>>6090651Command understands that concepts like "reading the rules", "caring about the rules of the game I am playing", and "taking five seconds to read the rules of the game I am playing" are not things all players naturally want to do. There are much better things to be done with ones time, such as causing Command to violently go "OH WHAT THE FUCK" out loud, repeatedly.
>>6082893The rules for Changelings mentions that with Lethality 1 you will not grow armor shredding claws. The guide to Feature Integration mentions that you make 1 roll against CP + Trait, Skill or Quality to adjust or allow something with a trait. It then has a long list of various descriptions of how this is done.
It never says "Manifesting a Change against a reference quality allows you to soft-start the Singularity by increasing the reference quality by +1, making all other Changes against this quality 1 easier and so allowing you to test again to increase it by +1 so you can test again to increase it by +1 so you can test again to increase it by +1 so you can test again to increase it by +1 so you can . . . "
>>6082908The Hard Rules for Soft Changes mentions that Enhancements are done to a trait to Enhance the quality, the trait, the thing. You might Manifest "Rapid Recovery 4" to Health, and now when you test Health to Recover you get +4.
The ruls also mention that Manifests alter a reference quality by enhancing or adjusting it. The rules do not mention that one can test against a reference quality to give it +1 to make it easier to test against it to give it +1 so to make it easier to test against it to get +1 so as to make it easier to test against it to get +1 so as to. . . And look, it's the Singularity again.
Many Changeling keep trying.
To be incredibly explicit about this:
You cannot
You will not
It simply will not be done
It will never happen
You will not in this game at any point whatsoever be able to Manifest a Change against a quality you have and then simply make that number higher so that next time it is even easier to make it higher.
Your Feedback Loop is **CAPPED**.
You cannot test against Lethality to make Lethality higher. You cannot test against Duplicity to make Duplicity higher. You cannot test against Focus to make Focus higher. You cannot test against Health to make Health higher. You cannot test against Skills to make Skills higher. You cannot test against any voiddamned value reference quality and then innately make it higher.
That is an escalation feedback loop that leads to the singularity.
You are not going there
You are not getting there
The next Changeling who tries will shot
A lot
