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Bijuu Arena / Re: Proposal
« on: January 16, 2015, 05:40:48 PM »Why not just get rid of the official tailed beast aspect of the game? There are not alot of people who want to be a host, and some hosts hardly even want to stay host because of bullcrap. Keeping these tailed beats, after years of this madness, is just not worth it in my opinion.
Biju holders hold something that universally, everyone in the game should have access to due to what they are. That means that they lose a considerable amount of their own power to dictate and control who and what they RP, and that is not really all that fun. On the flip side, to try and balance that, hosts are often given at least some power over thier fights, and that in turn can get challengers in a bunch.
Doing it all IC led to massive fights in the village square that was riddled with OOC, mudslinging, crapslinging (there is a difference, and if you've been here for any length of time, you can smell the difference) and extremely unproductive conflicts. Doing it all OOC eased the issue some, but the problem still remained that the hosts were obligated to fight for their beasts, and challengers were often obligated to try to work with the host.
And forcing people to work together is clearly a crime against humanity, because people will be people.
Get rid of tailed beasts. Period. The people in the Naruto Series did not have that choice, but we do, and I feel that as a community, we would be better off without them. People don't want rules to strictly govern it, making exceptions opens loopholes, and even when all the rules are followed, the terrible state of zoning etiquette always creeps in to collapse the whole thing.
--------------Raises his hand- How about we wait for a certain character to quit lurking these fields before we try and make change.
Sounds like a volunteer to me. Otherwise, this is nothing more than an attempt at instigating, which is not what this thread is about. Take it somewhere else, I at least am not putting up with it in this thread beyond this point.
... rather than say, "this won't work because..." just don't bother to reply. negativism is not useful.
instead say, "What if we tried this because..." with real thought into mending this aspect of game play.
It should be possible for people to do what is right, fair, friendly, and fun for all...
My only other recommendations include:
Have it so that hosts may be granted the ability to deny the challenges of up to a certain number of challengers at a single time. It should be something small like 1-3 since, as stated earlier, people are not exactly flocking to get the burden of a tailed beast (and it is a burden right now, truly) and forcing people to zone with other people has almost been as explosive as trying to figure out whether their reason for denying was valid enough to deny the challenge. Everybody gets a short list of people they will not fight a challenge with. If a challenger finds that more than two hosts have him/her on the list, he/she might need to wonder why (though arbitrary is not necessarily out of the realm of possibility, there is likely a reason).
I would also suggest making all challenges OOC with no consequences to either party afterwards except the transfer of biju. Honestly, when one's character is not on the line, it is so much easier to just let go of a minor issue or two in the interest of keeping the fight going. You can't have nearly as much fun in a biju match if you have to try to survive and nitpick every little thing, which has become the norm for IC fights between conflicting parties.
That's my nickel; the first 3 cents that I am very confident will better the problem, and the other 2 cents as a sort of understanding that there are people who stubbornly want to keep the beasts around.
As eloquently stated as always, Eric. The highlighted portions have my utmost vote. At this point, I am heavily leaning towards banning the bijū.
Should there be a limit imposed for denied challengers: I say 3 max.
And that is for the PLAYER(S), not the character(s). If a player attempts to circumnavigate around the denial by using an alt and is caught, then it becomes a perma-ban from challenging that specific host until the beast changes hands.
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Just a random thought that occurred with what Eric said about everyone having access: What if the bijūs became their own entity and were unaffiliated with any specific person? Instead, they are played by the moderators using that text that rids of the player name and it becomes world text.
From there, the moderators can have the beasts roam the countryside or visit villages. Or can also become violent and attack people or villages to stimulate roleplay. When nice, people could seek them out to gain friendship, borrow chakra, learn new ninjutsu, etc. When evil, it would cause the villages to band together and test the mettle of some roleplayers in the zones. However, the beast doesn't kill people nor finish off a village. If sufficiently defended against, it retreats. If it looks like a win, walks away smugly before landing the killing blow. Humiliation is a damn good motivator as well.
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Just a shameless plug. But I'm real damned proud of that idea.
Probably will become violently shot down, but still damned proud.
