SP Usage IC Effectiveness

[Reece]

EDIT:

Please note that, as it stands, SP-usage is purely for the sake of enriching your writing/the story/the scene you want to create. I wanted to prevent people from just squatting on their SP, because I think that's lame.

"Stats?" - I feel compelled to point you to the last FAQ on the 'Fighting and Competition Rules' page of the manual. When it comes down to stats and game mechanics, my philosophy is that such things exist to enhance and guide what you're writing. If your opponent has an advantage over you in some regard (physically or because they have a complex move set), I want to see your character adapt and adjust. I want to see you work your writer brain and create a compelling piece. On the other side of the spectrum, if you take your first post to go Tier 3 and you literally just bitch slap everyone around... that isn't going to be fun to read and it's not doing your character any favors. Again, I think that FAQ answer sums it up pretty nicely.

I see what you're trying to do here (in italics), and I agree completely... but I really don't think this (in bold) is the best way to go about it.

I might just be being paranoid, but the way this is phrased makes it seem to me as if people will be penalised for writing their character easily beating up their opponents... even when they have a perfectly viable IC explanation for doing so.

Personally, I'd say it would be much more reasonable for people judged on how well they write the difference in Stats, rather than how even the fight seems.

For example, if the character I'll be entering with (Ahana Varma) and her partner (who, for the sake of argument, I'm assuming also doesn't have a Power-Up) were matched up against Guu (let's just pretend that Guu was joining for some reason), and Guu used her T3 "Kaiju Guu" for the whole of the first round, the two of us would be facing a 50 ft tall monster with 10/9/7/7 Stats...
Not only would I expect Guu to write us both being much, much weaker and frailer and slower and less skilled than her, I would do exactly the same thing during my post that round.

Sure, of course, if someone manages to write well enough that they win against Guu, they would have to have had to do something to 'adapt and adjust' to fighting such a powerful foe... but Guu herself shouldn't need to worry about getting less points than normal just because she wrote her character not needing to adapt and adjust, because Guu would have been objectively more powerful than her opponents.

[Yu Kanda]

I would like to know this as well. Out of curiousity, not to criticise your work Karl. He makes a good point.

[Karl Jak]

My point was more to dissuade writers from being lazy and writing a bunch of "i punch this person" and expect themselves to just breeze through. If you're gonna go Hyper Instinct and rofflstomp people, that isn't an excuse to have your character and their voice just vanish completely from the narrative. That's what I meant when I said 'not doing your character any favors.' is Guu happy about crushing all those people? Does she enjoy it? Does she hate it? Is everyone just dust in the wind? Transformations should bring something out in your character or your writing, even if you only have them because they are a game mechanic to buff stats.

As an unrelated aside, I'm fairly certain the only one with a T3 actually joining this event might be Sammy, unless she joins on a non-Gildarts account. Guu is, as far as I can recall, allergic to PvP.

[Yu Kanda]

Gotcha! So stick true to the character instead of OOC roflstomping. Yeah i get that.

[Belle]

On the flip side, if you CAN turn a a "roflstomp" into an interesting character moment, that's pretty dang impressive.

[Reece]

Transformations should bring something out in your character or your writing,

Ahh, I see, that's all you meant. Okay, well, that's fine then. I guess I was just over-thinking it. Just had to make sure. ^_^

As an unrelated aside, I'm fairly certain the only one with a T3 actually joining this event might be Sammy, unless she joins on a non-Gildarts account.  Guu is, as far as I can recall, allergic to PvP.

Yeah, I was originally gonna mention Gildarts in the example, but then I realised that Sam hasn't actually given him a T3 yet, so I went with Guu instead...
Even though Guu isn't actually at all likely to join.


EDIT: On a totally unrelated note; I've just noticed that posting here in the Dante Verse seems to be increasing my post count for this account even though the posts are OOC and so shouldn't normally be counted. I dunno if that's affecting everyone else or not.

[Karl Jak]

Anytime man.

And I fixed that issue with the post/thread count increasing... I don't know why it was re-enabled. Maybe because I shuffle these boards around.

[Sam]

I vaguely remember T3 ing someone at some point or another for some reason.....

I'll be playing an NPC this round I think! #OG PIMPIN

I could still give him a T3 but I prolly won't bc he's a pimp already *hairflipemoji*

[Karl Jak]

I believe you vaporized Mark.

Because you're a jerk.

[Sam]

I believe you vaporized Mark.

Because you're a jerk.

And yet it is already vaporized from people's memory :,(

[Mark]

I believe you vaporized Mark.

Because you're a jerk.

And yet it is already vaporized from people's memory :,(

Not mine. NOT MINE.

cries in Archer

EDIT: Also that T3 was possible because of an artefact, so thankfully the world is (somewhat) safe(er) this time around...unless you buy one in the interim, which you totally have the cash and ability to do.

[Yu Kanda]

I believe you vaporized Mark.

Because you're a jerk.

And yet it is already vaporized from people's memory :,(

Not mine. NOT MINE.

cries in Archer

EDIT: Also that T3 was possible because of an artefact, so thankfully the world is (somewhat) safe(er) this time around...unless you buy one in the interim, which you totally have the cash and ability to do.

No it wasn't....just a normal T3 gildarts attack :p no artifact required.

[Mark]

Ah yeah, my bad. It was actually a T3 and she bumped to a T4 with the Artefact. In my defense it's listed as a T2 in the the first post in Gil's Roster for some reason.