Ueda

Fixed server crash if we typed something wrong in the server console Improved timer system Will affect Battle Injuries timer Will fix server delay over time Edit to explain what happened with the server having a delay: In yesterday's patch notes we announced that we had "Added debug information for us to more accurately evaluate server performance over time". Basically, our previous method of evaluating server performance was bound to our timer system. By adding this new more accurate method yesterday, we were able to ascertain that the issue was the timer system. Because the timer system was both the cause and the method in which we evaluate how to server was performing, our metrics to evaluate the server's performance was also being calculated slower, giving us the same result as if the server's performance was optimal. Hence, it's easy in hindsight to see that the only place that could've been causing this issue was the timer system because there was no metric being affected, but performance was degrading. Because the timer was going slower over time, things were being "delayed". This malfunctioning timer system was part of the major updates around a month ago to resolve projectile/cast consistency. While it did do that, it was not reliable over time. Today we pushed a fix that replaces that method of calculating time (timer) to a new method, and are evaluating it's performance based on this more accurate method. So we should have a better picture of server performance even if the timer system is faulty in the future.

Moved Halloween Event Trick-Or-Treat Buckets back to village squares Halloween Event Trick-Or-Treat Buckets now fill up as many candy as required to fill the bucket automatically at once. Combined Event Information NPC with the Trick-Or-Treat bucket. Fixed an NPC dialogue bug where certain dialogue choices that are supposed to end with going back to the choice selection after, wasn't working. Eg. Scribe -> Information -> Back to choices was just Eg. Scribe - Information -> Exit Fixed Rent Paid message Spelling error and it now displays time as 60 days 2 hours instead of 60.12 days. Added debug information for us to more accurately evaluate server performance over time Added some double checks on death and imprison events Not sure why, but sometimes it's unreliable and sends players to the wrong hospital or jail. Added some fail safes which hopefully will band-aid the issue for now.

Village Environmental Agency Furniture placed in shared areas (villages for now) will now be sent back to the original owner (through mail) of the furniture, when the Kage or any authority "picks it up". This will make it non-risky on the contributor's part to help decorate public areas, as they remain the sole owner of the furniture items. Halloween 2021 Event Phase 2 Begins! Trick-Or-Treat Bucket All mobs (except bosses) will drop Candy from now until 31st October. Find the Trick-Or-Treat Bucket in each village, fill it up with Candy and watch it explode with tricks (prizes) or treats (better prizes!). Make sure you have at least one empty slot in your inventory each time. Cosmetic Prizes: Devil Wings Skull Mask Hockey Mask JiangShi Hat Pumpkin Mask Furniture Prizes: Bloodstains Cobweb I Cobweb II Gravestone Pile-O-Bones Torture Rack Bloody Torture Rack Church Organ Caged Skeleton Other Prizes: Event Coupons, Blank Scrolls, Chakra Pills, Barrier Tags New Event Prize Shop Item Added New Halloween Event Shop Item - Wizard Hat New Cash Shop Cosmetic Added New Cash Shop Cosmetic Item - Devil Horns Note: This cash item is not a time exclusive item, but will only go on sale during Halloween periods each year! I'm hoping to build a catalogue of seasonal items every year going forward. New Cash Shop Items designed by players for the Halloween Pixel Art Contest! A total of 53 new cash shop furniture items designed by @Adarya @Angelik Date @AlexTFM @Eroyuu @Fuze @Galodar @GROGDRINKER @Indra & Adilson (From Nin Online BR) Thank you all for the submissions, and good luck! The top sellers will win prizes including a Brand New Nintendo Switch and Razer Accessories. Best Haunted House Event This is a showcase of a bunch of things for sale and free for players to earn in-game now! This is poorly put together, and I'm sure you can do much better, so I hope you send us your best Halloween Haunted House for the event! Stand a chance to win a brand new Nintendo Switch Lite, Razer Keyboard or Ninja Credits! Best Dressed Contest, Halloween Edition We'll be resuming our best dressed contest, but going straight into our Halloween Edition. Give your Halloween-themed character styles and win a Razer Kraken X Ultralight Gaming Headphone. Be creative! You don't have to limit yourself to items from this event, but they could help! Fixed visual bug where you could seemingly add more stat points than you had with Shift + Add. This was purely a visual bug, but could confuse players. Fixed being able to knockback NPCs through walls. Fixed login issue for players who have too many cash shop items. Fixed "None. Does not exist" error messages.

Dear Ninja, We've released a survey form to gather feedback about your experiences with Nin Online in 2021. If you can, we'd appreciate all your time spent giving us your thoughts. https://forms.gle/FUWuZ3PEew5EeHtx7 Regards, Ueda

Stat Adding Confirmation Quality of Life feature. People have complained about accidentally adding stats quite a bit.

Bed furniture now works as beds (buggy visuals at the moment) Weapon swinging sounds added Players now get pardon cooldown even if they leave the village voluntarily through prisons. Fixed login screen visual bug It would display the Hitspark logo as the login screen background if you resized the game window while in-game and then returned to menu. Admins now get Windows notifications when players report them (was introduced earlier, but didn't work at all) Fixed typo "recieved mail" Added Error Furniture Image Incase player has missing graphics for furniture, it will continue to load the rest, rendering the missing graphic one as a placeholder.

Slightly better~

This doesn't meet our pixel art standards, and the template is not utilized correctly! But thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry. This doesn't meet our pixel art standards, and the template is not utilized correctly! But thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry. This is missing an item icon in the right template, they are usually 45 degrees. Ideally, environmental objects like this don't have black outlines. Thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry. This is missing an item icon in the right template. Ideally, environmental objects like this don't have black outlines. Please submit with the item templates in 4 directions and retaining the size and format of the template. Refer to my example above, for more details. Thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry. This is missing an item icon. Ideally, environmental objects like this don't have black outlines. Thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry. This is missing an item icon in the right format. Ideally, environmental objects like this don't have black outlines. Thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry. The only thing I would improve is the item icon. Thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry. These are missing item icons. Ideally, environmental objects like this don't have black outlines. Thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry. Great idea, but this doesn't meet our pixel art standards, and the template is not utilized correctly! But thank you for the submission, you have 3 remaining days to submit another entry or improved entry.

Not typing a comprehensive response to this, but just know all of this is already being considered with the exception of Taijutsu weapons. The downside of Tai weapons is the fact you lose all your attack speed scaling which all your AGI gives you, the trade off becomes bigger as your AGI stat increases because you're losing out on all that attack speed. Medical Ninja just needs balancing. Others are things being worked on.

Why would we incentivize playing on weekends when weekends are the most active already. Also, there'll never be a point in Nin where we do 2.5x/3x EXP. That's a private server. That's also a very common and disgraceful method used to gain activity from new players. Why it's disgraceful is, people train hard for months or years to get something, and devs decide to make it 3x easier later. Basically, everyone's time before this was worthless and meant nothing. Here newbies, take all the stuff that everyone has worked hard for ez, cheap and free.

There's a bunch of new cash shop item released. First off, Hashi Set. An outfit with Demon Slayer inspiration, the design is based on classic male Japanese school uniforms. Wear it just as a school uniform, or throw an overcoat over it to make get that definitive Hashira look. This is the first cash shop item that I've done the art for since Face Bandages in 2019. All my time since then has been dedicated to working on programming and adding free in-game content, so please give me your support! The second cash shop items released are the first Furniture Cash Item (Scroll Pillars). We're open to feedback about pricing on these. This current pricing was decided based on feedback from players. We understand that a lot of players want to have more reason to own a house, as right now it is purely a novelty. We know this, and we intend to add plenty of functionality with houses in the future, including using it as a Spawn Point and having Stashes/Storages. We'll talk about this more when the time comes! https://www.ninonline.org/forum/store/category/11-furniture/

Posting my own examples of Halloween Furniture, I'm not competing! But these will sell as well.

If you happened to be on the dark forum theme, this should be solved now, the forum theme is no longer available.

This should be fixed.

Updated. Unfortunate, there's no way to make that editable by Kage atm.

New animated login screen background Pardon/Exile Cooldown Players can now only be pardoned after 7 days of being exiled. They can still be exiled immediately after being pardoned. (Admin only) Windows notifications are now sent to Admin/GM when a player is reported This will help let GMs keep Nin Online running in the background and wait for reports (Admin Only) /expirehouse command for Admins to make a house immediately expire. For testing, and forced evictions. Added notification when you received mail (while you're online) Improved server performance We noticed a flaw in server performance that potentially made server loops (where things are processed and calculated) get skipped in the event of lag. This could potentially cause issues like projectiles being farther behind than they should be and item effects to not be processed. We're not sure if this will solve those particular issues, but it potentially caused them. Also did some general optimizations that shaved off around 5-10ms off some of the server processes by cleaning up "for loops" that looped over empty maps/players etc. Fixed players getting knocked back into walls This was happening with jutsu with more than 1 tile knockback. Fixed furniture not returning to players through mail when they didn't have a mailbox at the time the landlords tried to send the furniture back Also, fixed global mail, allowing us to send mail to all players Misc. Changes Improved positioning of Nin Online logo on login screen Fixed background on login screen being black on odd resolutions Fixed background on login showing hitspark logo instead of background when returning to main menu sometimes Fixed client crashing with mailbox items Potential fix to players getting stuck on login (connected with instanced maps/houses)

It has to be pixel art! Sorry! Also, tip: For furniture, in Nin Online, we don't use black outlines, we use darker shades!

We've already programmed this functionality in when we moved to the new corps system. Just waiting on community feedback and Erox to determine what the ideal cooldown is for each corp I believe.

Dear Ninja, Starting 2 October 2021, accounts will no longer be able to change email addresses. This is an attempt to tighten control over the buying, selling & trading of accounts, as well as players getting "hacked" and having their accounts stolen from them. Regards, Ueda

Hey! Welcome back. 2008 was a crazy time, I was just a 15 year old kid myself with no idea what I was getting myself into. This iteration of Nin Online started in 2013 from fresh and it's a bigger and better game than I ever planned in 2008 hahah. I hope you like it! Also, Robin still helps from time to time when there's a programming problem that's really evading us. He's very capable and a last resort because his time is worth too much to bother him sometimes. EDIT: Your username is familiar, did you happen to help me out with pixel art at some point? I only remember a guy named Soccertise.

Functional TVs Currently testing it on live server, but should be available for players soon. You'll be able to showcase any YouTube video through a TV by copying the URL of the YouTube video in your Clipboard and then interacting with a TV. Before the barrage of people complaining about how there's so many issues with this and that and we're here working on TVs, let me explain. Kenock suggested it as a funny idea one day, I brought it up to Wolf mostly jokingly but said we had more important things to work on at the moment. So Wolf spent his off days working on it. There was no equivalent exchange between getting this or some bug fix because Wolf just really wanted to experiment and add this in his spare time. Also, this was one of the most complex features to add because it's unprecedented in any game using the technology we're using, so it's actually pretty crazy that he made it work. Added (Ctrl+v) Pasting Clipboard in Chatbox Fixed crash when trying to open browser for some (will display error instead) Fixed two separate potential rollback issues Creates mailbox (on database) for player when they login if they don't have one (to receive global mail) Fixed IP grabbing client side script causing MacOS build to be broken Fixed a memory leak when logging in through browser Fixed support for Latin characters (Admin Only) Fixed our Jutsu Editor Copy+Paste (Admin Only) Allow us to /fakelogin people multiple times

September 2021 Promotions Leaf Village Jonin: @Vinsmoke@Korra Chunin: @certainly not Bogdan @Kyreno Sand Village Jonin: @SandMaster Chunin: @Imhotep Mist Village Jonin: @Ninjutsu Chunin: @Sakatsu