SURVEY QUESTION: MOVES!

[PepsiYuuka]

@Yuuka: I think that's somewhat incorrect. Because...

>The majority of members definitely don't make moves like that. At least not noticeably. Usually, juggling drawbacks only comes into play when someone's trying to balance a more complicated move, and I try my best to help them out with that. I'm sure some members definitely try to get the most they can for as little, primarily to avoid charge times, I guess. But I was under the impression they were a minority. Then again, I can't read minds.

>The moves system hasn't really been going anywhere. The last time the move rules were substantially changed was long before I joined the OV, but it was smoothed along with an update some time last year to make some parts easier.

>I might be wrong on this part, but at least to me, isn't the whole "best character" debate all a big fun fudge? Do people actually take it seriously? TEC is still best stat. Realism should always play some part in fights. And, if someone would find it hard to hit someone else, then they've gotta think of a creative way to do it or just get a lucky shot. 5 TEC only blocks *most* stuff from unskilled fighters, no all.

> Just because they are not the majority, does not mean that it is not an issue that should be addressed if it is something that is relevant- even just in the form of a single sentence added to the first post of move approval or whatever. Much like how most people are going to pick a character that they're really committed to and want to take many places, but that doesn't mean we don't have a little warning about not just following a hype train for those that won't.

> Even if the rules themselves have not changed, that does not mean that the culture around pushing the envelope on them has not. I'm sure there's no single, solitary cause that can be pinpointed for this- but moves have changed recently. You've said as much yourself about "unbalanced older moves" and even I agree there. There have been good things added through the addition of specifics and some harsher judging, honestly a lot of good things. But at the same time there has certainly also been a more sneaking trend of people who have been getting extremely "gamey" with their moves- a sin that I myself was guilty of when I joined, but I quickly learned was only restrictive of my writing.

> To some of us, of course it's a joke. But from the point of view of say, a new person looking in from the outside, will they necessarily pick up on that?