Multiplayer Updates/July 2011

http://web.flexiblesurvival.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=345

1st

• Mutant power upgrades removed from all players. Mako for innates refunded. (Training is still free temporarily)
• Tumble is now on Rubber Balls
• Costume Slip is now on Gat Girls
• New mutant power: Scent of Victory (added to Skunk Girl/Mutated Brute)
• Faction command disabled
• Grenade Launcher improved
• Heavy Beam improved
• Fast modifier created
• Spam of 'use power while auto' fixed

2nd

• Defense mechanic reworked. See Nuku's post.
• Grenade Launcher buffed (again)
• Banner, Fast and Thunderous recipes added to Jacks Hardware
• Defensive resistance now applies to DoT magnitudes.
• Deep Healing placed on Clydesdale Stud
• Debuffclear powers should be more effective against dots (Purr, Cleansing Milk, and Morning Song all changed)

5th

• Woodfield overworld map added
• Consignment Shop added in Prommie lands
• Home renovation kit added to Jack's hardware. Allows you to redesc rooms.
• Can "home" more then once an hour. It will cost 100*levelscale freecred to do it while on cooldown
• Help convert added (helpfile is new, command is old)
• Pack Loyalty, Leap and Quill Wag significantly changed
• Effects duration is no longer refreshed by powers/items with weaker mag. (Skins/armor weren't descaling when mentored down)
• Knockdown is now affected by dodgeresist
• Flame Bearer now gives its salvage bonus to uncommon instance chance and +pj salvage checks
• +request has new categories, and lost some ones that made no sense
• +census faction added
• The pet summon AI bug is laid to rest.

7th

• Nanite presence has appeared in Point Zero. Scientists are accepting donations to research it.
• New item, Nanite Funnel causes you to share your infections with the target victim."
• DoTs are now much more reliably removed when the critter dies."
• Strategist role added
• Folks who are OOC or IDL set will NOT receive +pj rewards
• Infection lab volunteer opportunities fixed
• +haz now reports if there's a PSAS unit in the area.
• +lotto is now functional"
• Uber Fox dedication added
• Wi flags added: No Combat, Science, Submissive, Dominant

10th

• Smell should now omit the gender part of species
• Forgetful Nibble added
• New power building options. Target notuser added (hits allies except caster) and secondary target effects added.
• Reconstruct replaces cure for Nanite Adept.
• "f who" now only shows online people (faction)
• Dying statuses should fall off
• Forest changes: the Giant Bat will only spawn at night, the foxes and bunnies will not spawn at night or evening, and the raven will not spawn at night or in the morning. Female snow leopardtaur and wolfen predator will spawn at all times of the day.
• Penelope added to RSX for quest offering
• New creatures on grid: Wolfen Predator, Fox Girl, Kobold Herm, Hair-Bound Woman, Cerberus Herm, White Unicorn Mare, Plump Tigress.

11th

• New mutant powers: Perplex, Terrible Pun, Trivia (dunno if placed)
• Arena Champion role added
• Ian The Shark has higher bets available
• The web page now obeys private areas.
• Funnels no longer give total badges

12th

• AoE Powers that use Breasts as its AoE modifier have had the base AoE increased to 2.
• Powers that use Cocks as its AoE modifier may work the same way. Testing needed.
• Promothean church is partially open (nonbosses).
• AoE on non-AOE powers is now AOE+2 targets.
• Health Snack recipe created (not placed)
• Disabled quest/xp/creds/rewards for parties over 8. (Pets don't count)

13th

• Freecred rewards from earning badges is now capped at 5000 each.
• Overworld locations can now be jumped to directly by using their respective #.

14th

• Nanopacks are now available in the Mako Store to increase your inventory capacity. They require a small but constant supply of Mako Batteries to maintain functionality.
• There is now an interface for buying and selling mako from other players. +mako/list to see what offers are currently available, and +mako/buy or +mako/sell to set your own. Note that you can only have one (of each?) up at a time.

17th

• Items can no longer be created using more than one of a single modifier.
• Items can be used in web combat.
• Clicking the question mark next to powers in web combat now works.
• +Reward funnels fixed for caps.
• Fast fixed.
• Many new craft modifiers entered, but not yet placed.
• Several new web missions to play!
• Negative Energymod now scales mildly with level to keep it competitive with the scaling recovery rates.
• +Census freecred shows new info.
• Web: Using web combat resets your idle time.
• Web: Web fights should now do turns correctly.
• Web: Using the travel button on the page now costs 2 patrols, instead of draining your patrols to 0.
• Parthenogenesis Enabler, Nanite Carnal Equalizer and Nanopacks added to mako shop
• Mako batteries now come in packs of 4, by popular demand
• Wiki now has a new URL, +url is updated.
• Breast Pump now resists breast size reduction when going human
• Consignment shop listings appearance improved.
• Infection vials should now, again, give badges

21st

• Erotic Dance power created and added to Busty Succubus, Zombie Stripper and Knockout Mouse.
• Tutor command now displays who among your students is online, and a total count of your students.
• Nanite Adept shift command now sorts available forms by sex.
• Marketing Kit, 3 mako item, allows you to scrawl a message in a room. Lasts one week.
• Rogue role added.
• Terminal now highlights creatures you have the Total badge for.
• Nanite Buffer recipe added to Jack's Hardware.
• Various creatures listed as sexually neutral had unnecessary bits trimmed, including Harbinger Lynx, Masked Angel, Rabid Squirrel, and Raised Pharaoh.
• The "0" mutation is no longer transferable via Nanite Funnel.
• Items that raise hp (such as Health Snack) are now level-scaled.
• Supernova has its Upgrade options tweaked.

22nd

• Giant Size power created, associated with the Kaiju dedication that is allegedly available on Monster Island in the ocean.
• +mako/cred command now sells to the current highest +mako/buy bidder, rather than for a flat amount. The bid amount is visible in +mako.
• Royal Delight DebuffClear buffed to bring it in line with the other DebuffClear powers.
• +lotto no longer limits the number of tickets you can buy.
• New help files added: HELP GIVE, HELP PLAYER SHOPS.
• 'smell here' no longer detects dark objects.

23rd

• New power type! +HP: Allows a power to recover health, without the AI treating it as a healing effect (allowing energy recovery powers to have AI scripting distinct from true heals).

24th-27th

• String parsing changed: [if stat of player] changed to [if stat of [player]] to prevent misparsing of words like 'closer' as 'c[loser]'. Creature database updated to the new syntax by Damaged.
• Virgin added to character creation as a 0-point perk. Eliminated upon pregnancy check; associated badges added for the various consequences that ensue.
• Monotreme Activator introduced; a drug that causes the imbiber to store impregnations as eggs, allowing for multiple simultaneous gestations.

28th

• Damaged: Hotel Oblivion is fixed. It will no longer set your danger/pheromone levels too high. Players that had this bug have been fixed too.
• Hinoserm: Fixed an issue in server code that caused the game to crash repeatedly. This was due to running into stack space limits from a recursive MPI program.
  • "Cron" inherited a system limit from an unknown proccess after a crash forced the server to restart. As a result it set the stack limit to 4000.
    • > grsec: From xx.xx.xxx.xxx: denied resource overstep by requesting 8790016 for RLIMIT_STACK against limit 8388608 for /home/nuku/fs/game/protomuck[protomuck:1559]

• New option in editplayer to suppress the 'glance' action automatically firing with each move.
• Pronoun substitution string parsing overhauled.
• Ability to master and upgrade powers added to web interface under SKILLS.
• Uber Fox dedication powers Forgetful Nibble and Lustful Musk received several improvements.