User blog comment:ThatOneGuyFromNISLTsCommentSection/Question of the day !V: A long day's work/@comment-25936766-20160607124635

-No joke fights. The fights must be serious.

-No instant/quickly-escalating romance for anyone, basically no romances by the end of Vol.4 except possibly ReNora. I accept hints and some small build-up for future volumes however.

-No more new minor one-shot characters, focus on what we have: The Schnees, the Xiao Longs, RNJR and Blake, and possibly SSSN. Past volumes had the issue that when characters most needed development, it was mostly ignored in the place of adding more characters. We don't need that.