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I want to preface this by saying I'm not trying to insult you or anything. Again, I really do appreciate your time and effort. Also not an attempt at plagiarism here, it's just to make a point.

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If you look at Hero // Reality's system, you'll see we don't use it all the time either. It's for specific types of threads, but those are intended to be the threads that have the most personal impact. People say 'my character wants to do this' then people can either join to support or oppose it to stop it from happening. Then they fight, sometimes literally sometimes more abstractly, and the result at the end is that one side wins and the other deals with the consequences of their failure. It's a very self-contained thing, you go in with something you want to do, and you go out with something happening whether it's what you wanted to happen or something else. It was built like this explicitly because the major goal with Hero // Reality was fights leading to personal consequences. This is what I mean when I say you need to know what players need to do. You need to be specific because otherwise you'll be flailing trying to define what happens.

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It doesn't take a lot of change to make it fit my site too. I think the use-cases and impacts of the system are nigh-identical for our sites: So I don't think I want no systems. The two goals are creative freedom and measurable progression.

Q: The big question you still need to answer is what players do. So say I join your site right now, make a character, all that stuff. How am I going to interact with the site? What am I going to do.

A: If someone were to join right now: they'd write. I cannot get any more specific than that without breaking it down into the 4 user groups. The actual things they'll be doing vary too much. 

Players will write. They'll write with others players. They'll write with stronger players. They'll write their last thread, eventually.

When characters deal with consequences, those will usually be personal consequences: emotional dilemmas such as guilt or fear, or punishments such as suspension, expulsion, or having their licenses revoked; occasionally it'll be death.

I suppose I'm still thinking too "high".

The system isn't meant to be used all the time. Beyond comparing sizes and handling combat, most of what people will do won't revolve around it.

People will do whatever they want. They'll thread with others and occasionally do solos. The content of those threads will vary: meet-ups at bars, fights, dates, honestly whatever they'd do on any other site. I think it's imperative to say that a good chunk of what people will do simply won't involve the systems in place. 

Think of it as though for students it was a typical, normal highschool RP. The only difference will be that when they'd have tests or school competitions, they'll be fighting with superpowers instead. 

The other groups will be more combat-centric, sure, but the premise is the same - normal-ish life (with no involvement from the systems), until they go to work.

I can't really state it enough that the systems won't be being used constantly. And that's not really a diagnosis of the current system - it's what I want too.

Maybe I'm just having a hard time understanding your question. If so, is there a specific way you could ask it? Maybe just yes or no questions? Anything in general that's more specific than "what they do"? Because right now I think I'm answering to the best of my ability.

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Ok - I'll imagine there are no systems at all right now; starting from scratch. I think to start it'll also make it easier for me to think of it as if it were literally a video game, so I'll do that.

It'd be an Open World game, of course, with highly customization characters. But focusing on the narrative in the style of the gameplay loop:

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