Well, you could... but I guess self control, maturity, and general cognitive ability all follow the same downward slope in your old age.

No fisting needed!

Voted NO. We have very few players as is that I don’t rhink many players would use a gladiator or any other combat function against other players more than once or twice.

lol sure, keep telling yourself that makes sense.

Makes more sense than your “let’s fight naked” thread...

Think you mean lets fist naked

Since you are basically a youngster to Ladder, it is not his original idea at all, in fact this has been mentioned in the past before, and since Rick is old, he might remember this as well.
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Back to my previous post.

Armor acts as damage to barehanded fighting (basically with each set of armor, they have a set of hand ware that is not visible or a new item):
... It is simple, you take the Physical Defense represented by each armor type / tier, this also becomes your base damage. Thus, EE on Armor increases it.
... Ratio? Str 75 / Dex 25 ... Was going to go 50/50, but unsure.
... NOTE: this does NOT add damage when wielding a weapon / ONLY character that this helps is Alchemist.

Now, as for introducing new items: Gloves, gauntlets, etc would just be another set of gear to collect, BUT, let us say that you could challenge other people in Arena brawling style, instead of finding these new items in Catacombs, you can earn them (Competition Style, or 1 vs 1 and so on), buy them or hire them in the Arena only.

We can put a twist on this (Arena Brawling) as well, you can learn Martial skills, Aikido, Tai Chi, Wing Chun etc, again ONLY in Arena, there won't be a 10 prof point cap, there could be a other rewards added by ranks of 5, Trophy awards for most wins etc... the potential is there.

Note: just some more input there for people to either add to or just ignore.