Now, while I adore Nathan's idea of needing to find a person within RP, what's to stop a person from becoming a missing nin in RP? They could simply say they're traveling and never RP anywhere because they are never within village confines.
If not on the outskirts of a village, then they could post in the zones. If anything (and 'per chance'), other
travelers may wind up intersecting them. The fact that the zones are accessible by everyone adds a certain danger element to the mix. Although, I'd say that those not within a village would need to post twice as regularly, and there'd be restrictions imposed upon just how flexible their travels may be from post to post.
For instance, once a traveler enters a zone or village outskirt, they're unable to exit from it for say, 4-5 posts, sufficient enough for a party seeking out their item to take initiative. I'd also say that Space-Time Ninjutsu and the sort can't be used to travel between areas, and instead merely to travel close to the area's boundary of one for them to make an exit, while there's still a marginal possibility of their escape, while not being completely nullified, at least monitored, so they may find themselves being pursued, and confronted in the next area.
Plenty would be done. Inactive people obviously wouldn't RP and be stripped of their weapon. Also, if the people are like you and use their items in every battle, then yes they would be easy to track down like you are. You used Hiraishin in the village that created it and you think we don't know what it was? Lol. Seriously, though, you just want it to be where you can PM somebody and then fight them and that's just plain stupid. My way promotes RP and makes you do more than PM somebody and take their weapon if you refuse to fight them.
It's plain stupid that you WANT to make the system be able to be abused. But ok, I find anyone whose chakra I know while traveling with Kamui so that'll let me abuse it too. There is going to be roughly 0 fights and a lot of me appearing from no where and decapitating people. Tsuyo is being logical here like me, no one is going to choose to fight someone if they have the option, that's the point of making it something you can challenge for, otherwise they will just run and hide. Being able to find someone in rp and beat them up does not require a rule change, you can do that now.
It's fine that people who want the items they seek want to fight their current holders for them, however, what of the holders who simply put disagree? It's too one-sided to simply call somebody out via PM to challenge a person for an item, who doesn't wish to fight anybody, and have it stripped from them due to this 'rule'. This 'rule' only really seems to profit power-hoarders, while being nothing less of a deterrent to all others. In my opinion, anyway.