CE Restructuring Proposal.

[Moon]

CHUNIN EXAMS RESTRUCTURING PROPOSAL.

Purpose: To present a more efficient, rewarding, and authentic roleplay experience with regards to participating in a Chunin Exam.

Challenges (Current): The Chunin Exams move slowly, offer low incentive for joining, are rarely described as fun, and often become more complicated than anyone feels like handling. The Chunin title is usually a consolation prize for stagnated threads.

Solutions (Proposed): Less participants per exam + More exams, offer more incentive for becoming Chunin, structure closer to the purpose, premise, and story integrity of the canon CE's, simplify the stages and workload by creating a methodology of variation within limitation.

[/b] and Combat Phase are designed to test if you are capable of the basic roleplay and combat proficiency to handle a Chunin's expected duties and responsibilities: leading others, handling a real combat situation, making life or death choices, protecting your comrades, etc. The remaining two phases are created by the Kage entirely; they represent goals specific to your village, to the type of shinobi your Kage wants, and the two most important qualities integral to the ninja they command. These phases can be things like Teamwork, Creativity, Adaptability, Ruthlessness, Integrity, Courage, etc. Though the Roleplay Phase is generally akin to completing a non combat oriented mission, and the Combat Phase is a generally a tournament-style fight between PC/NPC shinobi, the two additional phases are designed anew for each exam that is held.

Each phase, participants are graded by the Kage anywhere from 0 - 25 points, with 25 being a perfect score for the ideal Chunin level skill. An overall score of 75+ is considered a passing grade (meaning those who are terrible at combat, for instance, can still pass even if they receive no points for that part of the examination).

As a village-wide event, each Kage (new/old) is allowed to host their village CE once (1) at a time of their choosing.

Kage's gain one (1) additional CE per 5 active Genin in the village; activity meaning both registered in the village database and currently participating in roleplay thread(s).

Things Unchanged: Rank/TP/Mission Requirements

Staff Logistics: Can still be approved/denied like any other village-wide event to ensure there's a genuine level of difficulty involved. A general Roleplay Phase setup and a general Combat Phase set up can be submitted in the Staff Section for approval by Heero, representing what he is satisfied with as an appropriate level of competency for Chunin rank, while Kage's design their remaining two phases with the future of their village in mind.

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Let me know what you all think.

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[Cadoc]

Looks like a good idea to me.

[Koori.]

While I agree that the Chuunin exams happen perhaps to infrequently, I think one of the best parts of the exams is meeting shinobi from other villages that you would otherwise never meet. That’s why making it at a neutral site is so important. While the characters I once had that benefitted from this have long since died or been scrapped, I still think it’s an important networking opportunity for role players to be involved in. Leaving your villages echo chamber can provide huge role play potential and create addition fun outside the exams them selves.

That being said, some of thing you’ve laid out make sense and it’s clearly well thought out. I would say making the other two phases more clear and linear across the board would be better then “leaving it up to the Kage.” There is also the problem of inactive kages and barely active pages that could hold potential chuunin back. Perhaps holding the exams in the country of that respected village would work? This way outsiders could still partake, and your hidden village remains just that; hidden. This also allows the active kages to host the game, in a similar manner to the Olympics IRL. The kages could then make certain activities or “phases” as you call them be unique to their area or Home land.

I.E: A sand shield surfing race on the back shield that would be exclusive to the wind country desserts. This also creates a kind of pseudo advantage for certain Shinobi if their home country hosts the games, etc. (Yes, I stole this fro the new Zelda game)

I also think you’re point scale would need the be fleshed out a bit more but it’s a good base to start with, well done.

[Master Game]

I've never taken a CE before, yet at the same time I can't bring myself to vote against your propositions. It seems like this isn't the first time on the site that something like this has been brought up, though your proposal is explained quite well and it seems that a lot of thinking went into it.
However, I don't feel in sync with your point system. I can't say for sure whether it's because I feel the passing mark needs to be lowered, or highered even. Or because I'm against the notion that whether you become a chuunin was up to a cheap grading system. Though I'm kind of a sucker for the old "You pass whenever I say you pass!" :

"Hey you!"

Shoko turns to face the kage.

"Yeah you. You're a Chuunin now."

Confused, Shoko replies "But I got meh ass kicked in all the phas-"

"DON'T YOU DARE QUESTION ME PEASANT!"

After a long awkward silence... Shoko rips off his shorts and starts doing pelvic-thrusts in triumph.



Okay maybe all that was irrelevant, but still, I don't dislike your concepts. It's all well-thought of, detailed and honestly a good idea. I look after to this being implemented, but after a few tweaks first.

-Nox

[Hamura]

I feel like the Chuunin Exams not being all that frequent is actually a good thing. People can pretty much grow indefinitely even without having to rank up, which makes the CE's themselves into both a novelty and something to strive for. It's not like failing the Chuunin exams means you can't keep growing. To me, the Chuunin Exams being infrequent adds to the whole spirit of competition as it gives people something to work towards and get hyped over. If it happens frequent, the hype is dead since it is something people can just retake in like a month or whatever.

[Deleted]

Imma drop an idea for CE, why not make it a rapid fire event? They rarely ever go through all phases and takes ages. So, if you do rapid fire, they become muuuch shorter. It also great to test rp'er in a stress test. Post within five minutes or take a hit/drop out. I doubt Heero take this suggestion but I insist to think it over.

[Cadoc]

Apr 19, 2018 16:09:35 GMT -7 @genonono said:

Imma drop an idea for CE, why not make it a rapid fire event? They rarely ever go through all phases and takes ages. So, if you do rapid fire, they become muuuch shorter. It also great to test rp'er in a stress test. Post within five minutes or take a hit/drop out. I doubt Heero take this suggestion but I insist to think it over.

How would you propose making that work for people in different time zones?
Central time zone is -6/-5 UTC.
If you lived in a country like Germany which is +1/+2 then the timing becomes a real issue?
6pm Texas central being 1am Germany.

[👺 Usiel]

Ya, sorry guys I'm locking this up. We've beaten this dead horse and quite frankly unless you yourselves have actually done an exam you have no idea how fucked up shit can be and how much planning doesn't work at the end of the day.