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Dear Ninja, As many of you may know, I am the new Community Manager of Nin Online, and with that I will be continuously doing my best to improve the community by working with the Administrators and my fellow Game Masters, Moderators, and of course you guys, the community. It is an honor to be able to help improve a community I've been a part of for years now. Now, let's get to the good news! I will be releasing Community Updates/Newsletters about once a month or twice a month depending on how busy the month ends up being for our community and team. The updates will serve as a way to explain to you what's going on in the community and what you can do to be a part of it, and hopefully provide a way for the community to interact with me and other community staff. Forum Contribution Posts We'd like to continue to promote the use of our forums by bringing your attention to an opportunity you can take if you contribute helpful content for the community. Pinned Posts, Forum Contribution, etc. We'd love to see players contributing more and more to the forum through the addition of helpful guides, fan-made projects, etc. We have seen a few recent ones such as @Niti's Official Item Value List and @Origami Heart's Nin Online Beginner Guide. These posts help the community a lot, and are generally worth featuring to our community. So if you come up with a bright idea for something that you could contribute to the community and maintain, we'd love to see it, and if we believe it will truly make the lives of our players easier, we will feature it, and if it's important enough, you could even receive Silver Ninja for the contribution. Discord & Village Chats The Official Nin Online Discord has been an unreliable source for villages to communicate privately and confidently up to this point, making the villages resort to other methods (which is 100% fine), however we want to obviously promote the use of our Discord for village use so that all members of the village who make use of our Official Discord can interact with the Kage and other villagers. We're not saying to stop using your alternative methods, but that this is a fix to make the village chats more reliable and useful for village leaders. With this new update, we'd like to improve all of that, make the Discord feel more useful to our village officials, and give you guys more options when it comes to the village sections on our Discord. We also have heard you about moderation, and village channels now have a dedicated Discord Moderator assigned so that they may peer-moderate your village's channel. Moderation will not be as strict in the village sections to allow for roleplay, but they will be treated the same, such as any OOC offenses can still be moderated. (Not all staff members/moderators will have access to your village channels, only if they belong to that village.) Village Categories Instead of just having the three different channels, we are going to give the Leaf, Sand, and Missing villages a whole category to themselves. The only people who can access each category will be the assigned village members (you can request a Game Master or Moderator to move you into your village role). Each Kage and Council Member will be assigned a role which will give them access to post in the Village Announcements channel and Kage will get access to a channel to contact Game Masters or Administrators. Then, of course, each village will have it's own Voice Lobby which will now be restricted to village ninja only. More voice channels may be requested if the Kage believes it is not enough. Village Announcements This is where the Kage and Council Members can post announcements for their village, only the Kage and Council Members can type and send messages. Village-specific events may also be announced here by Game Masters. Missing Ninja will have no announcements channel as they do not have an affiliation. Village Discussion This is a discussion area for all of the village members. Village Voice Lobby This is a simple voice channel that is now 100% exclusive to people with the village role. If more voice lobbies are needed, we can work something out! Village Roles Kage - This role is only assigned to the Kage of each village. Missing will have no Kage. Council Member - These are the official members of each village's council. Leaf Villagers - Leaf Village Players Sand Villagers - Sand Village Players Missing Ninja - Exiled/Rogue Ninja Village Role Placement In order to receive your role for your village you need to request it in the #support channel on Discord by posting your Nin Online profile link to prove your village status. Beyond this, Kage may decide your role change depending on if you do not belong in that village or have been exiled/gone missing. The Game Masters will do their best to ensure people are being responded to so that we can have accurate role placement for this new update. Event Updates & Plans These past couple of months, you may have noticed we have recruited a few Game Masters. With this increase of In-Game staffing, we hope to see a lot more events and community interaction. We are doing our best to provide consistent events, and even some surprise events. We also want you to know that we are constantly trying to get feedback to improve our events and trying to figure out what events work and when to host them. We understand that for quite some time, events have been very cruel to some timezones. We want you to know we are doing our best to figure out what time works for most of our players without asking players to make sacrifices for certain events. As we increase the amount of events, we will use trial and error to determine what works and what doesn't. Your concerns have been heard, and we are going to work to improve! Holiday Events As the year goes, we would like to host as many holiday-specific events as possible, as they are easiest events to decide on. However, Holiday events can be quite difficult as we want to implement items, updates, and more to accommodate for these events. We hope to be able to do this every holiday, and maybe even add more as we go. Aside from recognized holidays, we also want to host some Ninja World specific events, which we don't want to spoil too much right now, but more information on events like these will be arriving in the coming weeks. These are events that may not be holidays to us, but for Nin Online, they will be scheduled in accordance to the yearly calendar to provide more exciting content for you to enjoy. Weekly & Bi-Weekly Events As you have noticed, @Kanno has begun a Bi-Weekly PvP tournament event and @Jessica (myself) has started Weekly Community Events. These events are being implemented to provide consistent events throughout the month. We'd also like to start having Game Master hosted Roleplay Events, which are events where Game Masters will direct a roleplaying session. A big one we do that everyone is aware of is the Chunin Exams, however, those can only happen so often, so we'd like to host smaller events that can happen weekly to bi-weekly. We hosted one last weekend called Village Invasion, and it turned out really well. We saw a lot more players online, and people seemed to roleplay very well. So with that cooperation, we'd be more than happy to host more events similar to this such as Village Invasions, Village Escort Missions, Village Recovery Missions, etc. As we develop plans for these events, we will release announcements for when they will be held. Upcoming Events If you are not aware yet, the 4th Chuunin Exams are coming up, and we hope you can join us for them. Please click here for more information! Quality of Life Updates Merged In-Game Rules with Rules & Guidelines post. People have been having a hard time locating a rules post made by @Stephen as it was in the Discussion board, but we have merged that post's rules into the Official Rules & Guidelines post. To free up any confusion, these are the main links you should refer to for rules and ToS: Rules & Guidelines Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Monthly Chunin Exams Announced! Rory recently announced that we will finally be doing Chunin Exams monthly. This is something players have been wanting for quite some time now, and they're finally here! Monthly Chunin Exams Best Regards, Jessica

It's okay ^^~ Thank you for taking the time to write all this, we really need these events!

apart = separated; you mean "a part of". I'm sorry, but it's bugging me, 'cause it means exactly the opposite of what you mean to say! D:

Game Rules and Guidelines 1. Read our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy By registering to Nin Online, you have agreed to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Failure to adhere to our Terms of Service may result in permanent termination of your account. 2. 3rd party tools 3rd party tools which automate parts of the game (eg. training/farming/ranking up jutsus), acting as bots without the user present is prohibited Tools that can be used to edit packets or client side data is prohibited Illegal tools include physical tools like placing a paperweight on your keyboard to automate ranking up jutsus while you sleep. Illegal tools include using younger brothers whom do not speak English to repeat a set of tasks for hours. Tools that automate combo-ing jutsus as long as the user is present at the keyboard, for competitive edge is allowed. Tunnel programs eg. NoPing are allowed, but we do not provide assurances that they will work well with the game. Your account and I.P will be permanently banned from the game and forums. 3. Open World PvP Killing Other Players is allowed Players will not be punished for killing other players. 4. Abusive Behavior Do not harass other players eg. (OOC) Do not be toxic to other players (OOC) Do not use /v (village chat) for non-village related matters Do not use use offensive language or slurs (includes race, religion, gender, etc.). Show respect towards any development staff, it is not a requirement for developers to interact with players. It's not an entitlement to have direct conversation with development staff. If you are reported by somebody who takes offense, you may be given warning points depending on severity. As a rule of thumb, if you feel that you or somebody else could take offense from what you're about to say, don't say it. This is note to be mistaken with using swear words within a roleplay context. Eg. "Fuck the Leaf, I'm going to kill them all!" It is not an excuse to say your in-character RP character is a guy who PMs him victims and calls them a little bitch etc. In the same way it is not an excuse to say your in-character RP character is a guy who abuses exploits and uses hacks and 3rd party programs or your in-character RP character is somebody who has the power to automate his training by turning off his mind through bots. Eg. of an out-of-character insult "b***** n**** f**** your mom" Eg. of an In-character insult "You fight like a b****" 5. Bug Abuse & In-Game Behavior Do not knowingly abuse a bug, exploit or feature, including but not limited to unfinished gameplay mechanics or programmer oversights. Do not use multiple accounts/clients/computers to give yourself an unfair advantage over other players. Do not obstruct another players path through the usage of multiple accounts, clients or machines. These actions will result in a warning and punishment applied to your account. 6. Moderation Appeals All Appeal against action which has been taken on your account must be sent to a member of the community team, eg. GM or Moderator. You are not encouraged to protest to the community or on discord/facebook. Doing so so will result in further action against your account My brother used my account/IP address is not a valid excuse for abuse. Failure to follow, may result in your account being temporary disabled.

Discussion Board Rules and Guidelines This refers to any official channels including but not limited to the forums and discord Rules Basic Respect Guidelines

Nin Online In-Game Rules *Please note that all rules are subject to change The Core Aspects of the Rules *Note that all rules may not currently be written to specifics, however; if any action taken is found to be in violation of the core rules listed below you are subject to punishment 1. Respect any and all players, staff members and NPCs 2. Do not harass anyone in any way, shape or form. 3. Do not use racially charged statements towards another player (includes religion, gender, etc) 4. Do not knowingly abuse a bug, exploit or feature 5. Do not use multiple accounts/clients/computers to give yourself an unfair advantage over other players 6. Do not intentionally ruin another person’s Nin-Online gaming experience The "Precedential" Rules 1. Do not spawn camp another factions territory, meaning you are not to intentionally hang around a spawn point for the purpose of killing another factions players 2. Do not abuse any form of bug, including but not limited unfinished gameplay mechanics or programmer oversights. 3. Do not obstruct another players path through the usage of multiple accounts, clients or machines. The Punishment Clause All punishments are to be decided on a case by case basis, all reports will be read and treated as equal with only a player’s reputation being used as a reference for the severity of the punishment. If a player is known to be a problem then they will receive a much harsher punishment for less serious offenses. If an offense goes unreported then it may not be used as evidence in an attempt to avoid being punished. **** Just because a rule does not currently exist does not mean that it will not be enforced on the basis of the Core Aspects.