Raising the HP per post

[rhianna4554]

As the title says im proposing that the HP per post be raised. Not by a huge amount of course only up to 10 HP per post. Why do I suggest this you might be asking. For one thing the whole plot of this site revolves around mutated horses becoming more frequent yet it takes a lot of time to save up enough for one especially the very very mutated ones like cora's Dendropsyche. I know there are ways you can get hp's like through requests and adds but not everyone is good at art (like me) and the adds are very time consuming. Secondly it could be argued that raising it would be a good way of getting people active because being able to get mutated horses wont take as long. Also it will be a big help to those who have a limited amount of time they can spend on here.

I can understand keeping it at 5 since you don't want newbies getting mutated horses straight away but such a small change wont drastically spring up mutated horses if someone isn't active and that's what we want...active people to rp with. Scarlette highlighted to me that last time this was attempted it messed up the system a little bit so with the help of thoxi. Either of the following two things could happen:

1. A thread is set up where members are asked to post their number of posts and the amount of HP's they have. The change is then implemented and using the thread as a reference the change in amount of HP's is taken away.

2. The same as the first suggestion but members are asked to take a screenshot instead.

3. (Thoxi's suggestions) Posts for each member are a certain amount, and if the change adds 5 extra HP's for every post you've already made, it's easy to see just how much extra HP's you've gained, and it's easy to take it out then
For example original posts = 301 Posts after change = 301 x 10 so working out the change to be taken away would be 3010 / 5 = 602

[wolfeh]

It was tried, and like you guys have clearly considered, it practically doubled the amount that each user already had. We did toss around a few suggestions when this was done, such as resetting each user's HP's to 0, but it was basically deemed too time consuming to be worthwhile.

I don't think the screenshot thing would work. 1) Because not everyone has an image program, 2) The amount would change if you were to continue to post, and 3) Some people might not bother to post, and then where would we be?

I believe that having a lower amount of HP's earned per post is a good thing, especially since there's no posting limit. You could have threads of one-liners if you wished, and therefore could earn HP's a lot faster. If everyone could buy what they wanted after a short amount of time, then everyone would have dozens of characters and they would never get RP'd because everyone would continue to move on to the next thing. Either that or there would be a lot of babies that would rarely get played, which isn't any fun, either.

With how much work the site is already, I doubt that Stri and Infer are going to take the time to try and reset everyone's HP's so that we can earn a mere 5 extra.

Like you said, Rhi, there are other things, besides posting that you can do. Make graphics, colour lineart, advertise, post in the games, make an OOC thread to share and/or discuss something, or have a lot of small, quick threads. If you can't make graphics, then there is quite a bit that you can do posting-wise C: