Board Thread:The Official Announcement Board/@comment-3030647-20170302213843/@comment-18812574-20170304202927

I mean Con I gotta disagree with you in regards to BFF. There we are plagued by the "theoretical power" problem, where people have gone to such extreme lengths of reality-warping concepts that any power originally set up in the series has become rather, how should I say this... broken. (So yes there is an over-power tendency there as well just as here).

But what you say is true about originality. I can't speak for One Piece, but at least on BFF people there theorize, and what they come up with, while it might be over-the-top, is at least interesting and unique to consider. And the catch for RP's on BFF is this: If you can find a hole in the other RPer's theory, then you have an advantage. Here, RP's typically devolve in to "one-up-em's" and Retcon contests. Which means RPs here are juvenile and kill interest faster than you can say "FTG." The problem isn't necessarily limited to hated Uchiha/Senju/Outstuki characters either, although as you pointed out they are typically the culprits. I believe one major issue is that the experienced RPers have mainly stopped RPing on NF. This means that the only ones actually doing RP battles are n00bs. And how are we gonna expect them to improve and bump up the quality/originality if no good models/input are provided? But then the reason why experienced RPers don't wanna RP is cause there is absolutely no fun and nothing productive in RPing "n00b Uchiha power level 9000" type characters. So... it is a vicious, endless cycle, and one I don't really have good suggestions for as far as solving except that, as much as people hate them, FC's might be the best option because they provide structure via story (so free-for-alls are not allowed), and provide a good platform experience for new RPers to learn from more experienced members. But then time/dedication is the issue there.

What Ash came up with a while back, and what might be good to be used in conjunction with Solo's idea, is to reinstate the review board and also provide monthly contests to encourage users to improve the quality of their articles/ideas/writing in a less formal than an FC setting.