I'm going to try to rain on the parade of edge ideas here.

The problem with edges is they further reinforce the image that I must please somebody else to have fun in this game... IE, Imm-whoring. True, you can get a few decent ones with a few hours worth of exploring, but everything else comes from Imm exp. Anything that forces me to count on interaction with the immstaff to get what I want greatly reduces my fun factor. And I only say that because I've done it time and time again and been greatly disappointed with many of my characters.

Not that the imms aren't doing a great job. They are. There's just not enough time and attention for them to go around and they have to focus only on the people who are truly either exceptional, or lucky. That means everybody else gets nothing.

Sometimes I can do the exceptional RP dance in short bursts. And there are some people that can do it consistently over and over with role contests and knowing how to be in the right place at the right time. The rest of us that just like to play the game and have fun on our own schedule will never see most of these edges, unless we take either the minuscule edges that cost very little, or save up everything we have for a couple of the "must-have" edges that we would be stupid to avoid.

I would like to see more attention paid to the base skills and everyday character abilities so that everybody can benefit from them, and not just the people who know how to write good roles or always play on the edge of their seats like they know they are being watched (because they want to be rewarded).

I don't know how to do that exactly, I just know I cringe every time I see more things added to the game that I will never be able to take advantage of in a million years because there's other edges that will always take priority over them no matter how nifty they sound.