Remove the 3 Topic submited per week restriction

[Android 7Q "Jaion"]

I've been thinking for some time now about how we all gain Powerlevel, PL for short, on this RP. The current way we gain PL here is working for us but in reality I think there is one thing that needs to change. That's the weekly PL cap. Now what I mean about the PL Cap is that every week we are only able to submit three topics for grading limiting the amount of potential PL we could all be gaining.

Now the way in which we actually gain PL is very well thought out. For a short period of time I was able to grade a few topics using a complex system which I thought was quite perfect when handling the amount of PL someone would gain per thread. But the fact that there is a restriction of the amount of submissions we can make a week really tightens the progression of players making this system not able to work as well.

Think of it this way, using three completely random thought up characters I'm going to explain what really makes me not like the way PL is gained:

Bob: 50,000 PL
Jan: 25,000 PL
Sue: 5,000 PL

Now lets imagine that Bob, Jan and Sue all write up three topics a week with the same amount of quality and each of them submit these three topics each gaining a similar amount of PL causing their PL to go up:

Bob: 55,000PL
Jan: 30,000 PL
Sue: 9,000 PL

They have all gained PL after posting their topics and been rewarded for their hard work. But there is a problem with this. What if they were to do this every week? Other then the fact that their PL would go up it would stay at the same spot it is now. Bob will be stronger than Jan, Jan will be stronger than Sue and Sue will remain weak as s**t.

This is the problem with the current way PL is gained. By having a PL cap hard workers will remain at the same level as they are now and can still be easily beaten by players who don't post as much. If the PL gain cap was to be removed. Players like Sue could easily out do players like Bob, or even merely beat players like Jan with Bob staying miles ahead.

Players should be rewarded for posting regularly and putting hard work into their threads. The current system merely restricts players who play regularly by having players who don't post as much staying in the same spot. Having no Topic Submission Cap/PL Submission cap has worked plenty of times before and can even create interesting things storywise, ever wanted to see Hercule become Earths savior?.

I'm sorry if this wasn't explained very well, I'm posting it at a tired point in time, please think about supporting the removal of the cap. or think about being able to have no restriction on the amount of Pl we gain every week.

[Zaza]

I understand what your saying and I agree to an extent. However just take me as an example. I'm probably in the most topics at the moment with chichi. If I posted all my finished topics at once I could easily surpass the main saga villain at this rate. I think if ur pl is below 25000 or so there shouldn't be a cap. Some people haven't been posting and will be surpassed soon. If u want to surpass someone, the trick is to do solo training.

[Android 7Q "Jaion"]

Well see that's what I'm trying to push. If a player like you gains a hefty amount of PL other players will want to catch upto you and will likely do the same.

This method rewards players like you who put hard work into posting regularly instead of dragging you down with players who aren't able to post as much.

And a way to have Saga Villian's so that no-one surpasses them is to boost them insanely high, because Villians usually die anyway right? Or to make their PL's unkown/hidden.

[Zaza]

Those are good ideas, but I think I need an example of how that has happened. I haven't seen much of anyone gain PL recently. If you don't post, you won't get PL.

I like the idea of keeping the villains PL a secret. I think that could work too.

[Android 7Q "Jaion"]

Sorry for the double post but I came up with another idea.

Instead of completely removing the 3 topic a week restriction, which CHi-Chi pointed out could mean one person becoming too strong, add a level Cap for every saga.

An example:

Buu Saga
Level Cap: 50,000 PL

Basically if you are under 50,000 PL you have no restriction on the amount of Topics you can submit for grading per week. But once you hit 50,000 PL you have reached the PL Cap meaning that you are back to submitting three topics per week. This reduces an over-killing in PL.

You are still able to gain PL once you hit the level cap it will just be harder to gain it. Every saga or major update/event the level cap is increased and the process begins again.

[Zaza]

Yeah, that could work too. WE just need more opinions on it especially the updaters. I also think the 3 cap per week is to help updaters not feel so overwhelmed.

Just imagine if people finish a number of topics in one day and post them all at once. The updater will feel overwhelmed and probably not put as much thought into updating.

[REN]

There is also a temporary, possibly permanent, solution of this (since you have low member count): Create quests, in which, a staff will determine the difficulty, assign NPCs, or not, and allow the player to gain more XP then they naturally gain. But since this will absorb a lot of time from the staff, it counts as 2 topics instead of one. So in other words, the person will spend more time to make sure that quality and quantity is good, since it's worth 2 topic grades (with an additional Quest bonus).

It's just a suggestion, and you have to work on how you want to make it. You can make it so that it's a set quest, where any amount of members may do it, a mini-quest, where a group of member can complete it only once, a single quest, where it is first come first serve (can be done only once), or player made quests.

So basically, it adds variety of ways to obtain Xp, and since the amount of Xp, items, or what not earned during the quest all depends on the difficulty, overcoming gaps shouldn't be hard.

[princesschichi]

We could put that into play too, but I'd have to see it first hand to see how it works. I think a good way of eliminating this restriction is by restricting the number a topics a character can be in.

I don't like the idea of limiting topics, but I think limiting would allow people not to be overwhelmed and/or have people from gaining PL too fast.

[REN]

Liquid threading is only beneficial to those with too much time. I'm not against it, but at max, I would only be three topics. I think those that could handle it, should be able to. It would be more beneficial to put a Cap on PL, so when one event in the saga concludes, a new Cap is placed. This forces the admins and mods to rush the Saga, thus allowing member's adrenaline to run with the pace of the site. Once a member reaches the Cap, they will be restricted to being able to participate 1 topic at a time, and ability to submit only 1 topic per week. This will prevent member from power grinding, because really, who likes the idea of submitting 1 topic per week? Those who hit the cap gain accumulated Pl, in which, will be added only when the Cap is removed.

Again, just throwing ideas in the air.

[Frigid]

Topics are capped at 3,000 PL per topic, but the thing is. Let's say the length/number of posts are the same, one is a long topic and another is around 3 topics that adds up to the same length. To me, it seems to be the same thing but with better timing.

While I do see it as a potential problem, as things are no one is barely even reaching the 3 topics per week limit anyway. And even if they do, they don't usually keep that up for the next week or so.

So the 3 topics graded per week is fine as it is IMO.

As for PL capping, I'll manually set PLs when it comes to saga events and such. Say for example Chi Chi reached 60,000 PL, her PL would be lowered appropriately when she fights the PTO. Though I figured before, if someone did train/work hard enough than everyone else, it should show when the time came. Because the villains atm aren't NPC, but are player characters too.