User blog comment:Waterkai/Considering Applications: An Attempt Without Bias/@comment-3008090-20140502125802/@comment-4961229-20140502143902

Not only is there is no need to police any power level, trying to do so is de facto unworkable. There are entrenched interests with already existing overpowered characters grandfathered and otherwise. No one is going to throw out characters who've accumulated ridiculous levels of power just to be fair to newer participants, who have yet to acquire such power and can simply be denied the chance to do so by well meaning people like yourself, who desire to curtail this ridiculous power scaling. Therefore, we would end up with a situation where old entrenched special interests (especially users with a few extra buttons) have all the powerful characters and anyone not in the "clique" has whatever else is leftover.

I first created my clans and powers with the intention of keeping them down to earth. I was more interested in the story aspects of RPing which I had never actually done before coming here. I considered it an opportunity to all write a story together. However, when I began to participate in the fanon RPs taking place I experienced a unfathomable desire to power inflate my characters just to keep up with many others, who were already power inflating their characters. You have people who can seal other peoples techniques just by looking at them. This is the very definition of god modding. You have people who can create planets in orbit around the earth. This is the very definition of god modding. How am I supposed to compete when I've set a goal of staying down to earth? I realized that for the people who power inflate the most their interest lies not in the story aspects of RPing, but in its gaming aspects. They are trying to win a game, not write a story, which is a perfectly legitimate enterprise that I have no desire to participate in. Fortunately, my personal desire for power inflation disappeared when my interest in the various fanon RPs disappeared.

The strange thing about this is such a restriction is not even necessary. The ONLY concern with overblown characters is navigating the RP experience. If you do not RP, as I have stopped doing, it becomes completely irrelevant how powerful your characters are. RP's are controlled by the people who set them up. As the current fanon wide RP taking place, the user sets up in a way to limit undesirable RP behaviors. This was perfectly acceptable. A person creating an RP has every right to set limits and invite whomever he/she wishes as participant. This so-called problem of overpowered characters simply does not exist, except as a fantasy in the minds of some on this website. If you are participating in a site wide RP, what need do you have to control the power level of someone's character who is not and never going to be participating in that RP? What sense does that make? None at all.