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Well as it stands, I won't vote for something that causes you to lose the identity of your character and still constrict you to keep their past jutsu, It as Zavits puts it ‘ wouldn’t sit right with new Rp formulas ’

Possibly clean slate all jutsu and personal information of that character. thus providing a well rounded Character Re-creation type deal.

This is given that,

A. villages have Medical stff in which would allow a person to be revived without the need of a Character Kage.

B. a time period in which to hold onto said character for a reasonable time, I vote one week.

C. Since we’re resetting ONLY rp arrangements I would assume all levels gained by fighting would still benefit, although possibly only gaining 1/2 if not 2/3 of the lines instead of full line earning for dying.

Notes: The After life should have a layout of the basic information of the Character.
1. A reason behind death, 2. who killed them.
A brief commentary of last thoughts perhaps?

Secondary note Reason I say 1 week before reset is simple, it provides a huge time of delay so the mods aren't over whelmed with three or more resets.

Simply put if the reset was Auto/only two or three days wait time then everyone would do it... and it just isn't possible to update that many or more people.

i'm also pro respawn time but IF it HAS to be changed then I want something akin to what I stated. XD;;

Oh yeah, I said that about wraps it up for the debate.

Unless someone rejects the Jutsu recreation part, but honestly if you recreate the character then the jutsu have to be remade as well.

a balance definately needs to be found, because if uit's set on full hadcore mode where you die you are dead end of story, that makes it less fun. if you have infinite guys(lives/men/1ups) then that kinda removes some desired storyline intensity. Ele's option covers both fields fairly well making the possibility for your infinate guys to exist however setting it with in a time frame to allow some urgency rather then the "eh, they died, they'll be back" to happen. that being said if the week long wait before death set up is implemented I say throw in a high level perk that let's you self revive in some manner, and by High level i mean HIGH level like in the 300-500 range and since perks in that range will all be fairly epic it would actually be a choice of playing safe or being confidant in your ability to trump all. = w=

This is why I like Ele's option. You have several lives, and if you have a powerful enough medic nin/allies it means you don't really have to worry about death until you've died several times.
Even then there is no finite amount of lives as long as your rate of death is not exceptionally high in comparisson to your medical friends ability to revive.

Hell it might even encourage players to make, say, ally items that are medics that leave the village the moment they sense the life force of their master cut short and go to retrieve their body. It would make things like ransoming a body and thus hunter nin more potent as well as put more weight on death while not making it a be all end all.

I just want to clearify. I am neither yay nor nay for the "hardcore" mode. I was simply provided a middle ground. I think that it should come down to a vote of

A. Keep the afterlife as it is but reduce it to 3 days.
B. Use an NFS1 like after life, in which every time you die your wait/post requirement is increased. (In all honesty I think this one worked)
or C. My idea. I personally would rather not cast my vote unless it was under the pretenses of a vote feature so it can remain anon.

I see the argument on both sides, so its really hard for me to say which would be better. On the one hand, loosing a character is enough to make some people quit and thats the last thing we ever want in the guild, however on the other hand it is much harder to kill someone than it was in NFS1 and there truly is an issue with death being meaningless. There is no true penalty for dying and as such no one fears it which is unrealistic.


Or, I just thought of another idea that some might like. In a lot of MMo's that have harder death penalties. When you die, you go into a sort of EXP debt. This debt would need to be paid off before you can start gaining EXP normally. So like, everytime you die you get a Afterlife Sickness of deathx100 or w.e you want it to be. This amount of exp would need to be gained before you can start accumulating EXp normally. I think this in combination with a modest OOC wait time might be a reasonable idea to consider as well.


Once again, not giving my personal opinions, Im simply laying suggestions on the table since we can all agree that a decision needs to be made in some fashion.

Finally at a computer again. and i wanna say something.

if character death needs to be important, than take a cue from most manga and anime. its REALLY hard to die.
think about Bleach. Home damn many times do people get impaled and sliced nearly in half and they just rest a few days and then pop to their feet later and are all better.

if death needs to be important and left at what it is now, where death is, lets face it, pretty damn easy to die if someone wants you dead.

so a sort of hardcore mode was established, make death difficult, and when you are beaten you get 'disabled' and you need a medic. If you don't have a medic then you need a mate to carry you home where you can get a medic. If you do not have a medic, you will need to travel home while disabled. which would like increase travel times by say 50% and things along those lines, making being disabled a serious pain in the a**, and death REALLY bad. yea?

dont really care if its already been covered but I didn't get to be involved in the talk earlier so bah.