Okay, so I'm kinda distracted with work and reading The Soulmate Timeline for the fifth or sixth time, so progress on the update is slim. It will be done though, don't worry. But in the meantime, I wanted to get some opinions from the thread.
See, I don't have a progression system picked out for the quest yet. I know, I know, that sounds ridiculous but it's true. Instead, I have three ideas I'm bouncing between and I'd like to hear what people think would work best. Regardless of what I go with, you will be getting benefit from the training options you picked this update, so don't worry about that. Anyway, here are the options.
First is a traditional EXP and level up system. Killing enemies and passing challenges gets you experience, once you have enough, you level up. When you level up, you get a stat boost to a stat of your choice and a new spell or perk. In this system, training options would give you smaller benefits, like a single stat point at a time and practicing magic would make spells you know more efficient but wouldn't let you learn new spells. Easiest option to understand but also the most game-y I feel. But some people might like that.
Option two is what I call the progression points system. You earn progression points via milestones or achievements like your first kill of an enemy type or solving some mystery. Then you spend those points on training actions to get your stat boosts, new spells and traits and so on. This would be a lot more free form and let you earn new stuff immediately after you succeed at something instead of waiting for an arbitrary number to go up. But it would also mean that you actually have to spend your in game time on training and can't just rely on automatically growing stronger.
The third option is the one I call the thematic option. Magical Girls get their strength form positivity, right? Believing in yourself and all that jazz? This is the system for that. Kaworu will have a new resource to track: Positive Mental Attitude. Good things like successful rolls, defeating enemies and buying snacks makes PMA go up but failing important rolls and other depressing things makes it go down. You can even spend PMA to take extra actions in a turn by overworking Kaworu. Like experience, if you reach the cap on PMA, you level up and get your mechanical benefits but rather than a standardized one star boost and one perk/spell, you get benefits to everything you spent time on between level ups. So training might and succeeding gives you more PMA and then when you reach 100 PMA or whatever, your Might goes up, along with whatever else you practiced. So you don't get your stat boost immediately but it lets you stack up benefits and you get stronger in a big burst, provided you kept your training up.
I'm not going to make this an official vote, not unless discussion gets really deadlocked about it. Right now, I just want opinions on what options seems the most fun and interesting.
