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[Kaden]

The problem with a quality-based system is that it would place an awful strain on the staff, as they'd have to read all the roleplays and choose how to reward them. Even if we use a system where the members grade the roleplays and the majority wins, we run into the issue of whether or not people will actually grade them, or even if enough people will do so to provide an accurate assessment.

Don't get me wrong, I feel that a difference in strength is important in a DBZ roleplay. I just believe that a character with a larger amount of techniques can show that appropriate strength difference. Especially if we rework Power-ups to state what they do in terms of roleplaying instead of stat boosts. For example, if a Tier 1 power up approximately doubled your strength. A description like that would give a feeling of CA without actually needing to put the number out there.

This was considered. Ultimately, though, techniques provide two-way gains. Just because I, as Kaden, have purchased a bunch of techniques does not mean that I am the stronger/better character/writer. Someone else could come in and, during a fight, just blow everyone away, writing-wise, using the very techniques I have created. In this case, it still comes down to the subjective quality of the writer.

Unless you're only talking about techniques which actually increase a character's "power." That creates a very binary system wherein either everyone involved in a fight has power-up X, which lets them actually be a match for one-another, or they don't and it becomes very "unbalanced."

Edit: Another thing I would like to see would be an IC mentoring thing. The characters who are inbetween roleplays, or would like to include a new member, could invite someone to join them. Sometimes it just seems that a lot of character only know a certain number of people, and I think something like this would not only build IC relationships with new characters, but it would bring the universe together as a whole.

Do you have any ideas about this? I'd love to see some elaboration.