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Most of cloud is away on a mission, but active. Suna is active as well. Konoha Has one or two people, and Iwa is practically dead. Lets pick it up, people. See the new ranking system? You can rank up! Go do it!

Well, the new ranking system isn't the most uplifting, since it takes like a year to get to Jounin.

Most of our current genin have been genin for over a year. I'd say it's pretty good. Actually, I think my RPC may be the only one in POTS history to gain more than one rank by anything other than an autorank. Though technically I think SJ may have been an auto... Dunno. I'm the only RPC I know of that's gone from academy student to anything higher than chuunin though.

Of course. We're not gonna pull an NUR, where S ranks can appear a week after signing up as genin.

Well, we'll just have to see how this one works. If it turns out to be too long, we'll shorten it, but for now, we want people to work for their achievements, and we felt that those time limits gave good incentive for people to do other things than rank up all the time (develop characters, create intervillage peace/war, etc)

Then stay active, ehh?

I've been a chuunin for approximately ten months. I'm hoping to change that once my battle with Luo is over.

Then again, I haven't made significant attempts to rank up. I've been content.

That is no fault of the new system, since we've only had it for a few months and nobody has been active enough to use it in that time. The system is rigged to force people to take time and get used to their current rank before trying to get a higher one. The time requirement is so that nobody looks at the other requirements and decided to just spam training and missions to try and get the higher ranks faster. If anyone did that, we would deny them the higher rank pretty much instantly. The times actually aren't that bad.

There's no set time on becoming chuunin. I thought there was, but eh.
Three months as chuunin to become special jounin, or six to become jounin. So I don't see where the year is, since the time limit seems to be six months, if you manage to get up to chuunin quickly.

The only extreme example in the system is that you have to be a jounin for eight months to become a sannin, but that's only because we want to ensure only the most loyal members gain that rank.

Yes, the time limits may seem extreme, but if you start working towards the other requirements instead of worrying about the time, and just enjoying your RPC, you'll find that time going by extremely quickly. Plus, if someone shows the skill and ability necessary we can completely disregard the time limits anyways.