Gravity Manipulation

I am not entirely grasping your comment of 'Flavored' to be like gravity. Do you mean its energy that pushes down as if it were gravity or the energy creates gravity that pushes down artificially?

Well there are things that are going to have to be picked and chosen. What exactly are you trying to accomplish tech wise? What were you denied as far as actual uses?

I don't really know what the old staff who told you this was referring to. So long as it fits within the rules and systems we have you can have gravity as a release theme. If you want it outside of release there are a few options when it comes to specialization.

Reiryoku, Reishi and Hollow Techs
[Infinite Complexity] - This perk obviously will give you it as stated in its description.

Soul Communication
General Perk - This does not give you access to Gravity, as you must specify a material or substance of which gravity is neither.

[Elemental] - Because your character already has a gravity based release, I would allow you to choose gravity as your elemental form, and for the techs you can use in this form to be gravity based.

[Fabricated Bond] - As this gives you an entire additional fullbring it would be allowed to be a second gravity based fullbring.

[Soul Fluency] - This perk will not give you access to gravity as it is only related to the powers of soul communication you normally have access to.

Well it still is subject to the site mechanics. If you're crushing someone with gravity, your are crushing them with the force of tier V or w/e the tech tier is.

Can we get the specific situation? Other wise we cant really give you an official answer without all the conditions.

Odd wanted to be able to apply numerical multipliers to the force of gravity. Odd had a tech that said something SIMILAR to "increases the strength of gravity 100 times".

The idea was that Odd said that it should have numerical strength (i.e. we should RP that gravity has increased by 100 times) as opposed to tier strength (i.e. we should RP that there is a tier X binding tech pinning us to the floor/doing weird things to our organs).

The argument against it was that that was obviously OP, and no matter what your technique does, how much it affects other people is dictated by your strength relative to theirs. All matchups on site are battles, in principle, of reiatsu.

Odd, your current question is more general than this, I do realize, but this is a specific example of a discussion that was had with staff last time, to make it clear to staff what kind of thing it is you mean.

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In a more general sense Odd is asking; "What advantages are there to using Gravity over any other element?" Given that the tech guide states that all elements are basically just aesthetic expressions of reiatsu there are currently no advantages to using gravity over any other "element".

Similarly, it doesn't make much sense it's release-only. Since there is currently nothing you could do with a gravity tech that can't be done with any other technique. I agree that gravity should not be release-only if there are no actual benefits to using it over any other theme.

On the other hand, I don't think we should say that Gravity or any other "element" has any advantages or anything attributed to it. The guides are already complicated enough as is, and adding more stuff will just make things unbearable.

If this is the case then what is the problem/purpose of this thread? Since gravity at the moment basically is just aesthetic anyway. And there is a bit in the tech guide that says that you are allowed to use IRL numbers for aesthetic purposes.

My apologies Odd, apparently I misunderstood.