I’m not sure. One one hand, it’s fair to give some reward for a well placed pool. On the other, it seems like anyone who gets a pool is going to get loads of kills easily because they’re so easy for anyone to use.

Subject of another future proposal: a tool for allowing acid pools to be filled in.

I second Josh. Right now, a pool created stays in existence forever. Thus: 

Rule 2.3.1 “If a Temporary Acid Pool would be created and there are already two or more other Temporary Acid Pools, the oldest one is removed before the new one is created.”

Oh. Ahem. Well. OK! :-) 

  Too many Frags for too little effort.

Even if maybe a condition like “Whenever a Gladiator dies in an Acid Pool created in one of the last two turns, the Gladiator who created that pool using an Acid Barrel gains 1 Frag.”

Someone who places an acid pool should not get frags for other people’s kills.

But then what’s the point of using acid barrels? Surely we all want to win, and so we do not want to do anything which would make it more likely for other players to gain frags. It makes getting a frag very difficult (but not impossible) for players with acid barrels, and thus discourages their use. I do feel that weapons should be good and worth using, otherwise there’s no point having them in the game.

In favor for creating well placed pools. However, pools should not be permanent.

They aren’t.

this disregards the corner pools

CoV Nice point, Doc. It should include the word “Temporary”, otherwise some might argue the admin who enacted the rule that created the permanent pools get all the frags for those.

@Doctor / mideg - the proposal specifies that the Acid Pool has to have been created using an Acid Barrel.

Hm, true. Didn’t see that.