Because people seem to be confused about my RPG entry, I want to clear up a quick couple of things.

The tournament won't pull in everyone, nor am I making everyone enter it. It is stated two or three times in the submission that participation in the Day Run is optional. It is not the main focus this time around -- as players of Night Ride and ROTR should note, the fact that I am telling you this straight up should mean something. Yes, it's a big part, but it's not the be all, end all of the RPG -- the Ring, the KNPD and the Civilians are going to play just as large, if not a bigger role than the Day Run itself will. Heck, essentially the only role the tournament serves in being present is to establish a link between NR and DR (plus because I want to use my tournament games more (and no, that does not mean I don't have story plans for them -- I do; a couple of rather big ones, actually...))

That being clear:

The Credits will not affect everyone. I'm anticipating that only about half of the player characters are participating in the tournament at all. That means that only about half of the player characters are going to be paying any amount of attention to the credits. You realize what that means straight off the bat, right?

There is not a complicated number system in the RPG. The credits are a set of digital numbers to help keep track of places in the tournament -- nothing more. You don't use them as currency. You don't mug people for them. You don't exchange them for anything. They are not physical objects. They do not get you rewards. Need I say more? The fact of the matter is that the credits don't do anything. You don't need to worry about them, at least OOCly and especially if none of your characters are participating in the tournament.

You also don't need to keep track of them. I will be doing that; that is my job as the GM. Despite what you think, they won't affect game play in the slightest, aside from:

Even thinking the opposite of the above, the Credits make sense ICly, to your characters. Have you ever participated in a tournament of any kind, or watched/played a sport, or played Pacman? Because the Credits here, through your character's point of view, are the equivalent of the points in a Halo tournament, or a baseball game, or in a game of Pacman. They may not necessarily mean anything from an outsider's view, but from the view of the one earning them, they are important. Your character's most likely going to be driven to gain more of these through Day Run events so as to win the tournament, same as you are driven to keep up that game of Pacman.

With only a week left before voting, I hope that clears things up for people. :3