[@Terminal], [@Sierra]

I am afraid no matter what your opinion might be I will not concede I am equally suspicious of anyone at a base level and some more than others, particularly in the matter of assuming people will begin to intentionally, knowingly, and deliberately jump one another in power. If by all means you are willing to place so much faith in people then please do so, although I will certainly abstain from that; I have been burned all too many times by trusting prospects that they will not go to the fullest lengths to create "the best" character in every capacity and category. This is not my first attempt at throwing myself in with anything freeform and trust based, be it on the Roleplayer Guild or otherwise.

Continued, I am entirely against allowing players to elope with what amounts to absolute power at a fundamental level; some sort of mechanism needs be in place. This is why I prefer weeding them out by adhering to a sense of level applied to most everyone from the start and setting an ambiguous yet clear intent of tone. If that is insufficient count me out of this project because the last thing I wish to do is waste my time writing another character. Specifically I mean yet another game where it is going to be instantly outdone due to natural power creep or powergaming at large all because a select few players will feel the need to play mastermind or their version of a chosen one. I cannot see in any capacity any joy or pleasure to be derived for myself from that.

No less speaking to a design level of this endeavor, I disagree just anyone should be able to wedge whatever they want into the universe without large agreement. I admit I am not going to sit down and read a three page essay about "Corporation X" and why they are suddenly relevant than players already being, in some minor sense, associated by proxy. If we intend the system to mostly be freeform and eschewing template, sanctioned elements by a storyteller, that so too means it needs to be vetted and efficiently.

I'll add nothing beyond that to this conversation, but this far consider me turned off to the idea if we are suddenly changing major things which had been generally agreed upon before as the idea and direction. Granted some were not in the Discord for it, though I am not backing down from my stance or what I was looking to do when I tossed my lot in here originally.