Seriously, this is a complete "I Told You So" moment. You know who you guys are.
The Rank System.
XP Rewards during Saga's and Tournaments
Diminishing returns
The Rank System.
Josh Wrote:The idea behind the ranks is that if you exist within a rank then even if you are at the very low end of that rank and your opponent as at the very high end you can still do appreciable damage to him and win.
Of course the chances of you winning are considerably low and would require exceptional role playing on your part.
At the beginning the power range would be relatively narrow but as the rankings got higher the range would be larger meaning even people who have a power level 4x greater than that of their opponent could still potentially lose.
The best way to put is to say if Raditsu had a power level of 156,000,000 and was ranked S and his opponent was Reijin and his power level was 60,000,000 but he was also Rank S because the power range for Rank S was 50,000,000 to 160,000,000. Reijin could still potentially win the fight although his chances would be less then 10%, but his attacks would still hurt Raditsu and wouldn't be wtfpwned in an instant.
XP Rewards during Saga's and Tournaments
Josh Wrote:I think that eventually we'll just have to give greater XP awards to weaker characters in saga's to try and close a gap
Obviously we'll also need to give modified bonuses during saga's to the weaker characters to keep them competitive and to keep a steady smooth gradient of powerful and weaker characters.
As an aside, we could create an XP curve where the higher your CA is during a Saga the lower the XP reward would be at the end of a saga. An example of this would be taking say Ander and Sage in a Saga, and everyone is given an XP reward of 10 xp, while Ander is at the bottom his reward becomes 15 XP and Sage who is at the top becomes 5 XP.
Diminishing returns
Quote: Josh has a hard-on for adding Diminishing Returns. The concerns about a power gap are valid if we were keeping things even remotely similar to the way they are now, but we're not. People will not get a single thing they do not work for. If that means that in two years a new players joins and instantly loses against someone who's been here and active the whole time, well then tough shit. Diminishing Returns is a direct penalty to active players.