Casual Rules

Intro:(Skip to second paragraph to get to the meat and potatoes)
Our site is constantly growing and developing. Everyone is familiar with the new pvp reforms to crack down on OP unchecked magic. Which are great by the way. 10-outta-10 I voted for that. But I feel we have become a bit wayward from our roots in casual rp. Now before you pull the "kiraface you ungrateful pig you asked for this," card I want to make clear I DO NOT MEAN TO BEG FOR THINGS TO GO BACK TO HOW THEY WERE BEFORE because at present things are way better then they used to be. But simpler times did have their perks and that got me thinking...


Meat and Potatoes:
Casual Rules, when a character is created they have the choice at magic creation to mark their magic as "casual use only" which means two things:
1. They are banned from Duels, Event PvP, and certain threads
2. They are a allowed "Lazy Apps"

Lazy Apps Include:
-Spell range only defined as: close, short, medium, long
-Defense spells do not specify how much damage they block
-Damaging spells do not specify how much damage they do
-Min 2 strengths 3 weaknesses(instead of 3 strengths 4 weaknesses)
-They don't have to worry about being OP or getting nerfed

The idea is to permit newer or just more casual players to make simpler magic apps so that they can worry less about making it balanced and fair and focus on making it fun.

Now naturally to prevent pandemonium this privilege does come with a cost:
Which brings us to that first thing(See how I explained them in the order opposite of listed, pretty slick huh?). If you do want to use casual rules you are simply banned from areas in which an unbalanced magic may cause a problem. Namely formal duels and combat events. Non-casual players are also allowed the priviledge to tag their threads "no casuals" IF AND ONLY IF there is combat in the thread or combat planned. "No casual" tags are not meant to discriminate players they are meant to stop a conflict between casuals and non-casuals. Since the only difference is in their magic/weapon/pet apps social threads won't require this. If a casual believes the "no casual" tags are being used to keep them from social threads they can report it to administration same as any breach of the code of conduct.

But wait zuoface you mentioned weapon and pet apps! Yes I did. Those are effected by casual rules as well in the same fashion as magic app. It is not possible to pick and choose casual rules between your apps, it is all or nothing to prevent loop hole hunting.

So no character sheets like this:
Primary Magic Casual
Secondary Magic Non-Casual
Weapon Non-Casual
Pet Casual
Armor Casual


Thoughts?

Edit 1: Casuals aren't allowed in bragging contests either. Because they're cheating.

Edit 2: Consider banning them from titles like WS, GM and Sinners since they can't do invasions

Edit 3: Note: Bragging contest thing was a joke.

this idea is bad I am lazy, but this takes the fun away from role play

Sounds kewl o.o

@kitteh can you please explain how OPTIONAL reduction of restrictions takes the fun out of rp? Last I checked more freedoms was appreciated, especially when optional.

I thought it over and its good

I have to agree with Kitteh here, Holding a "lazy" Player to different standards is unfair to those who do care about making quality magics. the fact is being general like that makes metagaming in job easy. This also would make two types of players segregating them from each other would become necessary, as a Meat player could use a potato to easy complete a job. so that would limit who you could rp with. It would also keep you from participating in any event thats Non-casual, and considering that events are suppose to be high impact that would mean all of them.

It also mean we have to set "general ranges" just for the sake of understanding when we explain it. Basicly this is adding work to mods load, cause now we have to remember two sets of rules.

Yeah a casual player to my mind would also be banned from jobs which means they can't rank. Why? Because most of our jobs specify you need 'x rank of damage on this opponent to take them down'. If we don't know how much damage your spells do then we can't accurately do this.

On top of that events are the big thing on site. They get everyone involved. This would just break the site into sections rather than having it as just one.


Besides in regards to damage the rules are pretty simple and unless it does damage over time or has more than one effect....the standard rule is easy and doesn't even really need to be mentioned in the app. Damage = number of shots/divided by rank of spell.

Ranges also aren't that hard to specify. Same for barriers.

Tbh this seems more like people just don't want to bother thinking their magic through much and just want to go 'yeah i'm OP'. I am 100% against this idea.

yes lazy apps are a nice thing for lazy people, but I am one of the laziest people on the site I would not even think of doing this. You come to this site to get better at role play not get worse. I saw a site that did this I did not even see one post that was not just one line. good idea for somethings bad for this.We should not think of giving this a try it is not worth it. It is like trying to steal from the police you know you are gonna fail so why try.