Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30542316-20180325174329

FC/OC is a site were we create original or fan characters or post those of others. Obviously the main attraction is vs debating and with that comes getting unique and creative with powers and abilities.

Unfortunately, even some rather well-regarded users in this community abuse that and go way overboard. This ranges anywhere from making every single character they make overpowered or ridiculously hax'd beyond measure. No, "overpowered" does not mean "Tier 2 and above".

Some of you (you know who are) make characters that can solo their entire respective tier on VSB. It's one thing to make strong characters because you have a strong verse, it's another to make characters solely to flauny their hax or AP with no validity other than "muh character beats such and such" every time someone posts their OC on Discord and it just so happens to be of the same tier. Even if you don't make them for that reason, it's still bad.

Why make an unbeatable or immeasurably OP character just to make comparisons to characters obviously weaker because they don't have a plethora of hax? Don't get me started on the hax you people come up with. We have very hax'd inviduals like Medusa and Apeiros and then we have those with shit powers like a High 3-A/Low 2-C BFRing a 1-A entity or similar nonsense. I'm sorry but just because this is FC/OC Vs Battles doesn't mean power/hax is the only thing to worry about.

I've heard of and outright seen people make characters with "hax immumity", "1-A protection", "Omni-Resistance" and everything in between. People give these guys 100+ powers and abilities, you can tell by the super-long paragraphs of descriptions and the number of categories (taking out non power related ones). Even Medusa only has roughly less than half of that. Then certain powers are ripped straight out of Superpower Wiki, not that it is bad to sometimes use powers from there but to list so many powers from there and automatically include all their applications?

Why do we keep doing this? Is winning that important to you? People talked all kinds of crap about Seed, how bad Seed's pages was "blah blah Crying Child" etc, when the page(s) were not bad because of power, at least not entirely. Seed never bragged about his characters' strengths nor did he ever flaunt their hax to people, unlike these ysers that shan't be named.

Anyway...just a thread for discusding this as Dragon requested. I'm sure others have something to add. 