Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-4242472-20160124202207/@comment-1309126-20160125173253

Charles Murray wrote: Does this not mean that––with loosening standards––the First Gigaquadrant will become even more fragmented and incapable of consistency? I would actually like to suggest a solution in line with what has been said above. Rather than use the tier scale to scientifically divide people, we should use it as a great equalizer between fictions. For me, assigning a fiction to one category of power is a way of saying, "My fiction is as powerful as all of these other fictions of the same level. I know we disagree on what makes a fiction powerful, but because we're friends we can take each other's word for it and write fiction as equals."

That's what I'm worried about. The wiki is not as agreeable as one thinks. A user will voice their opinion if they think the balance starts tipping. Whilst I have no real concern with any new hyperpowers such as the French Empire for instance, it does leave a lot of room for other powers of a similar magnitude (like the Draconis, Kicath etc.) to start being called that as well. I'm in favour of keeping it the old way because when I imagine 'hyperpower', I do visualise something almost unchallengeable. Breaking down the harder rules of the wiki like this in the name of cooperation does ring a bell in the wiki's history, and it wasn't a good part of it either.