Questions about proposed changes

[Sigfried Hunin]

It isn't the main factor. Writing is the main factor. CL is just the "tie-breaker" factor. Someone else feel like explaining better than that?

I understand that, I'm just saying that I don't think that CL should be the "extra" part of that. Power Level should be. For the reasons listed above.

After giving it some thought, I rather like this system. A lot. I specifically adore CL, and the ability to be relate it to in-show circumstances, which makes me think this does bring back the Dragon Ball Z feel. The main thing I love about CL, though, is that it keeps techniques and Power Level from rising mutually, but allows the overall strength of a player to rise no matter what you pour your Prestige into.

I'm going to reiterate that I don't like standardizing the costs of custom techs. Greg put it much better than I have, but I liked the sense of achievement from buying an expensively-priced custom technique. An option, perhaps, is to require someone to be at a certain CL for a particularly strong custom tech, but overall, I like the system as is.

EDIT: Sigfried, I understand what you're saying, but I don't particularly like it. I don't think that the issue is that people would spam Power Level (though I do not doubt some people would do that). I think the issue is that some people build their characters around techniques, like Guldo, in the show, and to an extent, like Yakon or Babidi. A good example of someone on the site that builds their character around custom techniques is Kaden. Is it fair to say he's not formidable simply because his power level would be considerably lower because he spent his Prestige on techniques that have the ability to be just as devastating as the raw might of someone like, as you described, Vad?

But the problem with this is that, you know, it leads us RIGHT BACK to where we are now. If your CL: goes up by just spending your Prestige it doesn't matter how expensive anything is because you're gonna become more powerful simply by essence of having written and spent your points. That's pretty much a direct parallel to what the current system is only you have to spend the points you earn by writing instead of it just automatically stacking on.