Well, I want to make sure we have something in IST25 about the Academy. Hopefully two-or-three pages with some good information so groups can run an IST Academy setting. An entire book would be great, but, since we're not there, and just working on the main book--it should be as complete as possible.
Honestly, I think that the Academy point-costs should be extremely fluid. 250-point supers can be extremely effective, even though they're fewer points that other supers characters. And, really, is IST going to "discriminate" against metahumans whose only power is to change the color of their urine at will? I think the Academy would be a good place to put lower-point, non-front-line IST members. It would be a great place to have a large number of non-combatant teleporters and a general assembly of healers. This would be a good location for pacifists and cowards to work (lets be honest, not every metahuman is cut out for crime-fighting, even if they're indestructible), while still helping out.
That was part of the idea behind the unpowered children. The parents/adults are placing them there for their own safety, even though it'll be a living Hell for the kids.
Honestly, I think that the Academy point-costs should be extremely fluid. 250-point supers can be extremely effective, even though they're fewer points that other supers characters. And, really, is IST going to "discriminate" against metahumans whose only power is to change the color of their urine at will? I think the Academy would be a good place to put lower-point, non-front-line IST members. It would be a great place to have a large number of non-combatant teleporters and a general assembly of healers. This would be a good location for pacifists and cowards to work (lets be honest, not every metahuman is cut out for crime-fighting, even if they're indestructible), while still helping out.
That was part of the idea behind the unpowered children. The parents/adults are placing them there for their own safety, even though it'll be a living Hell for the kids.