Revision as of 12:12, 2 December 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!

December

2nd

• To celebrate the holidays, during December, all contributions to the public projects (mako pools) will be matched.
  • Every 5 you put in, we'll throw in one of our own!
• New Area made: Great Red Forest.
  • More to be made both for this area and for the city it is attached to.
• Fixed lots of broken String Parsing in the Pack Leader dedication.
  • Also made its code slightly faster.
• Glenstock-based areas can now be rtraced.
• Local stats will no longer be forced to lower case.
• PBRD should work harder, for YOU.
• NPCs show up in +glance as NPCs.
• Pack leaders may now set the race of their minions!
  • @set me=Minion Race/(power):awesome race
  • Pack Leader code updated and refactored once more.
  • Anyone currently in that form must shift away and shift back to regain any previously set subform.
  • Pack Leader now functioning as intended again.
  • New Pack Leader commands added to wiki.
• Sexually stable no longer clashes with the everything.
• +groin display-bug fixed.
• Repeated infection with a form will no longer remove transformation-set flags.
• Rpinfo of Clothing Nanomagic updated to note it is not a craft recipe.
• String Parsing Optimization article updated with case-statements and randomization functions: Optimizing String Parsing
• Updated the Wiki entry on Flags to the latest and greatest specifications.
• XP no longer becomes cash, either manually or automagically.
• Bug found in trinkets!
  • They never adjusted for the rank of the thing you were beating up.
  • Low rank and low difficulty scale monsters will give less, high difficulty and high rank monsters will give more valuable trinkets.
  • Infinite trinkets fixed.
• Code now supports scavenger above 3 for cred gain per monster.
• Economics now impacts per-monster cash gain more strongly.
  • This is entirely a buff.
  • For the curious, this change makes points of Economy 25% stronger than they were before.
    • The code should also be better about making each point of economy count, rather than each 10.
• Sandra should now let you finish the "Getting the Carrots" quest.
• Bugs in the pools fixed.
• Various enhancements have been made to the automatic firewall system.
• Two new helpfiles made for our wonderful players and judges, +help Godmodding and +help Judge/Responsibilities and Rights
• New command, type cart to see a map up to five rooms in all directions, dynamically produced (Does not do up or down).
  • Cart command now accepts a parameter, you can cart (direction) and see the cart from that direction.
  • Cart command no longer maps past rooms you have never been to before.

November

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 Girls have an avatar!
  • http://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! 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 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.
• Transform command unlocked!
  • 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 first-person.
• Monster Writing help file tweaked for more clarity.
• Checking +xp will cause patrol point regaining.
• Cow Maidens may now become 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
• 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

• 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 first-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!

Previous months can be found in the Multiplayer Updates Archive