AP change coming
Posted by Apostate on 07/30/18
So it might be a few before it comes in, but to give people a heads up, the current proposed change is characters will receive 150 AP a week on chron with a 300 AP bank max. However, org membership will now have an AP upkeep cost to represent the offscreen time that characters perform as members of the org, and show the increasing demands on someone's time as they spread themselves thin. Org membership will be 10 AP per org, with all the houses of a character's fealty not counting towards that after the first (so characters in baronies and the entire fealty chain would just count as 1 org for being in all).
The goal here is to provide a bonus for characters that are in extremely few orgs, to help them have more opportunities to get involved with more AP if they are say, OCs that find themselves only in one or two and might be somewhat narratively adrift. Secondly, I generally think it's very important that characters need to make choices. Without any cost, we tend to see character concepts that do make choices (such as being focused on one particular niche), become gradually undermined by generalists that don't. Being a generalist is okay, and being involved in everything is okay, but it should have a real trade off for doing that.
The goal here is to provide a bonus for characters that are in extremely few orgs, to help them have more opportunities to get involved with more AP if they are say, OCs that find themselves only in one or two and might be somewhat narratively adrift. Secondly, I generally think it's very important that characters need to make choices. Without any cost, we tend to see character concepts that do make choices (such as being focused on one particular niche), become gradually undermined by generalists that don't. Being a generalist is okay, and being involved in everything is okay, but it should have a real trade off for doing that.