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.