15th Activity Check

{Spoiler} Now we're getting into the really big issues. Before I go into this, I’m putting up a disclaimer. I’m not deliberately attacking specific people for things they have made. I’m just going into an issue that requires an example. With that out of the way, I would like to talk about Flare's Fist of the Phoenix school. It isn't the only school I have or had qualms about, but this school shines a light on why I think things need to be better reviewed.

For those of you who don't know, Flare's school has a passive technique that gives you 5% of everyone's PL gains in a thread. It can be upgraded to 15%. This gain applies no matter what type of thread you’re in. Before the ToM arc began, Flare had a base PL 399,533. Then Flare went into the time chamber and then participated in the ToM RoD. The RoD gave her 58,018 PL on top everything else. As a result of these and a few other gains, her PL was 569,859 by the end of the RoD.

To put that in perspective, my character Tomina ate 2 fruits from the ToM and got a Zenkai boost on top of normal saga gains, adding up to 61,708. Flare’s versatile technique that worked in any kind of thread got almost as much gains as two situational mechanics that I used, which is just ridiculous.

Flare has gone on record saying that she didn't realize how much this technique would give them this much in gains. Considering that the staff who approved her school also didn't see how much it could give her, I believe that it was a honest mistake. So I don't want people harassing her OOC (apparently some other staff have gone through that kind of thing recently). Also I’ve heard that the technique is going to be changed a bit, although the MA page hasn't been edited yet.

Flare's school simply got approved too quickly. Had more care had been taken, it would have been easy to spot how unbalanced Adaptive Heat was in conjecture with the time chamber and RoD mechanics. That is the most extreme example, but there are other things that needed more testing before being finalized. In short, the review process needs to be changed so that these kind of things don't happen.

{Spoiler}*Rubs hands together* Ohhh, boy. We’ve arrived at the main event. Recently we had 4 RoDs going on at the same time. Which caused several major issues that I’ll go into momentarily. As a result, tensions became rather high between the players involved in them. In every RoD, there was at least one person who got significantly mad/annoyed at another member (myself included, much to my regret). Now I’m going to start by going into the major problems that the current system has.

First of all, it can create a situation where it's harder for new members to RP. People who haven't been here for very long aren't going to typically get involved in a RoD. Meanwhile everyone who gets in a RoD has their character locked in there. So naturally the newer people will have less characters to RP with while they're going on.

This was especially true during the four RoDs, where a lot of characters got locked. I think we got a new member during that period who had a lot of trouble finding people to RP with as a result of this. The RoDs took awhile to resolve, so they were left in limbo for awhile. Which isn’t exactly the best experience for a new player to go through.

Secondly, invading forces have an overwhelming advantage over defending forces. Even before diving into the really big problem, good guys having to be on the defensive kinda binds them down. A good example of this was when Jarvis blew up Natto. Invaders typically don't have to worry about preserving things as much. The real problem is that a as of right now, RoDs can stack on tip of each other. And under the current rules, defenders are up against near impossible odds.

Let’s recap all the RoDs (save for the Namek one, which didn't have any deaths.). Jarvis opens an RoD in South city. Nasu decides that it's the perfect time to start his RoD at that point. As a result, many people in Jarvis’s go over to the main RoD.

The people left behind in the thread with Jarvis were horribly outmatched. And once a certain amount of time passed, people in the ToM RoD couldn't get into Jarvis’s thread even if they wanted to.

Now while only south city was destroyed (and Galen killed), Jarvis could have blown up the Earth, and no one would be able to stop him. With so many invaders attacking Earth at the same time in different RoDs, the defenders honestly got lucky all that was lost were south city and North.

And then there's the Saiya RoD. Since pretty much everyone else was tied up in the other RoDs, no one could come and help the weaker defending forces pull back the invaders even if other people were contacted. Although in this case they couldn't be contacted due to Ash’s White Noise tech (see point 5 for how I feel about this tech, albeit to a lesser extent). As A result, all reliant Saiyans on the planet died and Saiya blew up.

Now I know some people will argue “Well Nasu should have been smarter and not empty his planet of all his forces when he attacked Earth. Then maybe he would have had a chance.” Well let's put that to the test.

In addition to what he had on Saiya during the RoD, let's have either Miso Or Karota and Queen Kinoko there. Nasu could have possibly spared that much and still had enough forces to take on Earth.

I picked Miso/Karota since they're two of Nasu’s strongest allies, and Queen Kinoko because her dimensional telepathy could get around Ashes white noise. Well it would if she had galactic ki sense (which she and a lot of other people don't have). But for the sake of argument, let's give Kinoko galactic ki sense in this hypothetical scenario.

So these two additions would have been more enough to deal with what was on Saiya. Although Nakiya had a few henchmen that she didn't send in that she could use. Plus Jarvis could send in his allies to help Nakiya like he did during the first invasion of Saiya. Whether or not he would do that in that situation is up for the debate, but the point is that he could totally do that.

Kinoko could telepathically call for aid in this scenario, but Nasu’s forces wouldn't have been able to spare anyone else more than likely. Since Earth had a lot of defenders for Nasu to deal with.

Now in this case Ash/Chris posted up the Saiya RoD a day after the ToM was posted up.
Although I'd someone really wanted to be mean, they could waited until everyone was locked in other RoDs before posting up their own RoD. I’m not saying that someone on DBU is enough of a jerk to do that, but again, someone could hypothetically do that under our current RoD system.

Again I want to reiterate that I’m not pointing the blame at anyone. Everyone followed the rules for RoDs and didn’t set out to deliberately do things that would upset people. It's just that the current system resulted in a lot of shenanigans. As a result of all of this mess, I and a lot of other people got frustrated at certain points during our respective RoDs. Like a lot of people I talked to had certain gripes with how things played out.

If we made some fixes to the RoD mechanics, then maybe we could avoid this kind of drama in the future (or at least reduce it). The way I see it, we should cut the amount of RoDs that are allowed at one time down to either two or three. I personally would put it down to two, since 3+ is what allowed for Saiya to be invaded while everyone was in the other RoDs, but some people might feel that limiting them to two is too drastic.

I would also recommend either allowing only one RoD on a planet at a time, or allow people to travel between multiple RoDs on the same planet if they enter one. This wouldn’t fix all the problems that arose during the RoDs, but it would be a really good start.