[Ryu-Kazuki]

Ranylyn » Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:33 pm[/url]"]

Ryu-Kazuki » Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:48 pm[/url]"]The current system is quite frankly -TERRIBLE- for -RP PURPOSES.- Rather than make a new character, meeting people, making friends, and RPing the dungeons, it's more like "I need to level up first to see how my stats even turn out." A person knows their strengths and weaknesses. A person chooses where they wish to train. A mage who keeps getting strength instead of will, for example, is not a mage who's been studying magic, even if that's what they RP as.

This is entirely highly debatable. When people make stats their everything about a character, that just means the character is flat, 2D, and boring. The game already as is has people running around getting as high as stats as possible and flaunting off their PvP prowess, which is a huge turn off and really is unnecessary; it doesn't need to turn even more into that.

Nobody needs to level or do anything, you can simply RP. Stats don't make a character, they don't make character development, all they do is determine your combat prowess and when a majority of characters don't even fight, what's the point of it? All it does is focus on the combat aspect for dungeon crawling, which half the time isn't RP'd; and some people don't want to RP it.

RP and stats only matter in PvP scenarios, which barely happen. Just because you get -some- STR doesn't mean you won't get more WIL. And just because you don't get perfect WIL doesn't mean you need to. It devalues the differences in characters and kills the RP aspect that everybody isn't the same. If I wanted to be a gray blob, I'd go play Runescape or something.

People are different, their make-up is different; just because you train doesn't mean you'll always achieve the same results as others. Some people are just better at things, some people are just prodigies. It shouldn't be a "oh because I'm this race, I'm going to turn out this way and be like all the others of my kind". That's terrible and completely makes it a "you want to be this class? Pick this race here" type of game. No thank you.

How about we stop making stats the main focus of the game and actually RP instead of trying to be the best at PvP and flaunting our prowess over each other? That's a much better idea in my opinion.

You don't have to get stats, people will mainly use the same combos to min-max what they want, people will become the same and remain these edgy gray blobs whose only goal in life is to act like a pompous ass and flaunt their PvP powers. The suggested system won't do any good other than get people to stop whining about not getting what they want and turn the game into more of a festival of jerks who like to do nothing but be less than decent people in character.

If you want to RP, then simply RP, stop worrying about stats and just allow roleplay to influence your character, not statistics.