Same group, different point characters?

[panton41]

I give my players a maximum point level, but tell them I'd rather see less points. I've even considered how one might play a game with a 150 point average and 250 maximum, but the occasional 25-50 point PC. Mostly the super low point character gets significantly more points per session and more advancement during game play. (If you're a 200 point lesser noble PC you need less help from the king than your 25 point PC servant.)

Ideally what I'd do is I'd have my players describe their characters in detail, like a prose write up a few pages long, and then decide from there how exactly to build the character and if the points vary widely from character to character so be it.

To put it in a different light:

Was the 18yo farm boy Luke in "A New Hope" the same point level as Han, a mid 30-something smuggler with his own ship and a colorful past or even his twin sister Leia, who was a noblewoman with inside knowledge of the Rebellion and, at one time, a warship at he disposal?

Or in Lord of the Rings were the Hobbits really as capable at the beginning of "Fellowship" as Aragorn, a 80-something year old Dunadain ranger who appeared in his 40s, the demigod being of Gandalf or Legolas and Gimly, both establish warrior nobles?

Basically who says points have to be the same across the board? It's ostensibly fair, but anyone who's played with making a character knows that not all characters are equal at the same point total so if you want to make a non-combat character who's 300 points to the soldier's 150 who's to say that's not fair?