Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26221691-20170111062911/@comment-27151416-20170111074758

Following!

I have a lot to say on the subject, and will do my best to explain my thoughts:

The figurative "Arms-Race" of Overpowered characters that many users here do, creating ever broken abilities, hax resistances, mimicking each other's abilitieis and inserting OCs of ever higher Tiers to their verses is a troubling thing, and it needs to be fought in some way. Though I do not know exactly how.

We cannot allow this Wikia to become Suggsverse-lite. From what I understand, it was once riddled with ridiculous Tier 0s and characters with nonsensical ratings like "Faster than Irrelevant" speeds. It has come a long way since, but I believe OPness for OPness sake should be discouraged.

Of course, we cannot remove someone's right to create an OP Verse, and there are no good ways to handle it. I've thought of limiting the number of 1-As per Verse, but that would be problematic. Though I am seeing an increasing number of people adding Infinite Hierarchies of 1-As, only to render those characters that are Infinity ^ Infinity beyond baseline Outerverse Level fodders in comparison to their protagonists. High 1-As who fight each other are also common-ish, it seems.

These things are, if you'd allow me to give my thoughts, incredibly cringey, and very obviously done only for the sake of rendering one's OCs the most powerful possible. I don't want to remove anyone's right to make 1-As or broken characters, but there should be a case-by-case way of filtring this. A way of making writers "downplay" their own characters.

I admire FCOC, its Staff, and its idea. And I want to become a larger part of it. However, we cannot let it become worthy of mockery like this is.

Going back to Promenstein's Starcross for an example. It used to have characters ranked at Low 2-C to 2-A, but currently said characters have all been downgraded, and the Verse now peaks at 3-C. I talked about this with Prom once at chat, and she told me that Multiversal+ characters didn't serve her story, and made the rest of the cast seem irrelevant, and so for the sake of the writing their power level was reduced.

I cannot express how much I aplaud this decision... A decision that, really, should be completely obvious. This is what I want for FCOC as a whole. People putting their stories and writings over said writing's Tiering.