Removal of Combat Ability

[Kaden]

To respond to the canon comments, I see it very unlikely that we'll go back to using canons. Let me preface this by saying that this is me talking as a player, not an administrator.

I greatly appreciate the decision to try and keep the Chubbs history as intact as possible. Its a nod of respect to the people who put a great deal of time and energy into the characters and settings that had been crafted over the years. Yes, I know I was involved in that decision, but I was simply one voice out of many.

That said, the decision was poorly executed. Everything Belle pointed out was exactly correct. The Chubbs "history" is in its own little bubble that everyone is either too worried or apathetic to touch. Why reference a past battle, running the risk that you may do it incorrectly and break "canon," when you can simply make one up to serve your purposes at the cost of maybe two extra sentences?

The proper course of action would have been to chronicle an "official" timeline of events that would be the Chubbs canon. That certainly wouldn't have been a magical fix to the current issue, but it would have helped. Of course, that's said in hindsight, so take it for what you will. I still make references to Raditzu zipping about the galaxy getting himself into various kinds of trouble, though, and I enjoy that.

The RPG is facing a number of problems. The primary one is that there are no new people. How to deal with that is a thread in its own right. Equally problematic is that the people who are here simply aren't RolePlaying (with a number of exceptions that I can count on one hand). Unfortunately, these two problems compound upon one another: if a new person shows up and sees inactive forums, they say why bother and move on, whereas existing people don't want to simply fall into the same routines of writing through the same overarching actions (Rad runs into Vegeta -> insert witty dialogue -> kung-fu fight!) with the same people.

As Leo pointed out, there's an argument to be made that removing a potential incentive is only going to make people more apathetic, but when you only have two options (with CA or without CA) and one of them isn't working...

There are lots of things that could be changed or added or removed, but it's very difficult to tell which ones will bring things back to life and which ones will be the final nail in the coffin.

Of course, discussing and speculating about problems and potential solutions can be helpful, and I think keeping a line of dialogue open like this is helpful.

Gah. Ok... I said I was talking as a player, so I need to stop there. I think there was something else I meant to say, but I started rambling. So... yeah.