DarkJet wrote:My concern is that when making a fan made you only get 70 points to use, thats it. But maybe if you climb high enough in the ranks you could earn like 5 more points or something like when Hot Rod was given the Matrix and turned into Rodimus Prime it boosted his stats to help him lead. I am not saying that every one should get upgraded. But especially with the decepticons can you imagine StarScream taking orders form Rumble, no he would simply crush him and assume leadership.
First of all, the reason the cap was lowered from 75 to 70 is that the staff here felt that fan made transformers were getting too powerful.
Secondly, the topic of upgrades was spoken of heavily towards the beginning of this thread.
To sum things up, While there are a few good reasons for it like a plot device, there's simply too many reasons against it like power gaming, god modeing, the work in determining who gets the upgrades and when, problems concerning fairness and favoritism, etc.
Bluntly, it simply is not likely to happen unless you mean Rank.
Rank you can get more or less of through role play or a request when submitting an application though none of it is guaranteed.
Plus the fact you say only some would get the upgrades.
People will most likely cry foul over that as it's definitely not fair.
For instance I've many upgrades Shrike could receive, so why would I be unworthy of the opportunity to implement them?
But I do agree though and would enjoy seeing my character evolve physically instead of just in terms of personality, but I don't see it happening short of minor things that would not adjust her stats towards the positive, if at all. If she did happen to get permission for an upgrade like an upgraded rifle, or extra ranged weapon within reason I wouldn't complain though.
I admit some regret in equipping her with simply a slow firing rifle as the only viable means of long range combat for 2 of her 3 modes, but it's not enough to have me scrap her just to rebuild her and start all over again. It just means trying to overcome the weakness and regret and show she is playable and can survive despite it until she can improve.
But it was also said that the stats and bio don't make the character so much as the players ability to play that role.
Your character's bio could state that they are designed to take out high ranking enemies, or that they are the greatest melee combatant short of Megatron/Optimus Prime, or that they are a professional spy, but if you cannot role play that effectively through the character it is not necessarily true, is it?
Maybe through role play they adopted a strong suit?
Further, fan made characters, based on what I read, are intended to be weaker than the cannon characters because they want you to play a cannon character.
And there are lots and lots of cannon characters to pick from.
Unless you want to play a cannon fembot then your choices can be counted on 2 hands at best between the Decepticons and Autobots.
I know what you're thinking, but not all cannon Autobots are coddling nature loving hippies. Just BeachComber and a few others.
Some Autobots are almost decepticon in nature, like Repugnus who's down and dirty, violent, and has been booted out of the Autobots for being too insubordinate, only to be asked back in because he does the jobs no autobot wants to do and has a not too bad Alt mode and range of abilities either.
Then there's narcissists like Tracks, and Sunstreaker.
There's the odd balls like Cosmos who's a UFO.
And lets not forget one of my favorites (and I'd play him if I thought I could do it believably!) Punch/Counterpunch! An autobot that has 2 personalities, and one of which is decepticon (Complete with the insignia and full blown virtually impenetrable disguise) which is why he's a spy and decently armed to boot. And played as a deep character, I hope!
Some autobots are decently armed, too. Some even turn into tanks.
Some are very war like and combative.
And on the Decepticon side, while most are psychotic, uhm, I mean model Decepticons, there are some oddities among them.
Odds are good with some research a cannon character is bound to appeal to you. And odds are they'll be stronger than a fanmade.
In closing I'd like to apologize if my post comes off as shoddy, hypocritical, offensive, or an overkill on the point. I was tired at the time of writing kept up with the desire to post on the subject.
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