I think we just need two official rulesets.
One for cutsoms.
One for non customs.
Use them both for tourneys.
Of course I doubt this would happen but....
In theory it sounds fine, but it's a TO's nightmare.
Imagine having to run : Single (customs on) Singles (customs off) Double (customs on) doubles (customs off) not to mention melee singles / doubles if applicable.
I think smash 4's greatest weakness is trying to be like melee / smash 64 competitive (No items, neutral stages, counterpicks) when it's designed counter intuitively to this format.
The moment the community will agree on something, DLC will happen. Patches will happen.
Really this game needs to develop into something on it's own. We are trying to hard to regulate something when the plain and simple truth is this game is designed so as to limit the ammount of control the competitive community can enforce, by adding characters and nerfing / buffing characters every couple of months. The fact that Diddy was nerfed because all these people were crying is the best example, even if he was op, given time people would have found a counter to Diddy which makes the game exciting... instead of just "Downthrow combos to up air so... NERF..."
If Melee was patchable fox would have been mega nerfed, and we'd see nothing but jigglypuff players and the game would be dead. Despite fox/falco being very powerful, the game has a sense of balance where they are fast fallers and can be combo'd to death by most of the cast once they get a hit. I've beaten many decent level foxes with pichu just because I can get the grab / chainthrow with him. Then uthrow - usmash kills... and this is pichu a little emo rat who hurts himself beating the top tier character.
Melee achieved balance OVER TIME, for awhile it was thought a good marth / shiek was unbeatable and peach was only an average character.
What I'm saying is that a patchable / ever changing smash bros is an absolute nightmare to have a universal ruleset for, and I'm very concerned for smash 4's competitive future... but I do have hope. I really hope the patches stop and the game can take it's time, over the next 3-4 years to develop an interesting meta game instead of players thinking meta game happens OVERNIGHT.
- Tnga