Dear Members,

Our admin team has lost a valuable team member, our head admin Xav. Sal and I will miss him a great deal personally. Xav has asked us to take good care of BWF in his stead. Real Life does, unfortunately, take precedence. So we wish him well, and look forward to seeing more of Yummie (hopefully) now that Xav has more time.

Sal and I have gone over a number of issues we’ve noticed on site. It is our first duty to make sure we have a safe and entertaining site for our members. Our first concern is that we’ve noticed our Stat Point system is getting bogged down as our membership has swelled. Success is wonderful for our site and the variety of RP our members can find here. Sill, it is important for our team to be able to award the stat points promptly as we do understand that too much delay in the awards really does sap much of the joy out of the experience. Plus overwork kills admins! Due to this issue, we have decided to pull together a cadre of Moderators who will be able to handle the Stat Point Award work, while Sal and I handle the Administrative side of things. And hopefully, have enough time to RP with you guys a bit as well!

It’s worth a moment to say this, as well. Each of our mods will have a different style and particular features that they respond to best in another’s writing. That’s life. You will get the stat levels you want over time, if you work at it. So please, no ‘It’s Not Fair’ complaints unless you have found yourself the target of genuine harassment according to the posted site rules. Life isn’t fair, neither is any forum site. Sometimes that will be your good luck. Sometimes it will be another’s. But all our staff will strive to be even handed and to uphold the quality of everyone’s writing for the enjoyment of all.

There are a few adjustments to the Stat Point System that we’d like you to make note of. Sal is preparing a detailed post to explain the new policy for you. One of the big changes there is that we will be implementing a new system for Kido spell levels. You will combine your Intelligence/Kido stats which will add up to the level of Kido spell you are allowed to use. We figured the ‘intelligence’ stat is unenforceable, as who’s going to judge how ‘smart’ or ‘stupid’ you’ve written your character in each post? Not me! This adjustment to policy allows the stat to have some useful features and I believe opens up some intriguing new possibilities for our characters.

The Kido and Intelligence stats will remain capped at 50 each. For our more ambitious members, we are uncapping the other stats. Be warned, the level of quality required for that 51st stat will go up very far, you’ll really have to earn it. But for the Shinigami/Arancar on the go, they may consider ambition back in style. It is our hope that this will keep BWF a competitive environment for the higher level members, while keeping the playing field level enough to appeal to the low stat RPers.

For those who have an eye on a particular leadership position amid the Shinigami guard or the Aranacar ranks, we will maintain the status quo to hold onto continuity for the general membership through the majority of the time, but assign events where the up and comers from the ranks can challenge a ranking member for their seat. Stat points will be a factor, but not the deciding one. At these times, the Admin team will put up a thread with certain rules and allow challengers and incumbents to hold a non-lethal sparring match. We will judge the results and appoint a winner.

Please keep in mind, these seats have responsibilities to their squad or marauding horde of hollows. If that isn’t for you, then don’t challenge the captain/aranacar.

You will also notice we are scrapping the Zanpakuto Energy feature, previously found between the ‘Where the Hell Am I?” and the registration date on the profile feature visible to the left on all posts. We believe the stats will do better at handling levels, as the ZE feature was generated by the number of posts, rather than their quality.

If you have any questions on the new system post them in here.

As far as the speed stat and shunpo is concerned does this mean that once you've reached level 20 you can use shunpo once per battle or once per 5 posts or is it just generally understood that you can perform flash-step but it won't be as fast as someone who is level 30?

To date we have just gone with a 30 shunpo is a faster person than a 25 shunpo stat. I am wary of putting too many rules that people have to follow, so use that as a general guide and use your good sense for the rest

why is the Shikai release form only 10 stats less then the vice cpt ...seeing how its implied that seated officers(and some unseated officers) can use Shikai( and they are clearly a lot weaker then Vice Cpt ) suggestion would it not be more rp enriching for the initial Shikai release form and 1st ability be at less half a vice cpt and the seconded ability be about the same lv as a vice cpt ...this also plays in to the fact that there is a great power different between vice cpts and seated officers ...just a suggestion

With the new system someone must have 100 overall stat points to achieve Shikai's 3rd ability and Vice Captain.

thats fine i get that that i am talking bout initial Shikai release form what the topic says you need to have one stat at 30 and another at 40 to be a vice cpt that an over all of 70 ...to get the initial Shikai you need over all over all of 60 i think the gap between the 2 should be greater

initial Shikai release form should be at like 30 ish with 1st ability ( for about most seated officers )

keep the vc at 30 and another at 40
with 70 being the second ability

and keep the 3rd at 100


the gap adds to the power lvs expected of each officer

i know i must be getting on yall nerves with all my silly suggestions and i know i dont explain my self well sorry

Actually i now see where the mistake has been made buddy and it isn't your fault its mine for improperly wording it.

Where it says "Two stats must have 30" for Vice captain that doesn't mean a combined 30 it means two stats WITH 30. Eg. Speed:30, Fighting Skill: 30.(see how that one tiny word would have made that entire thing that much easier to understand, i'll edit it in a second)

ooooo i see ok i get it now