09-18-2013, 09:14 PM
If I add other ways to get OM 'in-game', you can bet everyone else will be going after those rewards too (which, in some ways, I feel might harm the quality of writing by everyone trying to shoehorn these things in as opposed to just writing what they want to). At the end of the day, there's always gonna be someone with more OM than you. What I've done is try to limit that to not be the be-all end-all. Someone with double your OM isn't double your power, because of diminishing returns. And obviously writing always plays into fights. And winning/losing isn't everything, especially given that this is a writing site. I want people to lose, to come back, and then to get revenge, because that stuff makes for great reading.
In a perfect RPG, we'd have writing fairies watching everyone as they work, judging the amount of time everyone put into their posts, proofreading it and all the other things which aren't as obvious as wordcount, and then converting into OM. In the situation, all I can do is look at writing where someone obviously took time and effort on the story and crafting, and say "I know it ain't much ... but here's some OM for being awesome".
In a perfect RPG, we'd have writing fairies watching everyone as they work, judging the amount of time everyone put into their posts, proofreading it and all the other things which aren't as obvious as wordcount, and then converting into OM. In the situation, all I can do is look at writing where someone obviously took time and effort on the story and crafting, and say "I know it ain't much ... but here's some OM for being awesome".
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