thanks for your wonderful suggestions angels! while we need a little more time to discuss the practical implementation of this stuff on site i'm able to give a few details on ways in which we're going to be working on and incorporating your ideas:

POWER CLAIM – we are likely to add a power claim in the claim section of the site, a list of what powers are used by what characters. here members themselves will fill out and post a small form to add their character and their powers to a list. this form will not include a summary – there will instead be links to a character's application so that if a person can check out the power themselves if they think they are considering a power that's too similar if there are really worried about originality. staff will not be automatically updating it on acceptance – instead it will be up to members to post there so staff members can edit the thread.

CENSUS – a census is definitely a possibility in the future. however, it will not be combined with a power list. this will just be a table with totals of each member group and conceivably divided further into male, female and other/non-binary, in order to give people a good idea of site numbers.

we do already have a claim for brotherhood of mutant + a job list that can give further information on member groups. i edited it with a coding members can easily access so they can add themselves though!

APP CATEGORIES – i'm up for this, it helps mega w/ organisation but it depends on how staff convos go but SEEMS EXCESSIVELY REASONABLE. this would be split into the obvious x-students, x-men, brotherhood of mutants and unaffiliated.

BASE FOR THE BROTHERHOOD – ohohoho this'll be talked amongst us! to clarify, the base for the brotherhood of mutants massively varies across media and even within the media. in the x-men movies, which the site's canon is mostly based on, magneto uses an island called genosha as base and later an unspecified forest which is a bit harder to apply here; in the show x-men: evolution, the base varies greatly depending on the "field leaders" if you will as mystique has a dorm-like residence she keeps to house younger brotherhood mutants whereas magneto also has other bases of operation; the comics vary EVEN MORE so there's a lot of places to consider and work from! however, over the next couple of days we'll make it clear where the brotherhood of mutants are able to CHILL, HANG OUT AND PLOT OUT THEIR FABULOUS MUTANT SUPREMACIST PARTIES

ALIAS CLAIM – this could be super useful too actually! we'll defs consider adding something like that to the claim section as well

hope this covers a lot of what you guys have said! basically, a lot of the inquiries and suggestions have to do with claims which i will work on clarifying in the rules and the sections themselves.