What you are suggesting, Eli, sounds good at first but it quickly explodes into an epidemic of quantity being all that matters. XWF has done this in the past so I've seen it first hand. Before I took over, XWF spent YEARS using limits and it turned into an incredibly obvious system of numbers...

First, the RP limits came in the form of X number of RPs per match... let's say 3 RPs was the average.

What did people do? Tried to out length each other in word counts.

The solution? Now XWF had to add WORD LIMITS to the actual RP limits too. It got messy... now you'd see matches with a 3 RP limit and then there would ALSO be a word limit per RP. Once a fed gets to the point of the number of RPs being what matters AND the number of words in the RP being COUNTED, then the fed might as well admit quality was abandoned.

It turned into a war of people trying to make SURE they hit EXACTLY the amount that the word count was for each RP, and then judges started not knowing how to react because people would lose their minds if they knew they wrote 10 more words than their opponent but lost. Little by little, even the judges pretty much just looked at word counts and numbers to decide winners. If a match was even SLIGHTLY close, the way they'd figure out the winner was the word count.

It took a lot of work to bring XWF back to a point where we're all on the same page as far as simply having RPing guidelines instead of limits. We suggest a word count of 1000 to 2000 words per RP, but if somebody wants to go higher or lower that's FINE if it fits their style and flows well. We've also seen where a small number of RPs can defeat a large number of RPs, and that's something very rare in e-fedding today. All feds like to say "quality over quantity" but this is one of the few feds where that is demonstrated to be true on a regular basis.

That said... if people want to agree on an RP limit for their own match, and all parties IN the match agree, then you're welcome to do that. (this has always been acceptable since it's a deal between the RPers in the match)