[@Green] Yeah, it needs to be done. You have to remember, not many people are all that brave - even on the internet. I imagine there's been no end of them who have come into Arena, looked at it and thought "Wtf? How does this work?" but are too afraid to ask because they feel they'd look stupid. 

Even if the Tier system and fighting rules vary from thread to thread, it sounds like they're based on existing principles, but tweaked here and there by whoever GM takes the helm. I'd say getting a "General" overview of both up as a sticky, would be a good thing to do. At least that way those who are daunted by the prospect of asking the established players about how arena works, will have somewhere to go to get an idea. 

I'd say get them drawn up, maybe conferring with the other silverbacks first to A) get their approval B) their feedback/suggestions, and then ask whoever runs RPGN to do a little article on them once they go up. That'd be some nice publicity. 

Yeah, I know about your crash. I was lurking over at some place called IwakuRoleplay (not my cup of tea, I gotta say), and we had this huge surge of players from here round Christmas time. I remember because arguments would break out between them in the OOCs, and it'd cause drama. 

I came here out of curiosity, and kept tabs on it. After the head honcho gave it a makeover, I thought Heck, why not? To be honest, I like its simplicity - something I felt Iwaku lacked at times. 

Somehow I told you some of my history. Odd that.

Anyways, I'm going over the Tier system at the moment. It hikes a bit, I've found. Maybe that mult-layered Tier system you were talking about would be better, it makes more sense to me anyway.