04-19-2009, 09:36 PM
Whew... I was worried we wouldn't get this one past ya. Thanks for the blessing, Rem.
I'll a couple of Rod's points first. Everyone starts with 5 PP. You saw your roster, right? So, right out of the gate, people can use Tier 1 Base, Tier 1 Master, and Tier 2 Master. No, you don't need the required PP before being able to purchase a Power-Up. So, if you had the XP, you could buy a Tier 3 Base Power-Up without adding to your PP and just not be even close to using it.
There's an HQ upgrade that restores PP anytime that a character could get to it, so that's an option. No, it's not particularly cheap, but it would be a one-time cost. If people are worried about having to buy PP-Restoring items, I'd be willing to think about a cheap non-combat alternative; Capsule Corp could have a recharging station of some kind that people could use for a minor fee to recharge PP but it wouldn't be available in the middle of a fight. Does that sound like something that should be thrown on the table?
As I said before, Saga runners will have free reign to restrict/enable the use of PP in their Sagas. All-in-all, though, I wouldn't be too concerned about it. I imagine that most people will be, at least, willing to refill PP at the start of each Saga.
The sentence about being able to use Techniques/Abilities to affect PP was thrown in to give people the idea that Customs could be made using those. These are some of the things that were thrown around in the staff-forum discussion: Healing could be used to transfer PP from the healer to the healee. Ki Absorb could take a PP from an opponent. Venomous Ki could sap PP from an opponent. Customs involving PP will be under tighter scrutiny than most to prevent something that makes PP irrelevant.
What kind of specifics were you looking for about Customs that use PP, Rod? (Amusingly, Chou Kamehameha was the exact example I used when proposing the idea.) The basic idea is that Customs that use PP get a huge boost to their efficacy. If I'm in a Power-Up, and you're not, and you use a move that costs PP, it would still do serious damage. This offers people an alternative to being "forced" to take a Power-Up to compete with those who already have them as well as a way to side-step problems like pebble logic. (If you don't know what Pebble Logic is, don't worry about it)
Was there anything I missed?
I'll a couple of Rod's points first. Everyone starts with 5 PP. You saw your roster, right? So, right out of the gate, people can use Tier 1 Base, Tier 1 Master, and Tier 2 Master. No, you don't need the required PP before being able to purchase a Power-Up. So, if you had the XP, you could buy a Tier 3 Base Power-Up without adding to your PP and just not be even close to using it.
There's an HQ upgrade that restores PP anytime that a character could get to it, so that's an option. No, it's not particularly cheap, but it would be a one-time cost. If people are worried about having to buy PP-Restoring items, I'd be willing to think about a cheap non-combat alternative; Capsule Corp could have a recharging station of some kind that people could use for a minor fee to recharge PP but it wouldn't be available in the middle of a fight. Does that sound like something that should be thrown on the table?
As I said before, Saga runners will have free reign to restrict/enable the use of PP in their Sagas. All-in-all, though, I wouldn't be too concerned about it. I imagine that most people will be, at least, willing to refill PP at the start of each Saga.
The sentence about being able to use Techniques/Abilities to affect PP was thrown in to give people the idea that Customs could be made using those. These are some of the things that were thrown around in the staff-forum discussion: Healing could be used to transfer PP from the healer to the healee. Ki Absorb could take a PP from an opponent. Venomous Ki could sap PP from an opponent. Customs involving PP will be under tighter scrutiny than most to prevent something that makes PP irrelevant.
What kind of specifics were you looking for about Customs that use PP, Rod? (Amusingly, Chou Kamehameha was the exact example I used when proposing the idea.) The basic idea is that Customs that use PP get a huge boost to their efficacy. If I'm in a Power-Up, and you're not, and you use a move that costs PP, it would still do serious damage. This offers people an alternative to being "forced" to take a Power-Up to compete with those who already have them as well as a way to side-step problems like pebble logic. (If you don't know what Pebble Logic is, don't worry about it)
Was there anything I missed?
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