[quote=@LeeRoy]
This isn't a matter of opinion, this is a matter of: 

Everyone understands the absurdity of superhuman abilities, even with numbers or lack of numbers behind them. And saying that guns are superior to Captain America x 5 characters because they have the potential to instantly kill them ruins the fun of it. Guns aren't high tier because nobody wants a fight to end instantly with a single gunshot.

It wasn't a problem before, because it was fun before.

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I'd just like to point out:

Balance exists separately to having fun. Balance is necessary to prevent these "oneshot" situations from happening on a consistent and unavoidable basis, and the fun of combat certainly doesn't lie there (which I'm sure we can all agree on).

You are saying that Guns should not be a high tier because the user can choose to not kill someone instantly and that it wasn't a problem because you played for fun. When it comes to rankings and using points, do you genuinely think that some code of honour based on being fun will stop people from abusing inherently broken mechanics? The abuse is not always blatant, or sometimes intentional, but it exists because there is a legitimate disparity of power. That is the purpose of balance - to ensure that these disparities of power do not exist so that honourable combat can be undertaken with no risk of potentially abusable mechanics.

I agree with Innue on almost all of his points because we have been doing this sort of thing with one another for a long time and we both inherently belong to the same school of thought, and I am perhaps more inclined to agree with him than anyone else by association on certain topics. On this, however, I am being completely objective and free of bias:

This community is insular. It is so insular that challenging ideas are met with dismissal and "You do not have to play by our rules", rather than openly discussed and debated. It comes across as being a high school clique rather than a legitimate area of RP and that is a terrible shame because there are extremely creative and talented people here, and more people could join that community if it was not like it is.