Ueda

Good discussion. Lots to think about. Thanks for the meta analysis. EDIT: It's a breath of fresh air to see people analyzing the meta in different angles. From the specific angle of instant cast, cast cancels for example.

1. Confirming an email address isn't a lot of work to do the exact same thing. If someone can propose an actually useful solution, I'd happily try to add it. 2. I want raid points to be able to be stealthily taken. 3. This will be fixed soon.

Rebalanced Phoenix Fireball Rankings The progression of Burn has been changed from: Burn 1/2/3/1/1/1 to 1/1/2/2/3/3 Bot Test for Tanzaku Slots now warps the player into a death pit when they fail the test. This is to prevent exploiting it to warp back to their hospitals safely.

Raid reworks Raids now happen in cycles of 4 hours instead of 2 hours. Raid points will disable after 2 hours into the raid cycle. This is so there is time to rest and there is time to enjoy the bonuses you've earned from the raid. Each village has an additional 2 raid points at their guarding locations. This means that each village now has a potential upside of 21% bonus. The downside limit of 5% remains, you cannot lose more than 5% bonus rate.

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Rebalanced Sensory Technique Please don't blame players asking for the nerf for this change. I've already been thinking of rebalancing for ages, it's just now that it became a prominent discussion topic, and it was a good time to do it. Cooldown time changed from 17/16/15 to 30/29/29 Cast time changed from 1/1/0 to 1/1/1 Range changed from 12/16/20 to 12/12/16 It may be clear from the old progression for each rank that it followed an older balance style where each rank had significant improvements on all areas. Sensory Technique had not been rebalanced with any of the major rebalances since beta stage which is why it was so powerful.

Leaf village Council Elections RegistrationIf you want to be a candidate for the council, please reply to this post with the account you want to register with.The account has to contain atleast 10,000 ryo and will be deducted as payment for registration.Must be a Leaf ninja of atleast Chunin rank. The registration will end on 14th March 12PM EST.

Dear Ninja, Just reaching out to anyone interested in taking up an active role in creating a manga based around the history of Nin Online. It would be a paid job, per page/chapter. In terms of art skills, I'm not expecting professional level! I'm more than happy to work with someone who is enthusiastic about it so we can keep it going into the future. You would be working with some direction from me and some writers also from the community. Regards, Ueda

Added Lv 20 Muteki Pants & Lv 30 Muteki Fur Coat items now available in the Muteki Clan House. Changed Ukiyo Traditional Robe from Lv 10 to Lv 40. Added Lv 10 Ukiyo Inner Robe, Lv 20 Ukiyo Cloak, Lv 30 Ukiyo Sakkat. Added new items Kunoichi Blouse & Kunoichi Pants to Leaf & Takumi clothes shop. Added Red Oni Half Mask as a new Legendary mob drop. Added Black Oni Half Mask as a new Cash shop item. Added White Oni Half Mask as a new Event shop item. Added Purple Oni Half Mask, Green Oni Half Mask, Blue Oni Half Mask as Rare mob drops. Added Black Cursed Sakkat as a new Cash shop item. Added Lv 45 World Boss Chimeriko to Cursed Host Caves. Credits: Zobu/Bonsai (with help from Fuze) for Oni Half Mask art, Fuze for Black Cursed Sakkat art, KingPak for Muteki & Ukiyo clan clothing. Sezu for Chimeriko art. Pog for the Kunoichi items.

Thank you Delp

Congratulations @Ninjutsu for winning the second week of February!

So as you know, Nin Online is heavily inspired by Naruto, and Naruto takes place in a feudal Japanese-inspired world with mainly Japanese characters. For the Naruto series, more representation was added much later after Cloud village became more prevalent in the storyline. I personally try to add more diverse skin toned characters at times, but I also try not to over do it so as to follow the source material more. A lot of our NPCs are loosely inspired by characters in the series. When we do eventually add the Cloud village, you can expect for it to add some diversity. But Nin Online is a game about your own character, your own Ninja, in which there is no shortage of customization options to make your character in any skin tone you see fit. PS: I know this might've been made with a lot less seriousness than this response calls for. But I do hope nobody feels racially discriminated by the game's art, setting and design. There is some limitation on what we can put without taking away from the setting at this time.

The winner of the 1st week of February is @Dona! Congratulations!

Added new Hairstyle - Drifter Premium Hairstyle - by @Lastant

Fixed Vacuum Sphere Manual teaching Drilling Air Bullet Technique (Recent regression)

I'm open to the idea of making it so people have the choice to retire earlier and still getting Jonin rank after.

Edited the original post to clarify that part.

Dear Ninja, It has come to our attention that players have been request name changes through support tickets instead of going through the proper system which is to wait for their account to have name changes available again. Players have also been flooding support ticket requests for accounts that obviously do not meet the requirements for having name changes or for old inactive usernames freed. This makes dealing with support that much harder for us and slows down support for everyone else. This "service" was always provided as a "favor" and not something marketed as a feature for Gold Ninja. I've decided to put a $2 service fee on the freeing of old inactive usernames, which will hopefully get people to do make sure an account meets the requirements before making the request, as this is very time consuming for myself when handling support. In addition, we have also added a new requirement You cannot have had any warning points added to your account / open report cases warranting investigation on your account for the past 6 months. This is to ensure moderation isn't obstructed or given a hard time by the changing of usernames. Note: This is only for name changes done outside of the usual Gold Ninja system where you can change your name without manual admin work every year. It only applies to name change requests sent manually through support ticket, usually when players want an existing username freed. Regards, Ueda

Changed Chakra Points cost of summoning Ninken and Snake to the same as other summons at later ranks. Removed Dodgeball Event NPCs as they are no longer necessary and were being abused to escape fights. Removed Knockback from Crystal Fan basic attack. Improved AFK/Botting Check on Tanzaku Slots to first explain the situation before asking question. Fixed bug that allowed for Ieyasu to spawn outside of his bounds. Fixed visual mapping bug on Striped lake. Fixed a missing collision block on "The Forest Exit" map that allowed for tiger mob to spawn out of bounds. Fixed mapping bugs on bottom left of Mist village, including one that allowed for players to wrongfully enter Mist village academy. Fixed broken Mist village Chunin Exam arena entrance allowing non-Mist ninja to enter. Fixed Mist RP Mission NPC information dialogue saying "find 2 other leaf village ninja".

Added AFK/Botting Check on Tanzaku Slots.

Congratulations @Konahri for this being this month's second winner. You've received 10 Ninja Credit. I've also updated the first post with the judging criteria to give a clearer idea of what I'm looking out for!

Fixed Blood Iron Fan being unusable by female ninja.

Are you using the new client?

Thanks for pointing it out @antar86! Maybe I'll write up the future plans...

Updated lots of Land of Water maps with new music by @Erox Added Toitsu Clan Clothing now available in their clan house! Added Sashiba Clan Clothing now available in their clan house! Added Cho Premium Hairstyle by @Lastant