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Pink Moon Stick: CP normalization

2022-10-07T01:58:56Z

CP normalization

Pink Moon Stick: seven year cp normalization

2020-09-27T16:44:42Z

seven year cp normalization

Pink Moon Stick: happy anniversary!

2019-09-26T23:45:26Z

happy anniversary!

Pink Moon Stick: happy fifth anniversary

2018-09-28T00:19:34Z

happy fifth anniversary

Pink Moon Stick at 15:48, 26 March 2018

2018-03-26T15:48:02Z

Pink Moon Stick at 23:34, 26 September 2017

2017-09-26T23:34:58Z

Pink Moon Stick: happy four year anniversary!

2017-09-26T23:32:13Z

happy four year anniversary!

Pink Moon Stick at 00:29, 31 July 2017

2017-07-31T00:29:50Z

Pink Moon Stick: six month cp normalization

2017-03-31T04:47:56Z

six month cp normalization

Pink Moon Stick: 280->292

2016-09-26T23:07:28Z

280->292

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 === The Long Term ===
-'''Every year, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened eleven times (it used to be every six months), as of 09/26/20: the minimum starting CP is now 393 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
+'''Every year, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened eleven times (it used to be every six months), as of 09/26/22: the minimum starting CP is now 404 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
 Why?  Because CP is something that should be earned, but its effect on the game can't be ignored; as the playerbase becomes more powerful, the stories change, some. The grid changes, some, as the playerbase alters the world around it. New players deserve a fighting chance to exist in this world, and existing slower-paced players, well, they get a pass up to average, which is still quite a bit less than the ones who've really 'earned' it, so to speak.  Our goal, as a game, is to all have fun together.

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 === The Long Term ===
-'''Every six months, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened ten times, as of 09/26/19: the minimum starting CP is now 378 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
+'''Every year, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened eleven times (it used to be every six months), as of 09/26/20: the minimum starting CP is now 393 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
 Why?  Because CP is something that should be earned, but its effect on the game can't be ignored; as the playerbase becomes more powerful, the stories change, some. The grid changes, some, as the playerbase alters the world around it. New players deserve a fighting chance to exist in this world, and existing slower-paced players, well, they get a pass up to average, which is still quite a bit less than the ones who've really 'earned' it, so to speak.  Our goal, as a game, is to all have fun together.

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 === The Long Term ===
-'''Every six months, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened ten times, as of 09/26/18: the minimum starting CP is now 362 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
+'''Every six months, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened ten times, as of 09/26/19: the minimum starting CP is now 378 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
 Why?  Because CP is something that should be earned, but its effect on the game can't be ignored; as the playerbase becomes more powerful, the stories change, some. The grid changes, some, as the playerbase alters the world around it. New players deserve a fighting chance to exist in this world, and existing slower-paced players, well, they get a pass up to average, which is still quite a bit less than the ones who've really 'earned' it, so to speak.  Our goal, as a game, is to all have fun together.

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 === The Long Term ===
-'''Every six months, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened nine times, as of 03/26/18: the minimum starting CP is now 345 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
+'''Every six months, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened ten times, as of 09/26/18: the minimum starting CP is now 362 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
 Why?  Because CP is something that should be earned, but its effect on the game can't be ignored; as the playerbase becomes more powerful, the stories change, some. The grid changes, some, as the playerbase alters the world around it. New players deserve a fighting chance to exist in this world, and existing slower-paced players, well, they get a pass up to average, which is still quite a bit less than the ones who've really 'earned' it, so to speak.  Our goal, as a game, is to all have fun together.

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 === The Long Term ===
-'''Every six months, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened eight times, as of 09/26/17: the minimum starting CP is now 322 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
+'''Every six months, minimum starting CP on the game becomes the average CP of characters who started at Master Rank C.''' (This has happened nine times, as of 03/26/18: the minimum starting CP is now 345 rather than 180, and new characters retain the option of simply starting at Master Rank B.) This applies to existing played characters who are 'behind' as well.
 Why?  Because CP is something that should be earned, but its effect on the game can't be ignored; as the playerbase becomes more powerful, the stories change, some. The grid changes, some, as the playerbase alters the world around it. New players deserve a fighting chance to exist in this world, and existing slower-paced players, well, they get a pass up to average, which is still quite a bit less than the ones who've really 'earned' it, so to speak.  Our goal, as a game, is to all have fun together.

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 === Details ===
-'''At all Master Ranks, to achieve the maximum rate of Character Point acquisition per week, a character must get two +votes.'''  A single vote lets a character receive half CP for the week.  Any extra +votes are not counted for the purposes of CP accrual.  Character Points can be spent on upgrades at will, but no Henshin Mode may be built on more Character Points than the maximum allowed for its Henshin Rank (and [[Supercharged Henshin Modes]] don't get banked CP, either).
+'''At all Master Ranks, to achieve the maximum rate of Character Point acquisition per week, a character must get two +votes.'''  A single vote lets a character receive half CP for the week.  Any extra +votes are not counted for the purposes of CP accrual.  Character Points can be spent on upgrades at will, but no Henshin Mode may be built on more Character Points than the maximum allowed for its Henshin Rank.
 '''At Master Rank C (and below)''', characters may accrue Character Points at a maximum rate of 1.5 CP per week.  Once they reach 264 Character Points, they may accrue Character Points at a maximum rate of 1.1 CP per week until they advance to Master Rank B.  They still may not spend more than 264 Character Points on their Rank C Henshin forms; any extra CP is banked.
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 === Canon Master Rank Advancement Example ===
-Day One Sailor Moon is Master Rank C -- that's the very definition of Rank C.  As she gains experience, over time she gains points ''within'' Rank C, which she can spend to improve her Sailor Moon form, her Usagi Tsukino base mode (at a 4:1 conversion! for more information, please see: [[Base Modes]]), but not her Princess Serenity Rank A [[Supercharged Henshin Modes|supercharged henshin form]].  Eventually, after time and experience and at least one major season-level plot resolution, she might hit B.  It could be after she defeats Beryl, or maybe after Ail and Ann, if things played out chronologically.  It might even be as late as the main arc of R, her first big power-up coming at a dramatic moment, such as when she transforms into Neo-Queen Serenity for the first time.  It's a little bit tricky, because straight through most of season three, even, Sailor Moon is still mostly Sailor Moon, albeit with a series of henshin phrases, Moon Prism->Crystal->Cosmic Power, that indicate growth.
+Day One Sailor Moon is Master Rank C -- that's the very definition of Rank C.  As she gains experience, over time she gains points ''within'' Rank C, which she can spend to improve her Sailor Moon form, her Usagi Tsukino base mode (at a 4:1 conversion! for more information, please see: [[Base Modes]]), and her Princess Serenity Rank A [[Supercharged Henshin Modes|supercharged henshin form]].  Eventually, after time and experience and at least one major season-level plot resolution, she might hit B.  It could be after she defeats Beryl, or maybe after Ail and Ann, if things played out chronologically.  It might even be as late as the main arc of R, her first big power-up coming at a dramatic moment, such as when she transforms into Neo-Queen Serenity for the first time.  It's a little bit tricky, because straight through most of season three, even, Sailor Moon is still mostly Sailor Moon, albeit with a series of henshin phrases, Moon Prism->Crystal->Cosmic Power, that indicate growth.
 Things clarify in the third season, Sailor Moon S.  By now she's definitely rank B, and over the course of events she gains access to the Super Sailor Moon form for the first time.  But it exhausts her, and knocks her right out after a couple of rounds; it's rank A.