It doesn't matter if it's easy to counter? Really? Your thread is saying how swift is hard to counter so it must be restricted even more. Then, when we say that it's easy to counter, you start to say that it's not fun to spam one technique. Well drizzy I'm sorry that you are possibly tied up in a dark room like Nagato and get an electrical shock every time someone miss uses a technique that is easy to counter, that it effects you so much that it must be restricted heavily because you think that it's comparable to FTG.
Really, Space/time cannot be compared to swift release. You compare it to a minato bio, yet minato can move at his speed, free-forming without the need of posting a jutsu, and then to make it an overkill he has FTG, but no one complains about that. Swift release is no big deal, it's just for those who are more into taijutsu and want a slight increase on their bio in terms of tai. Swift isn't as powerful as a kg like a doujutsu is. Hell, it can't even create excess chakra to be used for attacks like other elemental chakra can. It's souly based for speed and even with that, it can be countered, but you want it restricted more? That's complete nonsense.
Yes, swift release has a high speed, but it is severely easy to counter. But you say, it doesn't matter if it's easy to counter, it shouldn't be abused. How do you abuse a technique that can be countered easily? You think because it takes the fun out of the RP it should be restricted? By saying that you are taking the ones who you see "Abuse" a technique and trying to ruin it for the rest of the ones who do not. The technique is not even op nor is it abuse-able if it is easy to counter.
I do think it should require mod permission, for the sake of those who cannot think "hard enough"

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to counter the technique, but even then restricting the actual release further or lowering the speed just because people can't think logically is an out-rage. If you don't want to fight someone who has swift release just because you can't think of how to counter it, put it in the thread. But by all means, restricting the speed or the release user restrictions like range, isn't necessary. The only restrictions I would like added, is to make a 6 month membership and permission from a moderator to make the bio.
A test for the release is laughable because once you either place armor in your bio, use rock armor or use that one technique or of several other techniques, the release becomes only useful for dodging techniques etc. Which then, you might complain "Well that person can just avoid any combo" Well then why is that person even RP'ing? Restricting the speed or restricting the release isn't really even needed.
Once you figure out how to counter swift, the person basically just has a normal bio in terms of him using it to just attack you with it i.e kunai to the throat. It's severely unfair to the release and the members that use it to just restrict it because people can't use their heads to figure out a counter to it. The 3T, is just there as a means of saying how fast it is, you can counter the technique without the need of 3T if you use your head a little more. Quite frankly, I'm tired of hearing people jump to restricting a technique just because they cannot figure out how to counter it. It's a major insult to the release and the ones who use it.