User blog comment:FoolishMortalFOOL/MARINES EMERGENCY MEETING/@comment-2031609-20110728221841/@comment-3387274-20110803182136

me again. I brought my coffin along this time, but don't shoot yet because I have an important point to make first, which apparently none of the good marines have noticed.

The problem with unique DFs and first come first served is that it encourages people to put out DF pages en mass, so to speak. In my early days I tried to churn out all of mine as quickly as possible to stop the ideas being takenwhile I was still creating characters. I stopped doing this after deciding it was unfair on other users and there were better solutions to the problem (like discussing with people how similar or different to make it), But I am aware that there will almost certainly be other people doing this.

My solution would be to ask people to be patient in this respect, and create a category of "forum" pages to brainstorm alternative but similar powers when the worst happens and their power turns out to be taken. I have had several of my ideas turn out to be invented by someone else first, but have always been able to resolve the issue by changing the idea slightly to make it fundamentally different. one case FMF may remember is a power that let the user make things sharp. It was changed quite a bit to make it different from the Togu Togu no mi, and is in my opinion a much more imaginative and better power for it.

Right that's my point. Now you can shoot. Try not to wreck my new suit.