So, the place I "come from" originally roleplay wise is Youtube (yeah, there was quite a lot of roleplay on youtube in the past when the layout was different). Among the circles I belonged to, there was a strong emphasis on writing ability, strategic thinking, and actual knowledge of whatever it is you're roleplaying in / as (for example: for Hand to Hand only fights, I employed Brazilian Jiu Jitsu since that's what I have the most experience with IRL). These are the things that determined the winners in fights.
Yeah of course sometimes you had people who did the same crap people on SL did, but we typically just ignored them or declared them the loser, or left it to the public to determine who was right or wrong in the situation.
Now, I'm not here to sit on a high horse or anything, because I've taken part in the same kind of power playing that many other people on SL have because that seems to be the name of the game here.
However, many of the SL people I hang around now can attest to my recent attempts to fix not only biju battles (which I abhor), but the way fighting on SL is done in general. You can ask Jay, Athos, Tomi, Nekomaru, Ray, and many other people. I'm not an unreasonable guy. I have no qualms with admitting I'm wrong in a discussion or in a fight, which is even evidenced in my
fight with Bocc for the 9-tails a while back.
I have a lot of abilities, yeah, but the way I've always fought is going into a battle with someone and sticking to a fairly small list of techniques and using those in different ways to get an upper hand on my opponent. Proper strategic works regardless of the "power level" of the person you're going against. You could be two regular humans or gods. The issue though, which has likely been pointed out by other people on this thread and many others, is that so many people aren't interested in flexing their intellectual / strategic muscles and having a good time. They just want to trash the other person, and are willing to use any underhanded tactic they can to do it.
Honestly, like some of the lines of argument I heard during the FFA were so downright fallacious that it actually made me angry. Implementing a system that forces people to cap their chakra or the number of kekkei genkei they have isn't going to fix the real problem of SL: many of the "upper tier" zoners are shameless, intellectually dishonest try-hards.
That
has to change.
Why these people even compete for the Biju in the first place escapes me, since the boost in power that it'd give them won't really make a difference given how OP they already are. The tailed beasts should go to some of the newer or lower-tier people to encourage roleplaying, but the only problem is that the try-hards are going to come along and shit on those lower-tier people once they have them.
An analogy: you can't expect the populace to want to engage in politics when the vast majority of political power is held within the hands of a few oligarchs.