned Elvs, they're stringy.

I don't recall their death pose, maybe another race would work better.

 

[K. Ishitar]

Dead poison potioned Elvs, they're stringy.

I don't recall their death pose, maybe another race would work better.

We die with on our backs(males) with out legs spread out

like a large one of these ^ not sure how women die tho

 

[Kizaryo]

Hmm..you know this could be done in a Diorama event.
For example if a higher piece claims a pawn, the higher piece engagements the pawn and PWNs him. :-D

Sorta like.. Battle Chess.

 

[Khajit]

in theory somone could modify the .dats to a map of somones choice to turn the map into a "risk" board.
Probably ffxi conquest related using diorama and a leader to direct the troops to thier battle fields where they fight to se the victor ect. turn based. JA can only be used when ordered to as part of a full turn, magic, WS, and items as well.

 

[Rufus_Shinra]

Do I smell a new type of ballista on the way? XD

(Waiting for reply from fraps friend.)

 

[Elixer]

Playing Chess in FFXI.. Hmm.. sounds like a wonderful way to pass the time, rather than sitting around doing nothing, plus it's a change of pace from the usual leveling or farming or what-not. ^^ I think I'll go searching over Vana'Diel for a suitable place to play it (with some sort of way to use squares). Looks like I'm going to be doing some searching and thinking. ^^; Great job, Rufus! :biggrin:

 

[Xalioniaf]

I think that, unless you found 64 tarus and had each represent a space, you'd have to find a place with squares on the ground. But it sounds pretty awesome, although hectic.

 

[Khajit]

I think that, unless you found 64 tarus and had each represent a space, you'd have to find a place with squares on the ground. But it sounds pretty awesome, although hectic.

Does the diablos arena have tiles on it?
Realisticly the easist route could be simply changing a .dat texture file to make the chess board design on the floor and having 4 marker taru for the corners.

 

[Blaine]

Does the diablos arena have tiles on it?

Not enough, you need an 8x8 grid...
I think that the little dungeons in Saburta have tiles on the floor, theres no risk of agro there. But, I think that the tiles are also a little small, so it might be Tarutaru onry there.