"training arena matches based upon the same point system you see in Zenith. Each ninja has a point value assigned to it. When you click "training battle" in arena, it will attempt to match you to someone with an identical team in terms of points. If someone is found, you will get an instant match. If not, matching will take longer. If you are finding an instant match, and dislike who you are matching with, change your team so you have a different point value."

I know you are a mod, and even oasis themselves arent actual developers so this isnt on you, but I have a few issues with your statements.

1: that is not my experience at all, I too have farmed moon scrolls fairly recently, and I have come up against meta teams, mods, and the richest of the rich just as often when using my basically forgotten character- sound 4, konoha 9, pains etc

2: even if that is true, that is still a bad way to handle it, that means if someone gets lucky or if someone spends time saving coupons to go for a rare character they like the current algorithm lumps them in with whales just for being in possession of an event character? levels are equalized in arena but outside stats still matters because you know someone who was able to buy and 4 star shisui susano is going to have enough init to render any player who won shisui in wheel useless. It means that "training" is still not viable as a means of training because someone who won or saved enough coupons just to recruit a character still going to be obliterated by a whale who was able to drop enough coupons/ingots to get them, maybe 4 star them and the inevitable power items that come with it . I do not know if your post implies that star level is taken into account, but I can assure you that my 3 star ronin team is not on equal footing to the 4 star madara jinchu, 4 star kimi halloween, cancer tsunade teams I face ad nauseum. If the algorithm was correct then the person in this game that I am most suited to face in arena is Shadoo with over 1 ml bp, I have less than 300k, and yet I have been matched with him/her(?) over 3 dozen times this week alone

3: "as this would require a considerable expenditure of man hours and resources and would be expensive to implement"

this is not true, I will concede that man hours could potentially be true purely because of implementing and then testing. But considerable expenditure of resources? absolutely not, a small team of competent programmers could add in some basic rules, like the one i suggested as example, into a flash based game easily. I know that oasis dont actually create anything, they just copy china's content and drastically hike the prices, but since these basic arguments for the code could be added by most computer related university graduates, saying it would be expensive is not the case

4: "For example, players that want to fight their friends might complain about being locked out of fighting their friends for 12 hours in the proposed system"

this doesnt make sense for numerous reasons

-because the current system doesnt allow you match with friends

- if you do match with friends the chances of that are atomically small, the chances of matching a friend 3 times in one day are less likely than me becoming CEO of oasis

-The smart money would say 2 players who want to play together are in the same server, so there is a very simply solution to this potential complaint, fight each other outside of arena, there are both challenges and fair challenges that we can issue

Also, with all due respect "change your team" isnt applicable here, my complaint was that the one area of the game that should enable us to test teams without risk of losing anything cant actually be used for training, telling me to change team is akin to admitting I am right and you cannot train there despite the name because your choices are use irrelevant ninjas you have no reason or desire to be training/team testing with or try to beat much faster much richer people with stronger versions of some of the characters.

I am bad with words I know, so just to be clear, I know this is not something in your power so nothing against you and you probably will have a script to go off given how strict the censorship is in these forums, but none of what you said actually applies to my suggestions, I ofcourse have no power here, but the suggestion remains valid, a simple tweak to the training arena matching algorithm would be an easy enough implementation and would allow us to use training arena to train