POWER GAMING
Upon having a character accepted into Poly and into the City itself, we ask that players tone down their characters' powers to logical and fair standards. More than wanting to put your characters at a disadvantage, what we are looking for is fairness all across the board. While your character may be the Big Horned Guy from Legend or their world's version of Sephiroth on steroids, keep in mind that someone else from a completely different canon may have the same power level in their respective home world, and so with this in mind we hope that players will allow their characters to be on slightly similar power levels when it comes to interactions and struggles between characters who do have powers.
Even if your character's ability is more passive than active - such as being able to heal the sick and dying or read another character's mind as opposed to throwing another character across the room or having laser eyes - we hope and ask that you please take this into consideration and still give your characters a slight disadvantage that they may not experience in their own personal canon. For example, even though one character may be able to heal everyone in their respective canon, that may not work so well in a place like the City because characters from different worlds and universes might have different biological makeups or alien anatomy or just because the City itself likes making things as difficult as possible. Even if your character can fly until they run out of sky, remember that there is a barrier around the City or maybe that flying so high might cause dizziness and air sickness in the place they have found themselves trapped. While it would be impossible to dole out specific requirements for each character apped at Poly, we do stress the importance of this and hope that players will limit their characters accordingly.
In keeping with this, we also must stress the importance of the City > your character. Although your character, as previously stated, might be the Big Bad where they come from, might still be strong even with powers toned down, they cannot and will not be able to overcome or beat the City or any of its mechanisms. There are always ways to manipulate or momentarily damage the City environment, and we do encourage players to ask when and if they have ideas, but the City and all the pieces in it will always trump the abilities of individual characters. Unfortunately.
All in all, we absolutely want to reassure players that characters will always be able to retain the abilities that they have, only that they may be not be as strong as they are in canon or may have been altered in some way. And it may seem a bit ridiculous, in a sense. After all, what's the point of having an overwhelming power if you can't use it? But it's also a bit ridiculous to have every single character with that kind of a power running around, killing things, all the time. Any standard declaration of "my canon trumps yours," or "my char > everyone," or "my char has power X and Y and Z and goes undefeated in his/her canon, so that clearly extends here as well"? Is NOT moderator-endorsed, and subject to player discussion and negotiation. We do supervise applications and the game in its overall, but we can't account for every single post, thread and user profile in every single character journal - so if you encounter these sort of statements, know that while they might be backed by player logistics, they are not promoted by your mods and are grounds for mod intervention if players are actually trying to force such statements as reality.
Even if your character's ability is more passive than active - such as being able to heal the sick and dying or read another character's mind as opposed to throwing another character across the room or having laser eyes - we hope and ask that you please take this into consideration and still give your characters a slight disadvantage that they may not experience in their own personal canon. For example, even though one character may be able to heal everyone in their respective canon, that may not work so well in a place like the City because characters from different worlds and universes might have different biological makeups or alien anatomy or just because the City itself likes making things as difficult as possible. Even if your character can fly until they run out of sky, remember that there is a barrier around the City or maybe that flying so high might cause dizziness and air sickness in the place they have found themselves trapped. While it would be impossible to dole out specific requirements for each character apped at Poly, we do stress the importance of this and hope that players will limit their characters accordingly.
In keeping with this, we also must stress the importance of the City > your character. Although your character, as previously stated, might be the Big Bad where they come from, might still be strong even with powers toned down, they cannot and will not be able to overcome or beat the City or any of its mechanisms. There are always ways to manipulate or momentarily damage the City environment, and we do encourage players to ask when and if they have ideas, but the City and all the pieces in it will always trump the abilities of individual characters. Unfortunately.
All in all, we absolutely want to reassure players that characters will always be able to retain the abilities that they have, only that they may be not be as strong as they are in canon or may have been altered in some way. And it may seem a bit ridiculous, in a sense. After all, what's the point of having an overwhelming power if you can't use it? But it's also a bit ridiculous to have every single character with that kind of a power running around, killing things, all the time. Any standard declaration of "my canon trumps yours," or "my char > everyone," or "my char has power X and Y and Z and goes undefeated in his/her canon, so that clearly extends here as well"? Is NOT moderator-endorsed, and subject to player discussion and negotiation. We do supervise applications and the game in its overall, but we can't account for every single post, thread and user profile in every single character journal - so if you encounter these sort of statements, know that while they might be backed by player logistics, they are not promoted by your mods and are grounds for mod intervention if players are actually trying to force such statements as reality.