Basic Psychology here folks, he who feels more in control feels more comfortable in their control than he whom actually is in control. People like control, because it's something they can lay claim to, and though it's a tangible, visible thing in most cases. So, to get back to the main point... I'm thinking about leaving a few things I can't decide on to a site vote. These would include..

Tier System revamp, my idea versus my new, probably simpler idea.

Should we have personal abilities? If so how many? Do we want an Equipment section?

Some of these would be more.. "Hey! we've added this, if you like it, sound off here, questions, sound off here as well, feel free to add it to your app by Pming me."

I'm just thinking aloud. Spitballing if you will. Ideas folks?

I mean.. Doesn't Mayuri manufacture items? Wouldn't the humans arm themselves? Wouldn't you have equipment and items unrelated to your Zan or interrelated if you were a science type?

I was thinking site currency of some sort.. Could also apply to tier upgrades and stuff.

As for the tiers.. It'd be voted on, and my thought was just to make the 0 tier one tier exclusive to org leaders.

I honestly have never liked the idea of leadership-exclusive ranks. Anyone should be able to gain power, and if they don't want to be a leader, they should have that right.

No, they shouldn't. Because then you have 100 0-2's running around, and there's no variation of power. There is no power, if everyone has power. There will be plenty of opportunities to obtain power, but not for everyone to have it. I promise only the pursuit of power, not power itself.  

The site currency would be good, but a few things regarding that:
1. The Coin System is annoying. You would need to completely reset it for currently active members. I already did a lot of setting member balances to 0 while I was admin, hoping to reset and use it again someday.

2. You are able to set which boards get you coins and which do not. Only posts made in IC boards should get you coins.

3. There still should be a cap on how many items you can have. Like 3-5.

4. Tier upgrades, if permitted with use of coins, should require a LOT of coins overall. You would need to do the math to set out something like "100 posts gives 500 coins. You need 500 coins to get an upgrade in the Rank 2 range, 750 coins for 1, 1000 coins for 0, etc." You get my gist. Luckily I think you already are on this page. x3[/quote]

I am beyond on the same page, I've done this before lol. And instead of relying on cheap Forumotion based algorithms to dictate coins, I would leave it to a site "treasurer." Probably you or Kuroi to help me out.

I think we should do what one site I know did and do an exclusive tier for leaders, like you said. But make it so that others CAN achieve very close to that power. In this case, the highest power one could achieve was H rank, but only like, 5 people on a site of 100 active members had that. We could do something like this but make it EXTREMELY limited and hard to get, but NOT leader-exlusive. The second highest rank of power was S rank, which was about 15 members out of 100. But the LEADER rank was SS, somewhere between H and S. It gave the leader the change to grow to H if they absolutely wanted.

So what I suggest is having an 'in between' leader-exclusive tier, that maybe makes it easier to hit the highest tier. But do not seal off the highest rank to normal members. Simply limit it. On this one site it was limited to a pretty insane experience system. 4 people got it for free from the owner, which he later regretted. Only 1-2 members earned it by their own merit. Some of these things included 30k word solo missions, etc. We don't have to go that extreme, or we can, but you get my gist.

And I see! A Treasurer would be good. Or we could just have an experience system on the profile, a field that mods can edit. That's possible too. After you get so much experience THEN you can have a training thread to achieve your rank.

The problem is if you do that you end up weakening the organizations... I'm going to stick with my initial judgement, BUT, to your point, I will formulate a way for normal people to take their power.. Though that will probably be by defeating them with a group of their own..

And my thinking was every event could be put towards a tier up thread.. and every 50 posts could be 1000 coins (RP Only posts, links to threads must be provided..)

You can get to a max of 0-3 as a non-org leader. 0-2 is a leader exclusive tier which still must be earned by most leaders... BUT

4 to 3-5=200 coins (10 posts..)
3-5 to 3-4 400 coins (20 posts..)
3-4 to 3-3 (500 coins (25 posts..)
3-3 to 3-2 (750 coins) (37.5 posts..)
3-2 to 3-1 (850 coins..) (42.5 posts..)
3-1 to 2-5 (1000 coins) (50 posts)
2-5 to 2-4 (1100 coins) (55 posts)
2-4 to 2-3 (1200 coins) (60 posts)
2-3 to 2-2 (1400 coins) (70 posts)
2-2 to 2-1 (1600 coins) (80 posts)
2-1 to 1-5 (2000 coins) (100 posts)
1-5 to 1-4 (2200 coins) (110 posts)
1-4 to 1-3 (2500 coins) (125 posts)
1-3 to 1-2 (2600 coins) (130 posts)
1-2 to 1-1 (2750 coins) (137.5 posts)
1-1 to 0-5 (3000 coins) (150 posts)
0-5 to 0-4 (3500 coins) (175 posts)
0-4 to 0-3 (4000 coins) (200 posts)
0-3 to 0-2 can only be obtained through organizational control, and my approval. Plus a thread with me.

WIP