The preferences are there to be just that. Your preferences. So a challenger knows what you'd like to do before challenging you and what they are getting themselves into. If I saw a host who had a million rules all set out for how they were going to insist the whole fight was actually going to be a game of Texas Hold Em I would probably save them for later and challenge someone who I find more agreeable first. They aren't rules you can set.
The Taijutsu Battle for instance I would have no problem with, personally. All the same I don't think that should be something that you can force. What if someone makes a character that is the opposite of Rock Lee? Someone who sucks at Taijutsu but is really good at Nin/Genjutsu? Sucks to be them? What if it was someone that caused trouble like Masane could everyone insist on a Taijutsu battle just to stick it to her?
This is Shinobi Legends, not Boxer Legends, not MMA Legends. I would say you should ALWAYS be allowed (in challenge type scenarios anyway) to fight with at least basic Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, and ninja tools and abilities. To strip away all of the shinobi aspects of shinobi legends is silly, to say the least, and making that a requirement is rubbish.
What Eiko, for instance, should be saying is that she would like to do a Taijutsu battle for various reasons. She can explain why she wants to do that to her challenger and ask them to agree to it. They can then agree or disagree and explain why.
It should not be, "You have to fist fight me or you do not get to fight me. Period."
I am not saying she does that I am just using her condition as an example.
Warren, you say why bother with the preferences if a challenger can throw them all out. I say to you why bother having bijuu rules if the hosts all get to make their own rules? When I made the post on the forum challenging you someone messaged me on SL and said he understood my feelings as he had also once challenged you and, in his words was, "politely told to eff off." I saw another topic on the forum about the same thing as well. Yet the bijuu rules state, "BOTH decide if the match will be an IC Challenge or an OOC Challenge."
What should happen instead of no one ever getting to fight you is that a impartial party should literally flip a coin on it. There's no way to have a discussion topic about whether a fight should be OOC or IC so if something like that cannot be decided it should be decided by simple random chance.
Neither the challenger nor the host are the dominant party in this situation. Both are supposed to reach some kind of consensus. Refusal to do so, from either party, is what has been causing our recent problems.