Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2089817-20180506050029/@comment-3403804-20180510153810

I'd love to be able to throw a ball into this again, the recent merge has galvanized me to get back into this wiki once more. Concerning all of the raised points, I agree on them all to various degrees, yes even those concerning how whacky things have turned out to be regarding certain elements of Bleach. Kidou being the chief example, and while I think that much of what has been done with Kidou should remain, the most extreme examples of it ought to be toned down, to what extent is its very own topic of discussion altogether.

While we've had multiple attempts at Fanon Canons before, I would like to say that for each successive Fanon Canon we have gotten just a little bit further. For all its flaws, of which there were many, the Coven War was the most successful of all previous attempts, it did get to a point where eventually the extremely high power curve exhausted most of the roleplayers.

Throughout the years the main cause for the power creep is a sense of competition among the userbase. Where they see someone make a mighty character and then they strive to outperform that, and then the one who made that character feels challenged and adds even MORE to that character. If you wonder about why characters like Hiroya and Seireitou have grown increasingly ridicolous as the years have gone by, that is the likely reason.

One way to curb this, is to simply decide amongst ourselves as a community who is at the top of the food chain in each specific field, have their user eventually adjust that character to a more realistic point and then just agree to use that character as the highest point in terms of balancing. Preferably by having them make a separate version of that character to be used in FC Projects.

Beyond this I also agree that we ought to begin smaller and more contained, and simply take our time to get the plot rolling, while simultaneously ensuring that as many people as possible get to do what they want to be doing.