(Apr. 11, 2018 5:04 PM)Frostic Fox Wrote: Better for who?
In my opinion, if there are enough people interested and there are people willing to put in the work to figure it out and actually run tournaments now for it, why not?
I'm not sure how it's confusing? I can at best see it just taking work and perhaps some debate.
If the purpose is to specifically bring use to the single and dual layers, then creating a format targeted around those wouldn't evolve much more than the standard format over time, since most of the targeted parts are now released and much of the new parts would be auto-banned. (All new parts would be if the stance changes to make all later parts not-allowed.)
Call it the "Pre-God Limited Format" or something similar. And then, the idea of a limited format in general can be revisited once the series is done, which I think would not give Pre-God the same attention as the proposed setup does.
That's my thoughts, anyway.
It'd be better for a lot of people actually. From tournament hosts to even the forum being able to properly mandate the changes globally. It would make the work a lot easier for everyone.
You have to also remember that limited format was created more as way to create a healthy-balanced game from the stamina-heavy-standard MFB game. The limited format revolved around giving attack types proper representation (as most healthy Beyblade environments revolve around strong attack types and type representation in general), with the added bonus of being able to use some of the older parts. The thing is that, there will never be proper representation of every single part in the game, it's just not possible. And enforcing a severe ban list that makes it so part x y and z are viable now doesn't necessarily make it a good game does it? If you take the game back to single/dual layers I would venture to say that attack types were even weaker than they are now, and especially weaker if you ban the the strong attack types like L2. Do we need a Burst Standard 2.0 just so we can use parts we can't use? Limited format has a pretty strict ban list, yet there are still a ton of parts that have zero use such as: almost every other 4D wheel, tons of synchrom wheels, and the weakest parts like Dark Wheel -- but the reason is, is because LTD wasn't designed to only represent parts.
The Limited Format was needed in MFB because the new format offered a completely new way to play. People were excited about it and it took off and the ban list changed as tournaments went. There wasn't too much discussion needed prior to it's inception, since the tournament results dictated the list. Here, we are simply theorizing about power levels of parts and discussing banning of parts in a very narrow scope. There were good reasons for why LTD happened, because it was clear how much needed to be cut off the top in order to make a solid fun playing field. There isn't a clear way to figure out where the actual cut of Burst is, since we haven't reached the top yet. Does theorizing about this new format at this point make sense when Cho-Z just released and there's extremely volatility and new parts being released? What if Burst released yet another season like MFB did from 4D-to-ZRG that would make even Cho-Z obsolete? ZRG completely changed the game and made it what it was today and opened the door for LTD.
I know you want to introduce a "Pre-God Limited Format" or something similar now, but wouldn't it make more sense to wait another year~ so that we can make something actually meaningful without having to tell everyone again that there's now a new ruleset to follow since it would be a more well assessed list? Rules might be fun for some, but for others, they just wanna play with what they have, which was also another reason why LTD became realized. By the time LTD came out, there was a wide distribution of parts and lots of people just happened to have those parts and could actually compete on a level ground.
We have to remember that while it's novel to think we can make a list now, it's really not reasonable to start thinking about it now. Not until everything is released.