I personally believe that Darren is a little too lenient with you guys and should really get stricter and take some abilities away from some people. If I was admin, that would be what I would do? Why? Because special abilities have become to common now, I liked how they used to control them in the beginning but this is far fetched. Over here, 1 in 3 people is a occlumens, 1 in 4 is a leglimens, 1 in 4 is a metamorphagi, 1 in 5 is a telekinisis, 1 in 6 is a parseltongue. I mean really, what happens if they write two paragraphs for an ability? Does that mean they should DEFINATELY get it? If i was to write
Desired Ability: Supreme command over the universe
How your character got this ability:
Paragraph 1: blah blah etc.
Paragraph 2: Blah blah etc.
paragraph 3: Blah blah etc.
Paragraph 4: blah blah etc.
would I get the ability? Yes because I wrote four paragraphs with random crap? I doubt you guys even READ the ability description, you just want to see that people are wasting some time and giving some effort for it, regardless of how stupid the description sounds. Its annoying. Now if I was too give abilities, I would see if it fits the characters magical potential and age, then check their personality, then see if they have other abilities and THEN i would give them the ability. Surely that sounds better? Also, I would limit the abilities far stricter. I would say you make all the abilities black for a while besides apparation because thats quite common and make occlumens red. Also, i would suggest you remove 3 or 4 abilities from every person then PM them for the reason why. I would aslo suggest you make a limit from now on. For example, only 1 in 5000 people are parseltongues, so enforce that. Only 1 in 1000 are seers. And 1 in 500 are leglimens. If you would like, I can provide a numbers for all of them with references from the books and lexicons as well as using some common sense in it to allow you to make better limits for each ability. See, the reason for special abilities seems to have been forgotten, they are SPECIAL, meaning unique, meaning impressive, meaning 1 in a 100, meaning uncommon, unreal, unusual. So if only 1 or 2 people in the whole site have this one great ability, surely they would use it more to impress others as well as feel quite good that they are the only ones in the entire site with this power?
Also, I would like to suggest adding create your own magical ability because I bet that would be quite interesting.
Thank you and I hope you listen to my great suggestions.