We did our very best to take everyone into account regardless of what kind of character they have or what type of cast they play from (well known/obscure/oc/lcw/etc) and we felt that moving to the comment-only based system was an opportunity to create more CR, not a limit to be put upon it.
The thing with characters is that they don't come with pre-written CR success or failure. I'm just going to draw a little on my own time playing here, but when I app'd Jack I had no idea he'd be able to build so many relationships. Being a LCW and from at that time, a brand new canon, I would never have in a million years have guessed his posts would regularly break 100+ comments. Yet when I app'd Raven, I thought she'd do really well here. Even from being an animated DC character, I felt that there was a huge pool of ready-made CR for me to tap into because of the large DC cast and yet I struggled to keep a lot of threads going with her, which really surprised me.
My point is that no one should assume their character is going to have easy to get CR or hard to get CR, until they try with them. I would love to see new OCs in the game, and I don't think you should shoot down the idea of apping one preemptively.
As for allowing to take threads from more than four sources, that's actually the highest that I've ever seen for comment-based AC requirements. This doesn't preclude the possibility of us looking at it again in another few months but we're going off the people who have been using this system as part of the existing AC check, this isn't something new. Let's start with that and give it a few months, see how it goes?
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The thing with characters is that they don't come with pre-written CR success or failure. I'm just going to draw a little on my own time playing here, but when I app'd Jack I had no idea he'd be able to build so many relationships. Being a LCW and from at that time, a brand new canon, I would never have in a million years have guessed his posts would regularly break 100+ comments. Yet when I app'd Raven, I thought she'd do really well here. Even from being an animated DC character, I felt that there was a huge pool of ready-made CR for me to tap into because of the large DC cast and yet I struggled to keep a lot of threads going with her, which really surprised me.
My point is that no one should assume their character is going to have easy to get CR or hard to get CR, until they try with them. I would love to see new OCs in the game, and I don't think you should shoot down the idea of apping one preemptively.
As for allowing to take threads from more than four sources, that's actually the highest that I've ever seen for comment-based AC requirements. This doesn't preclude the possibility of us looking at it again in another few months but we're going off the people who have been using this system as part of the existing AC check, this isn't something new. Let's start with that and give it a few months, see how it goes?