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Opening the Hyperion Gate: A Modest God of War Proposal

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Hey everyone, it’s Fuji back from the dead (as you’d expect from someone named after an immortal character). This is not a part of the main series of downgrades, in part because it’s not really a CRT as much as it is a proposal. As you might expect, the GoW downgrades will continue now that I'm back. However, there is a problem with our current approach - There is simply too much ground to cover. In the time since my ban, I’ve been continuing my research, and have effectively doubled the number of abilities we still need to go over, to say nothing of the magic system and cosmology downgrades that are still in the works.

At the rate we’re going, the revisions will last well into 2025. This does not mean I’m reverting to my old approach of shotgunning 50 abilities at once; I’ve learned my lesson from that. While I do think this is the superior approach, it does have an obvious problem attached to it; With every accepted thread, we need to have the profiles unlocked, and then immediately locked again, only to be unlocked two days later after the next thread. It’s a tedious process, one that is probably very annoying for content mods and admins to deal with, and ultimately slows down what is already a long and arduous task. So my proposal is simple: Unlock all GoW pages (every page in this category), and lock them again once the revisions are done (or if there is a sufficiently long gap between threads, which is unlikely).
 
Leaving really popular pages open for long periods presents its own set of problems, would it not be just as easy to leave them closed until your revisions are done and then apply them all at once?
 
Not that I fully disagree with either of these suggestions, but I think they run into the issue of each edit being needlessly complex. Removing dozens of abilities all at once while having to be mindful of formatting, categories, and the like is a lot more difficult than just doing it one bit at a time

Having four threads open at once sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice I don't see much difference between that and just making one big CRT (an approach I've abandoned for good reason, as you're no doubt aware).
 
Hmm idk, we should probably consult Ant before opening such a large number of tier 1 profiles for such an extended period of time. Vandalism is still a concern after all.

@Antvasima
I doubt it means much, but I'd be willing to watch over the GoW profiles to make sure nobody vandalizes them during the course of the revisions. Would help alleviate the burden on content mods, I suppose.
 
Hmm idk, we should probably consult Ant before opening such a large number of tier 1 profiles for such an extended period of time. Vandalism is still a concern after all.

@Antvasima
I doubt it means much, but I'd be willing to watch over the GoW profiles to make sure nobody vandalizes them during the course of the revisions. Would help alleviate the burden on content mods, I suppose.
I think that this seems reasonable. 🙏

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