[abysmalpoptart]

well, the thing is, when we are referring to a "stat," we mean a battle attribute. career points don't directly affect you in battle. if i have 50,000 career points and i jump into a battle, it doesnt affect anything. if i'm level 50 military and i jump into battle, it wont affect anything.

sure, i can use those points to get abilities or stat points, but if you convert those career points into stats, THOSE STATS are what we are discussing. the abilities can't POSSIBLY be the "magical stats" because they are all one-time use, and therefore, not magical. Explosive, maybe. Mystical, possibly! But magical??? not quite!


i still standby my resistance hypothesis. in a thread about a year ago, zenith piped in with resistance having some mystical qualities to it, which explains the difficulty in training it. reputation affects mostly gym training (Trainers) and crimes as far as we can tell, but it is difficult to tell if it has any effect on battle ability at all, or even anything else.

i vote for res