Multiplayer Updates

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

10th

• Social Actions now report correct amount of influence gain.
• Glaring bug in string parsing fixed. = will now perform a string-comparison again, as it should.
• In related news, Pack Leader has been fixed. Again.
• Craft Bounties now have 0, 1, or 2 mods instead of 1-3.
• Information in the help file for groups has been greatly updated.
  • Check it out with: help group.
• Many restrictions to web training on feral modes now changed to look for negative technical, meaning that rod trained mutants are more free in their training.
• Fixed a bug in the ally-listing part of friend and enemy locks.
• Upkeep calculations now also check for negative technical, meaning Rod trained mutants are liberated in their equipment use.
• Cash Energy tweaked in a major way.
  • You now get cash far faster at the start of the day.
  • When you are depleted of energy, it goes back to how it's been.
• Code updated so webpage shows new energy level.
• Cash now shows your current cred energy, from in the game!
• When giving salvage, you can now use 'all' as a number, to give all of that type.
• Assisting with a daily mission now nets you a reward token in addition to the xp and chance at salvage.
• Daily missions can now run in areas up to 2 levels -under- you.
  • This gives more options to your dailies.
• New requests are now marked as 'new' instead of 'unread'.
• New merit: Internal Genitals.
  • Fixed bug in Internal Genitals.
• It is now possible to lock rooms and/or areas against size/mass.
• RSX Scientists are amazed as a crate of unknown size appeared in the middle of their lab.
  • It seems agents across the west coast are finding these crates.
  • They are never witnessed to actally appear, they just are there when one turns to face them.
  • As far as can be determined, they are harmless.
  • With some tinkering, keys have been fabricated, but doing so is very energy expensive and computer intensive, demanding a premium price.
    • The boxes have a chance to appear as you do things, any thing, roleplay, social actions, combat, we don't care, do stuff!
    • There is now a chance of finding a key. And you thought we would leave our free players out of the fun.
    • Every time you -could- find a chest or key, you are given one, hidden, point of planar potential.
    • Each point makes the chance of finding them more likely.
    • If you are subscription level 2 or higher (the medium level), these points accumulate twice as fast.
    • These points reset when you find a planar item.
  • Chance of random dimensional chest of mystery, increased!
• After consulting with Hinoserm and applying extreme mathematics, we have adjusted the odds of both chests and keys.
  • The adjustment was in a positive direction.
• Judges may now +pj #planar to hand out awesome planar juice that will make your next chest or key much more likely to happen soon.
  • This charge is modified by sub level, but is quite significant even at totally no sub.
  • Fixed bug in +pj #planar
• Fixed bug that prevented regenerating hp from showing.
• New wiki info page: Conditions of Ferals
• To use the cock milking room, use the command cmilk.
• Cock Milker no longer usable without the proper anatomy.
• Cock Milker updated for better grammar.
• [size of ] should now function correctly.
• Flexible Survival Novel now available for a mere 5 mako in the elite store.
  • Catch up with theme for about 75% off the retail price.
• Gaining a token from a bounty also results in a great increase in the speed for your next chest/key discovery.
• Fixed a bug that prevented infection drops.

8th

• "help monster writing" now has a short blurb of info on tail-dividers and color-choosers.
• String parsing will no longer try to match exit-names or program-names.
• Fixed a bug in the Uber Fox Victory scene that would prevent single-peckered characters from viewing the full Victory.
• Added new Tanuki Cock TF text to account for females/herms shifting to that dedication form.
• Added missing Clawed flag to Tanuki.
• Removed 'Clawed' flag from Leg Descriptions on all in-game forms.
  • This results in a 85% reduction of total Legs flag entries.
  • 'Clawed' only applies to a form's Arms-desc and should now result in fewer errors when checking for with String Parsing.
• Glutton infection Defeat message and Skin Description fixed.
  • They should now display in full. Various other String Parsing tweaks to the form.
• From the icy lands in the north of Europe, the All Father, Great Odin has blessed a temple here in Fairhaven for his followers.
  • Unfortunately it seemes another, much more underhanded being from the same region is hot on his heels.
• Raised Pharaoh and Anubis Servant updated with improved grammar and quicker String Parsing.
  • Added a missing cunt-desc and Clawed flag to the Anubis Servant dedication.
• How Crafting Works page updated with new information.
• Fixed an error in string parsing. It will no longer throw hissie-fits when certain conditions are met.
• Fixed another crash in string parsing.
• Cock Milker coded and available in the elite store to be installed at your facility!
• Fixed the skill upgrade for groups so you can raise any proficiency!
• Missing Barbed flag added to Cerberus Herm.
• Missing Clawed flag added to Bastet Disciple.
• Fixed many aspects of the Cerberus Herm form for neuters.
• Greatly improved logic in Bastet Disciple TF messages and bodypart descriptions.
  • Flat-chested or single-clefted players will no longer receive cut-off text.
• Cat Girl avatar recolored to fit the theme of the other avatars.
• Found a terrible bit of code that made cred per RP tick extremely unreliable from person to person. It is no longer so.
  • HOWEVER, it could be too high, or too low, so keep us posted.
• For daily cash energy, players who have never reached at least 60% of max level will not be counted in the running tally (used to be level 20).
• Daily energy now set at the 60% mark instead of 50%.
• Having comprehension as a group perk skill now properly adjusts prices on proficiencies!
• +prove for proficiencies when improved by group skill fixed.
• When you are at max xp for your level, you will gain 20% more cash from all sources that are energy taxed.
• Your xp will be trimmed down to max xp for your level whenever the code notices your folly.
  • Oops, it was trimming you to exactly how much xp you needed to level. Fixed.
• Arm Divider support added to the Venus Mantrap.
• Fixed the (very) broken Water Hydra Victory message.
  • Recoded Water Hydra Victory text to fire sexier scenes under less strict conditions.
• Server time has been corrected.
• Daily refresh rejiggered to make sure it counts everyone, and to make sure everyone gets their energy restored.
• After thorough debugging, we've isolated some things that may have been causing people to not be counted towards economic activity.
  • This bug has been squashed.

5th

• Ember Breeder now reads second-person tense for Victory and Defeat, third-person tense for Ovictory messages.
• All base talents that make use of 'StatusResist' should now properly be using 'DebuffResist' instead.
• Fixed Sleepy Sheepgirl-infected minion skin descriptions.
• Cart will now get smaller on your screen if there just isn't so much to display.
• You can now cart (number) to define how far you want the cartographer to map.
  • This does stack with the other parameter support, so you can cart 2 east, and see all rooms within 2 rooms of the room to the east.
• Cart now looks for ne/se/sw/se links and will add rooms to the map appropriately.
• Cart now displays uneven exits in red to make them more obvious.
• It is now possible for staff to denote an exit as 'longer' for purpose of the cartographer.
• The legend at the bottom of cart is now in order.
• Cart now shows all exits a room has.
  • Even if it detects no rooms in that direction (possible with locked doors, for instance, or being the edge of the map)
• Fixed bug when trying to buy single slot dyes for your avatar.
• New Item Modifier added to the Racer Store: Energized.
• Quicksilver Serpent updated with fixed grammar and String Parsing.
  • The Victory and Defeat scenes should now show in full.
• Cart no longer considers dark/hidden exits.
• Fixed broken Tail Divider functionality in the Talakai dedication.
  • Fixed several grammatical issues with the Talakai dedication form.
    • Cleaned up its Tail Divider support in the process.
• @viewparse and related commands will no longer trip out when confronted with { or } characters within the string you are testing.
• Fixed and improved broken String Parsing in the Skink Skank and Quilled Tousky infections.
• Quilled Tousky ass-flags work now.
• Road Runner torso flag fixed.
  • By fixed they mean removed.
• Tweaked Latex Skunk String Parsing and grammar.
  • Its local stats should be more robust now.
• Missing clause added for non-male Latex Wolf OVictory messages.
  • Many spelling and code improvements made to the form.
• Big Change for new characters: all 6 profession picks are now completely free.
• Ignited monster template nerfed.
• A new pet(form) has arrived at the Pet Shop of Horrors.
  • This one comes with a nice, broad smile!
    • Rev it up with the Chrome Shark Beast.
• Cartogropher no longer accepts exits that don't link to actual rooms.
• Cartogropher can now be told to NOT map a particular area by staff.
• Clothing Nanomagic given actual effects!
• Zephyr Inc's Cafeteria made a bit more readable.
• New Wiki Info Pages: How Crafting Works and Differences between Bubbles.

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!