Removal of Combat Ability

[Sophia]

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.

I can understand the power gaps thing, but then again, I'm not sure it's so big a deal. I've explained the suggestion in so many different mediums that I have no idea what's been said here, but it was made based on the assumption that the thing holding people back was feeling hopeless when compared to the strongest characters because, let's face it, the strongest characters get most of the attention.

This was said as an alternative to my initial suggestion, which was to just tell everyone to shut the fuck up and write something.

Roleplaying has always been the aim of this site, whether intentional or not, and since CA hasn't amounted to shit since we restarted, why not ax it if it was holding even one person back? Maybe we can rebuild our member base and go from there, but we can't really make what you'd consider to be "intuitive" changes with a dead site and still hope for it to be successful.

As for canons, the problem is with perception. The only real difference between our canons and our customs is the names and play-bys. While I wouldn't fight going back to canons, I agree with Belle's assertion that it won't help, but I'll add that it only won't help because our canons aren't actually canons. I hope that makes sense.

And frankly, I don't want to just rewrite the DBZ saga. That seems pretty pointless to me.

EDIT: The more I explain the idea, the more it sounds like a stimulus package. <.<;; It's not perfect, but it's better than doing nothing.

EDIT2: Like I've said about a dozen times to only a few people, I sincerely don't care if overwhelming demand brings CA back. My only problem is that with CA, the amount of work involved isn't worth it if the site will just end up dying. For the people opposed to it, give me a reason to believe that Chubbs isn't just going to sink like the Titanic and we can have all the flashy stat gadgets you want.