cntrstrk14 Posted September 2, 2012 Posted September 2, 2012 Ninja Academy 8.0.1 (Sealless Jutsu and New Terms) Welcome members! It has been longer than expected with summer bringing lots of changes to schedules, but we are starting to roll out the new changes promised almost 6 months ago! So here are the first two relatively mild rules updates... Official 8.0.x Q&A thread Sealless Jutsu Jutsu Rules 5.29: Sealless Jutsu Until this point, Sealless Jutsu approvals were done by the seat of the staff's pants and were based on no concensus or basis what so ever. This leads to no standard and a dozen techniques already approved that do not follow the same rulings. As such, any technique that is sealless will need to be reapproved, unless by some miracle it aligns with these new rules already. As always, it is the MEMBER'S responsibility to make sure their own creations are up to date! Sealless jutsu that do not follow the guidelines in the link above are unapproved as of this posting. Update: See the following post! Definition of Attack and Strike Jutsu Rules 5.28: Definition of Attack and Strike This change is a little more subtle, but is aimed at making the game more clear in the future. This primarily comes up in the discussion of Response Phase jutsu and what "dodging" or "blocking" and "attack" actually means. When defining this as staff we also realized that we needed a second term to help clarify what an "attack" was; and this is where we got the word "strike". If you have any questions about what an attack or strike are, concerns about creations you have that this effect, or anything else please feel free to post in the official thread or contact a staff member. Attack An "attack" is the cumulative offensive action of a Main Phase. Strike A "strike" is a component of an attack that add together to make a single Main Phase action. For example, if a ninja swings a sword three times, that is three strikes that make up a single attack. Thank you & keep an eye in the news section here for following updates! - cntrstrk14
cntrstrk14 Posted September 3, 2012 Author Posted September 3, 2012 Update for the sealless jutsu. If you have a jutsu that is sealless and instead of resubbing it would rather just make it use seals and keep everything else the exact same, please send cntrstrk14 the link to the technique in question and he will fix it without the need for a re-approval. The technique will stay 100% the same except for the removal of the sealless effect.