The first set of bold parts. I used to do RP Trivia games where I asked members random questions about the RP in big threads and gave out small prizes. I think most people enjoyed those so I can see them becoming a more regular occurrence. By RP GFX, do you mean like more graphics designed for the RP? Like village banners of the past? We also used to have a briefly lived "newspaper" for the RP that we used to highlight new and upcoming things in the form of a series of pics, maybe we can do another e-magazine style update.
What do you mean by Vanilla RP/New RP? More things like the Konoha Town section, minor naruto RP related threads but not set in the official game?
Also, the bio format. What issues do you have with it now/what do you like?
I can't address all of this at once, so I'll touch on some of the bold parts. I think a better damage system is needed as well. Whether that's normal math ( 90 vs 40 damage = 50 damage attack left ) or some other version is left to be seen, but I think that would be a good start. Removing battle tests will help streamline abilities, it was something I started doing when I applied a Kumi price to most things towards the late game. I think this could help with that as well as lessening the need for mod permissions for most if not all things, something I saw Skorm also had an issue with. I understand him on that and want to rework things so most mod permission and/or grading is either removed or lessened.
Idk if ranks should be redone like that, it has the potential to get confusing quick and offer too many steps. We currently only have the official ranks from the series + Sage for a total of 5. In the past, we had up to 9 ( with Special Jounin, S-Class Ninja, Sannin, Kage, and Sage (Unofficial) ) being official ranks. If the need to have more ranks than Genin, Chunin, and Jounin are needed, we can add some of these in between those to help spread it back out some. I'd add that raising in rank should have more to do with narrative/story progress than character. Your character should be able to become strong as he can even if he cannot pass the Chunin Exams for whatever reason, like Naruto ( granted, if you get strong/skilled enough, you'd likely pass the tests either way but you get what i mean ).
Outside of customs, tests and missions, what other things did you have to wait on a lot? Most can probably be changed in some way.
So, I can say with almost certainty that there will probably be a Legacy RP and a new, reboot RP. The goal is to find the perfect middle ground between the two: Keep and Honor the contributions of the past RP and RPers while Bringing in a New Future. I like to be transparent when updating you guys so it's not a surprise when something happens. In either set up, there are some things I plan to do. Technology as well as the SNT introduced in the Boruto era will be removed ( I kinda dropped the ball on that one, they turned out weirdly and hurt parts of the game and custom checking), some of the custom Abilities added will be confined to the Legacy version of the game as well as their mechanics to help simplify some of the game ( while I love, Anutu, Dokkodo, etc, they are more custom things that helped move us away from the Naruto-centric feel of the game ), and I think Custom Submissions may be consolidated ( currently, I just looked over the custom section and it's 12 different submission threads, each with it's own rules and limits. I'm probably going to reduce them so CEJ, CFSJ, and CJ are posted in one thread, CE and CFS in one thread, and custom Tech/doujutsu may get removed ). I know some of these will probably be bothersome to hear but it's the healthiest start I see most of the game moving forward. Customs/abilities are the largest part of the game next to the NW and those are what needs to be tackled the most.
I've been keeping up with all you guys issues and posts, I didn't reply to everyone but I like most of the posts I've been seeing and the engagement has been good. I plan on keeping you guys updated along the way with whatever is happening as soon as I can let you guys know stuff. In the meantime, I'd like to hear more of what you guys want and don't want out of things on both the overall site and RP/NW.