Elemental Bodies
Elemental bodies now have an active regen rather than passive regen based on the tables. All elemental bodies must conform to this change immediately. The reason behind this is that we state in the rules Elemental bodies must have more of their element to regen, but then we add in that its passive. Not to mention that elemental bodies passively regen without the - stamina requirement like normal regen people take. So to balance this out they must pay chakra per regeneration. Not only that but they regenerate at a speed equal to the rank of the jutsu casted to regenerate. An example of this would be say you're in a fight and lost your arm. If you don't mind a slight wait then cast a C-rank and have it cost a little less chakra but it regains at 6 posts. If you care about the speed then cast an A-rank regen that costs a good bit but it regains at 3 posts. I specify better the averages of the regen here. You can even mix and match and add debuffs to speed up the time for a lower rank. IE debuff your speed to buff c-rank regen to 5 posts possibly.
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Shinobi Teams
As a part in combating the slow trotting feeling you guys have about the system taking a bit too long. Now when you RP with consistent partners you gain rewards faster with each PB completed. So essentially its just bringing the teams system back, long story short. However this is a bit more intuitive, and prevents abuse of its system by requiring work before you get anything out. So its an interesting little system meant to benefit those repeat writer teams.
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Storytelling
So to promote storytelling and providing an apt challenge. Everyone is encouraged to storytell for someone unless specified otherwise by the moderating team, all PBs are storytellable by anyone. The only time you wouldn't be able to storytell for a PB would be those involving high reward PBs or world changing plot unless specified otherwise. However any kind of PBs can be story told, and this gives an increase reward to the storyteller to provide a little incentive. This such thing is a 1.25x the original points awarded (rounded up). So you get a nice lump of points in exchange for being a director of a PB and not getting stats. However there is a caveat where if it is discovered or it looks like you didn't provide an apt challenge for the rank of the PB you won't be awarded the 1.25x
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What's Goin' On With the Staff So I'm glad you asked whats going on with the staff. So to provide a bit of insight and transparency for all to see let me give you a brief rundown/update of whats going on. As you can tell the mod team has increased and apps are running well, but lets be real you don't care about that. You wanna know those changes we're discussing or trying to bring. So I'll provide a little insight into each however this comes with a disclaimer that is very important. All these changes were working on may change or be dropped entirely. So do not be disappointed if it doesn't come to fruition or isn't the way you thought it'd be. This is entirely meant to be transparent with you guys as requested, and not any sort of "This will happen in the future". With that out of the way, lets get to the core of it.
- We're currently working on a way to redo a character once per member if it were messed up. This isn't intended for old members at all. The point of this is to help newbies who make a character and mess it up now being dissatisfied with it. However they're all too emotionally intertwined with them and don't wanna get rid of them, yet they're an eyesore anytime they do use them so they have this love/hate relationship. This sucks for a new member and drives their activity low. So its important to give them a saving grace once overall to fix it, and from there they have to be smart or suffer the consequences. Some disagreeances here, but it appears largely in favor.
- We're discussing ways to decrease the grinding feeling of rping on the site. However we have to strike a balance between a good pace that doesn't make insta-Bannin or S-ranks, but that feels achievable and not so grindy. Not a whole lot here, sorry!
- We're discussing a way to provide an alternative to death called reincarnation. This doesn't entirely mean your character gets revived and etc, blame Onu for the name. However its an alternative to the way death works currently which is just 50% of your points earned. It tapers the way you earn it by giving you a percentage of the total worth of your character. However to earn almost up to all of it you have to slog through the ranks to unlock more of the total percentage your character is worth up to 90% of it. We're undecided on it believing its too rewarding and will prompt a larger advantage older members would have over newer members, while some believe the rank tapering will prevent an insta-benefit suggesting most won't even achieve it. Its still in the air for debate.
- The January Event is coming along well, however I'm not elaborating on this. Instead I'll provide some hint images and let you cipher through it.
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- We're currently discussing the history. A lot of its in the works, and by a lot of it I mean the entirety of it. Here I'll give a little teaser as to 5 events that have occurred during the current draft of the history, like the images above, decipher it.