Choose your village

[Kayleb]

As already stated, few villages will be created. To avoid inconvenience of having to wait for your village to be created to get your desired chakra natures, you should be able to choose your nature(s) when creating your character, in the early stages of the MMO of course.

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[Hyorinmaru]

I will be apart of the village hidden in the snow. The elements of water and wind are awesome.

[bloberfish]

As already stated, few villages will be created. To avoid inconvenience of having to wait for your village to be created to get your desired chakra natures, you should be able to choose your nature(s) when creating your character, in the early stages of the MMO of course.

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[Devilthekiller]

Hidden thunder.

[lollernoob9]

Morigakure ftw :O

[Umarekawari]

I hope Hidden Volcano, aka Kazangakure will be there. I like the Hidden Hill either. Also Hidden Forest would be badass.

[Reminance]

I hope Hidden Volcano, aka Kazangakure will be there. I like the Hidden Hill either. Also Hidden Forest would be badass.

All those villages you just named will exist in SLO.

[Kai]

I hope Hidden Volcano, aka Kazangakure will be there. I like the Hidden Hill either. Also Hidden Forest would be badass.

All those villages you just named will exist in SLO.

He probably meant the villages he wanted to be there at the start of the game.

It'll most likely be based on popularity, which means the Hidden Hill and Thunder  will definitely be there from what I've seen.

[Sage32801]

Most likely the Hidden Hill, Thunder, Forest, Snow, and Inferno will be introduced first in the MMO.

[Reminance]

I hope Hidden Volcano, aka Kazangakure will be there. I like the Hidden Hill either. Also Hidden Forest would be badass.

All those villages you just named will exist in SLO.

He probably meant the villages he wanted to be there at the start of the game.

It'll most likely be based on popularity, which means the Hidden Hill and Thunder  will definitely be there from what I've seen.

Oke its just how he said it was a bit misleading.
''I hope Hidden Volcano, aka Kazangakure will be there.''

[Gynx]

I'll be starting from the hidden by dust.

[Hinageshi]

I have a couple of questions about this and I really do hope this is the appropriate place to ask them. If not, can someone please direct me where?

1. What are the differences between the villages besides the chakra natures?

Chakra natures are from the end all in 'canon', since modes/styles of fighting and specialization vary among the villages (i.e. Mist/Cloud's tendency to have people who use kenjutsu (sword fighting), kugutsu and tessenjutsu (puppets and fans) in Sunagakure, or how Amegakure was apparently reliant on poisons and genjutsu)

Adding to wanting more information on specialization/techniques common amongst the shinobi of specific villages, what are the political situations? These are different countries we're talking about, so each one would have a definite difference, sociopolitically. Are some villages poorer than others? Are some rife with tension?

I'm just asking this because it seems like a bad idea to base off a decision on where your character belongs soley on chakra natures and the names of villages. For all we know, the village of Inferno can specialize in genjutsu making the person merely think they're burning alive and not actually much to do with infernos unless we're talking about blaze release.

2. Maybe this is too nitpicky but I think other people will notice (and I'm sure someone besides me has) but some of the names you have for the villages are in Romaji? Are these mostly placeholder names until you guys have a writing team and someone who speaks Japanese that can re work the names to not be romaji-based? I'm speaking about words like Heizugakure or Inferunogakure, the latter would work just as well with Taikagakure, I believe.

[Nova]

I have a couple of questions about this and I really do hope this is the appropriate place to ask them. If not, can someone please direct me where?

1. What are the differences between the villages besides the chakra natures?

Chakra natures are from the end all in 'canon', since modes/styles of fighting and specialization vary among the villages (i.e. Mist/Cloud's tendency to have people who use kenjutsu (sword fighting), kugutsu and tessenjutsu (puppets and fans) in Sunagakure, or how Amegakure was apparently reliant on poisons and genjutsu)

Adding to wanting more information on specialization/techniques common amongst the shinobi of specific villages, what are the political situations? These are different countries we're talking about, so each one would have a definite difference, sociopolitically. Are some villages poorer than others? Are some rife with tension?

I'm just asking this because it seems like a bad idea to base off a decision on where your character belongs soley on chakra natures and the names of villages. For all we know, the village of Inferno can specialize in genjutsu making the person merely think they're burning alive and not actually much to do with infernos unless we're talking about blaze release.

2. Maybe this is too nitpicky but I think other people will notice (and I'm sure someone besides me has) but some of the names you have for the villages are in Romaji? Are these mostly placeholder names until you guys have a writing team and someone who speaks Japanese that can re work the names to not be romaji-based? I'm speaking about words like Heizugakure or Inferunogakure, the latter would work just as well with Taikagakure, I believe.

I hadn't thought about that yet, but would love to get an answer for it as well.
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Would be cool if certain villages are mainly used for a certain specialisation. Not that they can't use otherwise but still.

[Konohuro]

I have a couple of questions about this and I really do hope this is the appropriate place to ask them. If not, can someone please direct me where?

1. What are the differences between the villages besides the chakra natures?

Chakra natures are from the end all in 'canon', since modes/styles of fighting and specialization vary among the villages (i.e. Mist/Cloud's tendency to have people who use kenjutsu (sword fighting), kugutsu and tessenjutsu (puppets and fans) in Sunagakure, or how Amegakure was apparently reliant on poisons and genjutsu)

Adding to wanting more information on specialization/techniques common amongst the shinobi of specific villages, what are the political situations? These are different countries we're talking about, so each one would have a definite difference, sociopolitically. Are some villages poorer than others? Are some rife with tension?

I'm just asking this because it seems like a bad idea to base off a decision on where your character belongs soley on chakra natures and the names of villages. For all we know, the village of Inferno can specialize in genjutsu making the person merely think they're burning alive and not actually much to do with infernos unless we're talking about blaze release.

2. Maybe this is too nitpicky but I think other people will notice (and I'm sure someone besides me has) but some of the names you have for the villages are in Romaji? Are these mostly placeholder names until you guys have a writing team and someone who speaks Japanese that can re work the names to not be romaji-based? I'm speaking about words like Heizugakure or Inferunogakure, the latter would work just as well with Taikagakure, I believe.

1. The villages don't have a clearly defined shape just yet. Thus nothing like political, military or economical development of a certain village are established now but later on, the writers will create some "default stats" of the villages leaving the players to continue them. As for the chakra nature limitation, even if I don't like it either, I am sure that this is a strategy to populate all villages relatively equally. Allowing players to join any village and having any type of chakra would only unbalance the game creating ghost villages, unwanted by everybody.

2. You can see here the Japanese names of the villages: http://www.shinobilifeonline.com/index.php/topic,732.0.html
I don't think it is possible to write an invented name in kanji. The villages can be written in hiragana/katakana, but honestly I don't see the point in doing this because no-one would understand it, beside this I don't think the names will be very often used in games. We have symbols for that. (or we will have)

[Razollo]

Hidden shockwave is the place to be! And if it isn't in the game when it first launches, I'll probs go for Thunder.