Revision as of 00:23, 25 September 2013

The following is a list of updates made to the game since it entered open beta in 2011.

For planned future updates, see Nuku's six month plan at http://checkvist.com/checklists/97925-six-month-plan.

Need up-to-the-minute updates? They're over here!

September

24th

• The "people" who run the Strange Holes in the Cow Barn have been fixed.
  • People who have visited them before and waited the correct amount of time will be able to visit them again.
• More bugfixing in avatar color purchasing.
• Fix to Harbinger Lynx 3rd party victory message.
• The droprange and +droprange commands have been reworked and revised for more protection.
• Pregnancies that are conceived from this moment on will be 15% shorter due to mako pool.
• Small change to Tears of Life to bring more inline with Chock Milk and Group Hug.
• Server upgrades were conducted.
  • This included various software and firmware upgrades.
  • Server RAM capacity ihas been doubled.
  • A complete system diagnostic was performed.
  • Finally the cleaning and changing of filters was performed (presumably on the physical case).
• Web should be working correctly again.
• Characters who haven't set their account yet (in chargen) will no longer be pestered over and over to agree to the ToS.
• Improved support in JSON library for nested arrays.

23rd

• Fixed processing of powers that have a nulled out status in them.
• The recipe Computerized was unfortunately bugged.
  • Please make a +request if you have bought it, and when the request is answered, provide the bugged version for a working one.
• New Form added to Kaiju Island: Tentacular Titan.
  • Hope you like a long swim! (Or have a Kaiju friend)
• Slight clarification given to Dusk Dragon's +rpinfo to reinforce its meaning and remove potential connotations running amuck.
• When using a vial or funnel, it warns you if you/the target has TotalChangeImmunity status or Ultimate Infection Resistance.
• Broken exits at the Strip Mall fixed.
• Minor tweaks to Outside Fairhaven.
  • Obvious Exits in the description are now marked in white, broken exits have been repaired, and grammatical errors have been fixed.
• "Help equipment" now gives some practical info on various commands.
• A huge amount of unlinked exits have been removed.
• 'farskunking' changed to 'farskunk'. 'farmarp' is now correctly supported.
• You can now purchase single dyes with freecred in the same easy fashion as you could with mako.
  • In the avatar editor, just select a color you don't own in the slot you want it, and click the freecred button it displays.
    • Now you own that dye color/slot, no mako involved!
  • Dye owners, we did not forget you!
    • If someone buys a dye with cash, you get royalties on the cash, in cash, not taxed by daily energy levels.
• Bug fixed in purchasing of dyes for single slots (cash or premium).

20th

• Fixed an infinite loop in the Beach Bum dialogue.
• Error in the Wax Museum Quest fixed!
  • You should be able to get Hugo to recognize you got all the necessary items.
• Broken string parsing in Bozeman University has been fixed.
• Ultimate powers will now list as such during combat.
• New Monster Arc Demon now available in Wax Museum - Afterlife area.
• +census nanomagic now highlights base nanomagics.

18th

• The Cow Girl social action job rolls are now influenced by the breast size stat.
  • Having a lot of breasts gives a fixed bonus to the roll.
  • Remember that if you have Chock Milk power, you have a special action as well.
• New NPC added to New Dawn - Professor Kale.
  • Expansion pending.
• Kitsune wiki-page tweaked to give more info about the different settings for the form.
• Fixed and reformatted some old talkscript in New Dawn.
  • Many NPCs also do not smell like neuters anymore.
• Removed dead statuses on Zephyr and RSX NPCs.
  • Said NPC's names should no longer be highlighted.
• Seeker of Puzzles now has a Template form added to replace their normal skin: Zoot Suit.
• Devil form does have a Variable penis type.
  • It can be changed by the local variable Devil/Dick on yourself.
    • Default is still horse-flared. Try different values to find new shapes.
• The beachfront has been rewritten.
• Resolved an issue that was causing +sheet to malfunction in a strange way.
• It seems someone has been putting some Strange Holes in the stalls at the Cow Barn in Eureka.
  • Maybe they should be 'check'ed out,
• ULTIMATE power upgrades are now possible.
  • This is a bugfix.
• Non-street exits in Eureka now accept cardinal directions.
  • Lots of broken string parsing fixed in the process.

16th

• New bounty system enabled.
  • Different critters in different zones will be called for culling and you get extra cash for doing so, and a reward token(once per day).
  • All future bounties will give more currencies.
• Three new merits, Big Boned, Large Tendencies and Overblown, for those who insist on going big or going home.
• If you need some perks nuked to make room for the new size perks, submit a request, mako free!
  • They will be done free of charge until next Saturday.
• New system for FS lore added.
  • Check out the Whiteboards in the Zephyr and RSX triages, or the Chalkboard in New Dawn, to get started.
• Powers can now be epiced to ULTIMATE power (an extra upgrade that cannot be something already upgraded).
  • They require 6 boss vials of the right type, an amount of tokens, Freecred and XP!"
• Feathery Hide has more upgrade options now.
• New Area Added: The final section of the Wax Museum, the Afterlife Exhibit, is up and ready.
  • This is a TOUGH area. If you thought the Apocalypse area was hard, this is harder.
  • Level for area ranges from 65-72 for the mobs.
  • Mobs include: Bronze Imp, Soul (Crude Drawing), Chubby Cherub, Seraphim, and the hardest: Devil.
  • Warning, warning, this area will kick most solos' butts. Have at it!
• New avatar colors, tanned and light tan!
• New racerbuck item, silver plated supply crate.
• Reward token removed from racer buck catalog.
• New Recipe Modifier avalible for Racer Bucks! Computerized.
  • Due to potential exploits, Computerized changed to static energy penalty for scaling charge reduction.
  • More changes as it gets more evaluations.

15th

• Small Felinoid supports Color Chooser now.
• Fixed a string parsing error in the Slinking Ferret skin transform.
• Having a Color Chooser should no longer make editplayer cry in the corner.
• +census job now displays job levels.
• New flaw, Inverted, causes the size of your infection to flip around, so small forms are large for you and large forms are small.
• Updated the web page on Promethean Nanites for clarity.
• RPinfo for Talakai updated to be much more clear.

14th

• At long last The Puzzler has made himself more known to all willing to seek him out!
  • The Seeker of Puzzles dedication has been added to grid, form pending.
• Talakai supports Arm Divider now.
• Bunny Boy supports Color Chooser now.
• Enabled web-combat 'overclicking' detector again.
  • If you refresh the web combat page faster than once a minute you may get a temp ban (from web combat).
• CritHPBuffer will now work again.

13th

• Getting a talk script approved earns you mako now.
• New Staff-created Monster added to the Shady Keep area: Spectral.
• Passive abilities will not work in an AoE fashion unless in combat.
• Updated the staging area (National Guard Airfield) with better grammar and clearer phrasing.
• New players (not characters) to the muck will find their income not affected as much, negatively, by cred energy.
• Powers, items, etc, can no longer be forced to target people who are ooc, jdg, idl or wiz status.
• You now cannot use or be forced to use a power if you are ooc, idl, wiz or jdg.
• Refreshing the page too many times within a minute will now give you a 1hr web combat timeout.
  • Please click responsibly.
    • Note: You should never get this just by clicking the site.
  • That was in regards to web combat refreshing.
• Web combat bans reset. Exception added for mobile webkit-based browsers.
• Fixed a typo in the Medkit description.
• Cat Girl now supports the color chooser.
• Requisition Clerks in Zephyr and RSX, as well as Doctor Ed in New Dawn have been rewritten.
  • They should now explain the basic equipment and combat commands more clearly.
• New Monster located in the Creepy Forest: Vespikitty.

10th
This list is compiled from the last 5 days of updates.

• To reduce load, the system will no longer permit multiple connections to a single web battle.
• Tarragon and Behemoth victory and defeat messages altered slightly to fit theme.
• "Help string parsing/flags" tweaked to reflect the recent changes.
• New public chat channel "links" has been added. Please use this if you wish to share off-topic links with the public.
• Median level of money generation altered. Those who have not accumulated 5,000 for the day are ignored(but will continue to accrue to the next day, where they may count).
• You can now spend 100k xp on money at a time on the page.
• Quake in fear, there is now a function that can strip buffs from things.
• New status, Buffclear, works like Debuffclear, but, you know, buffs.
• Buffclear will now ignore statuses with a duration greater than 100, to avoid terminating statuses that are not meant to ever go away.
• Expect more challenge from high rank monsters, especially hard and final bosses.
  • Editor's personal thought: End-game mobs may be using Buffclear to combat players more effectively.
• You now have more hitpoints(yay), but so do the bad guys(boo).
  • MaxHP status is now soft capped at two points, and has a hard cap.
• Stretchy modified with lower AoEMag to assist in game balance.
• Bug with craftmod selective trade item fixed
• The Panther Taur description and scenes have been polished.
• Tanuki updated with polished transform messages and part descriptions.
• Player size now has 2 soft caps and a hard cap(20).
  • Those who are actively Kaiju ignore the hard cap (but still experience soft caps).
• Due to size restrictions, monsters/npcs can now be created that are larger than we are comfortable PCs being without exploding things.
• How Kaiju interacts with new caps altered.
• Quetzalcoatl now follows Kaiju size logic.
• +groin updated for better terminology.
• +glance terminology updated for clarity.
• Monster editor edited in several places for clarity.
• Players now have 15 minutes after connecting to agree to the latest terms of service before you will be automatically disconnected.
• The Puzzler seems oddly pleased about... something.
  • Whatever it is, he's giving out mildly larger prizes and grinning all the wider lately.
• Wireling added to the Shady Keep area.
• Half-Dragon Stripper (Busty Dragoness partial mutation) added to Wastelands. Grinders, enjoy.
  • Ha-HAH! Sexy Dragoness parts. My bad. (???)

5th

• Minor exit tweaks.
  • Unnecessary [O] Out exits changes to the appropriate cardinal directions.
  • Most uses of [O]ut changed to [O] Out to be more in line with other directions.
• Fixed an exploit in the Bottle Quest that allowed infinite freecred generation.
• Fixed a bug that could cause web battles to run out of control if the battle ended but the player never refreshes/moves to a different page.
• Web battles will now notify you if your battle times out before you finish making your move and will cease all further execution until you start the next battle.
• Fixed legacy look traps at the Red Court.
  • They now support basic partial matching and are highlighted in yellow.

4th

• Using the vial machine will now set the level of the vial produced to be the minimum level for the lowest area it spawns in.
  • If no area is found it will be set to max level.
• A new mob is on the grid: Clockwork Cat. You'll find it in the Toy Factory.
• Clockwork Cat defeat now shows up.
• Removed cases of partially highlighted commands in Zephyr, RSX, and New Dawn.
  • Instead of seeing 'trained' you will see 'train', for example.
• New Dawn perk room now matches the compact, neater visual style of those in Zephyr and RSX.
• Perk rooms further updated.
  • The 'Commands' section has been made more clear, concise, and helpful.
• Emotional Aura Nanomagic updated to reflect what it considers an emotion that is projectable.

3rd

• Shield drones now get a modified rest ability.
• Leaking Craftmod available in the Elite Shop.
• When using the shift or associated commands, the form you try to shift to will now accept partial matching based off forms you have mastered.
  • If you have not mastered any forms, partial matching will not work.
• Bastet Disciple's dedication immunity to horny/heat messages has been fixed.

+pj #pvp Option added to allow judges to use PVP modes within private (temporary) rooms.

• • You must be Judge Level 4 or higher to use this new option.
• Shifting to a form will now attempt to match a specific form first, rather than the biggest partial match.
  • Further, it will also try and then match things from the start of an infection, before resorting to full partial matching.

1st

• Say-color option in editplayer should now function correctly.
• When using the talk script editor on the web, Goto and Mprompt(?) will no longer filter out string parsing.
• Rudimentary PVP combat should now work.
  • Messages tell you what kind of PVP is in an area now pop up when you enter.
  • Being defeated in a PVP area will not give you wounds (but respawning still will)
• Fixed broken string parsing on the path from New Dawn to Fairhaven.
• Broken string parsing fixed in the Latex Toy Factory room descriptions.
  • Several broken exits removed/repaired, as well.
• Added the ability to set a 'forced mentor' on a room that will make sure people are of a similar level (mentored up or down)
• Being the same faction as someone confused no longer stops their confused attacks from hitting you.
• Fixed lots of broken string parsing at the Daughter Dealership.
• Fixed a bug where a player could enter an infinite loop when talking to Nephthys at the Daughter Dealership without enough freecreds.
• Pets can no longer infect or be infected by dots.
• Modification recipe removed from the game.
  • It made players with the Modified flaw capable of giving out buffs and debuffs that were massively stronger than a support character that used roles.
    • In other words it made role-based buff/debuff characters useless.

August

30th

• The Modest perks (Cock, Vagina and Appearance) have been updated to properly reflect the fact that reality has clearly always referred to relative sizes.
• Using the sexual stabilizer now sets a permanent stat, rather than a status, which remains until toggled back off.
• Tail Divider support has been added to the Fox Taur form.
• Animated Latex Skin Dedication finally grounded on the grid.
• For balance reasons, AoEmod buff has been removed from Gradual Latexification.
• Fixed bug in acct_any2aid function that caused a crash when ambiguous player name strings are entered.
• New flag added: Flared. For all your equine needs!
• Small fixes to South Fairhaven.
  • First, fixed several ancient roomdesc stat checks with broken string parsing.
  • Second, fixed over 8 misspelled exits.
  • And finally, cleared up some misleading directions.
• Many Equine forms now have the new 'Flared' flag implemented for use in string parsing.
• Minor bug in womb room exiting fixed.
  • Another bug with +womb rooms fixed (not certain if related to the above).
• New Monster placed in the Sweaty Jungle area! Roseander.
  • Plant-fond form-hunters, get ready and go get it!
• Fixed major bug in how regen (status) gains aggro.
• Added "TINTIN++" to list of supported clients for which 256-color mode will be automatically enabled.
• Say-color option in editplayer should now function correctly.

27th

• The way energy interacts with RP gained money has been made less coarse.
• Rolling out new gear mutex code.
  • If you get any errors or such pertaining to using items or that have 'lib mutex' in them, please make a request
• Anubis Servant boss vial added to elite store.
• Yesterday's "Cred Earned" statistic will now be displayed by +account/+register.
  • Only if the value is above zero. May take a day or two to update in the database.
• Offline players in your womb will now affect your haste/pregnant statuses.
• InGame web fights should now, once again, work.
  • AND they will now tell you, properly, when a fight has ended!
• Game-mail to email is working again.
  • If you have not disabled the feature, any +mail you receive while offline will be sent to your active email address.
• Email system should now honor all opt-out requests.
• Lots of broken or unfinished look traps removed from Zephyr.
  • All of the ones shown should be finished products.
• Horny messages should disable if your fertile status is negative.

23rd

• Updated how web combat is cleaned up.
  • Players should be given much more chance to revive and should see less 'battle ended unexpectedly' from in-game web combats.
• Stat checks in Fairhaven made more 'contextual' and less 'gamey'.
  • While still obvious when reading through a room description, they should no longer fire History 2/1: or the like.
  • Several small knowledge stat checks added in the process.
• Searching in areas where there are offline players should be a little more reliable.
• Modification to the inventory mutex system should result in less hiccups.
• The way energy interacts with RP gained money has been made less coarse.

21st

• Rod's Old Truck Quest should now correctly mention to mentor to level 17 if you are too high level for the final fight.
• Feral mode training, Rod Trained, added to the wiki! More additions to follow.
• Alpha Feral Training added to the wiki.
• Feral Training Nurturer added to the Wiki.
• Help Mentor has received a touch-up.
• Sweaty Jungle tweaked for improved grammar.
• The Highway has been updated for ease of navigation.
  • Room titles are now distinct and reflect their respective areas.
• Ember Matriarch works properly now.
  • Now you can go back for more fun with hir after you complete the quest.
• Death Valley and all related NPCs have been rewritten. This is part of ongoing work to improve older zones.
• The Circus in Fairhaven has been rewritten.
  • This is part of ongoing work to improve older zones.
• Latex Factory Showroom NPCs updated with fixed string parsing, spacing, and format.
• Sexually Stable merit updated to avoid future confusion.
• Wet Bitch now also connected to the grid via normal travel.
• Bozeman University available on web.

18th

• @viewparse and connected functions now support time-statements. Also [area].
• Remaining use cases of Zephyr Inc. and Zephyr Incorporated standardized to Zephyr Inc, to minimize confusion.
• New Staff Monster added to Shady Keep area: Kage Fiend.
• New Research Available.
• RP items added to nanite shielding requirements.
• Bonuses given to a pet as a result of adding modifiers to it when crafting, will now be adjusted by the rank of the pet.
• New Monster added to The King Stables! Ahkal Teke is now available there.
• New Player Monster added to Shady Keep area: Wild Cannibal
• New Area: Sweaty Jungle now exists in Fairhaven (North of the River).
  • New monsters added: Ribbed Frog, Swamp Stalker, Anery Stripe Cornsnake, and Staff-made African Rock Python. Woo, leezards!

17th

• Staff may now use the hunting territory item to destroy it and gain 10 mako.
  • Staffers now get 50 for a hunting territory.
• Medusa Dedication is now available on-grid.
• Petrifying Gaze inflicts RechargeDebuff instead of ChargeDebuff, since ChargeDebuff is no longer in use and replaced by HasteDebuff.
• Shady Keep area now added in Woodfield. Level 57-63. Current mobs include the staff-made Bogart Knight and the player-made Fire Sprite.
• Solar Dragon now has an avatar all its own.
• Corporate Cougar now has flags.
• Area in and around Zephyr polished again.
  • Non-existing look traps are no longer mentioned, or have the proper placeholder.
  • Stat-checks are better integrated with a character's perception of the environment.
  • Numerous cases of past-tense phrasing changed to present-tense.
  • And, of course, the area has been spell-checked.
• Fixed display error in energy amount in sa list.
• Players will be less likely to be set idle if they are partaking in combat.
• Updated Unrelenting Suckle.

13th

• New area added to the Woodfield Sewers.
• Woodfield City Sewers and the Underground Tunnel polished. Better grammar, looktraps, and more.
• Friend-locks and enemy-locks have been tweaked to more reliably inform those with editing-permissions about the +lock command.
• New premium accessory, an assault rifle, available for 1 mako for all characters forever.
• New, free, avatar accessory, a baseball cap!
• The RSX Square in Woodfield has been rewritten for legibility. Navigation should now be easier.
• All dangerous areas in Woodfield are now clearly marked as such at their respective entrances.
• New section of Woodfield Sewer is now actually accessible.
• New Form added to Rolling Hills: Mootaur.
• Fairhaven Zoo rewritten. More to come in the near future.

12th

• Result for Packmind Research added, new item for sale in [RSX Solutions]: Operative Floor, Basement.
  • The new item is called the Radio Static Device. Functions as a low powered Static Broadcaster (See and compare to Anti Nanomagic)"
• New Modifier: Windup.
  • Makes an item take an exact amount of time longer to use. The trade-off is that the item uses significantly less energy.
  • Available in the Token Store.
• Modifiers that reduce something by a percentage now have two soft caps and a hard cap(-80%).
• Negative recipe modifiers are now, after some debugging, capping at 75%, then again at 40%, with a final, hard, cap at 20%.
• Long-term idle player purge performed.
• If/when a status ends up with 0 mag or duration due to upgrades, it will not abort all other statuses from being applied after that one.
• Charm and "insta-kill" type powers can now work in web combat.
  • However they will give no charmed pet and no talk script associated with them will run.
• Charm and "instant kill" type powers now can generate battle clear messages.
• Fixed broken string parsing at the NeoGAMES Lab in Woodfield.
• New NPC added to RSX Promethean Studies lab: Albert Stross.
  • He has a hidden quest associated with him. Expansion pending.

11th

• Woodfield General Hospital updated with better grammar, fixed string parsing, and more details to look at. Big ups to Osiris for helping out.
• Refunded mako for Ejaculating Limbs mpool. The same functionality will work with the Rainmaker item.
• @viewparse and related commands revamped behind the scenes. Also more error-checking added.
• Rainmaker item added to token store.
• When two females have sex, if both have rainmakers (without being renamed) they will both get filled!
• Fixed bugs in talk script editor (and a few other web apps).
• Level 2 and 3 actions for Librarian added.
• All the references of a removed critter removed from the mission Road to a Cure.
• Vibrator recipe's cost and ingredient adjusted a bit.
• +request/rename option added.
• Toys in latex factory updated to use new filled code.
• Feral Dragon now has its own avatar!
• +census amounts for money should be more accurate in theory.
• +census values for cash well and truly fixed.

8th

• Lustful Pheromones upgraded to be a real power.
• Fixed a couple interactions with Zephyr Coffee Lounge NPCs. WIP
• Rod Trained feral mode mutants now reduce the upkeep of their overall equipment by 1 per level!
  • If you're level 20, and have 30 upkeep worth of stuff, it becomes 10 upkeep worth of stuff.
• Extra Filling and Well Filled perks are now available
• When using the fuck command, a confirmation asking if you want to proceed is now always given.
• Warning! Many mutant powers will now cover you in goop/fill you, as per their descriptions!
• Were Arachnid added.
• @viewparse updated to account for extra parsing, both new and old.
• High freecred social actions given two soft caps in terms of freecred reward.
• Social action freecred cap is now influenced by the energy required.
  • An action that takes 5 patrol points softcaps 5 times higher than an action that only requires 1.

5th

• Misplaced upgrade for energydamage on Costume Slip removed.
• Bug in party mentoring code fixed.
• When the judge who turns off OOC chat in a room leaves, the chat is automagically enabled again.
• Coyote who are not currently coyote will now show <Coyote> when TFing people.
• Typing +mako will now list your mako to two decimal places.

4th

• Hero points should no longer refresh randomly.
• XP rewards while fighting should no longer be a bajillion digits precise.
• Recipes available in the premium store now shown if known or not when viewed via web.
• A lot of fresh answers posted to the ask page, http://ask.flexiblesurvival.com.
• Help supporter updated.
• Fixed a progression error in the Ember Matriarch questline. Playtesting encouraged!
• Help Botting updated to show exactly what is meant by 'play the game when you're not there.'
• Sci is now usable as a command for the science channel.
• Auc now works for Auction channel.
• All future combat engergizers purchased are non-tradeable.
• Pets can now accept the new fuck commands.
• When leaving a party as the leader, reassigning the leader of a party, kicking yourself from a party as leader OR when the leader drops offline, combat should no longer go haywire in that room.
• Demon Lunar Touched added.
• Badger avatar created and applied, if you can think of related species that would benefit from using that avatar, pop up a request.
• Oral, anal and breast sex request messages now a little more ambiguous, in case a female is asking a male for such.
• The next winner of +lotto gets a dedication.
  • The dedication will be publicly available, but you get to design it!
  • So run, do not walk, to +lotto and grab up some tickets!
• People with a Color Chooser can now set their colors with editplayer.
• Lotto 'splosion fixed.

Previous months can be found in the Multiplayer Updates Archive