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The following is a list of updates made to the game since it entered open beta in 2011.
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For planned future updates, see Nuku's six month plan at http://checkvist.com/checklists/97925-six-month-plan.
=Full archive of updates can be found in the [[Multiplayer Updates Archive]]=
 
Need up-to-the-minute updates? They're over [http://flexiblesurvival.com/index?webupdate here]!
 
==November==
'''1st'''
* Pending.
 
==October==
'''31st'''
* The HPBuffer that one is supposed to get from the flurry combat skill now scales with level properly, instead of being comically tiny forever.
** Related: More info is given when combat debug is turned on in regards to HP Buffers.
* Bounties will no longer be in private/hidden areas.
* Tweaked some color stuff in regard to entering a room.
* Least Health and other AI targets should be more careful in choosing who they are hitting.
* If you are both pregnant, and a cow maiden, and are milked, your milk will have a new modifier: Mending.
* Nanomagic Designer updated.
* Infections with Pony in their name now count as Equines.
* Collie Herm has new victory, defeat, and observer messages!
* [[Siren]] monsters, when they defeat you, will now actually lay eggs in you. Consider yourself warned.
* Fixed [[Collie Herm]] Victory, Ovictory and Defeat messages.
** They should now show up correctly.
* You should no longer get strange messages about (cooling) powers coming off cooldown.
* Purifying Tablet now fixed (trashing the ones you have and making new ones may be needed).
* Code adjusted, you should not be seeing so many overheats.
* When assessing connection history a certain attribute is now being correctly read.
* You will no longer be prodded with invalid command messages once in a while.
* Shadow Dragon and Male Gator string parsing errors have been fixed.
** Additional minor tweaks to Victory and Defeat messages.
* Fixed [[Wakiya]] cock and cunt desc.
[[Liberty Leopard]] removed from elite store. July 4th is long gone.
* Fixed bug that caused items to duplicate when given to other players.
** Fixed a related bug that stopped you from dropping something you only had one of.
** Fixed another, related, bug in giving/dropping.
* Level Costs wiki page updated with number of boss vials required per level.
 
'''27th'''
* The [[Scrublands]], [[Twilight Caverns]] and [[Shadow Pits]] have all been tweaked for easier navigation.
** Broken exits/stringparsing fixed in the process.
* Fixed legacy looktraps in the [[Cat Cabal]], [[Department Store]], and [[Furniture Store]].
* [[Wild Swing]] now has an aggro upgrade available.
* Obvious exits mentioned in a room description are no longer highlighted white.
* New Poll: Mutation Subscription.
* [[Gift Wrapped Present]] has had two bugs squashed, and will no longer eat items in either of those two way.
** Now it truly is the season to be jolly!
* Huge update to [[Feral Mode]] (shortened to FM).
** When auto upgrading, FM players will gain ALL the upgrades the power offers instead of a random selection.
*** The 2 upgrades are spread out through the available upgrades, with a mild buff to the total amount of upgrading action if more than 2 upgrades are present.
* Subscriptions should be better about stacking when appropriate.
* Many miscellaneous broken looktraps have been fixed.
** Removed excess aliases that are no longer needed now that looktraps support partial matching.
* Recovering dropped items should now allow them to stack.
** +gear/condition is now usable without the vial conditioner item and will be used to remove bad/old props off items
*** Like the finder setting and the one indicated here.
* When a Feral Mode player ULTIMATE UPGRADES a power, it works like their normal upgrades, spreading the upgrade over ALL the possible upgrades.
* Junkyard Mountain sectors A and B will no longer show up on the terminal, seeing as it's inaccessible.
* Main recipes with a status duration modifier that causes a repeat attack will have its affects reversed for the repeat.
** Meaning a positive duration modifier will make the repeat faster, instead of slower.
** This now also applies to recipe modifiers.
 
'''24th'''
* New recipe: [[Thick Armor]]
** The new recipe has been added to the RSX store.
* New modifier: [[Attention Grabbing]]
** Available via +reward.
* Search command is now assured to work, botmode or not, unless you're still in the delay period since your last battle.
* Small errors in [[Margay Taur]] fixed.
* Poll 'Least Favored Combat Skill' has ended.
* Monsters should spawn properly.
* [[Roll With It]] and [[Tar Baby]] now give haste (debuff) in addition to their instant cooldown (debuff).
** The status will last for 3 rounds on activation.
** Magnitude is 3x (?) your rating in the combat skill.
** The rpinfo for these have been updated.
* [[Bewitched]] now twists DoTs, becoming minor regens for twice as long as the DoT.
** The rpinfo for this has been updated as well.
* Poll 'Botting Impact' has ended.
* Fixed several broken 'no spawn zones'.
** They should now actually not spawn monsters.
* Rearranged the confusing [Zephyr Inc]: Private Offices layout to use cardinal directions.
* [[Cleansing Milk]] now uses Breast Size to determine the mag of the Debuffclear instead of Breasts.
* +groin now uses the right pronoun for Breast Size.
* EnergyDamageResist in Soft as Fur fixed.
** It is now 10 instead of 0.
* [[Bolt-Action Rifle]] item added to mako store.
* Inventory now gives another digit for quantity of an item.
* Energyuse command disabled due to not really working since forever.
* Broken exit in the [[Woodfield General Hospital]] fixed.
** All four floors are now accessible.
* Items/powers with abnormally high damage to cooldown will 'overheat' if used before a reasonable amount of cooldown has passed.
** The player will be notified of this, and the item will enter cooldown.
** The cooldown to damage ratio is 100 cooldown per 1 damage.
*** This is considered 'fast'.
** Powers that have a damage rating of 14 or less are not affected by this (ex: [[Small Claws]]).
** Healing powers are given kinder treatment, and are allowed to be twice as fast.
* [[Unshielded Prototype]] is no longer private.
** You can now procure basic models in the elite store.
 
'''21st'''
* Powers should now show if they have a proficiency.
* Fixed some display errors in rpinfo.
* Fairy now supports Color Chooser.
* Delay between battles shortened severely, but it is now dependent on how over-hunted an area is.
** An area at 25% will be at 2 minutes (What it was before this) while an area at 125% will yield fights every 24 seconds.
**Due to this new mechanic, the search limit has been removed (it is no longer required).
* Salvage chance now adjusted to use over-hunted percentages.
* Daily mission fight difficulty now modified by how over-hunted an area is.
* The delay timer begins at the start of the battle, not the end.
** If your battle takes 2-ish minutes (for example, in the wastelands), you should be ready to find another fight immediately.
* Kills from combat now cause the rewards in an area to drop off slower.
* +health and fprompt now check your proficiency properly.
* Daily missions will not be given out for areas under 70%.
* Manually selecting a daily mission (with the 'restart <area name>' parameter) will allow these areas to be chosen but WILL give a warning.
* Skill requirement of the first researcher of Flexible Societies raised.
* Global research now uses your EFFECTIVE proficiency rating for proficiencies, if higher than your total amount.
** This means mako boosters work for research.
 
'''20th'''
* +register no longer shows the longest remaining subscription (duration) but shows the one that is currently the highest active one.
* [[Salamander Femme]] has its Tail Drop power back.
* [if variable X </>/==/!= <number>] will no longer crash string parsing.
* If you are in bot mode, your status (IC/OOC/IDL) will flip to BOT on moving from room to room.
* "fa/who" now shows 'BOT' as a status, alongside active and idle.
* Going botmode on will flip your bot status on right away, even if you don't move.
** Turning it off won't undo it though
** code has no idea if you want to be ooc, ic, idl, or other. If you move, it will presume ic, otherwise, it's on you.
 
'''18th'''
* When performing a race #reset, the field will be set to average in length and hazzards.
* New command: channels.
* When training in game and in need of boss vials, you will be told how many.
* Many stats for mutant powers, when rpinfoed, will be updated personally after each number in brown ()s.
* Fixed crasher in editplayer.
* Size shifting code fixed to not try to correct when the target is ''smaller''.
* New research available.
* New research available(again).
* One more research topic available!
* When viewing a specific research topic, skills you have high enough are green, otherwise, red.
* Flexible Societies now has a description(oops).
* Periwinkle added as a free avatar color!
* New recipe modifier due to stretch goals, barb firing.
* New recipe added to token store for 100 tokens.
* New poll by Nuku: Least Favored Combat Skill.
** +poll/view Least Favored Combat Skill
* Area range of the wastelands changed to 50-60 in accordance to the recent poll!
* New, free, avatar accessory, the broken city background.
* Another new poll by Nuku: "Botting Impact".
** +poll/view Botting Impact
* The [[Pack Leader]] dedication has been heavily optimized and bugfixed.
 
 
'''17th'''
* Doctor job got a buff, due being low on xp and freecreds reward compared to other jobs.
* Bodyguard Officer job available in Clairmont and Eureka Town Halls (for now).
* Chandler Hospital access from overworld map shouldn't break a party anymore.
** Entering the building still breaks it normally.
* Salamander Femme supports the Tail Divider.
* Poll 'Wastelands Range Recount' has ended.
* Wiki uploading systems hardened against DNS failures and other issues so as not to cause major lag (like happened earlier).
 
'''16th'''
* A full list of jobs in Eureka can now be found at http://wiki.flexiblesurvival.com/w/Eureka_Jobs
* Finder tags are no longer checked or used.
** Using the vial conditioner or giving them to someone will clear any existing finder tag.
* Minor bug in combat turn advancement timing fixed.
* [[Male Infertility]] Drug is now on sale at the Mall in Fairhaven.
* +pregtime updated to show male infertility and statuses too!
* droprange and +droprange fixed. (Hadn't moved the action to the public world yet, sorry!)
* New room added to Eureka, Bath House.
* Non temporary and non rented rooms now only have 12 hours worth of pot history.
* Fixed numerous string parsing bugs in the Fox Taur infection.
* Up to 40 items can be viewed in pot now.
** Up to 40 items can be viewed in ooc #last <number> now.
*** You can now include OOC messages in your pot history (in chronological order) with pot ooc.
**** These changes mean 'room' rp history (accessed via pot) have been removed.
* wpot now has the same functionality as pot.
 
'''14th'''
* Chances to get various salvages is now much more random from monster fights.
* Patrol energy added to +xp.
* New polls now post to update channel in addition to the public channel.
** Speaking of which; there is a new poll posted by Nuku: "Wastelands Range Recount".
*** +poll/view Wastelands Range Recount
* New Proficiency: [[First Aid]].
* Medical Nanomagic's description changed to use new Medical Proficiency values.
* Poll activity should now echo to a board post.
* [[Toughened]] is now available via +reward.
* [[Priming]] modifier adjusted.
* Fixed a few places where the proficiency system was using the old scale.
* Bugs in [[Panther Taur]] Defeat scene fixed.
** The oral variant now also triggers for neuters.
* Energy usage of [[Engulf]] increased.
** Engulf mutant power altered in various aspects to be more balanced.
* [[Lion Beast]]'s original Defeat message now shows up again. Happy humping!
* [[Panther Taur]], [[Cheetah]], [[Small Felinoid]], and Lion Beast defeat, victory, transformation messages, and descriptions updated with faster string parsing and improved grammar.
* [[Female Husky]] defeat scenes now reference the player-character in first-person. Additional grammatical fixes and tweaks.
* [[Lion Within]] given a complete overhaul.
** The changes required the staff to perform a force un-master for all players with it.
*** The power's effect, energy, cooldown, and recharge and upgrades have been changed. Its end results have not.
**** It was deemed safe to re-train the power after this un-master sweep was performed.
* Statuses should now never apply from repeat ticks of repeat attacks (bugfix).
* Lucky Roll template power fixed so the chance to debuff actually debuffs instead of buffs.
* In theory, [cock desc] blocks and related parsings should no longer leave odd lingering string parsing in various non-description places.
* Format of +groin for breasts adjusted.
* When an adept attempts to become something, the code will try inflating them up to 20 points of size larger than the base.
** It reaches for that target value through the soft caps.
* Fixed several bugs in the [[Latex Fox]] scenes.
* [[Gravid]] description a bit less ambiguous.
 
'''12th'''
* [[Sexual]] proficiency description changed.
* Bonus earned via training percentage on a proficiency now displayed on the training page.
* [[Training - Strength]] now gives a strength bonus. Go fig.
* [[Training - Regular Aerobics]], now gives a Fortitude bonus.
 
'''11th'''
* Combat should no longer get stuck.
* Fixed bug that prevented proficiency enhancing statuses from functioning.
* Important note, status enhancement cannot push your proficiency above your cap, just to it.
* [[Crimson Pegasus]] and [[Painted Wolf Herm]] defeat, victory, transformation messages, and descriptions updated with faster string parsing and improved grammar.
* [[Albert Stross]]' quest line should now work properly.
* [[Cat Town]] has opened its gates.
** It's along the highway, near the river.
*** Special job "Cat Life" available in that area.
**** Be sure to check the "sa city" command.
 
'''10th'''
* Having an effective xeno score of 40+ now reveals true mutations when using +mut at someone.
** Meaning mutations hidden by the [[Looks Human]]/Native perks.
* True mutation revealing happens at 30+ if you are checking yourself.
* Most weapon recipes now use a proficiency.
* [[Eternal Warrior]], [[Fearless Quest for Glory]], [[Hand of Justice]], [[Call of Gaia]], [[Collective Rage]], [[Lunar Frenzy]], [[Soul Grasp]], [[Pack Leadership]], [[Fiery Feathers]], [[Practiced Haste]], [[Nova Meteor]], and [[Scrotal Flail]] all have power type changes as needed.
* Bug in [[Dr. Lindsy Stone]] fixed, shi should no longer prevent people from trying hir quest again after the timer is up.
* Monsters worth EXTRA bounty now have + symbols in their +haz threat rather than *.
** Inversely, monsters worth less bounty have a -.
 
'''9th'''
* Cat Life job coded with 6 action (for now at least).
** It's a fun job, so it has only level 0 actions.
*** Also, most of them requires feline traits to be used (Powers like Purr (even unmastered) or flags like Clawed and Barbed).
* Cleared the Overworlds of Woodfield and Fairhaven of dead, crash-inducing exits.
* Priming given a Loadout and Upkeep cost for applying it.
* Healgain now has 2 soft caps and a hard cap.
 
'''8th'''
* Duration of leeching's active status lowered to 3 rounds.
* "[[Modified]]" flaw removed from all players.
** Now it no longer exists in the game on any level.
* Typo in [[Suppressing]] fixed.
* Fixed an issue in string parsing where variables were nuked unintentionally.
* When in a no ride/no summon area, you can still join parties of people standing in the same room as you.
* Fixed WikiBot program to be able to run as a background task.
* [[Sentient Latex Pool]] changed from Hard Boss to Boss.
 
'''5th'''
* Fixed error on page that showed 0% training allotment despite the true amount.
* Empathy now affects cred income from RPing as promised, and does scale past 30.
* Renamed entrances of [[Cutey's Pet Shop]] and [[PetCore]] for clarity.
* Fixed crash bug in proficiency buying.
* [[Comprehension]] points no longer count, at all, towards your total proficiency points for sake of inflation.
* New command, +mako/profreset, it will destroy ''ALL'' proficiencies and ''ALL'' professions. 5 mako.
* Prime Primers should work again.
* +proving a proficiency will display its current acting value in addition to its raw value.
* Digitized Books has had its required skilled updated.
* Defunct skill items changed in the elite store.
* New professions: [[Swashbuckler]], [[Baseball Player]], [[Stunt Double]], [[Mutant Therapist]], [[Prostitute]] and [[Detective]]
* [[Fortitude]] now coded for happy regen fun.
* Several fixes to the new string-parsing engine. It should be more robust now, and be less error prone.
* Purchasing professions from the web works again.
* Breast-decriptor in +groin no longer shows parsing.
* More corner-cases in stringparsing squashed.
* [ and ] now supported in those bits of parsing that use regex ( ~= , the infection X of Y.)
** Keep in mind that the code first checks valid parsing, and processes. [player] will always be a person's name, never the letters p, l, a, y, e and r.
* You can now type status or statuses to see a summary of your statuses alone.
* When a [[Nanite Adept]] uses shift block, it will be forever, even after being defeated, until turned off.
* +roll will now reveal the dice when dealing with pure numbers and/or proficiencies.
* [[Becoming a Man]] is much better at stripping feral powers.
* Powers at level 5 now display properly on the skills web page.
* [[Muscle Mass]] updated to give a bonus to [[Strength]] checks!
* Many recipes given a proficiency to benefit from.
* Dramatic rewrite of stringparsing within and near Zephyr Inc for optimal performance.
** Fixed many stringparse-related bugs in the process.
* Hiker subscription re-added to the token store!
* [[Skitter]] now offers a bonus to running rolls.
* All powers based on the 'Accurate' power now buff Perception.
* [[Economics]] updated to use the new scale for combat cred gaining.
* Trinket gathering and other misc. parts of power use adjusted for new proficiencies.
* Passive wound recovery from [[Medicine]] proficiency ready to go.
* Improved stringparsing and fixed looktraps in the Weapon Master area.
* Research in game now properly parses %r.
* Strength's effective score is now modified automatically based on your current size.
* The jobs based on deprecated skills now use the right proficiencies as requirements to level now.
* +groin/real ALSO doesn't show stringparsing in the breast-thing anymore.
* Looking upon the world and taking pity at the loss of love, Eros calls upon some followers to make a shrine, and behold, in Woodfield a simple garden shrine was made!
** The God of Love calls upon more to spread, instead of mindless lust and sex, love to all the world!
* Discription of [[Scattered Bones]] brought into Canon.
* Monsters no longer spawn in the [[Court of Love]].
* Monster Bounties should now try and pluralize the monsters
* Breasts now appear larger toward the end of a pregnancy.
** They also now leak when in the absolute final stages of pregnancy.
* You can now use @ in chat on a guest name.
* Fixed few room's job notifications in Clairmont and Eureka.
* Fixed a crash on the monster maker page.
* [[Fox_(Dedication)|Fox]] has found a new home, and awaits those willing to ask for his power (More information to follow soon).
** Bug with the Fox Dedication form fixed.
** Fox Dedication added to list of web dedications.
* [[Genetically Superior Human]], [[Female Commando]], [[Troll]], [[Orc]], [[Mouthless Stranger]], [[Fey Folke]], [[Valkyrie]], [[Gladiator]], [[Leather Mistress]], [[Masked Angel]], [[House Cat]], [[Blue Gryphon]], [[Female Husky]], [[Night Stalker]], [[Stalking Tigress]], [[Nekomata]], [[Slut Rat]], [[Salamander Femme]], [[Lizard Girl]], [[Goo Girl]], [[House Mouse]], [[Pink Panda]], [[Moth Girl]], [[Latex Fox]], [[Raccoon Guy]], [[Wolf Boy]], [[Feral Wolfess]], [[Wolf Beast]], [[Skunk Girl]], [[Skunk Beast]], and [[Christmas Skunk Chick]] defeat, victory, transformation messages, and descriptions updated with faster string parsing and improved grammar.
** Pink Panda is no longer erroneously missing the Milk Squirt mutant power.
** All Goo Girl defeat variants should now work as intended.
** Nekomata no longer automatically assumes the player is female.
** Fey Folke Defeat messages are now actually functional.
* [[Flirtatious Eyes]] given slight rebalancing and a new upgrade choice.
* [[Blue Balled]] added to statuses on [[Arrows of Light]].
* When in bot mode, you will never encounter an enemy while wandering from room to room.(search continues to be 100% effective in bot mode)
* "pjoin" should now properly set the mentored level of the incoming player if it is below their unmentored level
* Price of the merit, [[Instructor]], reduced severely.
** The merit Instructor no longer implies you can have more then one child in combat at a time.
* Influence gained via RP is no longer level dependant
* Night Stalker skin description now shows up.
* [[Glenstock]], a city in Oregon, is now open to player use! It is slowly being reclaimed by the natives, but can be traveled to via [[RSX]] to [[Crater Lake]], then Crater Lake to Glenstock.
* Fixed a case where looking at certain summons locks up your client.
* Fixed bug in proficiency training.
* ''ALL'' Damage over Time increased by 20% in effectiveness.
* Rewards for different fighting areas now have a system similar to 'cred energy'.
** Initially they are worth 130% of their normal rewards per kill.
*** This number decreases as more kills are made in a short time to a minimum of 20%.
**** Over time, the value will regenerate (lower level areas regenerate faster than high level areas).
* Monster Bounties will now only trigger in places that give a positive bonus to rewards.
* +haz will now show the rewards bonus/penalty for the area you are in.
* Viewing the terminal will now show you the reward percentage for each area.
* Using the 'Travel' list on the website will now show Bonuses for each area.
* Fixed a corner-case with [else if] statements in string-parsing.
* New "droprange" command implemented. It now works.
** It now always aborts if a chained item or if it can detect a mako item in the range of things.
 
=Previous months can be found in the [[Multiplayer Updates Archive]]=

Latest revision as of 04:11, 3 November 2025


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Full archive of updates can be found in the Multiplayer Updates Archive