I noticed some attempts already suggested regarding a system for measuring the prowess of our ninjas. Personally, I found them all to broad. No one is ever going to be completely happy with their ninja cuz there is not enough room for customization. I won't judge their attempts I will merely bring my proposal to the table and let you decide.

Rather than bother with ranks (genin, chuunin, jouning ect...) I suggest we have ninja levels (remember, naruto was a genin when he pwned Pain's ass) and stats.

There should be 8 ninja stats. 4 physical stats(PS) (Stamina, Strength, Agility and Perception) and 4 knowledge stats(KS) (Taijutsu, ninjutsu, Genjutsu and Kekke Genkai if you have one) (see spoiler below for detail description of each stat).

Spoiler:

Physical stats: * Stamina: Represents your...well...stamina. This is where you draw energy/chakra for your actions and it also represents how much damage you can take. When Stamina reaches 0 you die. This is probably the most important stat of all. * Strength: Represents your physical strength. A strong body can withstand more punishment and it can also deliver more punishment. * Agility: Represents your speed, agility, dexterity, finesse, aptitude with weapons ect... * Perception: Represents your ability to aim, observe, detect, calculate the movements of moving objects ect... In short, it represents your awareness of your surroundings as well as eye-hand coordination (which is invaluable to any ninja). Knowledge stats: * Taijutsu: Your Taijutsu Knowledge (martial arts). It lets you use your body to its full potential. * Ninjutsu: Your Ninjutsu Knowledge (spiritual arts). The higher this value gets the better your chakra molding ability is and the stronger your ninjutsus get. * Genjutsu: Your Genjutsu Knowledge (mind arts). The higher the value the stronger your own genjutsus AND resistance to enemy genjutsus gets. * KG: Your Kekkei Genkai Knowledge. How deep you can tap into the secret powers of your inherited talents.

By training, doing missions, beating/killing enemies, hanging out with friends (just general rp), ninjas are awarded experience points. Once you gain enough EXP you gain a new level and are awarded 10 PS and 5 KS stats which you allocate any way you want. In addition to just stats a ninja can have 9 regular and 1 Prestigious skills which will further allow one to customize his ninja. You can choose to buy 10 stealth oriented skills and become the ultimate assassin or choose 5 ninjutsu and 5 tainjutsu oriented skills and become a good (but not great) taijutsu master who uses powerful ninjutsu as a trump card or tide turner. You can even choose 10 completely different skills and become a "jack of all trades but master of none". You should try to compliment your skills and jutsus with your stats though, no point in having high Strength and tai knowledge if you have ninjutsu skills and jutsus.

And speaking of jutsus, they are not limited the way skills are (Kakashi was known as the ninja who had over a 1000 jutsus). One can have as many jutsus as he can afford.

Afford? Did I just mention money? You got that right!!! Its the solution to all the problems. EVERYTHING will cost money. Buying jutsus, skills, weapons; INVENTING custom stuff, everything costs money (including creating custom clans and KGs). The more powerful and unique it is the more money it costs. And you get money buy completing missions...and by getting a weekly salary (you are a ninja dude, and that's a job just like any other).

Well what do you think so far?

Well, unfortunately, I'm not as kind as Sept here... Y'know, you really did some hard work and normally, as long as it's good and long, I like it. ( Not an innuendo.)

But stats have never worked out. And in the end, there's just a huge gap between members all the goddamn time. If one guy has 10 strength, he knocks a tooth out of the guy with 1 strength. Or something. Members also just post for EXP and don't do any real RPing.

In the end, it'll end up like.

"Dude walked here, dude pissed here, and dude drank here."

Yeah, yeah, you said in the general rp Rules that 100 words a minimum, but still. It's easy to write 100 words of complete shit. I've written 1k of complete shit before.

This was just the preliminary suggestion, I made a more detailed post in the staff section. It explains the EXP and Money issue in much greater details (Look it up under Basic tutorial).

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..............Wha? People shouldn't be that bothered to type out something to earn a tech.

Fine, then they can just do nothing and stock up money from their weekly salary. Doing missions is optional, and its a way to gain money much faster.

P.S. Regarding training topics (or any topic you want for EXP): They have to write around 400 words. Any less or more(?) will be frowned upon. The training topics will be evaluated based on their QUALITY, not quantity (we don't want a 10 paged essey).

P.P.S. I just layed out everything I know in the staff section. Don't expect you (the admins) to accept even a quarter of that stuff but I wrote it down all the same in case it "inspires you" to create something on your own.

You know... I'm going to instead look at a different view... really we are just taking something apart, and I want that to stop. Instead, I want to build something, so this being MY first attempt at building, instead of wreaking, give me some slack. However, I expect you all to build as well, instead of wreak. Its okay to say "no I don't like that" but we can just move on, I'm not looking for reasons or excuses right now, I'm looking for a building.

Okay... I'm going to create a topic for this... cause here is too verclemped