I just got off work and I'm glad this got a decent amount of interest in just a few hours. I'll start writing a basic story to start with and whatever you guys enjoy the most we'll take off from there. I'll also set up a discord at some point tonight. The Marines vs Pirates is simple, classic, and leaves a lot of room for creativity and such; it's also a good driving force for early-game plot movement because while I want the world to be open in the sense that you guys the players choose the course of the journey, but simple enough to where I can contain the characters to a relative area to maintain relevance within each others separate character arcs. 

So what kind of characters are you guys thinking of? I'm going to have to limit some Devil Fruit's obviously. Custom non-canon fruits are allowed and encouraged. All races are currently open except for samurai from Wano. If you REALLY want to play a Wano samurai just PM me we'll make it happen. And power level I'm thinking pre-Sabaody Strawhats to start with? Like Devil Fruits already obtained for the most part, able to control them, maybe one form of Haki to start with, two if you don't have a DF. Unless you guys want to lower/raise that? Don't want a bunch of Shichibukai and Yonko running around to begin with. I'd like the bigger positions in the universe to have that air of power and mystery at the beginning, but of course if you guys want to create some lore around one of the Yonko/Admirals/Shichibukai just PM me. I'm all ears as to what direction you guys wanna take this.

Am I missing anything so far? I'll post a basic CS skeleton asap 

Edit: I'm thinking we start with three main crews, we can pair up and others can play Marines. Kinda like the Worst Generation but instead of 11 pirate crews it's 3 to fit our narrative? What do you guys think ?