Rank System brain dump

[Kaden]

Also, we obviously have the technical ability to do this based off of the little activity bars we ALREADY HAVE.

Unless you actually added the bars, you're not really in a position to say that we can "obviously" do anything. I'm not either. I have no idea what technical limitations we may be looking at. Just don't assume that something should because something else does.

I'm going to play devil's advocate here. The biggest concern this raises with me is the further emphasis it will place on quantity over "quality" and that's already the most common criticism the current system receives.

It makes the playing field EVEN for everyone because it's based off of how much you've been DOING not how much you have DONE.

This is kind of a side-note, but I've never really liked that so many people draw this arbitrary line where things that happened after it shouldn't matter. That's what you're doing.

It's actually less of a side-note than I thought it would be because it ties into another concern to consider: continuity. People would be bouncing around ranks on a regular basis and people would have to retcon in explanations for that. It reminds me of when we had characters changing hands in the old Chubbs. Someone would suddenly do something weird and there would be a moment of people looking at it awkwardly before someone made some sense of it in the next post.

There was something else I was going to say, but I got distracted and lost my train of thought. I'm sure it will come to me.

One thing that I should have actually said in my first post, to everyone, was to actually consider the implementation of something like this. It's really easy to see a new, different idea on paper and get excited about it. People should get excited about it, that's the whole point of discussion. However, just railing on that "this is perfect do it nao" doesn't help. There is no perfect system. There are always things to consider.