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  1. - Suggestion to improve the global commerce of nin online. Well, as we all know, the online Nin trading system only focuses on farming and publishing your items within the game through chat and / or discord to reach a few people from other villages, but how about making it more optimal? as it matches. I propose to create a global trade npc with contact with all the villages that each player has accessibility to and publish their items with the NPC and everyone from different villages can see what you sell by having a complete tab of all the players selling their items to different prices and you have to choose a price to your liking when selling the item the system will charge you a tax after 1k onwards of 2% if you have gold 1% when your item is sold it will charge you the tax but as long as you want to remove the item from the store you will be refunded the money of the tax collected. - What will happen to the item and the money when it is purchased? Answer = The item will be transferred to the player who bought the item and the money has two options which are: 1. The money will be transferred directly to the player and a message will appear in the chat when you log to your account then it will say for example: "Your bonesword has been sold for+300000 ryo" and this ryo you can go to claim it at the merchant npc. 2. The above but instead of going to claim the Ryo with the npc that the Ryo appears directly in your inventory. - How does the tax system work and what would happen to the items when you put them in the npc store? That the NPC charge you a small tax that goes to 2%, for example, you go to the NPC and put your item in the store, the merchant will put a 2% fee, for example, you put your item at 300,000 ryos, they will charge you a 2% tax. Therefore, they will take away 6000 ryos in case the item is sold, which would be if they are 300,000, it would be 294,000 the final money. 1. Advantages if you're gold: The NPC will charge you only 1% tax The items when you deliver them to the NPC this will save it as a kind of bank but it is not a bank because after a certain time if the item is not purchased the merchant will return it to you and it will appear in your inventory again. 2. Advantages. I would encourage rp at the system level as this would help to make trade alliances as if it were a merchants guild that does not support any single village that concentrates on doing its business work for its own enrichment. 3. Eliminate 90% or 95% of the NinGeneral trade channel 4. That people can set the price they want and that others buy it under their own responsibility, thus bringing an economy of supply and demand. - Functional suggestion: To further strengthen the RP in the villages, the kage have the option of removing or not the npc from their village to cut commercial alliances: in the case that the villages do not want businesses in their village, the npc will have its predetermined place '' tanzaku ' 'You can also go to enemy villages that if they have said npc and conduct your business. - Here are some fan art of how the trading system with interface and npc would be implemented in the game. (By : LP20 the sexiest) - NPC in tanzaku (area where the npc will always be) - What the trading system would look like in the game: - A closer look at the trading system: - What would the npc look like in the villages: Leaf Village: Mist Village: Sand Village: Suggestion idea: @Inara Artwork art: @Lp20 Concept ideas: @Donatello Johnson@Kuhou@Kodigo@Butterfly@Krait@Ryutekzu@Prince Cabo (Please support this suggestion.)
    83 points
  2. Good morning to all ninonline. I would like to put this post to ask that an organization be put in missing to be able to play in conditions. We have been about 1 month since it was removed, we do not know what to do, we are a very large organization of approximately 34 - 37 members of which more than 20 players are active daily. We are only looking for an organization to be able to play all together, you cannot imagine how complicated it has been to play this month for us, we have had to emigrate to the villages of which x players have gone to each village waiting for the organizations to arrive one day. . We only ask for an organization as if it is put in one of the houses that we have bought, we do not care, we just want to play together. I am going to leave you some images and videos of who we are. here I leave a video of what Diablo is, what represents us here i let some photos to us: This photo was from a few days ago we are many more but right now for not having org they are playing in the other villages until we have it: with only 4 members we were able to get to the mizukage office : this was from when we started together: we even made a name on the BR server : today we fight leaf this is the result: This organization comes from the Hispanic community although lately we have been letting in anyone we know is trustworthy. We are an organization that grows every day and I believe that we would have to have an organization in order not to lose what we have built with effort. please let us play together! I beg you! @Ueda@Erox
    57 points
  3. Background: A man that got Abandoned by God since the Start. My name is Tormenta; adoptive son of @Hideo Hozuki, my biological parents fell in Battle, I never met them, they weren't the best humans either, my biological mother was a woman that was doing human-traffic, my biological father in the other hand was a schizophrenic that just wanted to open humans to "Study how their organs works" (Even though everyone knows it), the life with my stepdad Hideo was really harsh, on my childhood I was considered as a rogue ninja already since I was living with Mr Hideo, then I started to develop some sort of hate for the village that gave me the back. My childhood was really a surviving task everyday compared to other childs on the world; my whole day was doing hard jobs that forced me to get mature quickly, had to earn that bread everyday and Mr. Hideo was getting sick already, so, in my despair to help the man that gave me a place to call "Home", I started working as a thug for the big organisations that rules the underwold like Yakuza. With my good body, trained with the hard jobs and polished with the hard life, I started doing the dirty work, had an exepcional affinity fighting with the fists, made my way through using basic Taijutsu for quite some years, it helped me out to pay my stepfather's medical bills and for the very first time, eat real food. Then, the day that changed everything happened, the day I lost it all and then got something in return. Mr. Hideo passed away getting ambushed by the enemy faction's thugs, as I saw his body slamming the floor with a huge cut in his chest, I felt all the rest of my life falling apart with him. The man that raised me, the man I could call father, passed away in an horrible way, and he said the same thing He always used to say when I started in the criminal world life, "The one that kills with iron, dies by iron". He told me always to leave that kind of lifestyle and be a man of good, that whatever comes easy leaves easy, learned that the hard way. A new beginning. I left the criminal lifestyle, went to the Leaf to re-join as a former Ninja, kept following the way of the fist and trained the art of Gentle Fist; a style that goes all agaisn't my old style, one that is made to protect. Went to the medical school and studied the arts of Chakra infusion to heal others, in the Memory of Mr. Hideo. Started my own fishing business to earn money in a honest way. (Go and Like it ) Started guiding the new generations on the straight way, giving advices based on my past experiences, so they wouldn't do the same mistakes I did as a young one. Made my way back to my old town that saw me grow, now with a clearer view of the world, now with more experience about how everything works, now with more refined arts made to help, not to murder, now with a clear purpose; be the wise leader that the town needs.
    37 points
  4. Considering the danger zones as their own content (just as RP and Events would be considered a content category), it feels like there has been some neglect to what the zone offers, which can be seen in the recent decline of activity, specifically varied activity in the danger zones. By design, the danger zone accounts for all different forms of PvP, however as the game has evolved and the players' understanding with it, it feels like there is only one way to play inside these zones effectively, which at the moment is to bring as many numbers as possible (or not go out at all if you don't need to) and camp map swaps (which is by far the most effective strategy for winning fights). Personally I've played Nin for ~8 months actively, and during that time, played all kinds of content in the DZ (Solo hunting buffed/unbuffed, outnumbered fights, village raids, PvE, and missions to name a few). The problem: Gameplay is frustrating as it rewards clumped high numbers and mapswap camping, leaving other forms of DZ content neglected Current danger zones have very little incentive (I want to emphasise this, as it is different from the point below and will expand on it later) to go into There is no punishment or sense or urgency to push danger zones (players can effectively wait as long as they like before heading out) I will expand on each of these points, and offer a glossary of suggestions. Please note, this is not a criticism of dangers zones, it is more of a forum to suggest improvements to bring life to them. Please keep discussions on topic and take an objective viewpoint rather than a personal one so we can get points across Problem 1: High numbers (Clumped) + Mapswap camping Part 1: High numbers (Clumped) High numbers on their own are not an issue, infact they bring a more interesting outlook on the game. The problem is when large numbers are clumped. There are many reasons for this, but the main one is the 60 second death timer. The timer feels way too long considering the DZ maps are so small. A player can run from Dark spiders to South Tigers (a very significant coverage of the whole danger zone) in under 60 seconds. This becomes even more of a problem while fighting groups as once you are outnumbered, it does not matter how many people you kill as your kills can be revived with relative ease. Focusing medics is a viable strategy, however the punishment for running high medics in groups has no drawback since all groups are encouraged to have as many numbers as possible. Proposed solution: Reduce respawn timer in Danger zones from 60 seconds to 30 seconds. Safezone timers can stay 60 seconds. Part 2: Mapswap camping Mapswap camping is by far the most efficient strategy to kill any sized groups. For clarity, mapswap camping is when you are waiting on the edge of a narrow map, ready to unload all your jutsus when the enemy swaps into the map. The reason this works is because the enemy coming in cannot react while they swap in and many jutsus have no AoE limit. This inherently is not a problem, as it means with proper flanking, you can also corner the people camping the mapswap, if pushed from the other side, as shown below: The problem develops when you consider how dangers zones are layed out - there is a presence of corridors. A corridor is a map where once you have passed it, you cannot get back into any map above or below it until you pass it again. These are absolutely terrible for the danger zones and what facilitate mapswap camping as a viable strategy. The diagram below shows how corridors work: Each square represents a map in the danger zone. The red squares indicate corridors, and as shown, once you are holding one of these corridors, you cannot be flanked, and can effectively mapswap camp indefinitely, which leads to frustration and a stalemate from both sides. Proposed solution: Remove all corridors from DZ with the introduction of new maps. This would not only allow for outplay opportunity with big factions flanking one another, it would also allow for smaller hunting parties to use creative use of maps to evade opponents and bigger groups. IMO this is the single biggest change DZ's currently NEED. The diagram below shows an example of how new maps can be introduced to remove corridors: The full list of narrow corridors (these are the ones especially viable to be camped): Tanzaku Valley Leaf Tigers Mini Bottom CF Dark bridge Mist Bears 3 Mist Bears 4 Mist Foxes Mist Dragonflies Bears 2 Bandit Caves Bounty House (mainland) KB North Coyotes South Coyotes Takumi Tigers Takumi danger zone Problem 2: Current danger zones have very little incentive to go into Outside of missions (which become basically irrelevant once a player hits max level), bounty and the pure enjoyment for fighting, there is no incentive for the average player to enter a danger zone. This one I think can be fixed relatively quickly by offering more ryo incentives of going into danger zones without the requirement of players being in there. Proposed solution 1: @Ichika has already made a great post about this, I will link it here Proposed solution 2: Introduce a new mob map (suggestion would be the map left of snow wolves, but any new map equidistant from villages can suffice) where a relatively easy mob to kill (compare difficulty to between bears and hosts level). This mob drops an item exclusively used to sell to the shop for ryo (between 20-40 ryo) and commonly drops it (same way as hosts drop DNA). This would encourage players to actively leave the safezones to get consistent ryo rewards, at a higher risk - I use the word consistent because drops like DNA are not consistent, they must be sold to another player to make money. Problem 3: There is no punishment or sense or urgency to push danger zones (players can effectively wait as long as they like before heading out) There is no urgency at all to push danger zones. Compare this with for example raid points located at GD entrances, there is a sense of urgency where you must push, or lose something as a village. This applies to absolutely nothing inside the DZ (except gaining ground so they are not mapswap camped by another village :rofl:). Proposed solution: Honestly, I'm not sure. I would suggest something like raidpoints, but I'd like the community help on this suggestion. Conclusion The points mentioned above are in order of priority. I want to emphasise that these changes are very important to keep danger zones as enjoyable content. Many players enjoy nin specifically for content in danger zones and it's pretty much a part of every players gameplay. I hope you can give feedback on this forum post objectively and that relevant people like Rory and Erox as well as the other admin team not only see this, but give feedback on their thoughts about this, as well as the rest of the community. This post took a lot of effort to create, so please give me the same respect by keeping discussions on topic.
    37 points
  5. What I am recommending is a alternative way to complete "player kill" missions such as WW / CBK in the form of a new Mob. This mob spawns in a dz near each of the villages, this mob auto attacks enemies who are not from that village, has mid tier difficulty (no insane dmg like the village bots), is considered a ww / cbk kill and spawns every 30 minutes. The Pro's: * An alternative way to do Waging War / Cold Blooded Killer missions when dz's are inactive. * Demotivates just killing alts as simply going to said map is a confirmed kill * Promotes entering danger zones even if you're not in a group, which in itself promotes less army's to enter danger zones as they're more likely to run into small / solo players trying to do ww / cbk *offers protection to lowbies farming in those areas The Con's: * Would very minimally dis-incentivize killing actual players, this would be very minimal though as the 30 minute timer still acts as a buffer to make killing real players more rewarding and the need to come near enemy villages would most likely still mean a net positive on PvP encounters. Thanks for reading.
    29 points
  6. Hey there! Im Fuze, some people know me from my youtube videos or maybe some of the work ive done for the game! Today i had some free time and tried this little concept out! Item rarities and different types of drops! How will this work? The base idea around this new mechanic would be that as you are grinding for these rare drops there would be a chance for the item to drop a different colored variant, pretty much the way @Antartalked about the shiny drops ! The items will have the same drop chance as the normal item and also no stat changes but as you move up to the prettier ones the drop percentage may decrease! Possible example Player A: (farms the bandit bosses for a while and manages to drop the black and white double arm bandages! Player A then goes on to sell the item for 100.000 ryo! (just an example) Later on Player B also manages to drop a pair of double arm bandages but not one of the rare variants so he goes on to sell it for 20.000 ryo! (just an example) Conclusion and final points of this post Giving the community focused economy a change and providing the players with more customizability! thanks for taking your time to read to my post, hope you like this idea and i am looking forward to seeing such changes ingame!
    29 points
  7. I was hunting around trying to collect bounty and the main thing I notice is either, 1. It's a lowbie with no bounty, 2. It's 10+ people hunting together or 3. DZ is dead. So I had an idea, there can be a system implanted with this guy over here at the Land of Fire Bounty House. When you finish all your daily missions and talk to this guy right here he gives you 10 ryo, I think it would be nice if this guy right here gives you a Side Quest to complete which is to kill 10 ninjas and collect 500 bounty. Once you complete that quest, he gives you access to TP to a 1v1 sparring arena danger zone. Once he gives you access, there should be an NPC in every village which teleports you to the arena to fight. An NPC example can be someone like this right here, somewhere in your village The way it works is 1. You only get 3 fights a day to avoid people spamming it causing less activity in actual village raids/danger zone fights. 2. Each time you win you gain 10 rank points and each time you're defeated you lose 10 rank points, you can't go into the negative with the rank points and how the rank points work is, There's a leaderboard in every village which shows a list of who has the most rank points. (basically like how bounty book shows who has the most bounty, can look like this for example) Whoever is 1st place, 2nd place and 3rd place gets a rewarded. First place obviously gains the best reward, then 2nd place gets the 2nd best reward then 3rd gets the 3rd best reward etc etc. (The rewards can be things like event coupons where even people who were 10th place still get a coupon for participation, it doesn't have to be event coupons though it could be ryo, items, or even throw in a special rare item now and then like an event tourney would.) 3. You can't fight someone that has a much more higher rank point than you, EX: Someone has 0 rank points and another person has 100 rank points, you cannot fight them. The reason why you can't fight them because there's skill gap between the players and the players should not be able to pick on a weak player to get free points or else it would end up like this. If there's a queue that's filled with players with 100 rank points and one player with 0 rank points, if the player with 0 rank points doesn't meet anyone that has nearly the same amount of rank points he does (0-30) then he will end up fighting someone with a higher rank point, if the guy with 0 rank points wins then he gains 10 rank points, if he loses then he wasted one of his turns/doesn't lose points even if he had 10 points. If the guy with 100 rank points wins then he doesn't gain any points but he doesn't lose a turn, but if he's defeated then he loses 10 rank points but a turn is not wasted. If a fight like this happens then they can't fight twice to avoid farming for points. The whole point of the rank system is so that people can fight people on their skill level and the best of the best will be on top of the leaderboard obviously. The rank point system can more fights look like this, basically close unpredictable fights due to people fighting people on their skill level (or at least it helps make people fight people closer to their skill level) 4. Minimum level requirement is level 40 to join, there can be a separate one for lowbies (levels 20-40) but if they don't add a separate one I think level 40 is a good requirement to join. 5. The matchmaking can available for like 3 hours a day, Ex: 3am EST til 4am EST, 2pm EST til 3pm EST, 8pm EST til 9pm EST. The whole point of this is because if the matchmaking is on 24/7 then players most likely won't be matched up together as much, but if there's a certain time to do it then a crowd of players will probably be waiting until that timer starts so they can all join. 6. The way the Matchmaking works is once you talk the NPC, then the NPC teleports you to the arena where the fight will take place and you wait until a match has been found. While waiting you can see the other players who are waiting/fighting. This photo is an example. (This doesn't have to be the arena it's just an example) Once a match is found both players are teleported to arena with full chakra/hp and 10 second immunity for prep time (no they can't move around or start trapping up they are just stuck in one place facing each other with 10 second immunity like this) Org buffs are not allowed for obvious reasons, same with toad oils/chakra pills/summons. Basically the basic Nin tournament rules should apply to this right here as well. 7. Similar to the Best Dressed Ninja Contest where there's a winner every 15 days, The Leaderboard of the rank points can be reseted every month. The types of fights can be changed within the months as well, Ex: May 1v1s,June 2v2s,July 3v3s etc. Teams share the same rank points so if they find a new partner their rank points will be reseted. Ex: Ichika teams with Reality and win fights, they have 20 rank points, Ichika then starts a new team with Noboru but they start off with 0 points. I think the pros of this are: Fun event like the raid point feature that was added in the game not too long ago, Danger zone kills so if you got a bounty mission/waging war, you could do this event and maybe gain some bounty/kills, and it's competitive which makes players want to train hard to reach the top of the leaderboard. Shout out to @Sky @Haste @Scooby Doo for joining in on some of those screenshot examples.
    28 points
  8. My fellow Ninjas, the time of peace is upon us.. and I hate it. Villagers walking around their village without a care in the world, sand ninja are getting a year long tan at their GD. Leaf ninja are having picnics at their local square. Mist ninja can't see through the fog so they sit still at indoor market. WHATS THIS?! The Akatsuki leader has made a move!? @Lumy has come out of cave and seeks blood... who's blood? WHY LEAF OF COURSE! Hokage @Esty has called upon the legendary 12 guardians to protect the village and most importantly, their peace. But unfortunately, they haven't had much training and have grown weak. The Akatsuki break down the village gates and start massacring the villagers... On the eve of the lunar moon, the hidden leaf were attacked by the Akatsuki, Hokage Esty stood to protect them with the 12G's, but they can only take so much...Will they be saved? Or will the enemy villages witness the destruction of leaf?! For the next 2 days, L1/L2/TG/Wolves/Leaf GD are all danger zones! Leaf ninjas who kill enemies in these maps will receive DOUBLE bounty, enemy ninjas who kill leaf or other ninjas receive the normal amount of bounty. (Will rotate villages every week). ps - Change the rewards as you see fit just make sure there are incentives in place. (Coupons, exclusive items, loot boxes, higher drop rate, more exp) @Ueda @Erox The benefit of this event to take place is a huge one, players will actively start fighting as there are incentives in place. It'll be a fun RP event, a sort of building up to the war event later this month or next month. And I for one would love to see the effects of changing safe zones into danger zones. Right now, the danger zones are completely empty, for the majority of the time players just hide in safe zones and fight there as they lose nothing and it's killing the activity of the game. Thanks for reading and I hope you implement it soon.
    28 points
  9. Hello everyone my name is Nej, I decided to make an introduction post because I never had one of these and I have been inactive for a while due to not know what do to in the game. I am active now again and I recently reset my character to Mist after @Zabuza Momochi won Mizukage and I am loving my time spent there. I wish to be more RP indulged in the game and this is an attempt at it. I take time out of my day to help new comers all of the time and if someone here is thinking about going to the Hidden Mist Village, come through. I will heal you while you train and give you tips. If you wish to contact me my discord is Nej#9123 I hope everyone is having a great 2021 I love you all, see you in nin online... Also, RESET TO MIST.
    28 points
  10. It has come to my attention this game has no form of two step autenthication in order to log in. This , if it existed, would prevent any attempt of hacking into accs or protect accs from data base leaks. An example of this is a player name issa who 1 day ago before this post is being made got all of his 3 accs stolen with emails changed and passwords changed aswell (note they all had different passwords) and the person who stole reset all of his accs so it would be impossible to get any progress ,the orginal owners made , on those said accs back Another player named @oreo got his acc stolen and name changed for some odd reason. All of these players claim they got hacked and they never shared accs. I simply suggest 2 step autenthication should be added into the game to prevent such cases to even exist because an acc with 2 step authentication can never be stolen because the user who tried to hack the acc would also need the original owners phone number to get access.
    27 points
  11. Good evening everyone, I've come with a suggestion that could change the pace of hunting and how groups fights are orientated; with the addition of player executions. Currently in game, once an opposing ninja is downed, there is nothing that you can do to speed up the kill other than to wait for them to press enter within the 59 second interval. During this time period, allies of the downed ninja can come to interrupt you from getting the kill by reviving them. Executions would not only allow players to counter this, but it would bring a new mechanic to the game that comes with a risk. How would Executions work? Executions would act like the Mystical Palm technique, albeit forcing the player into the death screen instead of reviving them. With that being said, players would be required to stand directly beside the body in order to execute the downed ninja. Moving away or being hit with knock-back, stuns, and/or snares will cancel the execution — forcing them to restart. And since executions would be cast-time, there is the risk of being killed yourself by enemies. *All Players who are level 10+ should possess the ability to execute(all levels possessing the same cast time; preferably 7.5-8.5 seconds). With the requirement of level 20-30+ being there to use it, execution animations — if any at all — can correlate to your 1st mastery. ex: Earth Execution - A multitude of earth spikes emerge from the ground below, piercing and gutting the downed ninja. Water Execution - A chain-like whip wraps around the ninjas body, constricting around them like a snake; suffocating them to death Fire Execution - The user snaps, causing the downed body to burst into flames; scorching the poor soul into a dark husk of ashes. Side Note: We could also make use of @Fuze's aseprite commission services to create the animations for such, if it were be implemented of course. I personally would love to contribute some funds towards this. How would this change hunting, or even group fights? At the current moment, whenever an ally is downed, they are either ignored until the enemy is killed or distracted enough to allow for a revive. With executions however, this would prompt groups with a decision — Do we allow the enemy to take the chance at an execution and reposition, or do we defend their body and take the risk for a revive? The same goes to the people who got the kill. Do we push and execute the downed, or do we focus on another objective — possibly giving them the chance to revive/getting W.O.F? More suggestions for executions: - This should be a "hotbar-less" technique, only appearing(possibly above the village logo) whenever the player is standing directly beside the downed enemy. - If it is interrupted, there could be a 20+ second cool down, allowing for only about two attempts max on an execution. At the current moment, this is all I have in mind for executions. If anyone else possesses any ideas/changes or wanst to contribute to it, please feel free to do so! Thank you, everyone. - Issa P.S. It is currently 3 AM my time and I haven't slept in 40 hours. Please excuse any grammar/spelling mistakes. Lol.
    27 points
  12. Not everyone wishes to be a part of a village when they join the game. Some people like the idea of being a more "evil" type of character and the game doesn't really allow you to start out as that. Currently the only way for that is to be a rogue but being a rogue is meant to be more of a punishment than something you choose to play. Rogues have no unique clothes, summons or masteries. If you are a Leaf rogue you still have a Leaf passive, Leaf summon, Leaf hidden mastery... This makes it so that there is no real option to be a dedicated rogue player. What I wish for is that there is an option to create a character that is more "hardcore" from the very beginning. An option to create a "rogue" character which is not tied to any village. IDEA The idea is that cursed ninja would be the "actual" rogues while the exiled ones are village rogues. This would allow for cursed ninja to have things which are unique. Playing as cursed ninja would be a very hard way to start out and would not be recommended for new players (could even make it only possible after resetting a lvl 50 character). You start out in Cursed Lab which is hard to get into and hard to get out of, very little mobs are around and it is easy for a low level to die just trying to step out of host cave or to die to them while trying to go back in the Lab to hand in a mission. Just like normal rogues you would have friendly fire and wouldn't be able to team villagers. Your default and only spawn point would be the Cursed Lab. LORE You start out in the Cursed Laboratory, which is a part of a larger network of laboratories called Village Hidden in the Sound. In your thirst for power you have abandoned your past and origins and have come to serve Sarugami. You are one of the few ninja to have survived his cursed seal experiments. In order to strengthen your cursed seal you must set out in the ninja world. PASSIVE Cursed Seal - a cursed seal has been placed upon you which grows stronger over time. Unlike villages which get a passive that is at full power right at the start, cursed ninja start with a quest called "The Growing Curse". The quest requirement at first would be to reach level 10 for example. After you complete it you get a "Weak Cursed Seal Activation" jutsu. It is a weak buff that drains your health while it is up. After completing the current one you would get a new one which would have higher requirements but would award a stronger Cursed Seal jutsu. This would repeat until you get the strongest version of it. All of the Cursed Seals would share cooldown and be untradable. HIDDEN MASTERY I thought a lot about what would be a good and unique mastery to introduce in the game. Puppet mastery and genjutsu are something that have been talked about for ages, so why not add a mastery that is a combination of the two. Demonic Flute Genjutsu - a mastery that utilizes a weapon called "Demonic Flute" to cast sound based genjutsu and control summoned creatures known as Doki. The mastery would be based around the summon. Your flute melee would cause it to do a certain action like use an attack or to Flicker. You'd also have access to genjutsu which would be strong CC that deals little to no damage. Some jutsu could be: 1.Illusionary Warrior Doki- you use your flute to create an illusionary warrior called Doki to fight in your place. This would be the main jutsu of the mastery. It would depend heavily on it's summon to fight. 2.Phantom Chains - you use your flute to create a illusion for your opponent in which they are bound by chains. Single target CC that does little to no damage. 3.Phantom Sound Wave - you use your flute to create a sound wave which commands your Doki to take a bite of their target's soul. Does moderate damage but saps a large chunk of chakra from the enemy. SUMMON Nue - a chimera that is able to sap your opponent's chakra. ORGANIZATION The Sound Four - a team of elite cursed ninja which serve as bodyguards for Sarugami. Their base would be within Cursed Laboratory and their buff would be some strong cursed seal.
    26 points
  13. Alright ninjas, I'm here today to suggest something that I believe will fix a couple of things in Nin, particularly the open world danger zone scene. Right now there are 2 issues with hunting in Nin: Mapswitch Camping Armies running around My suggestion to fix BOTH these issues with one stone is to change every single map in the game into a war zone except for the Village map AND the new lowbie maps that Erox created a while back. Changing these maps will force people to only hunt in a maximum group of 4 as any more will hinder them, this will inevitably change the Mapswitch camping and army meta and diminish it. Ninjas will have fun fighting small skirmishes across the Nin Online world. This also heavily suits RP, during the majority of Naruto it was always groups of 4 hunting and ONLY during war will a village mobilise it's army to fight. In turn this will also make the War Event something to look forward to and viable as the main forces will want to fight big upscale battles for glory and prizes since they wouldn't be able to do it on a normal hunting day. Some issues that people might have is "how about the safe zones that are made for lowbies". Well to answer this, right now those same lowbies still die in safe zone, so it's not really saving them from anything and with the addition of lowbie maps behind the Village maps, lowbies have never been more safe to farm and level up. I personally believe this change will fix the problem we're having in the danger zones, @Ueda I implore you to initiate this on a test run. For 1 month implement these changes and if there's a backlash or negative impact then simply change it back. Thanks for reading
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  14. certainly not Bogdan I need to mention that I promoted in the JCE that took place on 18th. I'm currently waiting to get my rank ingame, asked GMs and they said it is ok to register. EDIT: I just got my rank ingame aswell and also I want to publicly request a name swap between "certainly not Bogdan" and "Bogdan" for the sake of this village and whoever is trying to type my amazingly long name. This is my new main and i would be very thankful if I'll receive this name swap.
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  15. Just making a post here because YouTube recommended me our own Nin Online soundtrack. I've been reminded recently of the amount of money spent to create original music in the early development days, when the game was burning through my savings and freelance earnings. When I had to survive on bread and milk and instant noodles for months on end because I had nothing left for myself and I don't come from a wealthy family. Every cent donated throughout the development period was also given to freelancers and others to draw art, make music, code and to draw promotional artwork that we still use till today. In the last week I streamed playing games made by others that had stolen Nin Online's original Art and UI. It really got me thinking, why go through all the work of actually being the one to create things when others just out right steal what you've invested your time and money into. I don't really talk about the struggles of development in 2013 leading up till beta because I usually can reason with myself that those sacrifices were necessary. But when people show me otherwise, that they can make money off my work without repercussion, I start to doubt myself and regret putting myself through so much hardship. But then I was serenaded by Sand Canyons by @Afilion The hopeful tune really gave me the lift out of the dumps that I needed. The reason why I couldn't copy someone else's work in 2013, as an 18 year old kid was because there was nobody to copy. There was no game like Nin Online yet. The community here is great, I can tell everyone appreciates the efforts put in by everyone who has played a part in making Nin Online. When I asked on Discord for people to help bring attention to the fact a game a youtuber had made a video on had stolen art from us, everyone came together to attempt to help. It might or might not pay off and Nin Online might get the attention that game garnered off our team's work. But at the end of the day, I'm just glad we have a supportive community of players who just want to play a good nar Ninja game. Anyway, this is not really a dev log, more like a rant. There's so much happening and coming for Nin Online that I'm honestly so excited. Hope everyone's been doing well in this pandemic!
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  16. Read from left to right To be continued... Character Creation Insta link:https://instagram.com/antar__86?utm_medium=copy_link Source Material
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  17. Hello! I just made this pixel inspired by Naruto's and Hinata's wedding. I think adding them to the cash shop could open a lot of possibilites for RP weddings. They were pretty easy to made since the male one is a recolored kage robe and the female one is a modified and recolored snake inner kimono. Based off
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  18. Dear Ninja, It's been another year... time flies! In 2021, I daresay we made the most progress on the game in a single year since its inception. Although a lot of the time was still spent on developing the game engine and making the core experience more enjoyable, we're quickly reaching a point where story content, more missions etc. is the biggest concern. As mentioned in the recap from 2020, we aimed to get @TheWolf on the team full-time as our Lead Programmer, and the plan went through, which led to a year of great development progress afterwards. Here's a short overview of some of our development over just this past year! Further Server Improvements In 2020, we remade the game's server (previously in Visual Basic 6) to C#. In 2021, we went one step further and upgraded it to perform better & more consistently over time, rewriting a lot of the core code and replacing dated technology like .NET Framework with .NET 5, turning it into a console application as well as other ways of making it more lightweight like moving some of it's functionality to our cloud database. We also rewrote a lot of logic, cleaned up the code further and are building new functionality like the new tournament system modularly. New C# Client with 64-bit processing! Yes, that was this year. We gave the game client the same treatment as the server, moving to C# and modern technologies within a span of a couple of months. An interesting story is that we reached out to companies that specialized in converting dated software to modern technology, asking for a quotation on doing it for our client. But before they could get back to us (in a couple of days), we were already close to finishing a working prototype of the new client. I'll let the emails speak for itself. I'm sharing this as a testament of sorts of how stupidly efficient and talented (mainly Wolf) our team is and how proud I am of it. A team of professionals who've made their careers around modernizing code bases brought up concerns, recommended other options and told us we might not be able to reach the same performance of the game client in C#. Yet we did all of that and improved performance marginally in a matter of days before they could make that response. In comparison, there's games currently like Habbo Hotel, MapleStory with multi-million dollar budgets and teams of dozens of people working on similar projects and barely scrapping through or failing at. Habbo Hotel re-launching it's old client after a failed attempt at deprecating it and replacing it with a Unity client and MapleStory losing 32-bit support completely, taking years despite simply being an upgrade to support 64-bit processors - not even a full rewrite. After learning from what we did with the visual basic 6server conversion project, the client was for the most part a breeze for us! I'd also like to thank our Gold Ninja & Silver Ninja on Discord who started testing the New Client with us since January, in preparation for the deprecation of the old client in April. Our Gold Ninja program has always been a way for players to show support to Nin Online through donating a one-time fee, the same price as an indie game title and It's completely optional! While other games monetize through subscription models or by selling Pay-To-Win items for real world currency, Nin Online continues to believe that ethical Free-To-Play is the way to go. This is what the New C# Client looked like at launch in April! Once we had both the client and server modernized, development significantly sped up. We were no longer held back by dated development tools and the lack of proper debugging tools. Here's just some of the awesome stuff we worked on this year. Automated Tournaments (& Events) System As our latest major feature, we've replaced the need for GMs to host tournament events with our very own automated system that can (currently) handle hosting 1v1 tournaments better and faster than a human could and with less error. We're still expanding on this, but we plan to make it as stable and all-encompassing as possible and then schedule automated tournaments throughout the week so that players can depend on it always happening on time and efficiently! Click on the image to view the full video! While 1v1 Tournaments are not the main focus when it comes to Nin Online gameplay, we recognize that this is a fan favorite event (the best things are usually the simplest). We'll soon make it support team tournaments and much more as well. The eventual goal is for this system to be able to host a Chunin Exam by itself. Hair Color Rework Something I've been talking about doing for a long while (since we first launched the new client in the start of 2020), making it so hair colors only require one color artwork (white) and a graphical shader recolors it based on the user's preference was something we finally got to add. This update served more purposes than it first seems, solving multiple problems... The first issue with the old way we did hairstyles (27 colors and 27 artwork files required for each hair) was optimization, if multiple players were on the same map with different colors of the same hairstyle, it would still require a separate texture to load. Textures loading can cause stutters on older PCs and take up a lot of memory. We reduced the amount of hair texture files 27 fold, meaning we went from 2214 texture files to just 82. The second issue was that preparing artwork for new hairstyles took a lot of unnecessary work, with each hair artwork needing to be manually recolored to 27 different color palettes. This reduced work time for each hairstyle and made adding them more accessible for us and for players to contribute artwork. The last issue was that we wanted players to pick from any color in the spectrum, and for individual parts of the hair (eg. Accessories and dip dye designs). We came up with a very advanced solution that only requires the use of a single texture file for each hairstyle, while still containing all the information needed for the graphical shader to know what to color for each color channel. New Day/Night System, Advanced Lighting, Dynamic Shadows & More! Arguably the prettiest thing added to Nin Online since 2013, the new Day/Night overlays, God rays, Lighting system and Dynamic shadows have come together to make Nin Online so much prettier than it was before. Some of this was inspired by the player @Adarya whom submitted great fabricated screenshots for the Screenshot Competition we held in June. This really goes to show that a picture can speak a thousand words. Nin Online has always had beautiful pixel art thanks to dozens of contributors over the years and myself. But until now, these graphics have not been used to it's full potential. I mean, how could we have had lamp posts that never lighted up at night for 7 years until now? That's pretty hard to fathom in hindsight. The only reason we couldn't do it was that it would've never been performant/optimized enough for players on our old Visual Basic 6 client. I'm just so glad we're past that now. Advanced Lighting The lighting system is also probably one of the most optimized 2D Lighting systems ever made, generating quadtree meshes so the client knows only what is needed to be rendered at the time. Dynamic Shadows Another cool visual feature is that characters now cast shadows in real-time, based on their positions relative to the light source. This gives a very pretty effect that is clear from this image! By the way, all the lighting is updated instantly for all players, editable within the game itself by our developers. Nin Online's development toolset is contained within it's game client, which while is very complex to make, makes it possible for us to add content and many of our updates instantly without the users required to patch their clients. New UI System Maybe one of the less obvious advancements we made this year was the creation of a custom new immediate mode user interface (UI) system that has allowed us to rapidly create new UI. As such we've been able to add all of these UI very quickly. A lot of development of new features was previously held back by not being able to easily add UI. Here are some of the new user interfaces introduced or remade this year: Cash Shop/Specials Items Stash, House Panel, Corps Panel, Title Management, Report Player, Confirmation Prompts, Blessing Message Input, Mailbox, Options Panel, Notifications And these are just the user interfaces accessible to players, we also use this on our developer tools! One thing players probably don't know is that we actually developed two new UI systems this year and are in the midst of deprecating the first new UI system in favor of the New New UI System (the immediate mode one). The first UI system was alright, it was used for the Options Menu and the Mail System, but it was tedious to add new UI so kind of defeated the purpose of it. It also had rather poor performance due to re-cursivity in the design. Mail System A feature that seems almost like an afterthought, but is actually very useful for us, is the new mail system. With this, we're able to easily handle things like giving our items to players whom are offline without manually accessing the database to edit player accounts. We're also able to distribute prizes, quest items, send furniture back to players when Kage clear them from shared spaces etc. Basically any time we need to give someone an item while they are offline or their inventory is full, we can use the mailbox now. So the mail system is actually a lot more important than it seems. We also will soon make the mail system usable by players to send items and messages to one another! Instanced Maps, Housing & Furniture System Another huge feature added in 2021 is the new instanced maps feature. This allows us to have maps that are not loaded into the server's memory all the time, so they don't have any strain on the server, unless players need the map. That limitation would've prevented us from sustainably introducing player housing, because every player would've meant an additional map that needed to be loaded on the server start up, and taking up the server's memory. Adding player housing on top of the instance feature was then easy, and to make players able to customize their spaces, we added the furniture system which players are already using creatively to create shared arenas in the village, bars and other roleplaying spaces. Mist Village Public Arena @Northwind's Bar in Asoki Port Village We can't wait to introduce more furniture in the future and let players get creative with it. Also let's not forget Wolf's side project that he worked on in his off time made it so you can watch YouTube videos in Nin Online through TV furniture, or display your favorite YouTube Videos in your house for visitors! Cloud-based statistics & analytics logging We moved all our server's analytics to our cloud database. Thanks to this, we're able to share some fancy statistics! As of 13-Dec-2021, we are seeing 61 average players online across all time zones, and peaking at around 100-148 players online daily! (in Toad, English, North American Server) We've had 39,240 Ninja in the English Server create their ninja in-game! It's times like these I think back on the 2016 thread pointing out that "Nin Online is dying" and titled as such Corporation System replaces Official Organizations Our old Organization system was unsustainable as it required a lot of admin intervention to keep running. Every time we introduced more organizations, it created a lot of administrative work. Hence, as one of the first targets of this year, we aimed to automate and put control directly into player's hands. The old organization system was flawed because it was too hackily linked to the forum software and with a third party forum plugin that was deprecated. We did not have the source code for the plugin, so we were unable to make it do what we needed or upgrade it for the forum software's latest versions. As such, the old organization system was holding us back from upgrading the forum - and oAuth 2.0 was broken on the versions of the forum we were on. This created a dilemma for us that we had to solve all at once or not at all. We have completed the first, most important, part of the systems that will fully replace the old organization systems aka. Corporations. At first, it was using Winforms for the UI, which was very hacky and unintuitive, but once we were done with the New UI system, we created a new UI for it with that. The new corporation system includes functionality such as adding limits (max tenancy period) to how long a player can remain in the Akatsuki, ANBU etc. as well as how long they cannot return (time out). It also allows for setting of roles and rights of those roles directly in the game. The next step in replacing the old organizations system is our plans for a Player Organization system that will just be called Organizations. Players will be able to create ie. Guilds that they can add more players into. Players will be able to contribute towards the organization to unlock new features for it's members. This will hopefully be done in 2022. In total, we finished over 150 Programming Tasks This is just another interesting statistic from our private workspaces. We moved from using Asana to Notion this year, and together eliminated 153 out of 214 tasks in our list (of things to that are required for Nin Online to be code complete). This list included tasks that dated back all the way to 2014 as well as newer tasks. We don't add tasks for things that can be done quickly and immediately, so these are all at least somewhat substantial and can range from anything from "Make player outlines render above everything" to "Auto-Tournaments" to "Lighting System". When I talked about some of the major development changes earlier on in this post, I had such a hard time picking a few out of the list of notable features to expand on because there were so many important changes, but here are some of the others that you might have forgotten has only been added this year... Other Notable Features Transformation Jutsu Pushball Event Red Light Green Light Event Notification System Blessing Messages TV Functionality for displaying YouTube videos in Nin Online Corp Chat Zooming Camera & Target Tracking Running Indicator Player Reporting System Smooth NPC & Projectile Movement Smooth Knockbacks & Knockback Direction Rework Huge optimizations to game installation size Pardon/Exile cooldown Raid System Removed Authentication Server in favor of passive cloud-based solution Server upgraded to .NET 5 Chat Swearword Filter Cloud-based Player Saves Replaced Zlib with LZMA for graphics & packet compression oAuth Login System New Map Renderer New Player Renderer Offset AoE Atatcks New Graphics Encryption method Moved Item & Jutsu Data to Cloud Database Chain Missions New animated login screen Keybind Settings in the Options Panel (Previously they were done in notepad config.ini) Quality of Life Changes Items & NPC names display toggle function and keybind New outline targeting shader & color options Chat bubbles are hidden for players who are cloaked Item drop animation Chat bubble duration based on message length Colored Chat Bubbles Confirmation when Adding Stats Revealing targets behind large objects/buildings/trees aka. Look behind feature Camera moves to NPC you are talking to Displaying Player Title over names Emoticons positioned based on name and title visibility Confirmation prompts for buying/selling items /ignore is no longer case-sensitive Clipboard paste to chat box Option to skip Genin Test Login status displayed on the login screen & new login background Expand Chatbox Feature Ninja Time Displayed at bottom left of the screen Camera Speed Setting Dynamic Game Window Resizing We resolved over 100 Issues This year, we introduced the GitHub Issue Tracker, and then deprecated it, moving over to the new issue tracker right in our forum software. Throughout the year, players submitted issues they were facing. These were anything from crashes to minor bugs affecting them. With this system, we managed to resolve over 100 issues that were submitted by players. Some of the major bug fixes this year include... Fixed over 30 crash bugs Fixed weapon timer desync causing every alternate attack on some weapons to not register Fixed summons not being able to use or get DoT buffs Fixed summons killing NPCs not counting towards XP and Kill counter for missions Fixed player directions not updating visually on the client side when auto-attacking an enemy Fixed Team Display Icons Fixed trade requests failing sometimes Fixed login screen using unnecessary CPU/GPU processing power Fixed heals sometime doing 1 extra interval Fixed bug where If you cast Substitution right after moving to another map, you get stuck Content Additions This year, we introduced the Level 50 Questline - Land of Iron Arc - as well as a bunch of World Bosses (Dark Monkey King, Dark Weasel, Chimeriko etc.) We added housing districts in each village, and over 100 furniture items. Besides this, we released dozens of cosmetics, event prizes & NPC drops and more! This year saw even more player contributions, with a large number of players stepping up to contribute hairstyles, clan items, event prize artwork (pixel art) to the game. This is awesome because Nin Online has always been a game made by fans for fans, and so seeing players contribute their time to make the game better in the areas they want is encouraging! We also spent some time aiming to make the beginner experience a little friendlier with the Level Up! Quest Lines, free automatic stat reset at level 10 and more... We also balanced quite a bit this year with... Major balance changes Reduced Critical Damage Charging Chakra Rework Sensory Jutsu rebalancing Mystical Palm Jutsu rework Will of Fire rework Weapons Mastery Requirements Free Stat Reset given at Level 10 Transformation Technique reworked Rebalanced missions that were too hard Added Level 30 Bubble Jutsu Gentle Fist, Weapon Master, Medical Ninja and Taijutsu balancing For a full list of changes, you can start on Patch Notes page 30 and work your way up to 34! Deprecated Old Updater Software We also abandoned our old Updater/Patcher software that was made and maintained in-house in favor of using PatchKit. This helped solved a regular issue of players who had problems updating their games because of their Anti-Virus software not trusting our C# application. PatchKit settled this for us by having their own certifications and took a burden off our shoulder. Old In-house C# Updater application New PatchKit Updater The old updater software is now open-sourced and free for non-commercial usage. New Forum & Website Designs This year, I also found time to upgrade and revamp the forum software and website designs, after almost 3 years of the same designs (since beta launched). It's something that I've been wanting to do but has never been a priority. I grew up in the 2000s spending a lot of time as a web designer/developer, so a lot of small things about the old site and forum designs bothered me. This became important because of the game becoming more integrated to the forum through the login system using oAuth 2.0. oAuth 2.0 is the standard for security in logins on the web. It is also partly what allowed us to deprecate our Authentication server (a separate C# server application that would liase with our forum's MySQL tables to verify logins) since all of the authentication is handled by the forum, along with the move to MongoDB for the game server registry. The website is important because that's the first thing that anyone who visits our website sees! Two Game Services On top of all that we did, we also were managing two separate game services. North America aka. Global Nin Online and Nin Online Brazil. Shout out to @Kenock, for taking on the role of Ueda in Brazil. This meant while we were pushing updates to Nin Online, we were also regularly pushing updates for Brazil. We also went through a lot of trouble, switching between hosts in Brazil multiple times, I can count at least 5. Hosting in Brazil is not as convenient as in North America, as servers are both weaker and over priced, hosts are less professional etc. In Nin Online Brazil's first year of operation, it already has and peaks at around 70 Players online daily with a 31 player online average across all timezones. Events As time goes on, we hope to provide more and more events for players as a game service. As such, automating them is crucial to free up time from hosting repetitive events, to create creative events that players can enjoy each season. This year we managed to host 3 seasonal events, 8th Anniversary aka. Level Up! Event Halloween 2021 Event Christmas Hidden City of Joy Event In particular, the Halloween Event was something we tried spending more effort doing. This included searching for prize sponsorships and handling logistics for prizes. Once again, we're thankful to JumpButton Studios for sponsoring prizes for the event. Thanks to them, we were able to give 1000 USD worth of prizes including brand new Nintendo Switches and Razer Accessories. We learnt that it is a lot of work to run an event on such a scale. As such, we'll probably not do that very often or at all anymore and instead focus on events that can be automated and scheduled by the system. Eg. A yearly halloween event that activates itself without our intervention. This year, thanks to our GM Team, we managed to host 6 bi-monthly Chunin Exams, making it the first time we've successfully hosted it as planned! Final Notes There is a lot going on behind the scenes every day to make Nin Online possible. There's also a lot of decisions that may seem trivial or not make much sense from a player perspective in the short term. Like why it was important for us to move to oAuth 2.0, why we had to deprecate the old Organization system. But each decision was made with a lot of careful thought put into it, and unfortunately, with limited time comes unlimited responsibility, so I couldn't be spending time justifying each change we made. Instead, just as I've done for 8 years now, I let the results speak for itself and hopefully after 8 years people will start to trust that the game just gets better over time and that we know what we're doing. 8 years is crazy to me, I don't believe there's another game out there in such active development 8 years after it's inception, with our (lack of) budget. I feel it's always necessary to point out that Nin Online does not have the large scale funding that most MMORPG projects do. We're a team of 2 developers and lot's of volunteers. We don't monetize unethically, and we still work full-time on the game because you love it. I'm super proud of what we've accomplished in 2021. I think it's hands down the most productive year in Nin Online's development. This coupled with what we have in store next year gets me excited to continue to be at the helm of Nin Online's development. 2022 is looking just as hopeful, now that the game's codebase is both modernized and stable, you can expect major improvements and feature changes at a good pace. We are also set to launch 2 major story quest lines! Once we're done with that, the sky is the limit for Nin Online. There's never been a better time to play Nin Online, and to introduce friends to the game, so if you enjoy Nin Online, we hope you tell all your friends about it! (and we'll say the same thing next year when it's even better) Oh, since you made it this far, here's a special discount coupon you can use in the cash shop (First 100 uses only!) LETSEND2021GOOD for 21% off anything in the Cash Shop Regards, Ueda If you liked this post, maybe you'd be interested in learning the History of Nin Online that I wrote about a couple of months ago Past Year Recaps
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  19. I made a few different items for the event that id gladly like to be in the game! (some of the are not meant to rotate and only be place in certain ways, hope you understand my view in this project) One thing to point out is that instead of just making the art i also went ahead and made icons for these items! i hope most people will like these items and im glad we can finally have our own little house to customize! Show Off image Real size (for applying in game) Items applied in a little house (Anything underneath is for the team to copy paste for ease of use) (yes the last one is indeed a nin online scroll)
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  20. I'm still rather new to the game but I don't mind contributing. These are just a few of the things i'm planning to submit, though I'm not sure how many things you can submit to the contest but i'm planning on making more than just these.
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  21. Connection Status text now shown during login on the client To inform players what's going on in the background while they login. No more Authentication Server Removed the need for central authentication server application by using modern database, cloud-based replacement. This also means the issue where the server would not "come back online" after automated scheduled maintenances is fixed. Cloud-based Saves Rewrote saving of player data from saving to local JSON files to saving into cloud database. Upgraded server to .NET 5, stripped down to lightweight console application Faster generally, cross-platform server application. Server ported to a Console Application. Replaced ZLib with LZMA A Modern, faster compression library, with better compatibility. ZLib was causing some players to be unable to run the new client. New oAuth Login System (Social Logins!) Rewritten login system to login through OAuth 2.0 standard which allows players to authenticate directly through the forum. This also means social logins is working again after all this time. Not just the existing methods of social logins, but we can basically add any service that has oAuth as an authentication method for Nin Online! Map Instancing We now have the in-engine functionality to create instanced maps. This for the time being will just used for Player Housing. Player Housing Player Housing is now implemented into the Engine, however there are currently no purchasable houses in the world, we'll add them as soon as we ensure the server is stable. Furniture System aka Placeable Objects Placeable Objects, there are now items that can be placed into the world (not just houses) like a Chair, or Table. Corporation aka. Corps System This is the successor to Official Organizations. Player Organizations will be a completely separate, new system in the future. Corporations is a fully in-game replacement of player organizations. Kages can now manage the corps in their village, and assign leaders there. Leaders can manage members. Each corporation can have a unique set of roles/titles. Each corporation can have a time limit for how long a member can stay in it, and a cooldown for how long before you can rejoin it. This takes effect whether you were kicked or time runs out to prevent abuse. The in-game UI for Corps is currently using a temporary UI that only works when running in windowed mode. New Player Reporting System The previous report system was essentially useless. You can now Right-click -> Report a player to open a game window that asks you what the player is doing wrong. This will immediately alert any GMs online about it, and save the report to our cloud server, where can handle data better than ever before. Profanity Chat Filter In an effort to encourage better player communication, we've added a system that replaces words like the N word to a cleaner alternative. Added 144 FPS cap on the client This was missing in the previous versions of the Inochi client. Stat Reset at Level 10 This is now a permanent, automatic feature because I don't want people feeling that they didn't add the right stats at level 10 and need to buy a stat reset or create a new character. It's too early to take a player's money, and they didn't know any better. So at level 10, your stats automatically reset, no item required. Forum upgraded The forum just underwent a major upgrade after quite some years. It should contain a lot of cool new features coming soon! Client now prioritizes 64-bit processing mode. Replaced client fonts. Improved Map Loading times by improving process and using better compression method. Rewrote how Packets are handled on the server, Improving latency by up to 20ms Fixed jerky movement present on the Inochi client by rewriting movement client-side to use Linear Interpolation and time instead of pixel-by-pixel movement. Fixed Blurry Textures after Zooming Bug Possibly fixed the Client bug known as "After Images" Fixed a bug where typing in some UI would trigger HUD and interact with the game. Map Transitions are now Time Based instead of FPS based and should be consistently fast on lower FPS capped clients. Fixed some issues causing the new client to not work on some computers, related to outdated libraries and rare crashes, based on player crash reports. Fixed client grabbing your wrong IPv4 for localhost testing. Fixed some visual flaws in Character Creation with the Mist Village button (No animations). Improved Combat Text to move at a consistent speed on all FPS. Client now Times out during Server Selection if it fails to login after 30 seconds Fixed a bug where Jutsu with cooldowns less then 1 second wouldn't be correctly processed Fix to Slow Cast Jutsu making walking move players backwards Fixed an exploitable bug where two trades could be opened at once Fixed a lot of issues where the Client would disconnect from the server unexpectedly. Rewrote game's time calculations, which Improves Server Responsiveness for attacks and Jutsu. Optimized, refactored login processing to speed up logins dramatically. Halved the server startup times by threading loading of data, allowing for faster server scheduled maintenances restarts. Powerful server Job System, allowing for tasks to be multi-threaded, put simply, This improves server performance. Improved the new UI System (Currently used for options menu, housing menu) rendering performance. Fixed an issue with resizing your client making the cursor invisible on the title bar of the game. Game Masters & Developer Related Changes Players can now be muted for longer than 255 hours Fixed some of our Live Editors crashing the game on the new client /heal can now be used by Game Masters, allowing them to remove Battle Injuries from players Clone/Paste functionality has returned to our Live Editors. Fixed many Event Management commands not working as intended Added /faint to force yourself to faint PatchnoteFeaturesHeader.png.cb804e75c3da7a4e81a4bcaf546ecd6d.png.1477a5ae2419bed77fe06f7c7eeba9de.png.url
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  22. Dear Ninja, The next update for Nin Online has been awhile coming now, and we're also not sure when we'll be able to get it ready to launch. We're working almost every day of the week to try to make sure the update is the best it can be. But in the end, it's only really going to disappoint a large number of people because just by launching it because it's not like straight out content updates, we've been working on underlying systems a lot to get the game fully modernized. We put time into the wrong things In hindsight, a lot of what we've been working on is less important than it seemed. Like we re-programmed the entire game's saving to be Object-Oriented, in a production-level cloud database, MongoDB Atlas, but in the end, it's still going to be entirely the same for the end user. So it's a shame, it's something I believed was going to be a seamless transition, but took weeks out of our time to resolve all the problems, and we might still be having some. And again, in hindsight, this should've taken a backseat to working on things people care about or would directly affected their gameplay. Cloud saving is nice to have, and it brings about opportunity for stuff like a Web frontend for Nin, like imagine being able to display your characters on the forum, or edit their name from the web, manage your items etc. We rewrote the login system to use oAuth, a clean login standard that means no more entering your password every time you want to login too. It also simplifies our server's job of checking MySQL tables to check if a player is banned because oAuth handles all that on the client and web side. Logins should also just be faster in general now, as we've rewrote a lot of the underlying login code as well. We updated the server to work with .NET 5 instead of .NET Framework. It's basically Microsoft's latest development framework. Which sounds like a small change, but .NET Framework is ancient technology at this point. .NET 5 allows us to modernize the server even further and export it as a containerized server for hosting services like Heroku. This also means that the server is now a console application, and cross-platform (we can host it on Linux servers which are cheaper because Linux is free and Windows Servers need licenses, Linux servers are also more easily available). Along with this, we also halved the server loading/launching time. So less down time between server restarts. Wolf rewrote the packet handler thread in this update, it should shave off about 20ms off larger packets. We updated our networking library to use it's latest version, this was an attempt to fix some low-level bugs with disconnection we were having. We replaced the compression library from Zlib to LZMA, which fixes a lot of compatibility issues players were having with the new client and potential crashes. We also managed to get map packets and map loading down a lot with better compression along with reducing the amount of packets needed to be sent on login by almost 10 fold. So faster logins, better map loading times. But in order to do this, it meant we had to deprecate the old client. It's a weird situation. In order to deprecate the old client we needed to make this change, but Zlib was also making it so some people couldn't move to the new client. We have the player housing update, furniture update and corps update in this too one patch too. We also used MongoDB to replace an entire component of our server architecture, our authentication. It's now an entirely passive web-based solution. Servers register to an online database instead of sending that data to the authentication server to do the central server selection stuff. As such, we also had to make it so the server does the saving directly to the cloud instead of the authentication server. So a lot of these things were interconnected, and had to be all done at once. This directly caused us to stack update after update into one patch, and it became harder and harder to push one patch without issues. With all the major architectural changes and low-level code rewrites, a lot of things broke. Because of the nature of the changes we were making, we also couldn't make them independently of each other, so it had to be one big update or nothing. There's also a hundred other things I've left out, including reworking movement on the client side to animate smoother. These things don't make the patch any more complicated, so it's not worth mentioning. Hectic month of testing with BR Server We started testing the latest patch around a month ago on the Brazil Server now. During that time, we've fixed issue after issue, and some of the "fixes" were also entire rewrites, which caused more issues. It's been stressful, we've had days spent just fixing login issues, and days spent just fixing saving. We've had data corruption issues, where players accounts and all their data become too messed up to fix, and we've had to do hacky fixes for them like restore partially their data from old backups. We've had a period where the same player couldn't login for a span of days, and we realized the server wasn't disconnecting players properly. Stressful stuff. We've had issues where resetting characters wasn't working and worst yet, it created a duping exploit. We've had more of these issues in a span of a month, than we've had over the last 3 years of development. We pushed two new major features, one is currently being used actively, and that also came with it's own issues, but was a lot easier to fix than the issues that came from major architectural changes. Though some have been incidental to them. We've had issues where players were logging in as other players when they tried to login at the same time. We've had players spamming us telling us we're idiots and we should just put back the old client, we've had players spamming us telling us to revert to the old server, to stop using them as a test server, all while our full-time job had become fixing issues for a month. It's been stressful, for both me and Wolf. Side note: Whenever Brazil players complain about the issues happening, we sympathize with them, but we also think about how up until now, they've only been getting updates that have been screened and tested by the NA/Global server (you guys) and so they're fortunate to not have been the guinea pigs up until now haha Irreversible Update The worst part in all this was the difficulty in which the reversal of this update would've been. In order to update Brazil server, we needed to move all of the existing data into the cloud into a slightly different format. Which meant if we want to reverse the update, we would need to build a software to convert the data back into our old format as local JSON files or rolling back players a month. So it's been a go hard or go home month. There were times where I'm so tired I wanted to reverse the entire update and call it quits (this also happened just yesterday) but I had to force myself to look through code and fix it instead, despite being so sick of it. This is going to be even more so irreversible for the main server, because in order to update the next patch, we have to update the forum software, and that's one-way. So we're going to have to be even more careful with this server, which is why we're taking our time and making sure everything is good to go. The worst part I'm also stressing out about how this update won't bring enough content to make players happy, or bring gameplay value to people. It's very painful, knowing this, because we've been working so hard on this, but I know in the end, this is more for the sake of the game in the long term, and also some of it is just wasted effort. Most people won't care that the game server runs slightly smoother and that login is faster, more convenient etc. Nobody is going to care that player data is now stored in a cloud database. This update has been months of work now, but I'm just waiting for the criticism on how it's a shit update etc. It's going to happen, and I'll understand why, but it'll still be hurtful. This update when it takes into account how much work has gone into it by two of us, thousands of hours of work, which means tens of thousands of dollars worth of work. It's not funny for me, it's very painful. And I agree with players, is it really necessary? We could've done without. I could've just not have a full-time programmer, and I could've just focused my time on working on stuff people care about like adding more Jutsu. This has been the hardest months of development since maybe 2017 when the server was unstable, crashing every 1-4 hours, and it's self inflicted. The bright side The bright side is that things are looking much better, there seems to be some rare bugs that happen, but it's stable for the most part now. One guy claims he managed to login multiple times in a row without it saving his progress, which we're looking into. And there's some others who seem to not be able to login sometimes. We're looking into that too. The reception of the update has been a lot better, after holding a tournament yesterday, Kenock (Brazil server admin) remarked that the server felt smoother than ever with a large number of people on the map, and it was a high activity period of Brazil server as well, so there were lots of players online in general. Brazil server host is also notoriously bad (despite being super expensive), so if it runs on Brazil's server well, it's going to run even better on NA's. We don't know when we'll be confident to launch this update on the main server yet. Because if anything messes up, we'll be running heroics, fixing corrupted data, or salvaging the situation, pushing updates on two servers instead of one. This is another reason why we regret so much making this update so major (on an architectural level). We did also have to do a lot of this in order to deprecate the old client. We did spend some time making sure the new client is ready to completely replace the old client, and that anyone will be able to use it. So we haven't had anyone on Brazil server that can't use the new client completely anymore... Lastly, I'd just like to apologize in advance if what we've worked on doesn't please you. I know, it's not what anyone wanted. But we've been doing what we thought was important. We've re-evaluated what's more important going forward and will focus on bringing content updates here on out. It's both easier for us, and more fun for you. Regards, Ueda EDIT: Just thought of something funny. Maybe the reason we worked on Cloud saving is because everyone kept asking "Cloud when?" and we interpreted it wrongly EDIT2: Some of the low-level changes we made include rewriting the game's method of calculating time, and the spell buffer. This could've been causing issues with sometimes your jutsu not casting when you press it, and small things like that - that maybe some players will notice.
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  23. This post should have happened maximum a year after that 2018 post. As I fully understand where you are going and why it is best to work on other stuff, I feel like we have been hyped and missled by you. We are not a big community and we are the core reason of why Nin Online is still a thing. Yet you kept the truth from us for years. We know very little of what you are planing and why certain things are the way they are even tho most of us, this precious community, cant understand the reasoning without answers. Many jutsu's are the way they currently are because of advanced and many in game unbalance were unchanged because of advanced. Advanced were the reasoning behind lots of things that didnt make sence to us. But we waited because advanced masteries were suppose to be the answer to our many questions. We endured true unbalance and a medical ninja pandemic because things were supposed to be set for the future balance. It was only natural for us to spam you and question you about advanced masteries. I know this was annoying, but if you had said the truth from the begining, for my part I wouldnt feel lied. As for now, since the advanced are cancelled, it would be nice if the in game pvp balance is not based around the future and actually based around what it is currently. Yours truly, Nin Online lover and addict since 2015, Indra.
    22 points
  24. First of all, best suggestion post I've seen in a long time, maybe ever. First one that really made me smile in a long time at least. We're in the midst of some major reworks as you can tell, this is becoming more possible by the day. I've pinned it as an example of what suggestions can be!
    22 points
  25. Mailbox System This isn't activated for player use yet, but we've added a new mailbox feature where we can send items to players when their inventory is full, for events etc. An example of usage for this will be that when players house rent ends, we'll collect their furniture and mail it to them. Other uses would be for debugging players or distributing items for events (eg. Free stat reset day~) This will come a bit later, but we also intend to let players send items to each other for a Ryo (in-game currency) fee/tax. Knockback System Rework Can no longer control knockback directions by changing own direction for projectiles Slight knockback animations so players can track targets better visually. Also optimized and cleaned up the code a lot. I understand that this will rustle some feathers. Although it's a bug fix, players have built a meta game around this bug and fixing it was a decision that I had to take serious consideration about. It was a bug that introduced some level of complexity to combat, but it was also very hard to balance around. We'll have to make some balance changes in the coming days, and we're open to feedback. Added warning when dropping an item in an instanced map Players were thinking they could transfer items in instanced maps. Added new feature to our universal control prompts (Esc to cancel). Added text wrapping to new UI system, used for improving text rendering on confirmation prompts for now. (Admin only) Dummy logged in players now can be attacked (Admin only) Added command for us to broadcast messages to specific villages Fixed Projectile Max Range rendering (they were disappearing too late). Fixed players being unable to Right click -> Report concealed ninja. Fixed world maps in village displaying general world map rather than village specific maps. Fixed players getting stuck when using a buff (eg. Substitution Technique) right after changing maps. Fixed 2 misc. obscure client crashes due to null values. Fixed players being able to get knocked back into player house walls and solid furniture.
    21 points
  26. Suwa Clan Attires The suwa clan like many clans have been waiting on new clothing. @Ryutekzu, Takami and @Sin, have contacted me, to create an updated attires for the suwa clan. We would like to ask @Ueda if he accepts the designs and whether or not he likes them, so that we may continue working on the sprites. Large Size Normal size Artist: @Roei Guidance: @Ryutekzu, @Sin And Takami
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  27. As some of you MAY KNOW, the Boss enemy, Dark Weasel, uses 2 techniques: Dark Wind Scythe - Dark Slicing Wind - What I would like to suggest is, Bosses that can cast jutsus should drop a scroll that can re-skin a specific jutsu to the dark version of it. The scroll would be one time use and tradeable. Examples: Dark Weasel skins: Dark Slicing Wind Re-Skin Scroll Dark Wind Scythe Re-Skin Scroll Kiemon skins: Dark Phoenix Fireball Re-Skin Scroll Dark Great Fireball Re-Skin Scroll Reain skins: Dark Wind Barrage Re-Skin Scroll Dark Slashing Tornadoes Re-Skin Scroll These are only a couple of examples, but my idea is for every Boss that can cast jutsus, there could be these skin drops. Please leave feedback down below C: -Thanks for readin
    21 points
  28. Jiroubou | To the next era of the Hidden Leaf.
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  29. The best way to replace the RP tokens system that I could come up with is this: A chunin+ teams 3 genins of appropiate levels, the chunin goes to the mission desk, talks to the NPC that used to give the RP missions and gets to choose between the rank of the mission he wants to complete. (each rank having a certain level requirement so it couldnt be abused for faster leveling) After choosing the D rank option for exemple, the whole team will get shared some kind of D rank mission[exemple: Clean the kage office(perform 50 /e commands fitting the job you got) or complete a bell training]. Once the mission is done, the team will get rewarded with an amount of ryo and exp based on the mission rank. These missions could be the same as dailies which will help players that interact with each other and eventually RP to level faster. These missions delete from players questlog once the team is broken. The advantage of this new system are: 1.It will be way harder to abuse this kind of missions. 2.Pushes players to interact and RP more which also might increase game activity overall. 3.Genins would get to learn a lot of more things from the high ranks. 4.Chunin/Special jonin/Jonin rank becomes more meaningful. I strongly believe that this kind of replacement for the RP missions will make the game way more enjoyable for everyone.
    20 points
  30. Inspired by @Machi, written by me. When a village loses all it's raid points, it should turn into a danger zone. That way there's a huge incentive to go out and get those points, it'll increase player hunting ten-fold as 95% of the village population hide in the safe zone which makes the game boring for others. @Erox @Ueda Let's make this happen!
    20 points
  31. I've always felt becoming a Chuunin and Jonin was under-whelming. Nothing came with those ranks except a piece of clothing and the rank name itself. My suggestion today is to give more meaning to becoming a ranked ninja for your village. Blood and Chakra pills Tier 2/3- With the addition of tiers to pills, I suggest locking them to higher ranked ninja. It makes sense RP wise, for example the effects of these pills are too strong for a mere genin to use. Only a Chuunin ranked ninja who's faced adversary can handle it. So these should be locked to Chuunin ninjas. Blood and Chakra pills Tier 4 - You must be a Jonin to use these. Charms - I feel like charms are great for the game but really underrated / forgotten. When ninjas do know about them they often get a charm that doesn't work with their build / masteries. My suggestion is that once a ninja becomes a Chuunin (or Jonin) they can travel to the charm NPC and ask for their palm to be read again in an attempt to change their charm for a ryo amount (I suggest 1000 ryo) and they should be able to change it as many times as they want. Discounted items in the village - As a Jonin of the village, you build a rapport with the NPC's you've been serving throughout your ninja journey and they are extremely grateful for being protected by you so they want to show you their appreciation and give you a discount on what they are selling. - Option to buy 100 tools for 150 ryo - Option to buy 100 pills for 20% discount. Example, 100 tier 1 pills costs 2500 ryo, as a jonin you can buy them for 2000 ryo. - Option to buy clothes in the respected village for 20% discount. Example, Mist Pimp jacket is 40,000 ryo, as a jonin you pay 32,000 ryo. Unlock Spawn Points - This is a Jonin req benefit. Being able to spawn at a different area would be an awesome benefit to have because of your hard work of becoming a jonin ranked ninja. Mist Jonins - Unlock Spawn point at Tatori Village Leaf Jonins - Unlock Spawn point at Tanzaku Sand Jonins - Unlock Spawn point at Blood Puppet NPC These are just some that I have on my mind and I'm sure if @Ueda approves then as a community we can think of more. I hope you enjoyed reading these and I can count on your support!
    19 points
  32. This is something that has been brought up over and over but hasn't reached rory yet so this is another try at it, imma keep it short n simple. Blood Tonfa + chakra scalpel is simply too strong allowing the user to hit 100+ on melee with a fairly good attack speed. There isn't any sacrifices for such a strong build here's an example With tai crit scaling it gets even scarier melee masteries were never meant to be dealing this much dps this is just too strong with Tonfa able to heal aswell
    19 points
  33. Dear Ninja, I think it's around that time of year again where it's time to commemorate Nin Online's 9th Anniversary. Nin Online started in June 2013 officially (we were working on it for 2 months prior to announcing it) and so every June is a bit special in that we can celebrate Nin Online still going strong. Version 4 On top of it being 9 years of Nin Online, we've also today hit another arbitrary milestone, namely we've hit version 4.0.0, which means you're officially playing Nin Online 4 at this point. To put it into perspective, we launched the Inochi Client aka. New Client aka. C# Client in 2021 as version 3.5.0. The way we iterate the version numbers is... Minor increments, when there is no need to invalidate a past version 3.5.0 -> 3.5.0b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j Major increments, when we don't want people of the last version to login to the game 3.5.0x -> 3.5.1 In this way, we've released 194 client updates since April 2021. Which puts us at an average of around 1 update every 2 days. Before this, we weren't tracking updates, but it has always been about that. This is also not considering updates that are only server sided! aX6j08b.mp4 When we launched the C# Client, the number of changes that were in it on top of just optimizations could be counted with your fingers. We had to maintain the same feature set for the most part to retain compatibility with the old server and old client because it had yet to be deprecated. When it launched, the coolest thing was that it had a more modern camera and it had an options menu (that worked). Since then, it's had entire new systems that were impossible before added: such as the Lighting System, Map Baking, Seeing behind walls, oAuth and Quick Logins, Mailing. Thanks to the client being made in Visual Studio, we've had such an easy time debugging for Nin Online in the past year. Just in the past month, we've fixed over 100 reported bugs. We've also had the benefit of working with Github Copilot in the past few weeks, it's almost crazy for me to say this, but we're literally using ML and cutting edge technology to work on Nin Online. A bewildering departure from the days of working with a 1990s IDE (Visual Basic 6) for those who don't know, that's how Nin Online was built in 2013. This has always been the vision and this is why despite many asking for us the retain the old client, we couldn't. We're excited to add so much more that would've been impossible in the past. 9 Years I don't want to say too much and take away from next year's Denary. Because it's still not the 10th year of Nin Online, but it will officially be next year, it's just really close to it. I don't think many people can say they've given a decade of their lives to a project like this. I'm very proud of how far the game has come, and when I say this, I get flashbacks to times where people were telling me Nin Online was going to die soon etc. I even came across a post of myself in 2014 recently talking about how I saw Nin Online maybe lasting 4-5 years. A lot of what I believed was possible then came from similar experiences working on games in the past on Online Games, BYOND, Private Servers. I thought that a game like this would have a short, finite lifespan for sure because that's how it always was. It took me years to realize that it was possible to build a game that is sustainable. Most people who play Nin Online will never learn the deep history of the game. Nin Online is not a game that has ever been about money or even a game that pleases the mass market. To truly understand that, this year, I've written a long elaborate history of the game since its inception and first attempts in 2004. I really hope you give it a read with your time! I think it'll give a new perspective on the game, and also help your understand why I do this and make the choices I make. I'd also be honored if as many people as possible live their lives knowing the history of this little game development scene that happened in the 2000s until today. I don't want the history to live and die with me! The future Well first I have to get some 9th anniversary events going then we can talk about the long term future. But I think the future of Nin Online has never been surer, we'll continue to put out great updates as we always have. We hope you keep supporting Nin Online! Regards, Ueda
    18 points
  34. Im giving it a shot with some Gothic/vampire inspired furniture set. I plan to add more items in this same post so stay tuned, but I wanted to share my progress so far Icons: Chair: Table: Big Table: Drawer: Sofa: Stool: Candle: Red Moon: Rug: Mirror: Fire place: Coffin: Heres a little preview how they could look in game. The Coffin acts as a bed Also created some Color variants in halloween themed colors: Green: Purple: Orange: And last but not least a color variant for the moon to channel your inner werewolf: Inspiration drawn from gothic furniture like this ones:
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  35. Anatomically correct skeleton "display" for Halloween....or health class OR displaying your fallen enemies as your own personal trophies. The furniture that fits any occasion, but definitely keeps the October spooky vibes around. I'll probably submit a few more things before the due date, but I hope yall enjoy this! (I had to stop before I made a whole skeleton base sprite) Big Preview. With Base. Icon:
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  36. GF = Gentle Fist (if it wasn't made clear) The community has expressed frustration on fighting the GF mastery multiple times and I'm sure this isn't the first (or the last) post about this. This is however a suggestion offered more as a 'quick fix' that would require minimal work, rather than a complete rework of the class. I'll explain in my opinion why this mastery is so frustrating and unbalanced. The combo below is the one I'm using as reference as it's where the frustration lies: GF combo: Flicker -> Palm Bottom -> Mountain Crusher -> Any follow-up Any flicker combo in the game has one of the two characteristics: Undodgeable: Jutsu combos like Flicker -> Windclaw for example (before you disagree, yes this can be hard punished, ask any wind user who has fought me) Unpunishable: Jutsu combos like Flicker -> Fan 3 tile tornado, or Flicker -> poison scalpel The gentle fist combo mentioned above has both of these characteristics. It is both undodgeable AND unpunishable and is the only combo in the game to have these characteristics. While you may argue 'this is why GF is special' the scaling of damage on the combo with both these characteristics offers an advantage no other mastery even comes close to, which is why it's considered so unbalanced. Proposed solution: Remove just one of these characteristics (not completely, you would still keep the undodgeable combo, just reduce the damage on it). My suggestion to do this is by changing the hitbox of the Palm bottom skill. Currently Palm bottom has the following hitbox: The reason this is undodgeable with flicker (as apposed to something like flicker -> tornado) is due to the hitbox of tiles 1 and 5. My suggested change of the hitbox is as follows: Conclusion I want this to be a fix that is agreeable with current GF players. The playstyle would still be the same, it would just add more opportunities to play the class well as skilled players would still be able to time their flicker to land more damage on their combo, and the overall combo after flicker would still be undodgable, just do less damage. This would open up opportunities for counterplay through good movement and also add for more opportunities to showcase skill on the class. As this is a suggestion, please keep replies on topic.
    18 points
  37. PP_Brothers_newspaper.pdfHere is a PDF version of Newspaper Welcome fellow ninja's, me and my brother @Poggers would like to introduce all of you to our newest RP project that will be like a newspaper. It will contain alot of segments like interviews, photo of the week, insult of the week and more similar stuff like that. I hope you will enjoy our work and atleast 1 person will read it all lmao. We will be posting or atleast trying to post one newspaper a week. So if you got any content for us just DM us Pog#1000 and Poggers#2623. Thanks to @Vaxure for doing that interview with us, we hope that coach was comfy and lemon cake mady by babushka was tasty. PP_Brothers_newspaper.pdf
    18 points
  38. Elemental mastery LVL 10 LVL 35 LVL 10 LVL 35 LVL 10 LVL 35 LVL 11 LVL 40 LVL 10 LVL 35 Non-Elemental Mastery Chakra medic LVL 10 LVL 35 Int medic LVL 10 LVL 35 Int Weapon master LVL 10 LVL 35 Str Weapon master LVL 10 LVL 35 LVL 10 LVL 35 Hidden Mastery FAN LVL 10 LVL 35 Gentle Fist LVL 10 LVL 35 Bubble LVL 10 LVL 35 Note: Many new players are confused about which stat to put in this guide might help you on what stats you should choose. But feel free to choose anything and change the builds. Thanks so much for providing the builds for this post! @Aesthetic and thanks @Vaxure for the help with gentle fist.
    18 points
  39. Hello Everyone! My name is Aleiya, and I'm from the Leaf Village! I've always felt that during the night and the rain in the village, visibility is pretty low which is why everyone prefers day time so they can see well. I've always envisioned Leaf to be beautiful at night time with its warm lights and homely lit up stalls and shops so I decided to make some concept art for how I hope the design for the lit up villages can look someday! Please like this if you think it should be implemented! I know its a daunting task but its a long term goal to make Nin more beautiful as time passes. :3 I am also in no way an artist, and this is my first time trying my hand at digital art and pixel art so go easy on me! My design:
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  40. I want weekly , monthly missions in the game , these missions make lvl up easier monthly mission: you can only take 3 mission in a month for example:boss missions (kill dark monkey, weasel ,bandit boss) , difficult mission etc. Clan missions: all clan members responsible for complete missions , these missions will be able to progress while doing daily tasks (refresh after all clan quest are finished) for example:(also can add drop rare, common , uncommon legendary etc item ) etc. Weekly Mission: you can only take 1 mission in a week for example:
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  41. 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
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  42. BI-WARRIOR A plague on the Nin PvP scene is the act of being a "Bi-Warrior", which is usually rushing out of hospital after being killed to continue fighting an enemy that may be raiding the village or that your village is engaging with. It's quite a senseless tactic which is more of a display of the villages numbers most of the time then an actual display of any skill. Serious Battle Injuries (SBI) This is the concept solution to the issue. After dying on battle injuries the ninja would be afflicted with the de-buff SBI which would harm them much more than normal battle injuries making them completely unable to come back into the fight and be of any use. Concept 1# SBI would completely ruin the stats of the ninja afflicted with the status. all stats would become the base 5 as if they were just starting at level 1 thus making them almost completely and utterly useless during any sort of defense if they decide to "bi-warrior". Concept 2# SBI would instead of just eliminating their stats cause them to be silenced while still having the same halving effect of stats that BI normally does. This concept prevents infamous Bi-Warrior legends like @Tekkey Hinode from rushing out of hospital, spamming a map-lock jutsu like sensory then dying because they are just senselessly running out in an attempt to have someone from the opposing force die to one of their own ninja or an NPC Jonin. Concept 3# This last one is more or less a complete and total stop to the Bi-Warrior nonsense but also harms normal players on BI so it most likely will be the dud of the 3 concepts listed here. Dying while on battle injuries Gives SBI which then forcibly locks the ninja either into a hospital bed or just in the hospital map, this variant of SBI would completely annihilate any senseless combat. This has been my proposal to fixing Bi-Warrior Nonsense and I hope at least one of these may be considered to cure the plague that raids have been afflicted with for ages. Hope everyone has a wonderful evening
    17 points
  43. TL;DR: Shirokata is very underwhelming for its level/STR requirement, and its unique effect is actually a nerf, read below why. This is coming from someone who has all the swords besides bone/blood, and I've tried each out for several days. 1. Shirokata is the worst compared to its sister swords. Dark Bandit Blade is literally same STR req and level req as Shirokata, but strictly better damage. Even Maramusa is better to use than Shirokata. Muramasa requires 10 less levels, and 20 less STR. And it actually gives the user +1 to STR. Muramasa's requirements are wayyy lower than Shirokata's, and its base damage is only lower than Shirokata's by... 3. By requiring 20 less STR, you pave way for more diverse builds with Maramusa. Shirokata doesn't live up to the 100 STR req. I don't think I need to prove how good Religious Katana is. The base damage is lower than the aforementioned 3 swords, but the attack speed more than makes up for it. So much so, that if 2 people held down Z against each other, Religious wielder would beat the Shirokata/Bandit/Muramasa wielder easily. It's gotten to the point where you just buy and keep Religious for all your levels, until your level/STR is high enough for Bone Sword/Blood Katana later on. The intermediate swords are bad, and Shirokata is the worst between them. Don't like words, and want raw numbers? (The higher the better) Damage of the sword per STR required: Religious Katana: 0.37 Muramasa: 0.375 Shirokata: 0.33 (lowest) Bandit blade: 0.35 Crystal Sword: 0.35 Blood Katana: 0.41 2. Its unique effect is negligible. The Wiki says 12% chakra per 40 seconds. Okay... 40 seconds is a long time but okay, it's at least something I guess. Except it only actually regens flat 10 chakra, not 12%. If it was 12% regen, and you had 300 chakra, you'd regen 36 chakra. A big difference. Even if it was 12%, 40 seconds is way too long for frequency. It should be 4% chakra per 10 seconds, so it's more vivid and applicable. 3. It's bugged; making the unique effect actually a nerf. 3.1 First bug, the passive Chakra Regen, every now and then, removes itself for no reason. Unequiping and re-equiping Shirokata enables the regen again, but it shouldn't turn off ever. No one wants to not have chakra regen. Just keep it on forever. 3.2 Second bug, when the regen happens, there's a pop-up text +10 that appears above your character when you get the chakra. Except... that pop up also weirdly appears when you're already full chakra, when it shouldn't. This exposes you if you're hiding behind a tree preparing an ambush, because the pop up appears over trees, objects, everything, giving away your position. The only reason I even walk around with this sword is because I like the visuals of it. 4. Suggestions on how to buff it. I always believe that balancing is about keeping in mind item identity over item standardization. (I'll prolly make a post about this later). Buffing Shirokata's damage or attack speed is not it, and would just make it like other swords. (Although, I do think a slight buff to attack speed is necessary) Each sword has its own identity, and Shirokata's, I guess, is the Chakra Regen passive. My suggestion is to do the following: - To make the regen 4% chakra every 10 seconds. That'd be 10 chakra if you had 250 total chakra (which is what WM users generally go). - To lower the STR req. STR req should be 85 at most. Currently, you're telling me this sword requires 100 STR, when, just with 10 more STR, you arrive at Bone/Blood, which are miles better? If Shirokata's damage is similar to Muramasa (33 vs 30), the STR req should be similar to Muramasa's (80), not 100. If you don't want to reduce its STR req, then buff its damage to match that of Blood Katana/Kyuketsuki (Crystal). If you like this post, do not give it reacts. Just upvote the post itself, so Rory can see.
    17 points
  44. As many people have noticed, after reaching level 50 the game gets boring, pvp is fun, but also pointless, so after a while it gets boring. Currently the danger zones are empty with a few exceptions where villages come out in groups of 15 people to do raid points or crush few lowbies. I would like to propose a system of organizations wars and organizations ranking. A lot of people like compete and I think that would enliven the game. THIS IS NOT SOLUTION FOR DRY DANGER ZONES but it should bring some motivation and fun to the game. My first suggestion is about creating possibility to declare war to other organization, this is example how it could work: Leader of organization "ABC" declare war to organization "XYZ" with or without option to waging a sum of money for example 10k ryo(this automatically takes money from organization leader) and leader of organization "XYZ" can accept or deny war(if he agree 10k ryo will be taken). Winner organization gets 20k ryo. The goal is to get 100 enemy kills(org leader can choose number), and here are few rules to make it spicy: You lose bounty in every zone if u die from enemy organization player during war. If you die on BI you still count as kill(so it prevents from BI warrioring and force you to think about strategy). Organization wars panel should be avalible on forum. You should be able to see current wars for example: Zadymka (90 kills) VS Kozuki (5 kills) Seigi (70 kills) VS Taka (30 kills) My second suggestion is about creating ranks of organizations. How it could work? If you are in organization and you kill someone who is in organization (doesn't matter if its in war) your organization gets 1 kill. Organization with biggest kill counter gets some reward(for example: every organization member of winners gets 5 coupons) Here are as well some spicy rules: Kills in safe zones counts. Kill on bi doesn't count(prevents from exploiting). Kills resets once for 2 weeks and winners gets prize. Organizations kills should be visible on forum in Organizations Rank 4. Kozuki 5. Shinigami This is it, tell me what do you think about those ideas.
    16 points
  45. Hey guys, I was thinking of achievements system that can add some post lv 60 game play and can work really good with mechanics that are already implanted such as titles and housing, and as far as inserting it to the game shouldn't be too hard since they are just counters of predetermined events. completing achievements will rank up your prestige Rank, this will not give any advantage besides swag but hey we know how much swag is important in NIn. the prestige rank could be visible around the village image for example: (ofc this is just a suggestion) and also while being targeted and unmasked Completing some achievements or ranks will unlocks stuff like titles, furniture, or cosmetic items for example: killing 1000 bears could award u with a bear rug for your house so that when u have visitors they can see your brave grindings! using 500 red pills could award u the title "The Addict" Visiting Every single map ( that is not org related ) could award you an "Explorer Hat" cosmetic and so on... I believe this could really give some more mid-endgame content for all of us grinders and completionists, and also another way to reward players for great achievements. Ranks will also be a way of making your character out stand near others. Adding a list of achievements i thought of: Achievements: kill Leaf players 10, 50, 100, 200 kill Sand players 10, 50, 100, 200 kill Mist players 10, 50, 100, 200 kill Rogue players 10, 50, 100, 200 kill enemies 10, 100, 1000 kill boss X 1, 5, 10, 50 daily missions completed 10, 100, 1000 mission Completed % complete daily Mission X 1, 5, 10, 50 spend X ryo in shops Own a House Own furnitures 1,5,10,20 Die X 10, 50, 100 ,1000 Maps visited % Get your horoscope Get Summon 1 ,2 ,3 ,4 Achieve lv 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 55, 60 Max jutsus 1, 3, 6, 12, 17 Have bounty 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000 Colect Bounty 50, 100, 500, 1000 Win 777 1,2,3,5 Get into an Organization run x distance run x distance on water Mold x chakra recover x hp use X tools 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000 use X blood pills 10, 50, 100, 200 use X chakra pills 10, 50, 100, 200
    16 points
  46. Hello!I continued my clan banners and now I made 2 for each leaf clan, in case anyone wanna decorate their profile cover photo. Feel free to use them. Each clan is represtented by a color, but they all share the similarity of using a forest as a background, cause Leaf village I also created leaf village ones in case someone is not in a clan but still want to use a forum banner:
    16 points
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