There are many updates that have been made on the forum recently and more to come. I'll explain what the updates are and what they do.

The first thing is the memberlist for those of you that haven't noticed. The memberlist now has the avatars of the users instead of just their name. This isn't too much of a big deal, but if you are looking for a specific user and aren't sure of their name, you can just look to their picture which is right next to the them.

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Find a user or modify list order Username Sort by Last visitRegistration dateUsernameInterestsNumber of postsWebsiteUsergroups Order AscendingDescending #AvatarUsernameInterestsRegistration dateLast visitNumber of postsPMWebsite 1 Jisenki Martial Arts, Kung-fu, Swordsmanship 2008-03-18 Today at 14:03 1114 2 fabre 2009-03-24 Today at 12:52 0 3 Dagomis 2008-08-12 Today at 11:26 373 4 Kisuke Not interested 2008-03-23 Yesterday at 23:13 515 5 Xexame uhh....gravy? 2008-04-11 Yesterday at 22:17 238 6 purpleregiment7 2008-03-24 Yesterday at 20:26 189 7 Zura 2008-03-25 Yesterday at 19:45 309 8 Hei Cat naps 2008-12-12 Yesterday at 15:36 232 9 artemishiu survival 2009-01-23 Sun 22 Mar 2009 - 21:11 32 10 Hitomi ...I won't tell 2008-03-25 Sun 22 Mar 2009 - 19:41 274 11 Riko Do I look like I have interests? 2008-03-28 Sat 21 Mar 2009 - 23:00 162 12 Lockheart42 My interests are interesting 2008-06-13 Fri 20 Mar 2009 - 0:47 119

Second, a friends and foe menu has been added to your profiles in order to allow faster messaging between the two, three, four, etc, of you all. When a member is set as a friend, you can send messages (similar to a wall on Facebook or like a faster chat between only a select few) between you all. If someone is set as a Foe, you are unable to see any of their messages, so it would be advised that you don't set anyone as a foe unless they are a complete spammer (although the mods and admin would take care of this problem).

In order for you to actually obtain friends, you must accept them (or deny them) by going to the Friends and Foe tab in your profile and pressing the accept (or deny) button.

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The Warrior Market has been updated and a few new creatures and items have been created. Currently, new weapons are in production as well as new creatures. Be sure to read the procedures for a buying a creature, item, weapon, etc. Also, keep in mind that there are new SG Points (which will be explained below) that you will use to purchase items instead of the points you have now.



Another updates is the SG Points that have now been added. This is the text SG Points not the Sentou Gakuin Points in the bar.

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	SG Points: 1876 Reputation: 1 The BattleField Health Points: (6000/6000) Tsukara-Skill Points: (4000/4000) Experience Points[EXP]: (0/100)

These points, as you can see, go beyond the old limit of 800 and can go into the thousands and beyond. These points are obtained in a similar fashion to the old Cash Mod system that we had on the previous forum in which you obtain a certain amount of points for Topics that you are in and for your posts. The difference between this forum and the old one is that it won't show you how much you receive when you press "send" so you'll need to keep up with your points by checking them from time to time. This has also been done so that you do not get points for Spamming or simply posting in random areas that grant easy post count. Many places don't give points. The areas that guarantee points are the areas like Battle Areas (See Shortcuts) and the other places that you are able to battle in that are in the Sentou Gakuin campus, outside the campus, and in the Suzaku territories. More points are earned for being active and staying online, making many friends, giving opinions, actively battling, doing missions, etc. A user's Reputation has a lot to do with points to, which you can read about below.


Reputation is exactly as it sounds. It's your character's reputation that anyone on the forum can contribute to in their own way. Once a certain amount of posts are reached in a topic, posting people are allowed to "vote" in order to increase or decrease one's reputation. In order to increase or decrease one's reputation, you must either click the "+" button or the "-" button, respectively, that will appear on the right corner as such:

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Different areas will decrease or increase someone's reputation by more than one depending on how crucial the area is (in terms of others opinion). An area where everyone's opinion greatly matters may result in someone losing 5 reputation points (and yes, you can go into the negatives) for giving dumb or unnecessary advice while they may also gain 5 for giving extremely useful advice or opinions. This also applies to battles too. If you battle someone that is good and you wish to battle them again, you can increase their reputation so that others can see this too. If they were bad, on purpose, and ruined the battle or RP in some way, you may "vote" to decrease their reputation, allowing others to know that they may or may not be someone that they want to battle against.

You may ask what does this really have to do with anything? The answer to this question is that this also affects the SG Points you receive. Having negative reputation points could result in you losing some from the average amount (getting 1 instead of the standard 5) while having a positive reputation can result in you gaining more than the standard (getting 10 total instead of the standard 3 or 5).


[This is it for the updates for now. If you have any questions on these updates you can always ask them here on send me a PM]

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Nice updates. One question though. For the friend thing, are there alerts so that other members know that they are being friend requested. I requested a few people (Zura, Hitomi, Riko) and I don't think they've realized it yet.

Sorry about that. I'll check now.