Sigfried Hunin Wrote:But that's not the poiiiintttt HRRRNNGHHH
The entire thing we're trying to avoid by removing CA is so that there won't be HUGE gaps in power because you've been here longer.
You get more prestige so that you can decide "oh hey I'mma buy some stuff hurr" because you've been writing here longer. Sweet. Fantastic. Way to go, onward shall you forge. You deserve to be able to buy more shit with the prestige you've earned for quality writing. Not my point at all.
Your ability to WIN FIGHTS. IN CHARACTER. Should NOT be determined by how much prestige you've earned. This is the problem that is present in the current system and we are trying to resolve it. If you write more and kick more ass comparatively, NO MATTER HOW THE FUCK YA DO IT, be it pl or techniques or whatever the fuck, that is the problem. Right there. It is not relative, it allows for HUGE power gaps and it pisses people off for a number of reasons.
I am saying that fighting strength and the amount of words you have written/amount of time you have spend here and PREVIOUS writing quality should have little to do with each other.
By allowing people to purchase PL with prestige and make PL the determining factor to fights you give people the opportunity to be all burl as fuck in battle but also the opportunity to buy a whole bunch of other shit that helps in other arenas. This gives newbies the opportunity to catch up easier, it gives players the ability to balance their character how they want and it gives people something to juggle. It also makes it so it's all DBZ canon and shit.
...but you don't get prestige based on the amount of words you have written. You get it on quality, through the community grading system. I still don't see what you're saying.
@Josh: Perhaps, then, we should call Character Level "Power Level." The way you describe Power Level is almost exactly how I envision Character Level. The way I envision Power Level in the system Kaden posted is a measure of your physical / general ki strength. You could still have a kickass technique without having a high Power Level.