Battle System for upcoming RP, Accepting suggestions too. Options

[Nicsp]

So, as some of you may know, i'm currently working in a simple action-based RP which will, hopefully, attract new people here to these subforums. Now there's a problem, because of the nature of this RP, there will, no doubt, be many battles. And since the point of this RP is to attract new members, not only the usual text battling way could be a bit of a disadvantage for new RPers but also would require a certain distancing from the author to it's character since, as we all know, no one likes losing.

I have discussed what battle system should be used with Sparrowsmith via PM for a while and we came up with two options to choose from, one being very simple but requiring the need of one or more admins of the RP to be frequently present to handle the battles and the other one a lot more simple but also very complex. Needless to say, we are also accepting suggestions, if any of you have any.

"Rock, paper, scissors" system by Nicsp.

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Instead of making up their own weapons, the GM will make a list of avaible weapons and assign to these weapons ten points through three different "stats", that data will only be avaible to the GM and to the player who owns the weapons, and then when two people fight, we have them choose what stat they want to use to battle the opponent, the stat is then PMed to the GM who will then reply to both people saying which is the winner. Each of these stats "beats" each other (Think rock, paper, scissors.), and when that happens, the "winning" stat gets a 2x value bonus over the other one.

So...By example...

Bob has...A shield.
Block: 5
Charge: 4
Strike: 1

John has...A chainsaw sword.
Block: 3
Charge: 3
Strike: 4

Block>Charge>Strike>Block

Bob uses block and John uses Strike.
Bob: 5
John: 4

But since Strike>Block then...

Bob: 5
John: 8

John wins.

Now on another occasion:

Both John and Bob use charge.

Bob: 4
John: 3

Since charge=charge then Bob wins.

After the result has been calculated by the GM and sent back to both of the RPers involved in the battle, it will be up to the RPers to now RP the battle as they see fit, keeping in mind which of the two has to win.

Tactical Stance system by Sparrowsmith

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An RP fight needs to go on as long as is necessary for entertainments sake, but as short as is possible for story development. One idea would be 'stances'.
In each post you can either change your 'stance' or attack, but not both. The three stances are offensive, defensive, and moving. If you're defensive, you can't be hit or hit, if you're offensive, then you can hit and be hit. Moving is for any REAL movement (of course you can move while attacking or defending) moving is for positioning that would take time (such as an archer getting to a good distance for firing).
This would still be difficult to do, but would create a real sense of a battle field...

So, these are the two options we have at the moment. Opinions and suggestions?

[Ryuga]

There was a fighting technique we use to play around with back when role-play was still possible on Yahoo! Messenger. There were three versions of this fighting, there was T1 (A paragraph, detailed oriented fighting style) you had T2 (Which was speed based. Meaning you had to type faster than your opponent, while avoiding typos.) and T3 which I really cant remember because it sucked.

Since this is a forum, we won't be able to do T2. T1 however...is by far one of the best fighting systems we have ever used. T1 takes a lot of explaining so here is the link to it:

T1 Guidelines

This might be useful when we get an advanced group together, but I don't think we can use it.
Niscp already stated that he didn't want to scare away any newcomers by punishing the less experienced.

Okay, I read through the whole thing and this T1 to me just looks like the basic way of text RPing. o_o Most of the rules all seem to me like the logical behaviour to be followed during an RP. I think it'd be best if we just finished up the system that was alredy under discussion in here and then get the RP rolling, if any more problems pop out we can simply fix them up as we go.

Well the I've already thought of two problems with the system already.
1. Not enough stances.
I know the system is not finished a hence we have this issue. So we need to come up with more stances and how each interacts with each.
2. Foresight.
Since one person is inevitably going to be first, and another second, we need to balance it in such a way that neither gets an advantage.
Because so far all I see is this...

P1: Attack
P2: Block
Mandatory stance change.
P1: Block
P2: Attack
P1: Attack
P2: Block