Rollerbeetle Racing (arena)

Rollerbeetle Racing is a mini-game featured in the Canthan New Year special event.

In this game the player takes the form of a Rollerbeetle and competes with 5 other players in a race. This is not a "normal race," though, as the player may use skills to boost speed and skills to slow down and hinder competitors.The mechanics of the Rollerbeetle are thought to be similar to that of Junundu.

Skills
The player's normal skillbar is replaced with a fixed skillset as follows:


 * 1) Rollerbeetle Dash: For 5 seconds you move extremely fast.
 * 2) Harden Shell: For 4 seconds, you cannot be knocked down.
 * 3) Ram: All adjacent enemy rollerbeetles are knocked down.
 * 4) Distracting Lunge: All of target Rollerbeetle's Skills are disabled for 5 seconds.
 * 5) Spit Rocks: You spit rocks at target rollerbeetle. If they hit, that target is knocked down.
 * 6) Rollerbeetle Echo: For 20 seconds, this Skill is replaced with the next Skill you use. Rollerbeetle Echo acts as this Skill for 30 seconds.
 * 7) Rollerbeetle Blast: Target rollerbeetle is knocked down.
 * 8) Super Rollerbeetle: For 10 seconds, you move extremely fast and cannot be knocked down.

How It Works
Players become a rollerbeetle and then race along a standard track, using skills to advance their position.

The first three skills (Rollerbeetle Dash, Harden Shell, and Ram) are available at the start of the race and recharge whenever the racer passes a checkpoint.

Touching a bonus power box (a large box with a question mark) will charge one random skill.

RPM
The scale of which a player's rollerbeetle speed is based upon. During a rollerbeetle race, a bar will appear, showing the player's current "RRPM", or Roller RPM's.

Scoring
At the start of the race every player starts off with 600,000 points. For each additional second it takes for a racer to finish, they lose 1,000 points. This means that all scores are actually times measured in seconds to three decimal places.

Rewards
Gamer Points are awarded for different places:

First place receives 7 Lunar Token, 7 Gamer faction and 100 Balthazar Faction. Second place receives 5 Lunar Token and 5 Gamer faction. Third place receives 3 Lunar Token and 3 Gamer faction. Fourth place receives 2 Lunar Token and 2 Gamer faction. Remaining Players will receive one Lunar Token if you reach the end of the track.

Additionally, the players with the top 100 scores at the end of the Canthan New Year 2007 event will receive unknown prizes.

Environmental effects

 * Water: Reduces speed by an unknown amount.

Trivia
The mechanics of this mini-game seem to be similar to that of racing games such as Mario Kart.