... Removing them won't remove power duels, it will just make the game a bit more shallow by removing one of the few tangible assets of SL RP. Removing it will make the complaints lessen a bit granted, but also the RP of any form. I wouldn't expect to see quite as many OOC challenges or anything anyway, there'd be no reason to accept them. More over people are going to need something else to fight for and fight over or else RP itself is pointless.
--Either way though, I wanted to post regarding an idea brought up earlier in this thread. The "I won't fight X-person list" idea.
I've rewritten my opinion on this four times now, because I'm trying to figure out how I want to say it:
ob·li·ga·tion
ˌäbləˈɡāSH(ə)n/
noun
an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment.
"he has enough cash to meet his present obligations"
synonyms: duty, commitment, responsibility, moral imperative; More
This is the thing you have when you decide to prove your character's power and worth and grab a bijuu. You have the obligation to fight to keep it. OOC/IC, Zero/One/Any, I don't care about the in game rules of the challenge enough to debate them right now. Where I'd have to draw a line is when you step outside the game and are able to say "I don't want to fight X". That's stupid.
Too strong? That's the point of the challenge in keeping your bijuu.
Don't like 'em? If you're petty enough you can't play a game with a person you don't like, a text game mind you with no voice feature or any way for any person to even pretend to "attack" another outside of pixels on a screen, you probably shouldn't have a bijuu with OBLIGATES you to play said game.
I can't think of any other reason to be able to individually ban challengers for something the point of which is to be able to be challenged for and rewarded/kept. I strongly suspect that even with that being the case, no reason IS legitimate enough to be able to shut individual people out without said shut-out needing to be banned from the game completely or something.
I have to once again disagree with the idea that the tailed beasts add anything subtsantial to RP. As stated before, there are few people who actually go hunting for tailed beasts, and even fewer who seek the hassle/burden of being a host through any means. Hardly any RP is actually done with or over the tailed beasts at this point. Seriously, unless the hosts are doing their stuff in clan halls and stuff of that sort, I see very little mention of the tailed beasts in SL RP unless it is either brief interaction between host and beast or a titular mentioning.
Obligation, it's an interesting thing. Being a jinchurikii, I have to say, the RP rewards that are reaped from having a tailed beast are not worth the trouble. The tailed beasts are not valuable RP tools. As has been mentioned before, due to the very obligations that you speak of, the tailed beasts force people who don't want to RP with each other RP with each other. There is very little pay-off for these interactions, as again, most people in the realm do not even bother with the notion of tailed beasts.
This obligation, this job of sorts, does not have the proper pay on it. In a game, you should be enjoying what you're doing. These arguments, these fights, theses attempts at making this work, are not enjoyable at this point. The minimal amount of RP involved with the tailed beast, such as training it, is not worth it. The interactions of a few people to the host and the beast is not worth it.
At least not to me it is not worth it. Before the tailed beasts, there were plenty of things for peoplt to strive before. With the tailed beasts, there are a vast number of alternatives that people have been exploiting since fighting over them has gone to the courthouse. The tailed beasts being removed will not dramatically affect the quantity of RP because there was hardly any RP done with them worth all of the trouble to begin with. If anything, not having to worry about a stupid tailed beast will actually increase RP, since more resources would be devoted to alternative, and likely more fun, kinds of RP.
Official tailed beasts should be removed, because they add very little to the RP of the site compared to the amount of conflict that they stir and cause.
People will find other things to fight over. People will find something of value to go after; perhaps one of the most valuable commodities on the site at this stage are players, people. No clan, no division of RP, no village, can survive without people, without RPers. How about we try to compete to attract RPers? Whether that means playing a villain and raiding caravans (PvP missions become a thing) or making sure every day is filled with fun and festivity and intrigue. There are so many other options out there.
A global war could be a hoot if we put the same effort into finding a way to make it work that we do in bickering over who gets stripped and why and whether it is moral for this or that. Whether it's "fair" for this and that.
At this point in my rant, a suspension of the tailed beasts seems like a compromise at this point. Some people want a trial run to see just how much getting rid of the tailed beasts will actually change SL RP. A trial run of a few months is reasonable. I wouldn't mind it starting immediately (I will still finish my fight with Machina since she has been waiting so long, but beyond that, I will have no dealings with tailed beasts during the period) but if waiting a few weeks for these lingering battles to fade out or new ones to start is the desire, then I'm all for it.