Policy Review - New Attacking Move Submission ChangesBass said:Approved.
The new move thread in CAP 7 was a complete mess, people just seemed to be throwing out the first thing that popped into their heads no matter how overpowered, fanboyish, or impossible to code it was. I would like to propose some rules for the submission thread as well as a slight change to the process to make things easier on the TL and improve the overall quality of submissions.If you are not an experienced member of the CAP community, it is strongly recommended that you do not post in this thread.
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1. One submission per person
I don't think anyone actually submitted multiple moves in the last thread but this would help keep the chaos to a minimum.
2.Submitted moves with over 100 BP must similar drawbacks to existing moves of the same BP (eg. Fireblast's 85% accuracy, flare blitz's recoil, Superpower's ATK and DEF drop)
3.Additional effects should have a similar chance of occurring to additional effects on existing moves of the same bp (eg. power 95 moves are usually 10%, power 80 are 20%)
These two rules are to set a baseline for what is considered overpowered, "similar" is the key word here since what is and is not overpowered is not always clear cut.
4. Submissions should not contain names for the move, the name will be chosen in a later poll.
Here's the slight process change I mentioned earlier. There were quite a few moves with duplicate names in the last thread. This rule helps to make the thread less confusing and also helps to keep flavor out of the vote.
5. Include a short explanation of how your move would help the pokemon in it's chosen role.
So many of the moves in the last poll were just random sweeping moves that did nothing to help Kitsunoh scout and would have done nothing but encourage using it as a sweeper. This rule helps people put a little more thought into their move submissions and tell voters why they think their submission is worth voting for.
I think that these rules will greatly improve the organization of the move submission thread and make it easier for the TL to create the poll. It also helps to alleviate the number of overpowered submission posts that must be deleted by the mods.