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[Amadeus]

Jackie: What do you consider a "tweak" and what do you consider major? Changing the stat system could easily be either, since we just edit a few posts. There's a lot of this stuff that would have to see some minor changes before being implemented, but most of it could be inserted pretty easily into the existing system. The staff can tweak the mechanics of it, but I want to know what the members would like to see.

A minor tweak is when you only change the existing system or give it a small addition. A mayor tweak is when you rework entirely how the system works. For example, the removal of TPs is a preety mayor change.

1) Stats. There were actually two new stat systems we planned on implementing. Six basic stats (Strength, Agility, Constitution, Insight, Technique, and Willpower) and three new "substats." The substats were Weapon Skill (a combination of Insight and Agility), Ki Manipulation (Willpower and Constitution) and Fighting Ability (Strength and Technique). These three stats would be the basis for your ki value and also effect the way you can use certain techniques or items.

Putting new stats into the current Chubbs system would be a mostly cosmetic change, since we'd compensate everyone so they retained (as close to) the same overall powerlevel. Though sometimes a cosmetic change is all you need.

Unneccesarry, to be honest. Besides the fact that it`s basiclly the same system, it will only further strain Staff. Especially since Staff is so dependant on manual work nowadays.

2) Earning Zeni. The new system for earning zeni would be a play on the current "magic paycheck" system we have now. Everyone would still earn a weekly amount of zeni, but the basis of that would be a private business owned by the player. Employees could be hired and the business, overall, could be upgraded to give the player better weekly incomes. Player would not be forced into actually RPing their business -- for all we care, they could RP that their money falls out of the sky -- but it introduced a nice little device for those that wanted to play around with it.

That`s not a bad idea at all. But some sort of a market system would have to be set up.

3) HeadQuarters. Since there would be no TP in the new Chubbs, we needed to find a new use for HQs. We decided on offering, basically, OOC benefits for the purchase and upgrade of an HQ. Most of the current upgrades would remain for HQs, but there were some twists thrown in there such as (a) you can't even form an alliance unless the leader owns an HQ (you could still pool zeni with other people to buy it, though) (b) a new "meeting room" upgrade would be the requirement for an alliance to receive an alliance board © other new upgrades designed to synergize with newer content, such a ship docking-bay and an upgrade to have the HQ sit in space, orbiting a planet. Comparatively, the HQ changes were rather minor, but it was a fresh look at a stale mechanic.

None of those tweaks are bad, even if you decide to keep the traditional TP system.

Anything else you guys were looking for clarification on, feel free to ask. But, again, this is a thread for the members to just kind of fantasize about the changes, if any, they'd like to see.

I`ll comment them as they appear.