12-28-2019, 12:32 AM
To put it shortly, I don't think application for most tomes is a healthy thing. In theory, you'll think that people simply start developing their abilities ICly from the moment they spawn and get a logical step by step on how they grow to that ability until they finish their app and dev for it. In reality, you have people literally treating it like an electronic RPG game asking people "Hey can you teach me X" as if they were NPCs waiting to give quests; and when it's not that, they just, I mean it, literally grind the dev for the trees they want and then completely ignore all of that. They stop their RP just to dev, and only start to RP when they actually finished dev'ing and never touch those subjects ever again.
And then there's the other end of the problem. Some people want to come up with some character concepts that they think they'd have fun with ICly and RP'ing with, but they don't have the time or energy to write a 5 part dev of 8,000 words each over the course of two or three weeks just to get there. It's a burn out that sometimes just kill any chance of that RP to be fun for them before they even finished it. And there's also the risk that you'll just die even before you finished the dev, or that IC events just make that take a 180 turn and not make sense to continue the dev anymore.
All in all, apping for -all- of the tomes is an unnecessary gatekeeping that doesn't add much in terms of IC RP'ing, by the contrary, it creates a culture of grinding dev. Only -some- trees should be app only, those that have a heavy lore tied to it such as Cosmic, Occult and Holy.
And then there's the other end of the problem. Some people want to come up with some character concepts that they think they'd have fun with ICly and RP'ing with, but they don't have the time or energy to write a 5 part dev of 8,000 words each over the course of two or three weeks just to get there. It's a burn out that sometimes just kill any chance of that RP to be fun for them before they even finished it. And there's also the risk that you'll just die even before you finished the dev, or that IC events just make that take a 180 turn and not make sense to continue the dev anymore.
All in all, apping for -all- of the tomes is an unnecessary gatekeeping that doesn't add much in terms of IC RP'ing, by the contrary, it creates a culture of grinding dev. Only -some- trees should be app only, those that have a heavy lore tied to it such as Cosmic, Occult and Holy.