Mastery of Skill

Before I say my piece, I'd like it to be known that our staff are actually "putting a pin" on suggestions. Not to say that we are ignoring them in any way, but our Admin is working on systems and the mechanics of the site that aren't necessarily publicly visible. Put simply, he's busy cleaning up the site refining it for the expected number of members to come. During this time, I'll be sure to actively post in the suggestions board to reply to our members and flesh out these ideas; hopefully, by the time we are ready to actively take in suggestions and implement them these ideas are wholly ready for direct input. That in mind, I'll get right on to commenting on this myself.

Personally, I like the idea of more lower tier-techniques, but I must admit that it's kind of... unnecessary. Think of this realistically--by the time people get to these higher tiers, the percentage of time they use lower-tier techniques in comparison to higher-tier is fairly low... In fact, most of our higher-tiered characters have never used them. Granted, our higher tiered characters mainly combat other high-tiered characters whom t1 techniques and so-on are pretty much ineffective against.

The number of total techniques over the number of techniques-per-tier does matter, though. Mainly because techniques also extend to passives and other methods of application. Also keep in mind that there is no set damage-system. Theoretically, one can use their higher-tiered techniques on a lower level to match tier-1 level. That in mind, your tier-# techniques can easily be used as tier-1 techniques, making it further less necessary to add more techniques to a tier.

What I think could be done is having the technique system allow for lower-tiered techniques to be executed with higher power once the user tiers up. For example, if the user was a tier-2, they can use a tier-1 technique at tier-2 power. Keep in mind, this is all up for discussion. I'm aiming to have this fleshed out before the time comes in which we can actively consider and implement these ideas, so keep them coming.

As staff, I find it my obligation; thank you for being understanding. As for what I was trying to convey, perhaps we can have the system allow for adding in techniques of previous tiers into higher-tier sections in the skills applications, where the effects are pretty much the same, and the ranges, damages, etc is raised to appropriate levels, as opposed to just assuming in-RP that these things are increased. This will allow for direct reference to this applications, avoiding confusion and somewhat alleviating the situation of lacking technique-numbers per-tier. Keep in mind this works in reverse as I mentioned before, in that the higher-tiered techniques can be used at lower potency to have the effect of a lower-tiered technique. Thoughts?