User blog comment:Perchan/Concerning Futuristic Storylines/@comment-3061966-20140920202015

Answering this one up top, Aha.

" It will butcher creativity, limit and restrain ideas to simply one little box labelled "Zico created, Persona approved"."

This is silly. The rule was basically here since the start even if never in writing. And it never hurt anyone's creativity, and heck, people just didn't do it by nature. Everyone here essentially fell in line with this thinking. This rule isn't to mess with any "techy" stuff you guys have already made, it's stop people from turning this into some sort sci-fi circus. Trying to avoid people turning this into Ghost in the Shell with magic and dragons.

And it doesn't stop advancement, you can make advances in airships, magical weapons, magical vehicles, lacrima usage, and that sort of stuff. It's effectively stagnant in that while there is innovation, there isn't enough overall change in the human condition that makes it unrecognizable from the canon manga. It means we won't see fighter jets or cities like NYC, or satellites and space ships going to Earth Land's moon. Means we won't need to go about banning nuclear weapons being made, since that wouldn't make any sense.

I'm kinda surprised how bothered you guys are. Since you all followed this line of thinking since the start, because it made sense to honor basic canon. And regardless of your assumptions, Aha, I am listening to what you guys are saying. But, listening doesn't mean I'm gonna agree. As I told Fire, if you want me to loosen this thing up, then give good suggestions. No one's coming for any of the "techy" stuff you all may have made.