I would like to discuss perhaps limiting the defences a village can have at any given point. It had been brought up before in other threads, and I believe that we need to have an entire thread dedicated to this and this alone.
Some of the village defences are as such:
"A seal used in conjunction with the Mondai no Konran and overlapping this defense is one of the prides of the hidden cloud village. Utilizing the constantly increased ionized air constantly over the village, this seal allows natural lightning to rain down on anything and anybody within the range of the barrier seal. Able to call down near limitless lightning strikes, such a dangerous and powerful seal can only be used by the Raikage's. Enemies are targeted and identified through use of the Mondai no Konran it's connected to." - Kumogakure
"A massive dome shaped seal placed around a certain area. This particular seal is placed around the entire village of Kumo and encompasses everything within. It begins at the center of the village and stretches out three quarters of a mile from the outside of the village in a perfect circle going beneath the ground and into the sky as well. The purpose of the jutsu is it marks everything and everybody within it’s boundaries and anything coming into contact with reducing the effectiveness of their chakra based abilities. It produces a toll of multiplying chakra drain of techniques three times while decreasing effectiveness of chakra based abilities by half. This also includes chakra based attacks made from outside the range of the barrier coming into contact with said barrier seal. This defense is a permanent seal on the land area itself and is only subject to collapse should the Raikage will it. This also serves to further train Kumo shinobi. With such a constant draw on their chakra levels for a prolonged period of time when not under the effects of the barrier they are endowed with unnaturally high chakra levels when compared to other nations." - Kumogakure
"A barrier empowered by a crystal located within the depths of the Hokage Residence, its circumference encircles the village's walls, two-meters away from them. The barrier works in two ways.First it has a "passive" effect which is active at all times and absorbs any attack that uses chakra and makes contact with it from the outside.Second it has an "active" effect which absorbs all the ninjutsu attacks from inside,but it may only be activated by someone possessing the Preta Path and who knows of the technique-specific hand seal." -Konohagakure
“The entire area of the forest up to the gates is constantly blanketed in a thick white mist, a variation of a secret jutsu passed down between Kirigakure elites. Passing through this mist will quickly eat up any chakra that is not similar to that of the Ichiban Yonnin.
The mist also extends into the village, yet is weaker than the mist outside. It also does not affect certain individuals as they cast and/or maintained the mist itself. They are Isaribi, Gitsune, Mioku, Eiko, Dāto, and Xiarawst. Those who are responsible for upkeep are Silence and Saino.” -Kirigakure
These are the only defences I can find in the main villages that I think are crazy, but I’m sure there are more if we decide to delve deeper into it.
The reason I bring this up is simple. It ruins most villains opportunities to attack a village. Yes, I am incredibly aware that villages are not supposed to be easy to attack, but that does not mean it gives the people living within the right to completely stifle the a villain's right to attempt an attack on that village. It’s unsportsmanlike.
What few seem to realize is that even without defences, villages are very difficult to attack. There are usually 4 or 5 individuals who will participate in the defence of any given village. 4 or 5 competent fighters should be more than able to repel an attack considering they would have the home field advantage. Not only that, but most if not all village attacks end up being voided anyway, so why even have the defences if your just going to ignore the people attacking anyway?
My suggestion is that we limit each village to two defensive measures. One that represents the village as a whole. Much like Konoha’s forest, Kiri’s mist, or Suna’s deserts and one that is generic and used between most villages. They can make one, REASONABLE defence that involves their geographical environment, and one other defence of their choice. Considering almost all villages have a “No auto enter” rule, I don’t much see the point of anti-space time barriers. Though I will stick to the idea that those barriers are the dumbest thing to ever come from this game.
Villain characters are still players of this game who are wanting to have a good time. It’s very difficult for them to enjoy being villains when there are no villages to attack, and no one ever leaves those villages for them to try and ambush. We need to stop catering to the good guys who hide behind their walls like cattle, and start making it so everyone gets a chance to do what they want without having to leap through a million flaming hoops to do it.
If anyone has better options to nerf villages, then please post and start a dialogue. Or if people from these villages can try to justify why these defenses are not stupid, then please elaborate.