Suggestion:

Remove negative points after a loss from the arena until you hit sage of the 6 paths for the first time

Problem this suggestion adressess

When you reach Anbu or Kage ranks, the ranked arena matches will be almost exclusively against people from servers below 100. Sometimes you get other people but its mostly players from the older servers.

It is almost impossible for a player who belongs in servers 300+ to possess a higher initiative than players from the older servers, so he mostly gets lossess once he reaches a high enough rank. This is fair since older players worked for their initiative, the problem lies on the negative points you get after a defeat.

Since you mostly get matched up against much older players then you mostly get defeats, hence you start ac*ulating a negative score for your rank. This ac*ulation of negative points will not be reset after the season ends since yo keep you rank and points as long as you haven't reached sage of the 6 paths.

After players get a score of -10 or even lower they become discouraged and stop doing ranked matches in arena for good. Even ore so since the negative points will not be reset at the end of the season. This combined with players quitting the game for all sorts of reason makes waiting times in arena very long at high ranks. Also many times you end up fighting the same opponent 2-3 times in a single session due to a lack of players in arena ranked.

Benefits from change:

By removing negative points in arena ranked matches, before a player reaches sage of the six paths would alow newer players to have some hope on getting to thie highest rank for the first time and unlocking the season rewards.

Players would be able to challenge ranked much like they challenge ninja exams, even if they mostly have lossess they would be of no consequence to them and they would keep trying since from time to time they get matched against a team they can counter. The number of players in ranked arena matches will increase and waiting times would be shortened.

After having reached sage of the 6 paths once, even if a player ends up with a huge loosing streak it wouldn't matter since it would be reset at the end of the season. Thus he c*ways try again from scratch.

Situations:

A player who has yet to get to 6 paths sage for the first time would still need a lot of initiative, as well as many ninjas in order to build proper teams that might counter lineups which he frequently faces. Reaching sage of the 6 paths would still be challenging. Plus since he has nothing to loose he will probably try many times in order to get lucky and get a win.

A player that has reached sage of the 6 paths would once again be confronted to the negative points during lossess, the same way the system works at this time.

Final words:

This would elp the community as a whole, revamping ranked arena matches which seem to be abandoned more and more. All the features of the arena remain unchanged, weather it is matching, initiative based fights or the requirement of reaching sage of the 6 paths for the first time before getting any season rewards.

It would encourage players to join ranked arena fights, specially the newer players, as well as encourage them to increase their initiative and get ninjas that can counter specific meta teams and who are otherwise unused.

This change would be well received by the community as a whole as well. Weather it is the newer players who now have a shot at becoming sage of 6 paths, or older players who wont have to wait 10+ minutes for a fight at kage or super kage ranks.

This suggestion comes from this thread in general section, the full discussion can be found here:

http://forum.naruto.oasgames.com/en/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=19561&extra=page%3D1&page=1

Thanks for taking this under consideration.