I don't get this decision after thinking it over one day when I could not sleep. This move seems counter-intuitive if what the decision was aimed for is to make people roleplay more. Before people could roleplay to get their story on while gaining some on their character for doing it, now it's only for getting their story on and it will now create confusing gaps of randomly obtained power due to powerhouses having roleplayed way more than newer people or (in my case) lazier people.
If it's because you miss OOC activity, I don't know what to say. How does this affect that anyway?
Also what's with the crazy ass love for canons? I mean is it because you like roleplayign those characters (and by far, they are interesting characters in each their own right) or is it because you just want their looks for your own story to shape them into something they are not? I mean, where's the line for the roleplaying and where's the line for writing? What is the aim for this update?
As always, if my post is confusing, I will attempt to fix that.
edit: Bottom line, I think that what CDBZ needs to do in order to regain its' momentum is decide what it wants to be, what you guys (the adminstrating team) wants CDBZ to be. Do you want it to be a roleplaying game (that means roleplaying with game elements) or do you want it to be a place where people just write to write, either to get out a story or to just use your creativity? I think that if you want a RPG, this is a step backwards. If you want a writer's club, this step should be taken further.
ed2: Also if you want to keep this, food for thought would be how to handle combat. We can make it just pure writing that decides how it is, but people will feel incredibly cheated. Right now I predict the future battles will be decided by 8 levels of power: Standard, power up 1, power up 2, power up 3. Then these power levels can become "new" again by fusing with someone, so that it becomes fusion standard, fusion power up 1 and so forth. But with this change, you either need to make fusion different or reverse this change, else people will rip off. A prime example would be Viper who's currently here. Both roleplayers have spent a good time roleplaying to get the nescessary EXP to get all the power ups. Now what if Victoria, in theory, has the same power ups as them. Now she can just fuse with anyone. Let's say that she diggs me and we fuse. I have not nearly enough EXP as Viper combined, but it does not matter, Victoria has all the transformations and now essentially Leotoria is as powerful as Viper with less than half the work. People will just feel cheated if this carries on.
If it's because you miss OOC activity, I don't know what to say. How does this affect that anyway?
Also what's with the crazy ass love for canons? I mean is it because you like roleplayign those characters (and by far, they are interesting characters in each their own right) or is it because you just want their looks for your own story to shape them into something they are not? I mean, where's the line for the roleplaying and where's the line for writing? What is the aim for this update?
As always, if my post is confusing, I will attempt to fix that.
edit: Bottom line, I think that what CDBZ needs to do in order to regain its' momentum is decide what it wants to be, what you guys (the adminstrating team) wants CDBZ to be. Do you want it to be a roleplaying game (that means roleplaying with game elements) or do you want it to be a place where people just write to write, either to get out a story or to just use your creativity? I think that if you want a RPG, this is a step backwards. If you want a writer's club, this step should be taken further.
ed2: Also if you want to keep this, food for thought would be how to handle combat. We can make it just pure writing that decides how it is, but people will feel incredibly cheated. Right now I predict the future battles will be decided by 8 levels of power: Standard, power up 1, power up 2, power up 3. Then these power levels can become "new" again by fusing with someone, so that it becomes fusion standard, fusion power up 1 and so forth. But with this change, you either need to make fusion different or reverse this change, else people will rip off. A prime example would be Viper who's currently here. Both roleplayers have spent a good time roleplaying to get the nescessary EXP to get all the power ups. Now what if Victoria, in theory, has the same power ups as them. Now she can just fuse with anyone. Let's say that she diggs me and we fuse. I have not nearly enough EXP as Viper combined, but it does not matter, Victoria has all the transformations and now essentially Leotoria is as powerful as Viper with less than half the work. People will just feel cheated if this carries on.
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