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Common Techniques are pre-made techniques which are considered to be some natural progressions from "scratch", or what you might develop if you just became a fighter of a particular energy type, with no techs. They are all mostly basic and commonly requested concepts made into techs, so you don't have to.

HOW DO THEY WORK?

Here's how you can give your character Common Techs:

1. Browse through the Common Techs directory and find a tech you would like a character to have.
   
   
2. Make sure your character is eligible to receive that tech (proper energy type, meets requisites, etc.)
   
   
3. Find the tech day requirement for your character, for that tech. Tech day requirements are listed like this: A (B/C) ... The three numbers (A, B, and C) are three different requirements, depending on your character's tech bias (which usually is decided with your race). A is the base amount of days, and also works for neutral tech bias, B is for good tech bias, and C is for poor tech bias. Characters with excellent bias will take half (rounded down) of whatever the base is. Characters with dismal bias will take 1.5x whatever the base is.
   
   
4. Place the tech name in your tag with a progress indicator next to it. You can either list the full name of the tech (ex. Weapon Proficiency Level 1 (Swords)) or you can simply mention the Common Tech Number (CTN) in a recognizable fashion (ex. CT#16 (Swords) or CTN: 0016 (Swords) or something similar). Either way, you must have an indicator of how many tech days you have invested in it, and how many you need to complete it (which you got from step 3)
   
   
5. Gain tech days as you would normally (solos and Passive Training, for instance).
   
   
6. Just like normal techs, once you have all the tech days, it's yours!

You can also teach common techniques that your character has to other characters, just like normal characters. For the moment, however, the Official Teacher bonuses do not apply to common techs.

WHAT DOES ALL THIS STUFF MEAN?

In the header of each common tech, there is some special information which you may not understand right off the bat. Here's what it all means:

CTN - Common Technique Number. Use it for abbreviating a common tech for official purposes, or for finding a common tech in our system.

Power Type - Lists all the energies involved in the technique.

Tech Type - As the name implies, this tells you what type of tech this technique is. Among the attributes you will see are the following:

• Upgrade / Full / Add-on - An Upgrade tech is meant to modify existing values and statistics without being bound to a tech. A Full tech operates independently, in and of itself. An Add-on tech only works on top of one single other tech at a time.
  
  
• Passive / Active - A passive tech is always working, or works automatically without consciously being activated. An Active tech is just the opposite -- you must consciously make the tech activate. Add-ons are usually neither, since they mimic what their parent tech is.

Bias Req. - Tech Bias Requisite. Your tech bias must be at least this high in order to develop this tech. The tech bias scale is, from worst to best, Dismal, Poor, Neutral, Good, Excellent. For this purpose, "Excellent" will do the same as "Good", and "Dismal" characters can still develop techs with "Poor" bias requisites.

Mand. Charges - Mandatory Charges. Applies only to magic spells. Before casting, spells may sometimes require you to spend a number of posts charging before the rest of the spell can take effect, which includes any built-in charging that is allowed. You can spend one-half more of the tech days that the tech costs to halve (round up) the number of mandatory charges required, but this can only be applied one and at the same time as the development of the tech.

Tech Req. - Technique Requisites. Some common techs require that you have other techs before you start on them. You must have completed all of the techs listed in this field before starting on this tech. A tech req of "Special" means there are special tech requirements which are explained in the tech's description.

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