I think Fritz (our main GM) started awarding EP when it "felt right" and we just stuck with that -- kind of similar to GURPS.
I
really like the character point system in the
house rules on Brainiac's site. I think "character points" should just be "experience points" and they should be given out per-session or per-story like in GURPS, Fate, etc., because that's so much less bookkeeping.
22 talent points for a 32-point starting character seems like a lot to me, though. Does anyone out there use these rules? What do starting characters look like? Do people normally start their characters with 22 points of talents or do they tend to raise attributes higher than 32?