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@tragedyjones
Carter kicked so much ass in the past two episodes. Captain America who? MISS UNION JACK.

@HelloRaptor
You just hate me, is all. I see how it is.

@The-Tree-of-Woe, "sphere" is much better than "genre", because it's more generic, IMO.

@Miss-Demeanor

Sphere caps are staying. We're just not using waiting lists.

Granted, @Arkandel, but that doesn't mean if the policy is implemented we won't try for something that will feel exclusionary to the least amount of people possible.

@Bobotron, @Arkandel

I love Geist. I ran Geist for a while. I still play my Sin-Eater.

I hope we get a second edition. I really really do. If Onyx Path replied to my application I would even sit down and write the fuck out of it myself.

But I am not going to house rule the entire line just to fit with 2e for Eldritch. I'm just not.

@Arkandel, Demon is pretty disorganized. It still has a Y-Splat, true, but they are largely more classifications of attitudes than organizations with Ranks. More like Changeling Courts, but without a Mantle stat.

@Arkandel
There's no such thing as a show called "Batman and Robin". You're an impostor.

Man, @Arkandel, I like Whedon as much as the next guy, but I sure hope you-re being hyperbolic.

Just for everyone's information, we've already decided on how many alts people can have on the game and for the nonce it's 2 alts per player, period. I say this as it seems to be relevant to people's opinions on the matter.

@Thenomain, what if several people have been waiting for two weeks? I prefer sticking to the same method. Of course, if no one has been waiting and a slot opens up, then it's definitely first-come, first-serve.

This is both a specific thread for our game and also a general discussion, because your views do interest us even if we ultimately decide to be nepotic tyrants.

That said, when we started talking about the population of the game and what we hoped versus what we feared, it came up that all of us were pretty gung-ho that we wanted sphere caps. It's especially true when it comes to myself and @Eerie regarding Demon: The Descent. Demon is a very ST-intensive game, which translates to very STAFF-intensive on a MU.

As such we've decided we will be instituting sphere caps on Eldritch. This doesn't mean that we will decide on a number and then that number will never, ever change. That's not it at all. The number will likely and probably grow, but we want to be able to say 'this is the limit for now'. We want manageable sizes when it comes to spheres, especially supernatural ones (i.e. Demon, Vampire, Werewolf).

Anyway, we thought up a few ideas on how to handle waiting lists, but these also came with problems:

1. Just let people pile up.
   This comes with the issue that eventually you're #45 on the wait list and that's pretty much practically a 'no' within any practical timeframe. This could be mitigated slightly by capping the wait list, too, one supposes, but that seems extra redundant.
2. Those on the waitlist get put in a lottery.
   This comes with the issue that someone may have been waiting for a year (which seems really weird to me as I'd never do that, but hey, people are determined) but the lottery goes to someone who's only been waiting a week. Letting this be a possibility seems kind of shitty to us.
3. A hybrid system of the two.
   This hybrid system, which is what we're leaning towards pretty heavily, is basically a waitlist. If a slot (or more) open up, a lottery is held between people who have been waiting the longest within a certain time frame (i.e. months; so those who've been waiting 8-9 months would get their own lottery, and if there are still slots open and no one has been waiting 9 months, then it gets rolled for those who've been waiting 7-8, etc). If someone has been waiting long enough that they have their own category (maybe they've been waiting 10 months and everyone else has been waiting maximum 7) they automatically get the slot. If no one has been waiting a month, the timeframe is in weeks. This was @Thenomain's idea, after having discussed the other two for a bit.

We want to be receptive to opinions and mostly just give you guys a chance to poke some holes in these, discuss some stuff, and help us when it comes to considering which way to go. The decision is, of course, ultimately ours, but we want input from the people who'll have to be beholden to the system.

And like I said before, it's also just a good idea to have this sort of constructive discussions up and available for people to offer input and opinions.

@Bobotron, wrong type of sidebar. I'm talking sidebars a la "when you want to isolate a statement in text". You know, like the actual sidebars in the books.

Guyz, I just want to 1) thank my wiki-person because she made a sexy, sexy sidebar code that I love to use; and 2) apologize to you guys because I am likely to abuse the fucking shit out of it.

That is all.

@Wizz said:

Also you can drive a motorcycle through the window of the 28th floor of a skycraper and activate your jetpack at the last minute to rocket-propel an uppercut right into the neck of a gun toting mutant pterodactyl who kidnapped your hot reporter girlfriend that doesn't care if your anatomy doesn't exactly match hers, species-wise.

FTFY.

@Wizz, it'd be a great place to just stop worrying about shit, yeah.

I'll let you know once I get my new computer and am able to run Steam and games.

@Arkandel, that's beside the point. If they can milk Spider-Man for all he's worth, they're going to. Especially if he proves to be particularly profitable and they decide to pony up and buy him back from Sony wholesale, since Sony has been unable to really wring him for all he's worth.

I'm iffy on my feelings over this. I prefer Spidey not overshadow everything that the MCU has been able to achieve with less popular characters. It's very likely they will try to push Spidey so hard that it'll end up being a detriment to everything else they've got.

@Bobotron, I think a key thing will be to keep this casual, chill air, and not let the vitriol that will inevitably come over with those people infect the rest of us. I'm as prone to it as anyone, so I say this with my fingers crossed.