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I honestly think the reason we have so many fight plots is because it's probably the easiest to deal with. Just go in and beat someone up. But, I do admit, I do have a problem getting some of my other muses in. Nozomi? Piece of cake. Sasami? Derpy? NOPE. Heck, even people with powers have a hard time with plots themselves because you're so used to hitting things that when a simple plot comes along, it's "What do I do now?!"
You're right though, there needs to be more non-powered plots. I just wish mine wasn't so far out...
Another issue is the problem of quantity and quality of the powers available. The Twilight Sparkles, Zettas, and what have you are on a tier of demigodhood that most normal players just can't even hope to contend with. Even Chie, with her own sense of powers, takes more of a defensive supportive role and let the big guns do their things.
I would like to second the encouragement, then, of drawing on the resources and abilities of other players as a source of finding appropriate solutions. A part of MLP that I always found appealing is that no one particular race is more superior than the others (unless you count the snobs up in Canterlot). The Earth Ponies have their tie in with nature, the pegasi can fly and change the weather, and the unicorns can use their magic in powerful and meaningful ways. Challenges can be presented therefore in a way that utilizes these talents -- a food shortage or a situation where resources are scarce is a good example. In this case, earth ponies may help doing work in town, pegasi will try to do what they can to make sure the weather works right, and the unicorns will help find creative ways to use the resources that they have.
I would be careful not to pigeon-hole players into being expected to do what they are, but it's certainly a way to draw in more creativity than ubbers beating up ubbers.
Thank you to all of you for your comments. We've been discussing ways to do more plots that don't end in fighting and have adjusted out calendar to try to highlight those. The most recent player plot did involve a potential food shortage and it was great to see some of the crazy solutions that some of the characters came up with. We can see that having something like that without a looming fight threat might be more enjoyable, though. More generally, though, we don't have any big fights planned on the modplot side for a good while.
As for the power imbalance, that is something we are very concerned with, particularly given some of the powers we hadn't realized were running around. Our hope with the recent Power-up Request page is to stem the tide a bit, or at least provide a solid record to everyone in game of what we mean when we say this is a concern for us.
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You're right though, there needs to be more non-powered plots. I just wish mine wasn't so far out...
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I would like to second the encouragement, then, of drawing on the resources and abilities of other players as a source of finding appropriate solutions. A part of MLP that I always found appealing is that no one particular race is more superior than the others (unless you count the snobs up in Canterlot). The Earth Ponies have their tie in with nature, the pegasi can fly and change the weather, and the unicorns can use their magic in powerful and meaningful ways. Challenges can be presented therefore in a way that utilizes these talents -- a food shortage or a situation where resources are scarce is a good example. In this case, earth ponies may help doing work in town, pegasi will try to do what they can to make sure the weather works right, and the unicorns will help find creative ways to use the resources that they have.
I would be careful not to pigeon-hole players into being expected to do what they are, but it's certainly a way to draw in more creativity than ubbers beating up ubbers.
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As for the power imbalance, that is something we are very concerned with, particularly given some of the powers we hadn't realized were running around. Our hope with the recent Power-up Request page is to stem the tide a bit, or at least provide a solid record to everyone in game of what we mean when we say this is a concern for us.