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I vote for ele's option. I meant to click it in the poll but I'm not sure it if is because my touch pad for navigating the mouse also acts as my right click on my laptop >.<

Well the problem there is that if an opponent wants you dead they'll just sit there wailing on your disabled body until you are lol. I mean currently in this system it's much harder to die than it was before.
You have reduction 2 reductions instead of just 1 like before (tough + protection), you have 2 forms of health (stamina + chakra) instead of just one, and lastly you don't die when you reach 0 on either, you only die once you've taken further and even then you have a save against it which you can buff up to be more resilient. (not to mention chakra acting like a recharable pillow to keep you alive longer and a fleeing system to get away when you run low instead of just getting wailed on till your dead).

Yeah, the overall decision really wasn't so much a "how hard should it be to die" but more of a "what should be the penalty if you die and does it reflect the rp well enough to matter to the players".

That said I see someone with a good healer that knows how to stealth and a fighter that has high toughness/stamina and good resolve buffs as a horrible pain in the a** to kill. Remember even if you out gun someone a lot if they have enough resistance they'll be able to take hit after hit after hit even when they appear bloodied and broken and still be able to fight back.

I don't see why we can't encorperate all of the idea's... really.

3 lives to start out with.

3 days each death.

and anything beyond 3 deaths you must wait 7 days and if your not revived within the 7 days it's character remake.

Well it's not that hard then. As long as your not bum rushing into fights against several opponents with no back up, or running in to fight someone that outclasses you vastly to the point where it's obvious suicide and then you don't do this several times then you should be fine.
This is what it's trying to stop, the characters that commit suicide over and over stubbornly just to kill. It also should put a bit of a damper on the "Muwhaha, I'm a serial killer because there's no real consequence" syndrome we've seen (albiet rare) a few times in the past as said killer can be taken out and surprise surprise, no one wants to bring him/her back.

There will be a few "auto" ways of bringing a character back. Such as sacrificing one life for another (a good way to bring back someone whose died a lot if the sacrifice has only died a few times as they'd be easier to revive). Perhaps a ressurection tag event item or something along those lines.
Hell, I'm more than willing to make a perk like "die hard" for those with exceptionally high willpower/toughness where they can make checks for themselves after they're dead to represent their will to live and how tough they truly are should there not be allies around to drag them back to help.

Overall with Ele's proposed idea we should be seeing a -10% (ie -100) or so per death scale. Which would mean your standard medic Genin should be able to do the first 3 or so revives with little to no issues, especially if aided by other medics which grant a bonus to said revive (+5%)

Oh I realize, but leaving even if the rule happens before you've actually played it and seen how well the risk can or can't be reasonably controlled would be a bit presumptuous. That said for hunter players just remember that they need to have solid legit reasons for what they're doing, if someone thinks they're ruining everyones fun by just running around slaughtering or acting off OOC rational/reasons then as always contact a mod to deal with it and chances are they'll stop or be removed.
(That's not to say a killer isn't bad from time to time, but they are forbidden from acting out of character or just being a general jack a**.)

For example, aside from OOC reasoning if someone went around just killing Genin because their character was a self described "genin hunter" I'd be more than happy to throw several overly powered Anbu their way as a correlation of each countries forces went to stop them. Something similar to ASEA in Grace (ie NPC's to keep the power houses in line and not just make everyone miserable)

I opted out of voting i think XD;; all the ideas work and don't work at the same time XD;; A=lenient feeling B=B C=C XD;; no real opinion either way on the other two except with C i say keep your friends extra close by = w=;;

DBL concerning the noob status death protection, I think it should be like Genin ranked shinobi or under level 30 have the protection so if you become Chuunin the protection leaves but if you remain genin and reach level 30 the protecting leaves... the level can be adjusted as seen fit, just an idea though = w= that way those genin hunters won't feel as proud for ending a character entirely = w= in fact they should be upset that no matter what they do they cannot kill a genin = w=b

EDIT: also the last chance idea is great XD;; but does that mean that body protection perk disintegrates your clothes? does that mean when you are struggling to live crawling home you are in the buff? XD;; funny thought there.