Extremely Important

[Reijin]

I've already said that I'm not thinking in terms of compensating people for enjoying themselves before this.

I keep seeing "But that's not fair even still. I worked HARD for my techs and should be able to keep them! I want to pick one of them even if noone else can have it b/c I earned it before they were here." Then someone else replies with "Well, that's cool, but I want TWO techs, otherwise I can't roleplay exactly the character I'm planning to do." then someone leads into "I'd like to keep all my techs b/c dammit I earned them and its complete bs to take them away from me, but I don't mind losing powerups (happens to have no high end powerups)" Then someone else goes "What the crap? I have no powerups b/c the staff only give those and techniques to people in the in crowd and all so all I have for my effort is stats which means that I want to keep some proportion of my stats!"

This is exactly why I don't care at all about compensation. It keeps looping its way around to basically saying nothing should change, over all these pages. I don't feel we should be starting everyone off on a preplanned gap.

So that means that we could simply go "Let's take all activity from the last six months forward" but then someone who roleplayed heavily a year ago and then had to leave for a deep family committment until recently would be completely screwed over. Let's use Pikkon as an example with his having left for military reasons only to return recently.

So that means that we could simply go "Let's allow people to essentially get a proportion of their current stuff when they start off" which then means that someone like Metal Koola that has been here for a long time but been very inactive will still start off ahead of people that might earn it.

Are either of them fair? No, they are unfair to someone regardless.

So I think the fairest route will be to allow them an advance opportunity to reearn these abilities, at possibly a reduced cost from what we'd ask from them if this was normal.

This would allow someone to possibly repair about 1/4 to 1/3 of their techs in a way that means that new characters and old characters will be happy, but they'll still lose out on the total amount of techs by not just starting off at the top.

Let's say your refund rewarded you 65 points.

You originally had:

Telekinesis: (we valued at 12 points)
Pyrokinesis: (we valued at 37 points)
Super Saiyan: (We gave it a nil value)
Super Saiyan 2: (We gave it a nil value)
Metal Binding: (We valued at 35)
Teleportation: (We valued at 44)
Venemous Ki: (We valued at 28 )
Oosaru: (We gave it a nil value)
Dark Ki: (We valued at 28 )

Now, using your 65 rewarded points, you decided to start off with Pyrokinesis and Venemous Ki totalling up to 65 if my math is correct. You then choose to be an Android, inherently giving you Dark Ki for free.

You start off as a fairly powerful character for even a reset, and yet you are not overpowered at all.