Multiplayer Updates

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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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September

  • Color chooser support added to the following forms:
  • New, free, accessory, a utility belt!
    • Flashlight included!
  • Ensaring Webs buffed!
  • Having a negative *damageresist will cause you to take additional damage.
    • This is soft capped.
    • Every 10 defense below 0 causes you to have an effective -1 resist to all damages.
  • The way negative defense status affects damage altered.(+1% pre-resist damage per point under 0, 2 soft caps(at 10% and 25%), hard cap at +50%)
  • Fixed a critical bug in instantcooldowndebuff that prevented it from working at times.
  • 3 pieces of lore added to the game.
    • Learn more about those Zephyr agents lurking around HQ!
  • When you are over your alt allowance, you will now be given more clear instructions.
    • You will also have all your alts thrown OOC together so you can pick which ones you want to keep IC afterwards.
  • Shrinking pills now available!
  • Recipe for Buffering Armor now available in the token store!
  • Mini NICE now available in the token store!
    • It works like the regular nice, but only holds 2 base nanomagics.
  • New nanomagic: Fire Nanomagic.
  • New Function: Oviposition.
    • Usage: ovi <player>
    • Requirements: Ovipositor Flag, Pregnant with eggs.
  • [weekday] is now a thing.
    • It will return the name of the day of the week, as text.
    • It uses the real-life UNIX timestamp, due to code-limitations.
      • As such, if we ever make a MU* that is NOT synchronized, the day of the week will not match up properly.
  • [if time is <name of day>] is now a thing. Same issues as with [weekday].
  • [if time is <name of month>] is now a thing.
  • Fixed broken Knockout Mouse color chooser support.
  • New premium avatar accessory: exotic cravat.
  • You can now @set me=brief to turn on brief mode.
    • In brief mode, you will not see room descriptions while moving around.
    • @set me=!brief to turn off.
  • Added 'vag' WhatIs flag to indicate a preference for vaginal sex.
  • Fixed broken Color Chooser support in the Gorilla infection.
  • Who put down a source and how valuable it was is now tracked for later nefarious means
  • Sources are now automatically taxed, giving back to whomever placed them.
    • There is no input required from any player at any time.
    • Give a big thank you to Randel for making it possible for people to continue affording slapping down sources.
  • Vanity Perk allowance has increased to 10!
  • For reaching the $3500 tier, everyone who's been logged in in the last week just got 5 mako/lunar points.
  • Infectious NPCs at the Husky Den no longer infect players with Advanced Inoculation.
  • Toggles will never turn themselves off while running secondary effects.
  • It is now possible to restrain the fury of the feesh at specific characters.
  • When purchasing perks via web, it will now look to see if it's a vanity perk and reduce its cost by however many vanity perks you have remaining to determine if it can fit or not.
  • New vanity perk: Jack of All Trades
  • Fixed a major bug that could cause parties to have non-players as members, as well as non-players giving xp over to players, who may not even be in the room, or online.
  • You can no longer use the 'task' command in safe places.
  • It is no longer possible to get to non-web stores by using their dbref in the url.
  • Fixed a bug in salvage taxes.
  • Fixed an issue with [one of]A[or]B[or]C[with odds: <parsed stuff here>]
  • Arm Divider, Leg Splitter, and Tail Divider support added to Female Husky.
    • This makes it the first form to support Leg Splitter and the first to support all four items, including Color Chooser.
  • Leg Splitter support added to Shadow Dragon and German Shepherd.
  • The contest for the Doberman has ended (a few days ago, plus or minus).
    • The result is in and the winning submission for the form has been put on the grid.
    • You canine lovers out there will find it mingling with the other alley dogs.
  • Manticore maintenance: Added missing Barbed and Tailed flag, fixed typos, and fixed broken Victory message logic.
  • Fixed some logic bugs in Math Teacher and Male Alley Cat Defeat, Victory, and oVictory messages.
    • Text should now be showing up as intended for each gender.
  • Consolidated and fixed Cow Girl and Cuddlefish Victory messages, respectively.
    • They should now display correctly for each gender.
  • All aspects of power can now be stringparsed.
  • New power added to Anubis Servant: Prayer to Anubis.
    • This power is a bit special, since you need to gather the favor of Anubis to power it up.
    • You can gain favor by defeating enemies using the Anubis Servant form.
    • Beware, using the power without enough favor can bring down Anubis's disappointing.
    • Using the power Judgement grants favor to the user.
  • Finished functionality sweep of forms.
    • Several logic bugs have been squashed, remaining old string parsing has been converted to newer, faster code, and a multitude of typos have been eliminated for great justice.
  • Helpfiles created for social actions and influence.
  • Fixed an issue with string parsing that could break missions (and potentially other things) under certain conditions.
  • RSX page on the Wiki restored.
  • Little update about Busty Succubus's powerset.
  • Oviposition flag added to Vespid, more will be added in the short future.
  • New job, soon placed on the grid: Community Worker.
    • These actions will help the community, offering less income for yourself but more influence.
    • The benefits on the the community's stats will be weaker than a focused job, but you'll be able to improve a greater variety of them.
  • If a character has already a faction picked, it won't be prompted to choose it again when getting out of the Chargen.
    • Talking to the starter in the Airfield will take you automatically to your faction's starting area, without resetting your bond point.
  • Improved buffed by removing its slot.
  • Mutant Companion given mild buff!
  • [lowercase <text>] and [uppercase <text>] are now string-parsing things.
  • Please remember that any actual stringparsing should always be lowercase.
  • Added new monster bounty to Scene Bounties page.
  • Reward for Scene Bounties doubled.
  • A new flavor area has been released in NW Fairhaven with two NPCs to chat and play with.
  • Fixed New Dawn inhabitant Professor Kale's interactions.
    • Promethean Virtues/Vices Lore files now actually accessible.
  • Fixed two badges for interaction with Violet the Blue Gryphon and Obsidian the Shadow Dragon.
    • NPCs are now infectious during sex.
  • Fixed an issue where using /checkitem in talkscript would leave stuff on the stack (which it shouldn't), and as a result would print nonsense.
  • Newb is now an alias for newbie-channel.
  • Fixed a potential display error for Coatl Servant skin on monsters and child objects.
  • Packslut badge re-added after accidental nuking.
    • Please speak to Chris again to earn that badge if you missed it.
  • It should now be possible to mine for 'random' if you wish.
  • DoTs fixed, along with a few things that were likely broken with what broke DoTs.
  • A new, free, avatar accessory is available, an ascot!
  • Gaining the favor of Anubis by defeating enemies now actually works.
    • This was incorrect; Anubis favor now actually caps correctly at 20 per victory, versus increasing indefinitely, which was the previous behavior.
  • [if taur present in <target>] will now fail on leg-splitter(ed) kemonomimi.
    • Kemonomimi should not be able to become taurs.
    • Please use [if taur present in <target>] for leg-splitter-induced descs rather than [if stat misc/leg splitter of <target> == 1], thank ye.
    • This does not change anything about the 'normal' taur-flag.
      • If you write a natural taur, please account for that by checking for kemo-ness in the ass-desc.
  • Good Cock Slut and Tongue Slut badges now function properly again.
  • +vore and +engulf can be used to suck people up just like +womb.
  • Sudden Fatherhood coded and available as a 1 point vanity perk to disable mutant mother preg messages
  • When extracting a vial, you are told the level as you do it and given the option of spending 2 mako to force it to be level 1.
  • New premium avatar color: Slate Blue
  • Fixed stringparsing in statuses for base powers.
  • Friendly triggers now properly... trigger.
  • Ovipositioner vanity perk added and coded.
  • As more forms continue to test the limits of using a 'complete' form, the Moth Girls have descovered a new trick.
    • Using some... interesting methods, capable of ensuring they can 'Suck' someone 'Dry'.
  • Added several new scene bounties.
  • Doctor Lissal can now be approached for post-quest 'fun' during the evening and at night, versus just at night.
  • Fixed a bug in the size code that would report your weight wrong if your mass and height were not equal.
  • More items will be +gear/recoverable!
  • [if <flag> is present in <target>] is no longer valid.
    • We have removed all occurances of the old version.
    • [if <flag> present in <target>] is the valid form.
  • New thing: [if <flag> present in <part> of <target>].
    • Will only check for flags in a specified bodypart.
    • This also counts for dividers/color-choosers.
    • Color (from color chooser) will only be present in the skin.
    • Taur and tailed (from leg splitter/tail divider respectively) will only be present in the ass.
    • Multiarm (from arm divider) will only be present in the arms.
  • You can now pauto (name) to force ONE person to go auto.
  • New command: 'fucklist'.
    • It allows you to see who, when and how you've fucked.
      • It also tells you how many times you had fun with each NPC.
    • If you notice any errors or have a auggestion, please leave a request.
  • Fixed bug with pauto (person)
  • Fixed buying from hidden stores in-game.
  • A new non-combat quest has been added to Sandra, accessible after completion of her other quests.
  • Background code change to increase speed and responsiveness in the game.
  • Sandra's new quest now actually, actually works. Promise.
    • No, really. It really actually works now.
  • It is now possible to shift sex lock or shift sex unlock for sexual stabalizer users.
  • Fine tuner fixed.
  • 'Fuck' tracking fixed and improved, along with 'fucklist', but it's not retroactive anymore.
  • It should no longer be possible to retain un-mastered powers when doing a shift load.
  • Spatial recalculating to something with the same height but differing mass now works properly.
  • Ovipositioner perk now grants the ovipositor flag, rather than the non-functional oviposition flag.
    • Don't worry, this is retroactive.
  • Fixed Carnal Recorder not working properly.
  • It should no longer be possible to retain un-mastered powers when doing a shift load.
  • Spatial recalculating to something with the same height but differing mass now works properly.
  • Ovipositioner perk now grants the ovipositor flag, rather than the non-functional oviposition flag.
    • Don't worry, this is retroactive.
  • In Prime fights, only 4 assistants, at most, will be summoned, but they will become tougher and tougher the more opposition they detect.
  • Efficient Tinkering buffed, rpinfo updated.
  • You can now view past research topics in chronological order with 'research/timeline'.
  • When ejected from an area due to size, you are now informed of what the limit is.
  • Neru buffed.
  • Hotel Oblivion and the Husky Den have received size caps of 15 and 10, respectively.
    • Hotel Oblivion roof remains exempt of cap.
  • [Female Husky]] now has description variation based on gender and a Alpha local stat to change look/behavior.
    • Content courtesy of Todde.
  • ProtoMUCK 2.1a0.3.0: Added FUNCPROF_ARRAY and BACKTRACE primitives to MUF.
    • These are to be used for specific debugging purposes only and are not documented.
  • ProtoMUCK 2.1a0.3.0: Enhancements to BASE64 encoding and decoding functionality.
  • ProtoMUCK 2.1a0.3.1: Fixed array_delrange()
    • Used internally when arrays are resized/deleted) so that MUF arrays will no longer grow to infinite size.
  • ProtoMUCK 2.1a0.3.2: Fixed a bug in the MUF interpreter that would leave a program in an invalid state after a very specific series of events involving TRY...CATCH.
  • ProtoMUCK 2.1a0.3.2: Fixed a memory leak related to MUF function profiling and TRY...CATCH.
  • ProtoMUCK 2.1a0.3.3: Added max_per_slice @tune.
    • It is an integer.
      • Used to configure the maximum number of MUF programs allowed to run per time slice.
        • Minimum enforced value is 1, default 10.
          • Sane values are < 100.
            • Used in conjunction with but not as a replacement to instr_slice, msec_slice and pause_min.
  • STAFF: New commands @mfuncs and @lfp, used for performance profiling of MUF functions.
  • STAFF: @mfuncs command now displays the average time per execution (last column)
  • Fixed Fine Tuner messing up powers when loading a saved form.
  • Fixed some bugs with the new Female Husky/demeanor = Alpha local stat.
    • Should now correctly alter certain post-combat messages.
  • The function that determined your maximum energy was optimized and now runs in 1/40th the time, meaning a happier game.
  • The code for maxhp was given similar treatment and is now over 100x faster than before!
    • Warning, things that change your hp will not take affect until your next turn.
  • Mentoring up or down now causes your hp max to be recalculated the next time it's checked.
  • New lore added for Valkyries.
    • It is not retroactive to players that already have the form, we think.
  • Emergency: Summons disabled pending fix as it is growing like a cancer, threatening to destroy all we know and love.
    • It will be fixed at top priority.
  • Performing a renew will cause your max hp and max mp to be recalced instantly, ensuring you are ready!
  • Skunk Library in Fairhaven given a size limit of 20 in the library proper and 15 in the medical facility offshoot.
  • Staff payroll reduced from 30 to 10 per month.
    • Additional ways for staff to earn bonuses upcoming.
  • Completing or denying requests now gives 1 point of mako/lunar/funbucks for the staffer who did done it.
  • In theory, Male Preferred should now properly block clits and Female Preferred should now properly allow them.
  • In the vain of themey goodness, Oregonian given two new powers!
    • One that is deceptively beneficial with some very harsh penalties.
      • The other, exactly what it looks like.
    • Now, Oregonians can really show their 'Hunger' and need to 'Feed'!
  • They have sung songs of the elusiveness of the Mysterious Man.
    • Where is he?!
      • He could be hiding almost anywhere!
        • Fame and fortune await the agent that can unearth him!
          • He's not Carmen Sandieg0, but almost as good at hiding!
  • Unfillable perk will now make you not give off breeding-messages, ever.
  • Small Frame perk coded and added.
  • InstantCooldownDebuff now has limited effect when the power it attempts to affect is already deep in cooldown(10+ rounds).
    • Knockdown>Instantcooldowndebuff is not as generous.
  • Trauma Kit recipe added to the token store.
  • Prime fight rebalance.
    • Assistants downgraded and will gain absolutely nothing from 4 bodies or less, and that much less from more people(8 allies = 4 allies, 6 = 2, 10 = 6, and so on for most of the equations).
      • On the other hand, the prime now gains some power.
  • Fixed obscure bug that caused slowdowns in certain situations.
  • Baby Schematic perk added and coded.
  • OOC now supports usage of '@<name>'.
  • If you are RP Logging, you will be revealed as such with +Glance.
  • Judges should be able to adjust the special powers, level, rank, hp, and combat skills of their +monsters with the +rp command!
  • Shrinking pills should work properly now.
  • +glance revealing logging fixed.
  • New (free) avatar accessory: white bow!
  • New premium accessory: handcuffs.
  • Dropping profits increased dramatically (but if you have things taxing your cred energy, you won't see it so well, but it still happens!
    • A basic item went from below 1 freecred to 2.4 freecred.
  • By the power of Bast, Bastet Disciples have been given even more capacity to control their own heats, ruts, and lusts!
  • We now have the capacity to add new messages to Rut and Heat!
    • More to come, keep your eyes open for them.
  • Doctor Richards no longer breaks if you turn in a quest with a character level 51 to 60.
  • Additional Doctor Richards fixes: Removed legacy hunt of MSPA Series 6, fixed Rabid Squirrel hunt to actually infect on request, futureproofed freecred reward code.
  • Doctor Lissal now actually sleeps at night.
    • Players who have already had fun with her can wake her in the Living Area.
  • Added missing genital flags to Ember Warrior and Ember Matriarch.
  • There is now a 'mako' item in the elite store.
    • It costs 1 mako and when used it gives 1 mako.
  • Shop owners should be able to browse sort to sort their things.
    • It accepts all parameters that "i sort" does, with the default being a nice alphanumeric sort.
  • New (free) avatar accessory: a slice of cherry pie!
  • Removed 'ooc #clear' command function due to abuse.
  • New reward added for the Cow Maiden questline.
    • If you have already finished it, you may return to the final room to receive it.
  • Extra Girth given a small thematical buff.
  • Small typo in the new reward for the Milk Maiden questline fixed.
  • Having fun with Doctor Lissal during nighttime no longer wigs out.
  • Fixed an issue with Mprompt? in talkscript leaving values on the stack that shouldn't be there.
  • Fixed similar issue with /needitem.
  • Group- and faction-chat will now allow for @<person> and `<person>.
  • Danielle the Skunk Girl now has a proper day/night activity cycle.
  • Typing 'lstats' now makes mention of how to list all local stats on your mastered forms at once.
  • Checking your +health now makes the game immediately recalc your actual hp and energy maxes, which should prevent odd values from sticking around for very long.
  • Mastermind Combat Skill given more documentation.

Previous months can be found in the Multiplayer Updates Archive