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Min-Maxer Revised: AMP
Quote from the anti-munch project:
"Min-maxer: Not a lot of those running around here, thank goodness... that's more of a DnD-style paper game issue. Their own strength:weakness ratio is off the charts.
Munch Rating: 8
A: I've successfully broken into the facility which gave you your incredibly 1337 power armor. Now I pull up the file on it. What does it say about weak points?
B: The metal of my armor is... um... allergic to praying mantis urine."

~*~Min-Maxer Revised~*~


Clairifying Min-Maxer: What is min-maxer exactly?

The complaint about min-maxing and the reason it is
considered godmoding, is because it strips too much
realism from the fantasy for it to be worthwhile.

Min-maxing does this by giving the godmoder who
is abusing this style of cheating, an advantage that
does not come with a cost or penalty when used.

The godmoder commiting this act of "creative writing
vandalism" is simply so obssessed with victory over
the threatening situation at hand that they take the
godmoding to the extreme of giving them selves
or making them selves a source of power(s) that
has no cost or difficulty to use, or number of
uses available that go down, or perhaps infinite
stamina to use their advantage to no end and
continually. Even if a godmoder is using their
advantage without a delay of some sort before the
next time they can use that advantage they are
min-maxing.

Q: When am I being a min-maxer?

A: You are being a min-maxer when
you design a source, or a character
that is a source of advantage, that does
not come at a cost that must be payed
for putting that advantage to use, and/or
when you use an advanatge without a
down time suffered before it's next usage.

Q: How do I avoid being a min-maxer?

A: By taking the time to think about more
than just the advantages you want a character
to have, and thinking what it will cost your
character to make use of these advantages at all.

Q: How do I know when someone else is
being a min-maxer?

A: You will know when someone else is being
a min-maxer because they will
have an advantage that makes their
activities significant, and it will not cost
them or suffer them anything to put
those advantages to use, and they will
not have anything to sacrafice for the cause
of using the advantage.