Ability, Skill respecs, 32 point/drow unlocks.

[Borror0]

Notice him suggesting the very thing I wrote?

If you only state one half of the story, you are misrepresenting his position. That is why quote mining is a fallacy.

Since you said that he wanted to give the reward, but did not mention he wanted the players to grind favor for another reward, you misrepresented is position. He is not in favor of having everything to players, he wants to correct what he sees as a design flaw.

Notice also he is not suggesting this new favor reward system be replaced with something juicy like you are trying to claim throughout this.

Quote mining!

The OP did talk about juicy rewards. Try again.

The first part of my suggestion is to make drow and 32 point builds the standard, and replace the 400/1750 favor unlock with something juicy in its place (in addition to the +2 tome for 1750).

Backward logic to think that "given" is another term for handing over?

If he was only giving, he would be "handing over".

Sadly for you, he is also requiring the players to grind for something else that you won't have to grind for.

Using and not using the feature is both unpleasant?

The unpleasant conflict is:

• Deleting a character to take advantage of the reward on that character, thereby losing all progress previously made on that character
• Not deleting the character but accepting that the character will never be as good as could be

If not obvious enough, not using the feature is picking option #2.

Therefore, your advice of "If you feel the feature is needlessly unpleasant, don't use it." does not solve the problematic.

Attach the word "fun" to an arguement, how can anyone be against it?

Realistically, no one. Well, unless the suggested change has other harmful effect on gameplay.

We are talking about a video game. Whether something is fun or not is about the only valid metric in an argument.

If I had an interest or was even discussing 28 to 32 point builds, I might humor you and demonstrate any negative side effect from it. Any more distractions you care to throw at me?

Distraction? I think you need to look at what the topic is. You can't have more on topic than this...