Multiplayer Updates/September 2014

September

• Color chooser support added to the following forms:
  • Bearded Dragon Recruit, Black Panther, Cat Fox, Centaur Mare, Centaur Stallion, Collie Herm, Crimson Pegasus, Deer Herm, Dingo, Dusk Dragon, Fenrir Wolf, German Shepherd, Giant Bat, Hyena Herm, Latex Wolf, Liquid Pantheress, Lupine Breeder, Mouse Taur, Otter, Painted Wolf Herm, Pink Panda, Porcupine, Sexy Dragoness, Shadow Dragon, Snow Cat, Solar Dragon, Water Dragon, White Siberian Tiger, Wolf Spider, Wolfbane Meister and Wolven Predator
• 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.
  • Distracting Lure moved to Ass and Love Box added to groin.
• 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.