Aslanemperor
I think that the problem is that the type of people who think "there's nothing to do on Gaia" aren't the type of people we want on Gaia. Gaia is SUPPOSED to be an RP site! What this is bound to do is change the site forever.
My prediction is that a bunch of little 10 year olds are gonna join so they can play battle, and by extension we will have stupid kids on the forums. Those stupid kids will do stupid things which will cause the admins to do blanket bans on thread types(Like they did with Slave RPs when people started to use them as an excuse for public cybering). This of course will drive away the older, more litterate RPers. Then I'm gonna be pissed because I fixed my character up for what!?
You bring up some really valid points, but the idea also working in reverse. While bringing in younger participants it should also bring in some good writing talent to both the RP forms and the RP forms. So I think thought it has its cons it also has its pros.
On a neither topic… I love how people insist on starting topics but don’t bother checking in on it every once in a while…