Removal of Combat Ability

[Super Buu]

I see a lot of very difficult problems being discussed here with no easy solution, but a lot of others with very easy fixes.

In terms of CA, for example, I'll boil the argument down to the two opposing extremes (and I'm aware this is oversimplifying). Some people are saying that raising your CA gives more incentive to write (I agree with this), thus CA is good. Others say that CA gets out of hand and seeing people 5x your power level is a massive discouragement (I agree with this too), thus CA is bad.

But seriously, I can think of several ways to have your cake and eat it. I mentioned two ways on page 1, you could also just easily raise the starting CA by a huge amount. The dude who's been writing forever who has 2000 more CA than you isn't quite so formidable when everyone starts out at 5000 CA as opposed to 500. In that scenario, power is still a factor and an incentive, but we'd be talking about rivals that might, at absolute worst, have double your CA. With more reasonable power gaps and much greater effort required to increase those gaps, I also think people would be much less inclined to say "CA doesn't matter."

Seriously, though. Have I missed something here? Wouldn't that fix a whole bunch of shit?