SLO:DM will not be taking place in the open world that SLO:MMO will be in, imagine DM to be a bunch of small servers with each one having a capacity of min. 2 - max. 64 players. Each small server will also have a specific game mode turned on (many are planned) taking place on a specific map (many are planned, in terms of size think about the current map in the test).

In terms of customization, in the first iteration of SLO:DM we plan to have basic customization limited to choosing gender, clothing (+color), hair (+color), skin color and eye color. Customizing body proportions and custom skins will not be present in DM 1.0.

Quote from: Mars on June 14, 2015, 21:06:55

This would be great, nice suggestion Seyi. I don't really think this would be a problem as it is planned for the actual MMO anyway.
Maybe if Vreg finishes the Chunin exams before the MMO release, it might be implemented into deathmatch for more content. But who knows.

Who said SLO:DM will stay the way it is at release, SLO:DM will actually keep getting updated with new content, game modes and maps while we work on the MMO. We can certainly have events in DM, like weekly or monthly automatically organized tournaments with rewards, but I don't see this being associated with shinobi rank. In DM, your shinobi rank will be directly associated with your ELO rating, you won't have to undergo exams to get a certain shinobi rank. Exams don't really fit in the whole DM environment, it's really a feature that would only work well in the actual MMO.

TL;DR

Ranks may be part of an event in terms of your ELO rank for as long as the MMO version isn't out yet (Death Match mode).
Once MMO is out then yes, ranks are a thing.

For now, the Kagescould hold one, but it would hardly be official :\

Great story, rip Jiro's cooking skills xDDD.
Would look forward to RP with you.

Erm @DarthTyrael  humans don't exist due to chance, haven't you read the "Is God even real" thread smh

and ironically, humans do become a sort of 'demigod' once they reach Heaven

rip.

@Manuster

Evolution wise, it was chance. Chance that a monkey species evolved to the Homo sapiens, chance that one cell decided that more cells would be more proficient. Chance that life in it self, could happen on Earth. Chance that the Earth was /just/ close enough to the sun for a sustainable ecosystem.

Religion wise, it's still chance. What if God chose to create flies in it's image? We'd never have existed in the first place

I initially wished to keep religion out of this thread for multiple reasons.
One, for starters: There's already a thread for that. Two: I don't partake in a religion.
Three: The topic invites philosophical points of views. Some may consider religion philosophical, while others don't.
There are more, I won't share them. These are the most important reasons.

The demi-god statement was directed more to the mutual promise of a life after death in a utopian world where you're awesome as fudge (mmmm yum), free to do whatever your heart desires etc etc.

So please, Manu - learn to think before you attempt to invalidate my arguments <3

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@adithya I'm glad you liked my views on the subject. As to the drama part it's perfectly understandable. I just wanted both of you to stop flaming each other for whatever the reason was. I was not on blaze's side nor yours. He knew that, he was just glad someone understood his 'writing style'.
One can still post if they share the same view as someone, can they not? If not, democracy would be boring. Not that it isn't already (ohhh snap take that democracy)

@Blazefp
Yeah, I understood where you were going, but again, I just wanted both of you to stop bickering.

5. Might Guy
4. Tobi (yes, tobi, not obito.)
3. Shisui
2. Itachi
1. Zabuza

Honorable mentions: Jiraiya, Six Paths of Pein (isn't one shinobi rip xd), Neji, "That one monk that uses badass Buddhist statue to beat the shit out of Hidan".

Waiting for your history and definitive look. So far the character look shows good promise.

I like the simplicity yet very elegant and stylish look of the clan's symbol. Very sexy c:


Welcome to SLO

Science can't explain why cells can only split a limited number of times.

Uh... yeah it can.

Quite frankly I'm skeptical concerning the whole idea of 'religion', mainly due to the conflict it tends to awaken in certain individuals within two different religions. Of course, this conflict does not limit itself to religion only, but that can be discussed some other time.

As for whether a god exists is hard to debate. It depends on what aspect of god you wish to interpret. The God of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam etc. are all concepts that I neglect, but their mutual attributes is one that I accept:

An essence or entity that exists beyond our 'physical' realm that does not age, that is within everything and when we die, we merge with it.

As we die, our body decays, our molecules dissolve, releasing the energy and atoms that was within our molecular bonds to our environment (be that limited to Earth or the universe).

One may think that the atoms that are left behind are our physical connection to this 'realm', whereas the energy that's dissipated (which has no limit to dimensions) is our connection to the 'hereafter' and as it spreads throughout this dimension, we become one with it and thus ascend from our current state of being.

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Yeah, seems a bit off for me to talk like this, but this is the only way I could think of combining my knowledge of science with the faith of an afterlife. (note: not religion.)

I hope my point of view may have opened a new perspective.

P.S. SantanosRabi is a necromancer </3

Personal preference aside, I wanted to shed my view on some of the things that I consider flawed and some good points, along with why:

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5. TAKING CARE OF YOUR SPOUSE IS GREAT WAY TO ADVANCE THE ECONOMY (food, clothes? fancy stuff.....being a powerful and successful ninja...and even just giving them gifts herbs? spices?)

These will all cost money, money that you have to earn and money you have to spend.

Indeed. Aside from the usual costs of food to heal oneself, perhaps rent for an optional apartment and the refill of combat supplies, giving gifts to your spouse would be another reason to get (and spend) more money and make trades flourish (along with people who wish to specialize their profession outside of combat).

12. Clan leaders have a much larger purpose - spouses will have to be won over by their lovers, BUT the clan leader can intervene (and take the best girl for himself) or prevent people from other clans from marrying them (this would happen by Batt making it more difficult/impossible by increasing the amount of effort required by Nakai clan members to get Tsukegami puss puss)

In the case where there is an alliance, the clan leader could encourage people from other clans from marrying them (this will translate into less effort/money into winning over the spouse)

Fairly shogun like view, fitting with the theme. I like it.

13. Kidnapped spouses will only provide half the buff, BUT under Genjutsu this could increase. Maybe if you use a powerful enough Genjutsu, you could trick the spouse into falling in love with you and giving you 100% of the boost. However if anyone breaks that Genjutsu, the spouse will come to their senses and give NONE of the boost. This creates several layers of protection that the kidnappers need to adhere to.

They can kidnap and accept half of the buff
Or increase the buff with the risk that if the Genjutsu is broken (or they fail to recast the Genjutsu before it wears out) the buff will be lost forever

This is an interesting concept which also could stimulate a rogue like 'porcupine collector' kinda like the guy from Game of Thrones (though his 'porcupines' were his daughters #wincest but you get my point.) or stimulate the formation of traffickers.

15. Human Trafficking.

Enough said.

This will help the ANBU by giving them a job - "investigate the lost tsukegami women"

This will help the economy - "I would like to buy a wife, 10% fire buff - 10Million Ryo"

This will help shady organisations - "We own 214 women, what buff do you want? It will cost you"

This will help rogues - "I dont really care to destroy the villages but I dont want to be WITH them, I'm a rogue but I have no income. Oh wait. Is that a human trafificking organisation I see?"

Bounties won't just be for murderers too.

Nuff said with previous point. I'd like to see this in-game. Very unique form of 'profession'.

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Onto the negatives:

7. Multiple spouses. Yeah. That's right. Polygamy. (But it must be as hard as it would be IRL.....)

(inb4 Vreg has a harem)

Difficulty would become obsolete if you allow the Genjutsu kidnap perk to become a thing.

9.  ANOTHER REASON TO ATTACK A VILLAGE - killing and kidnapping someones spouse will be a good way of weakening them, doing it to a whole clan....or a whole village...damn..

imagine a shinobi who got LUUCKY ASF and got a "+10% to all stats"

this guy is soooo OP until a well staged attack manages to infiltrate the village, get to his well protected wife and kill her.

Aaaand Number 1 player in the game is taken down and not even directly fought

(Does this sound like an extension of tactics? Cause it is)

This is bull. You're implying if you killed the Kage's wife for instance, you could easily take over a village (without taking care of the guards, their supplies, their guard posts, their hospitals etc.).
And that if you'd do that to the top player, he would not be able to defeat you (obviously, he could, in your case )
If you would want to take over a village, you'd have to kill every defending player's wife. Though this would give a large debuff, would it really be a certain defeat? I don't think so.

11. INTER CLAN MARRIAGES (women/men marry into clans) - for the above reason people will have a REASON to be nice to tsukegamis if they wanna smash for the buff -

Just stop. No one aside from Tsukegami's would want to 'smash' your chicka's.

This gives not only a purpose to clan v clan rivalries (imagine instead of reaching a treaty, the nakai's attacked and stole all the tsukegami women) but it ALSO gives a reason to inter clan alliances -

Fair point. I kinda like the idea of an inter-clan system of sorts. Perhaps arranged marriage and what not could be the solution for that... But I was talking negatives... What's this:

(carrying on from the above scenario, the sabaku step in and help the tsukegami get their spouses back, because they WANT to be allianced and the sabaku know that they will get more tsukegami puss puss for helping)

I'll take back your spouses and let them puss puss your clan for money in hidden dust howbowdah.

And I'll skip all the steps hinting to...


... because obviously, if it would happen, it would not go further than a sensual massage or a kiss (assuming Teen rating).

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Bonus:

6. getting a spouse/someone elses is a good provocation for a war between individuals/orgs/clans/villages

Imagine someone kidnapping the Kages wife

Just try it. I dare you.