View source for Multiplayer Updates/November 2013

'''28th'''
* Updated the unofficial wiki guide on [[String Parsing]] for extra clarity.
* Updated the 'string parsing/flags' helpfile with the new abbreviated alias, [if <flag> present in [target]].
** [if <flag> is present in [target]] still works, but is not preferred.
* New research: Pregnancy Tower Refinement (?).
* Article on optimizing string parsing added to the wiki: [[Optimizing String Parsing]]
** Expansion pending!
* When fishing, if you catch multiples, you get badge credit all the faster!
* Staff can now type 'reset' to renew hp, energy, and clear all statuses/toggles and wounds on themselves.
* New nanomagic: [[Shared Dream Nanomagic]]!
* Outdated reference to 'retirejp' removed from +retire.
* Insects have an avatar!
* Partying AI condition should now work as intended.
* Insect Avatar added to many of the monster avatars where seen appropriate.
** Most insect/arachnid forms and sexy exosuit just because it's the closest thing we have at present.
** If I've missed any that you think deserve it, let me know.
* [[Cat Girl|Cat Girls]] have an avatar!
** https://flexiblesurvival.com/index?shipedit&view=235
** Insect is no longer being shown off.
* Cat Girl avatar updated/fixed.
* "Help Skills" and "Help Proficiencies" updated.
* New Monster added to the NEIN Dome area: [[Emerald Dragonfly]].
Happy Holidays! [[Feral Mode|Ferals]] are no longer limited to 50 ready builder nanites at a time.
* [[Medical Hypo]] now uses first aid proficiency.
* [[Medicinal]] now uses first aid proficiency.
* You can now +roll (stuff) #private and only active judges, or yourself, will see the roll.
* What has science done?!
** New Monster added to the [[General Hospital]]: [[Abomination]].
*** And you thought the [[Crazy Guys]] were big'n bad?
* New, free, avatar color: Peach.
* Due to lack of interest, the Field Surgery mpool and Emotion Suppressor mpools were removed.
* New monster added to the Nightclub!
** Now you can see the Rave-tastic deights of the [[Mechanical Mephit]] dancing with a [[Slut Rat]]!
** Removed unnecessary debug from string parsing.
* Cleanup to the 'string parsing/if' helpfile.
** Changed uses of (person name) to [target].
** Specified AM and PM on all time values.
** Mentioned that seasons work with logical NOT.
** Specified that numbers should be checked with ==, versus =.
* The "Great Red Forest" clearly does not exist at this time.
** From now on, web and the terminal reflect this.
* All String Parsing help files have been tweaked for accuracy and clarity.
** Case Statement help file has been reworded and expanded.
* [stat and [local stat should now return lower case results.
**[[Vehicular Mode on]] the form [[Pack Leader]] removed.
* Train your body social action renamed to Work your body.
* Mechanical Mephit now properly commendable.
* [if X equipped by Y = N] and [if X possessed by Y = N] will now check the base-item on a recipe, rather than the name.
* "x is searching for trouble" message now only displayed to the searcher.
* A line added after the desc/autodesc and mutation listing.
* [[Talakai]] essence should work properly for stuffing big things into small places.

'''26th'''
* [[Bewitched]] now calcs after warded, debuffresist, and other related status reducers.
* Claws and other static features now render correctly on avatars.
* The avatar caches have been erased.
** Avatars may be slow to load until they've been fully regenerated.
* Giving items no longer alerts the room.
* Trading salvage no longer alerts the room.
* Votes should refill at a more reliable rate.
* RP XP is now kinder to folks who are posing slower and/or are in larger scenes.
** It now gets kinder in tolerance the more people are in a scene to account for slower pose rounds.
* Damage over Time effects now ignore much of a target's debuffresist/warded/bewitched for magnitude reduction.
** This includes the power for monsters to inherently resist statuses.
* [[Mall Rat|Mall Rats]] continue to innovate!
** The price of manufacturing their superconductor reduced as they realize you don't -have- to use titanium for the frame, aluminum works about as well.
* Target being UIR now displays an error, but continues, rather than aborting when attempting to apply adept/coyote shifting to them.
* A new area in Woodfield: [[Fredericks of Woodfield]]
** has a new staff monster: [[Living Lingerie]].
* <s>Transform command unlocked!</s>
** Transform command disabled until errors are fixed.
* Incorrect mastery bug fixed.
* When something succumbs to DoT, you will now be told how much damage was done.
* ACCOUNTPASSWORD command now correctly respects case-sensitive passwords.
* [[Latex Skunk]] skin desc fixed.
* Several forms are now correctly commendable.
* When transformed by adept powers, any spreading infection (including one triggered just then by singular merit) is cleared.
* The "Hot Pink" has received a re-coloration.
* The "Pinky Pink" Dye has received an update.
* Stats can now be checked for existence via [if local stat/city stat/stat does/does not exists].
** Example: [if local stat pancake of [player] does exist]pancakes[end if].

'''22nd'''
* Changes made to [[Nanite Degradation]] page on the Wiki.
* Backend update: Fixed a bug that could cause memory corruption when using certain internal functions.
* Backend update: Fixed a bug that could cause stack corruption when recompiling a currently running MUF program
* Backend update: Fixed a bug that could cause stack corruption if a user did not have color turned on.
* Backend update: Fixed a bug that could cause memory corruption if a NULL header field was submitted to the HTTP server.
* Backend update: The @uncompile command may no longer restart AUTOSTART programs.
** This will be fixed in a future update.
* New Holiday Form now available in the Elite Shop: [[Malevolent Menorah]]
* Through more extensive testing and balancing, the temporary fix to [[Automated Weapon]] has been revoked, in favor of a longer-term correction.
* Cost to produce heavy melee changed.
* Powers, items, and abilities now have a greater chance to fire any status they have if their charge is above 0(The more above 0, the more chance to fire any given status).
** This happens in reverse if the charge time is below 0, meaning that extremely fast powers have a small chance to NOT fire a status.
*** This also affects procs, such as laser emitting.
* The status mag of powers, abilities, and items that have a positive charge will be enhanced(higher charge, more status mag boosting). No effect on powers with 0 or less charge.
* Charge time on vibrator adjusted.
* Fast powers are no longer nerfed in status chance, slow powers will remain buffed.
* New Husky based quest line added!
** Husky Quest has been bug fixed.
* Well-Trained Nanites added to RSX's offerings.
* Bug in well-trained nanites fixed
* [[Reactive Triage]] now available in the token store as a new recipe modifier, thanks to your financial support of the game!
* Tail feathers accessory added, free, unlocked when you defeat the prime wild turkey!
** A second turkey feather accessory is available for 2 mako, created by Glitch!
* Greatly optimized string parsing and fixed edge-case errors in the [[Uber Fox]]. Playtesting encouraged!
* [[Forgetful Nibble]] typos fixed.

'''19th'''
* Updated chargen to use the now-standard green highlighting for commands in room descs.
* Web server successfully upgraded to Apache 2.4.6.
* New dedication: [[Sacred Warrior]]
** Available in [[Clairmont]]'s Police Station or from web.
* You can now connect to the website using a secure connection (just use https instead)!
** Please report any issues via +request.
* Billing system now correctly handles secure connections coming from the new web proxy.
* Fixed a failure in targeting lstats on players. 'lstats me' now works correctly.
* Due to continued problems with the Automated Weapon item, a temporary patch as been thrown at it until a more permanent solution is found.
* A level 2 action added to Bodyguard job.

'''16th'''
* The system clocks have been re-synced to the correct time.
** This may cause some slight temporary issues that will clear up in a few seconds.
* Incorrect double spacing fixed in auto desc.
* Staff alts can no longer master forms via infection.
* Autodesc altered mildly.
* @roomfind should no longer crash in certain situations.
* Message when buying a profession made better.
* [[Bronze Imp]] now supports the [[Arm Divider]] and the [[Tail Divider]].
** In addition, various grammatical cleanup has been done.
* [[Clockwork Fox Guy]] and [[Clockwork Fox Girl]] Defeat scenes have changed to second-person.
* Monster Writing help file tweaked for more clarity.
* Checking +xp will cause patrol point regaining.
* [[Cow Maiden|Cow Maidens]] may now become [[Mootaur|Mootaurs]].
* Fixed broken string parsing in the [[Water Dragon]] and [[Priapan Orca]] Victory and Defeat scenes.

'''13th'''
* Less precision displayed in social actions when using builder nanites.
* String parsing update: You can now [set the stat1 and stat2 and stat3 <thing> of Joe to <value>]
* RPinfo now reveals combat proficiencies for what they are!
* [[Shadow Vixen]] no longer has the non-existent 'Suggestive Smile' power.
* A Cost Modifier can now be set on proficiencies
** It will modify the costs when trying to upgrade them.
* Woolly Mammoth added to the Living Museum exterior.
** They've been added without any powers by accident. This has been fixed.

'''11th'''
* New Wiki page: [[Nanite_Degradation|Nanite Degradation]]
* Base [[Kaiju]] mass increased to be more in line with other giant forms.

'''10th'''
* Monster amounts should get larger faster when adjusting that aspect of the difficulty.
* Massively improved the string parsing of the [[Xanadu Bird]] infection.
** All Defeat scenes variants (and there are plenty) should now show up properly.
* [[Parade Dragon]] TFs fixed.
* Trying to train a level without having enough roles will now point you at help skills and proficiencies instead of the non-existant help roles.
* Knowledge skills removed from sheet.
* When talking to ooc chat with the ; emote, it now highlights your name in yellow to avoid any confusion with other player names.
* Several forms have had their color-chooser support fixed and should now work properly.
* A large batch of forms have been made lstats-compliant.
** Most remaining forms are private ones.
* You can no longer use the recall command to return to places that don't allow teleporting.
* Typo in [[Vespikitty]] mutant power fixed.
** Keen Eyes -> Keen Vision
* Danger and Pheromone technicians can now set your level to 4.
* General [[Cat Town]] grammar fixes and string parsing improvements.
** Broken exits cleared as well.

'''8th'''
* Time now shows accurate weather information.
* Sunrise and sunset now vary over the year and game area properly.
* Option 28 added to editplayer to set the default unit type (mainly for weather so far) on your character.
* [[Lawyer]] and [[Diplomat]] professions changed to have more difference!
* [[Flat Chested]] should auto correct itself if you end up with breasts somehow.
* SQL server optimization resulted in an estimated 32% reduction in disk IO at a small cost to speed (4%) for complex or malformed queries.
** This will increase the lifespan of our solid state disks and increase the overall performance of the server.

'''4th'''
* [[Otter|Otters]] should now display their Defeat messages again.
** Small grammar and string parsing tweaks to the form.
* [[Donkey Boy]] victory and defeat messages rephrased and spell checked.
** Minor fixes to the rest of the form.
* [[Mall Rat]] grammar & string parsing fixes.
** The dedication is now 20% cooler.
* [[Shadow Vixen]] now has the correct sayverb.
* The Great Knockdown Revision, part 1: Being knocked down will give you a stacking resistance against further knock downs for 20 rounds.
* The Great Knockdown Revision, part 2: You can only be stunned for so long.
** Excess knockdown becomes instantcooldowndebuff status instead.
** Terrible in its own, different, way.
* [[Tail Divider]] support added to the [[Margay]] and [[Margay Taur]].
* Updated Margay and Margay Taur defeat, victory, TF messages, and bodypart descriptions with better string parsing and grammar.
* Energy usage of the [[Nanite Cannon]] and [[Unshielded Prototype]] normalized.
* Monsters now spawn with only one template at most when doing a random encounter.
* [[Bull Shark]] infection updated with new descriptions, TF messages, and polished victory/defeat scenes.
** Fixed several gender pronoun bugs.
* [[Ember Warrior]] Defeat scene is now second-person and can impregnate the player again.
* Local notes added to all body parts in the monster editor.
* New difficulty settings available.
** Push it to the next level with insane difficulty and hoards quantity setting!
* Difficulty now increases the difficulty of mobs by altering their 'rank score' in a more granular way than mid boss to boss.
** Its rank is converted to a number, which is then increased by 10% per difficulty(or lowered by 10% on easy). This will affect rewards from the mobs, daily progress, and other related things.
* lstats command is now a thing. Currently only supports [[Lion Beast]], [[Wolger]] and [[Latex Skunk]].
** Other infections will be made lstats-compliant where needed.
** This ties in to the tweaks to the monster-maker.
** Whatever notes on local variables you enter there will be displayed when typing lstats.
** Remember, if you use locals, adding these notes is '''MANDATORY'''.
* Lustful template now only appears if you are at difficulty 1 or less.
* Multi Armed template ceases to appear at difficulty 3+
* Unclean will no longer appear at difficulty 2+
* Debugging: When spawning monsters, you will be told their specific rank ''number''"
* HP and con value(color) of enemies fixed.
* Debugging: While doing a daily mission, you will be told its rank multiplier for sake of the daily mission.
** Do tell us if this ratio looks off.
* Enemies encountered at high difficulty levels will be moderately more durable, especially at the new insane level.
** For the number lovers, +1 health combat skill at difficulty 2 and 3, +2 at the new level 5.
* Many Nanomagics have been updated for the new system.
* Minor glitch with new knockdown code fixed.
* If you have a massive number of builder vials of one type, you can no longer cause an integer overflow.
* Web interface nanite display now can work with BIG numbers.
* Fixed nonsensical Victory scenes for neuter Wolfen Predators and OVictory scenes for non-males.
* Chargen no longer mentions 'buy perk' or 'buy flaw'. It simply mentions the correct 'buy' now.
** Oops. Buy perk and buy flaw were correct.
* [[Sacrificial Fury]] now works nicer with repeat attacks.
** Self damage during the repeated portion of an attack is now only 33% strength.
* "Help Skills", "Help Professions" and "Help Roles" are no longer things.
** "Help Skills and "Help Proficiencies" is a thing, on the other hand.
* "Help Local Stats" added.

'''1st'''
* [[Shadow Vixen]] now empowered with the ability to get pregnant from combat!
* Shadow Vixen defeat, victory, TF messages, and bodypart descriptions have been revamped thoroughly for better grammar and much faster parsing.
** Defeat messages should now show up properly for males, females, and hermaphrodites.
* A [[Witch Hat]] is now for sale in the elite store.
** It provides some protection, and helps restore your energy for extended hexes!
[[Category:Updates]]