Ueda

Added a temporary bandaid solution which was just nerfing Blood tonfas for the time being, but we'll make it so they don't work together in the future.

Reduced Blood Tonfas base damage from 45 -> 30, decreased attack speed from 1s -> 1.1s I hereby commit to eventually making Taijutsu weapons not work with Fist type buffs like Gentle Fist and Chakra Scalpel Jutsu with a weapon like blood Tonfas. However, that is not within our current features to be able to do so. So for the time being I'm making some bandaid solutions to this being too over powered. Changed Crystal Fan & Blood Iron Fan attack 1 projectile instead of 3 projectile Range increased from 5 tiles to 8 tiles Attack speed increased from 2.7s to 2.4s Damage increased from 20-22 Oriental Fan attack speed reduced from 2.3s to 2.4s The focus of the following changes is to reduce reliance on pipe for Non-Bubble users as a "support weapon" while making Bubble Mastery itself stronger for people fully invested in it. Bubble Jutsu base damage increased by 4 across ALL Bubble jutsu Bubble Clone damage increased more so Level 10 Bubble Utilizing Pipe (Level 35 pipe and jutsu snares unaffected) Snare reduced from 2s to 1.2s Damage reduced from 13 to 11 Poison Scalpel Technique changes Increased Poison Scalpel Technique cooldown by 1 Increased Poison Scalpel Damage by 1

Sorry while these sound like fun suggestions, we don't have the features required to make these changes atm. So these are pretty big suggestions. We'll consider it, but it might take longer to implement such things than simple balance changes.

Dear Ninja, I need some help from community members to submit cool screenshots of Nin Online with some specific requirement: The screenshot should not contain things within Nin Online that are direct references to Naruto, or as little as possible Eg. Clothing that are from Naruto like Uzu Jacket Eg. Leaf village academy, Leaf village gate For every winning submission, we'll reward up to 10 people in each winning screenshot with 10 Ninja Credit Gift cards. Do provide the names of the submissions when posting in the description (@ tag them or it won't count)! We'll be taking up to 5 screenshots for promotional usage. Other notes: We need screenshots with variety. Different locations, variety in indoor/outdoor locations, different people/looking people, different clothes, different hair colors. This is because we won't pick two screenshots from the same location or two with everyone looking the same. Unedited screenshots is preferred unless you have epic skills with editing. If you do edit it, it would be good to provide the unedited version as well. 1920x1080 is preferred, but anything bigger is fine. Non zoomed screenshots is preferred. New client screenshots are preferred. Natural posing is a good idea, not everyone standing in one line or facing the same direction. Have some people fighting if it's a place people fight, or have people interacting with things in the map like if there's a fridge just RP facing the fridge as an example. Day screenshots or screenshots where there's ample light is preferred. Submit your screenshots here in this Gallery Album: https://www.ninonline.org/forum/gallery/category/4-screenshot-competition-2021/ Regards, Ueda

I've pondered how to prevent people from killing alts but there's never a good solution. People will always cheese systems, what we can do is limit it with things like what Seitenchi mentioned. We have to balance how inconvenient it is for them to do it and limit the reward it gives.

While some of these definitely need balancing. It's a strawman argument or selective data bias to pin point one aspect of balance and graph them this way without considering multiple other factors like whether they have abilities, their attack speeds, their rarities, their level requirement, their ryo value, their knockback chance, their knockback distances.

This does nothing but make it so everyone AFKs in hospitals or logs out instead of in the village. You can't force people to participate in your missions. If they're not safe in the place designed for them to chill (their village) they'll just move to the next safest place.

https://www.ninonline.org/forum/forums/index/topic/4915-patch-notes/page/31/#comments

Buffed Shirokata STR Require changed from 100 -> 85. Chakra Regeneration Buff changed from 10 CP every 40 seconds to 5 CP every 10 seconds.

Great post, this is something that we want to look into in the future!

The support system has become overwhelmed with name change requests, with players using the name changes support system to change names multiple times, or making name changes without gold/silver ninja, instead of it's original purpose to free inactive usernames. We seek your understanding about this change, and hope to streamline the system for name changes in the future. We've also noticed a huge spike in people trying to reserve names by creating lots of accounts and occupying sought-after names. As such, the system for the time being to free inactive usernames is now only usable by Gold Ninja, and is exclusively a way to free inactive usernames. We will not rename your account to that name. We've also increased the price of taking such inactive usernames to 5 dollars, at least for the time being. We hope this will reduce the amount of requests, until we can improve our support system. These changes will be active as of all support tickets created from 5/27/2021 onwards.

May 2021 PromotionsLeaf Village Jonin: @Sin @Nemesis Chunin: @Lastant @Naizen @Shinobee Hinode @Saviola Specialized Jonin: @Fuketzu for exceptional performance in trapping, Earth Ninjutsu and he got better at math. Sand Village Jonin: @Deko @Sukki Chunin: @Ryu @Tetsuya @appa @Burnfinix Specialized Jonin: @Valentina Johnson for exemplary support skills. Mist Village Jonin: @Machi @Yashagoro Chunin: @Insidious @Zealot @fox @Syke Specialized Jonin: @Black Asta for exemplary control over Lightning Ninjutsu.

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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!

Fixed White Fur Cap not hiding wearer's hair.

2nd Week of April Winner (Late Announcement) Congratulations @Rage All submissions after 31st April are considered for the next round!

This is all something we're looking closely at this year! Thanks for the suggestions.

I take all balance changes seriously. But not all balance suggestions are equal, and even those that sound good, don't fit the bigger picture when all factors important in balance are considered. Neither do many of them take into consideration things planned in the future (not anyone's fault, I don't often like to talk about what's in the pipeline for a bunch of reasons) All I can ask for is people's trust and understanding that even though PvP content is not a large focus this year, things are on track. There's been a plan from the very beginning, and people may joke about my vision. But watch any PvP video from 2013, one from 2015, and every year after and you'll see how things have formed up into what it is now. There have been changes on the way, like bubble mastery was never planned until 2018-ish, but I'm always considering a lot more than meets the eye when it comes to making balance changes. Of course it'll be easier for me to tweak numbers than say no to them.

It's sad but I doubt any soundtrack can stay fresh after years. I tend to play the game with volume down too a lot, just because I'm working or multi-tasking, watching videos etc. Which is why when the track came on it was nostalgic xD Thanks everyone for the kind words.

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!

Dear Ninjas, We're proud to officially announce Nin Online working fully on Mac OS! If you are a Mac user You can download and play by visiting our download page now. Support While limited for support, as we're not that familiar with debugging the client specifically for Macs. We'll try our best to continue to support Mac OS into the future. This has been made possible by our new (Inochi) client and the hard work of @Delp who provided the installation and wrapper for Mac. Regards, Ueda

The problem with going with "some people will get a reset" is that people will start doubling down on things they don't actually want to play, because it's meta now, because they think they'll get to choose again later. My official statement is: There won't be a time where you play Nin in a specific way and then suddenly your combination of character building is suddenly not viable and we don't do anything to help you. So play as you want.

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This week's winner is @Ninja All submissions after April 15th will be considered for the next round!