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[King]

So, I’ve been sitting back and watching things unfold since the site opened, seeing what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. After a bit of thinking (and a pretzel and icecream cake), I’ve decided to post this here instead of sending a PM directly to the staff. Ideally, I would like for the rest of the community to weigh in as things are discussed to achieve optimal balance. However, do or don’t – that’s up to you guys.

VILLAGE FINDING

[/i][/b] worked for and not just given after five posts. You’re in foreign territory, surrounded by enemy shinobi, and you’re looking for their HQ. It should be dangerous and nerve wracking. I mean, secretly trying to find another village could be considered an act of war in itself. I should be able to read the thread and really see you searching. That means it may take you two pages, maybe even three.

You may have to fight enemy shinobi that enter your thread (since I feel they should be open and, in order to even look for a village, you must be on hard mode difficulty) and try to capture and/or kill you. The point is that knowing where a foreign nation’s Hidden Village is gives you an incredible advantage; the next time you fight, you skip everything and show up right at their doorstep. However, there’s never any real work done for that power/advantage.[/ul]

WAR

[/i]) change is in order.

I’ve said it multiple times in the past but was never able to implement it myself. I think it would be very beneficial to shift our focus on “war” from direct combat to a more interactive, mission-orientated type of conflict. We have so many options available to us opposed to simply storming the enemy’s base and killing all their ninjas and leaders.

Again, wars are very rarely fought right on your front doorstep. The actual fighting usually takes place on a battlefield somewhat far from either place’s main base of operations (again, even in the series, most of the real fighting between the major nations took place in the minor nations between them like rain, rice, etc.), and over time, moves one way or the other. To make this clear, you don’t have to kill the enemy Kage to win the war. They can surrender—most of the wars in our real world history have ended because the enemy nation surrendered, not because their leader died.

So, how do we do this?

Being mission-orientated, the Kages going to war would need to work together to draft up a list of special “war missions” exclusive to the event. These missions should could offer double rewards (because everyone likes bonuses).

[/b]: If Kage A makes a mission to establish a shinobi outpost, Kage B should have a mission that counters it (i.e stops the outpost from being made).[/ul]

This should be a set list of, say, ten missions. At the end of the missions being completed, the village with the most successfully completed missions is obviously winning the war, and can use the advantages each mission has offered to march on the enemy headquarters (obviously one of these missions should be finding the hidden village).

[/b]: Konohagakure has successfully beaten Kirigakure at six of the ten missions. They’ve acquired the Hidden Mist’s location and are now marching toward them. Knowing they’ve spent all their resources and can’t possibly win, Kirigakure surrenders to avoid further bloodshed.[/ul]

Even in such a bare-bones, rough format, just reading this seems like it will promote so much more activity than just: “find village, kill, leave.” It allows people to progress their own stories over the course of a lengthy event, build ties (both friendly and hostile), and also creates a unique atmosphere for what has been a rather bland situation since we all started roleplaying on the first NRP.[/ul]

Naturally, there would need to be some critical rules to avoid people spamming and/or taking advantage of loopholes. Off the top of my head, this system would mean wars wouldn’t be over in a week or so (because people don’t post like they’re robots and real life does happen). So, if someone died on their first mission, they could remake another character and jump into another mission.

Essentially, we don’t want this going on forever. So, off the top of my head, we could stipulate that if you die in the event, you can only re-enter a total of one time (i.e your next character). After that, you have to sit on the sidelines until the fight reaches the Hidden Village, because then it’s just an all-out battle for survival.

So, what are everyone’s thoughts?[/div][/blockquote][/blockquote]

[matsumoto-kun]

Village Finding
I agree with everything that you're saying in this category, for the most part. My only hesitation is when I try to think of what these ninja who are writing two pages worth of content are even writing about. Searching under rocks? Looking behind mirrors? I know it might seem silly, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. I think it might be worth it to have a village purchase 'deterrents' for finding the village in question.

Example A
Star Village has 100k Ryo, and is located on a large island called Starland. They spend 50k on Missions for ninja to place a genjutsu on each shore, making it so that those who travel to Starland by boat or foot (water walking) will never be able to see it on the horizon. They spend another 50k on a Giant Shark that patrols the island to attack anyone that is capable of breaking the genjutsu.

This way, a village with more money will be able to build not only defense systems for the village itself, but as well as making it more difficult to be under attack in the first place. This might also play into the war scheme, where combatants will need to go through each other's deterrents in order to even locate what POI's/Infrastructure will even be worth attacking. In the example given, if someone were to wage war on Star Village, they would have to get through the first two barriers of deterrents before they can even locate the POI's which might litter the island.

EDIT: Clearly there will be less expensive, less extravagant deterrents as well (misinformed native, incorrect map, jungle thicket, etc.)

War
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[Comatose]

Just noting for the sake of putting here that there has always existed a thread where one could see information in regards to village finding, located here: X. In that thread I outline exactly what has been suggested here. I have however, gone through with adding on the fact that searching for a village should be a length process by suggesting the search should take a few pages of roleplay because I agree that it should be much more difficult (previously it was suggested to only be a few posts, or about a page).

To add a bit more to the dynamics, we're working on a fair way to do NPCs going forward too, since I can see that it will be needed and it has been suggested several times. It should be noted that these will be ONLY available to Kage when it gets done.

[King]

Aug 19, 2015 7:19:28 GMT -8 matsumoto-kun said:

Village Finding
I agree with everything that you're saying in this category, for the most part. My only hesitation is when I try to think of what these ninja who are writing two pages worth of content are even writing about. Searching under rocks? Looking behind mirrors? I know it might seem silly, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. I think it might be worth it to have a village purchase 'deterrents' for finding the village in question.

Example A
Star Village has 100k Ryo, and is located on a large island called Starland. They spend 50k on Missions for ninja to place a genjutsu on each shore, making it so that those who travel to Starland by boat or foot (water walking) will never be able to see it on the horizon. They spend another 50k on a Giant Shark that patrols the island to attack anyone that is capable of breaking the genjutsu.

This way, a village with more money will be able to build not only defense systems for the village itself, but as well as making it more difficult to be under attack in the first place. This might also play into the war scheme, where combatants will need to go through each other's deterrents in order to even locate what POI's/Infrastructure will even be worth attacking. In the example given, if someone were to wage war on Star Village, they would have to get through the first two barriers of deterrents before they can even locate the POI's which might litter the island.


War
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Just think about being lost in, say, Paris. It's a massive city and, on foot, you could easily go the entire day (or maybe even two) without getting back to where you need to be. Now make it bigger-- an entire country. A lot of it would just be walking, looking for signs of travel, following them up. A path you think might lead you to the village might, instead, lead you off to the coast.

Or a fisherman village.

Be creative and have fun. While it is a dangerous mission to undertake, searching for a Hidden Village allows you to explore an entirely different country. You could learn about the place you're in. There's a lot more to a nation than just their Hidden Village, you know what I'm sayin'?

[Ohta]

I simultaneously agree while bringing to light a few pieces of information to be taken in account for - with the whole "hidden villages are hidden" there's this sort of flux and belief that yes - these villages are extremely well hidden yet at the very same time are still managing to be full of imports, exports, civilians and merchants and people who wish to travel. How would that be possible?  It could be a matter of things:

• The outside world is extremely dangerous and the "safe havens" are the hidden villages
• Finding a hidden village would mean two contact points - for civilians wishing to enter a village, who are I don't know, blindfolded and/or drugged and then taken to second contact point: the village itself. 

As for finding a hidden village, and people being able to interrupt as they please could be made a little more nonsensical than "I'm here at this exact moment and time to catch you" to, perhaps, a 1-6 die roll that if successful, actually allows people to enter the thread, and if unsuccessful - sorry but you aren't in the right place/time/manner/able to notice. That's my essential two cents.

I really like the war idea, it seemed similar to my own (an influence meter of 100% - it would go up or down in correspondence to missions and whom completed OR denied them, like losing a POI would be a huge hit to a village's economy - not guaranteeing their loss but hindering them.)

Really cool.