You mean you people can go to other countries???? >.<
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?Okay... First, there was no response to my previous Discussion post, (mainly due to Meddler derailing things with non-RP crap, as befitting her name.) Anyhow, second, there's an issue this arc has inadvertently created.
There seems to be a disproportionate amount of Souls now.
I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but current estimates go like this:
Hearts of Gold: Luke, Jane, Daisy, Meddler, Lake, Unite, Ho-oh, Pleo Souls of Silver: Tagg, Fool, Crewe, Pentigan, Tracer, possibly Star, Nadia, Muddy, Sunny, Lugia, Nix, possibly Aurora, Gravemind, Sunny, Forte... (More?) Minds of Crystal: Anom, DS, Wolf, Slouch, Ribbons, possibly Straw, Crystallux
So yeah. Any ideas for evening it out besides forcing people to remove their attributes like Silent suggested?
And yes, I do have my own opinions, Every. I'm not going to bend over backwards for you -or anyone else- every time.
edited 13th Mar '12 4:53:16 PM by Umbramatic
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To be fair, most of your last post was edited in later, so no matter who posted after you, it would have been bumped. I certainly didn't know there was more to your post than "Thanks anyway, Wolf."
I'm not entirely sure why the numbers need to be even, since the attributes rarely come up unless an arc is specifically based around them (such as the current one). In fact, pretty much the only non-plot-relevant thing they do is let Minds talk to Kyurem.
edited 13th Mar '12 4:53:21 PM by BadWolf21
Well, there are a couple of issues with balance that could get problematic at some point...
This arc was more or less designed to favour Souls, which while not a problem by itself does call attention to the numbers. It did present an incentive for people to (want to) make their characters Souls, which adds to their number in the wake of some players of other Attributes leaving, without much of an explanation beyond "it'll help me move in the twilit". And it is an Attribute-focused arc.
I'm more interested in an evening out process than in the Attributes being actually even, so it's no like I want Soul Attributes to be removed, I simply want the option to be available.
Things like: promoting arcs focused (or not) on certain Attributes, depending on whether we want people to make their characters hearts/souls/minds just because or not, and not leaving people who don't have Attributes at an obvious disadvantage; also defining their powers more clearly, for example, Hearts are supposed to be more emphatic, but whatever usable power they would get from that, which would essentially be The Force, is taken by Souls getting heightened Aura sensitivity; and Minds understanding Kyurem is a bit... situational.
As for Discussion usage, nothing to comment really. I mean, I usually fastforward through most offtopic post, which only causes a problem when I realize I have to reel back to find where did the subject change again. And I'm happy and envious <_< that people can travel to other countries...
Fanfic Recs orwellianretcon'd: cutlocked for committee or for Google?I don't think of the attributes themselves as bestowing innate abilities, beyond the talking to Kyurem thing (and that's because he's one of the patron Legendaries of the attribute). Oh, and the "can give instructions to Legendaries under the domain of your attribute" thing, but that's something that separates people with attributes from those without, rather than separating the attributes from each other. Aura sensitivity is pretty much unique to Tagg, at least at that level.
If anything, I would say that being a Soul makes you more susceptible to being Aura sensitive, in the same way as the Masuda method makes you more likely to breed a Shiny. It's better odds, but it's still not likely.
edited 13th Mar '12 5:12:50 PM by BadWolf21
I'd just as soon make Attributes something every living thing has one of, and simply make the powers non-inherent to it. An attribute increases the chance of having some particular class of power, but in the end every human and Pokémon fall under one. (Possibly with other attributes to leave room for people identified as being none of the three covered.)
Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?Dibs on Spleen of Faithfulness!
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