Multiplayer Updates/January 2014

29th

• Staff can now close out old pools with automated refunds of donated premium currency!
• Feral Moders can now properly chug vials for points.
• "help RP/RP-etiquette" given a tweak regarding posing at non-posing players. Happy RPing!
• Pool closer/refunder now takes in account reduced supporter points given out when refunding.
• When using renew, or other situations where 'startactions' is used, players will not engage their buffs, only summons, toggles, and rewnewal of passives.
• 33% of any xp lost due to being at cap is now saved for use elsewhere.
  • For example, if you have stored XP and you go to raise a proficiency, it will use it first before reaching for any normal XP you have.
• Removed repeated 'is' and 'are's in bodypart descriptions and fixed uncapitalized TF messages.
• Spacing cleanup part tres et finale: Typo'd trailing spaces trimmed from all in-game forms.
• AoEMod has been nerfed.
  • Now gives a chance for an additional target instead of magnitude extra targets.
  • Higher magnitude will result in more consistent extra target, while lower magnitude will only occasionally hit the extra target.
• Sharpshooter changed to use the Marksmanship Proficiency.
• New monster: Cyber Serpent.
• You can now, with the appropriate equipment (as per normal groin specific shifting) shift your extra cock mutations with shift cock4=skunk girl or shift cunt1=chibi skunk.
  • Shifting the mutation of extra primary sexual organs now only requires the Nanite Fine Tuner.
  • You cannot use the multiple gender shifting if you only have 1 of that organ
  • You can now shift cunt1=skunk girl even if you only have one cunt and it will use that as the infection for your cunt only, instead of what the rest of your groin is.
• Collars now appear in auto-desc and ALSO have a little extra for those currently being led around.
• Replaced all accidental static pronouns in form parts (he|she|sie|shi|him|her|hir|his) with the appropriate appearance-adaptive counterpart (they|them|their).
• Repairing items once again works.
• Replaced all uses of 'shi' with 'sie' in Victory, OVictory, and Defeat messages.
  • This is for players that use screen readers.
  • Replaced uses of 'shi' with 'sie' in public area descriptions.
• Energymoddebuff will now work again.
• The code will now auto-level you to 30 before eradicating excess XP you may have, insuring that a low level player that gets an influx of XP (such as from a web mission) has it go towards levelling up, rather than being vaporized.
• New autoleveler will obey your desire to not auto level.
  • Lose your XP if you want to!
• Debuffclear no longer affects Damage over Time, no longer subjecting DoT damage to a weakness no other damage type suffers from.
• Fixed a bug where, when looking at a pure human, you got the old style of size comparison.
• Fixed some silly text corruption in rooms, specifically *'s* reading as *cock * and *'t* reading as *cockpit *
• New free avatar accessory: red bat wings.
• Fixed further instances of text corruption where *'d* was printed as *nudge * or *climax *.
• It is now possible to set 'titles' in groups, which function like the old ranks, but are just for show. Ranks continue to be leader, quartermaster, anything you want.
  • Titles can be anything and affect nothing.
  • Titles are displayed when chatting where the old ranks used to show.
• To update everyone's rank over to their title, just do a g who.
• Code now says 'given a new title' when a title is given.
• All in-game room descriptions are now single-spaced.
• Fixed bug letting Latex Skin be masterable. Removed mastery of the form from players who had accidentally gotten it.
• Latex Goop now for sale in elite store.
  • Using it (at the cost of 1 mako) will give you the Latex Skin infection (not mastery).
• Thwacked some instances of repeated words in rooms/forms and swapped 'a' and 'an' where grammatically approprate.
• Statuses page has had Damagebuff and AoEmod inaccuracies fixed.
• Stretchy made 50% chance to fire base, upgradable by 25%.
  • Expansiveness changed into a Healing Power in line with what it was linked to.
• HPBuffer now works vs dots.
• Toggles no longer increase in cost as you activate more of them, so they will always(barring modifying statuses) cost what they say they should cost via rpinfo.
  • Toggles no longer use energy.
  • Toggle energy costs will be deducted from your max energy.
  • Max Energy can only ever be an integer.
  • All energy upgrades for toggles have been removed.
    • If you had a mutant power toggle with an energy upgrade the power has been restored to lvl 1 and all upgrades removed.
    • If you had a talent toggle with energy upgrade the power has been returned to lvl 1 AND mako refunded.
• Lots of inactive players purged.
  • This means those used names are available again.
• New monster for Ocean Depths 3 and 4: Sea Tiger .
• While during a fight, you can view details about your damage with boxing report or a detailed breakdown, round by round, boxing round.
• Fixed some text corruption in the Sea Shark mob.
• Fixed several uses of *or if* and *and if*, as only *or* and *and* work when chaining [if ]-statements.
  • You no longer need to use two.
• Using two ^ can still escape if you want to display color codes fully ^red^.
• You can no longer attempt to remove scents with the Deodorizer is the scents were applied by items.
• New monster in Sweaty Jungle: Chameleon.
• Sucker Grip and Camouflage both given minor little skill boosts due to the nature of the powers.
  • Climbing for Sucker Grip and Stealth for Camouflage.
• You can now +mako/chug to spend 1 mako and get 1 boss vial credit.
  • It will not allow you to grab credit if you don't need any.
• Mission fights on the web should be MUCH more reliably spawning.
• Instead of typing crazy commands, you can instead just train level in game and if you don't have enough boss vials, it will ask you if you want to spend mako instead.
• If you have a mysterious humming crate, you can now just use it and it will either find a key to use to open it, or ask you if you want to spend 5 mako instead.
• Scattershot 2000 tuned with the AoEMod update.
  • Further fine tuning may happen after extra testing.
• Re-instituted the long-missing Parasitic Plant Defeat scene.
• Energy cost of Skitter increased.
• Lactaid and Deep Healing are now sloted powers.
• New Mutant Powers: Cum Squirt (sloted with Chock Milk), Purifying Cum (slotted with Cleansing Milk) and Bukkake Blast (Slotted with Milk Squirt).
• Typo in Cleansing Milk and Purifying Cum Type Line fixed.
• Reinforcing Nectar power made.
  • Its slotted with Protein Shield.
• If Walking Vagina wasn't bad enough, two more abominations have appeared in its area: Hydick and Nectaurine.

24th

• Fixed a mountain of post-combat scenes which mistakenly called [player] instead of [victor] or [loser].
• Fixed an additional 20 forms with malformed [target] values.
• Protein Shield given a huge buff by fixing bad upgrade values.
• Latexification also fixed.
• Rpinfo fixed for recipe modifiers.
• Computerized, Windup and Agonizing common salvage costs lowered to their intended values.
• Within the autodesc, [they] will simply retain the color of the preceding string, instead of reverting to gray.
• [they] and similar strings will no longer reset the color the resulting 'they' or other statement, mid-string.
• Web training now shows your true proficiency level, not your current.
• NaniteCollectRate now soft caps.
• Battle spam reduced.
• Zealously Conserved removed.
• New modifier: Cut Rate
  • Cut Rate added to the mall.
• When using renew, your energy is restored -after- triggering your powers.
• New Recipe added to the Munitions Dump: Pistol
• Replaced all nasty "th^normal^ey/th^normal^em/th^normal^eir" hacks in bodypart descriptions with neater, more efficient [they]/[them]/[their].
• Nanomagic Disciplines page updated
• Salvage wiki page updated
• All instance of 'Distill' from that old system removed from the wiki.
• Replaced all inefficient cases of pronoun substitutions [%(prounoun type) of [target]] with them/their/they in form bodyparts.
• Fixed odd instances of corruption where "'s" was parsed as "nude " in forms.
• New Wiki page: The Basics
• New Area: Dank Caverns
  • It is in the Fairhaven area not far from the River.
  • New monsters for the new area: Vampire Pony and Vampiric Wolf.
  • Other frights lurk within the musky cavities, including the Rock Lobster and more to come.
• After some major remodelling and much assistance by Blazing Summer, Glenstock is once again open.
• After said Remodelling, Fox lost his home, that has been restored.
• [is pure X] and [is not pure X] will now actually work.
• Vampire Pony Tail Divider bug fixed.
• Recoded [one of] A [or] B [at random] to be more properly random.
• Wolfen Predator Mass updated to reflect its tauric nature.
• Culinary Nanomagic RPinfo made much less vague.
• Four culinary recipes are now available in the Zephyr Inc Food Laboratory.
  • For now, possession is enough to expand your culinary nanomagic library.
  • They will be useable later.
• New culinary program: Hot Seasoning.
• New Culinary Program: Alfredo Sauce.
• New Culinary Program: Picnic Condiments.
• New culinary programs: Sweet Spices and Dairy!
• New Culinary programs added: Seeds and Nuts!
  • Not for planting, but they sure can make great treats.
    • With Thermal Nanomagic, popcorn and roasted nuts are totally a thing.
• Added Fried Chicken to the food labs (Its a staple).
• Hung like a changed to no longer reflect an exact size.
  • Depths of Love and Heavy Breasted similarly altered.
• When using [if X ~= Y] (regex matching), you can now include parentheses by escaping them with a backslash.
  • Example: [if A ~= \(A|B\)] will use the pattern '(A|B)' to try and match 'A'
    • Side-note. To use a literal '(' within such a regex, you will have to escape it like so: '\\\(', which is '\\' for a backslash, and '\(' for a parenthesis.
• Various hard sizes removed from Uber Fox
• Wiki given a general clean up, many old RPs and Fanfictions restored.
  • Pages about subjects removed from game similary removed from the wiki.
• Fixed buggy M1A1H Arm Divider support.
• Fixed buggy Kaiju Tail Divider support.
• Native infections are now revealed if you are skilled enough with +mut.
• With the holidays behind us, the holiday forms have faded from the store.
• Thanks to player actions, an apartment complex has opened up in Eureka!
• Market-channel can no longer be talked in. It is for game-side market-announcements only.
• Replaced remaining uses of the depreciated [infected] target with [player].
• Removed remaining uses of the long-depreciated [infect [loser] with [victor]]
• Fixed a quirk in @viewparse and 'co where it would eat half your backslashes for each pair of []'s wrapped around them.
• Culinary(and soon other) nanomagic assistance programs can now be 'use'd to suck the information out of them.
  • This will destroy the item, but mark you as knowing them forever!
    • Coming soon, a way to list what you know and prove it to others.
• The command nanomagic now displays all known nanomagic data programs(such as the culinary programs).
• Items in the Food Labs have been updated to read Data.
  • Rather than "Culinery:" Items already purchased with "Culinary:" are still functional for usage.
• Liberated Youth now have a proper birthday set!
• Biochemistry and Culinary recipes added into the Food Labs including: Chocolate Milk, Coffee, Hard Cider, Soda Pop, Herbal Tea, Glue, Grease, Water-based Lube, Soap, Vine Fruit, Tree Fruit, Exotic Fruit, and Berries.
• Biochemistry Nanomagic info updated.
• Totemic Spear given some balance changes
• New Power Type: Nuke.
  • Nuke Type powers/items/etc, when fired, inflict a new status, Fatigue.
    • While suffering fatigue, you do not regenerate energy naturally(in combat), and positive energymod statuses do not function.
    • The accuracy of enemies targeting you is increased by 20.
    • Fatigue lasts 1 round per 10 base damage of the source, 5 at most.
    • Effects that directly modify energy(such as firing a power with a negative energy cost or using a power/item that directly replenishes energy without a status, work normally.
• Nova Meteor is now a Nuke
• Nova Meteor given significant changes.
• Instead of Fatigue shutting down positive energymod statuses, it will instead only reduce by 33%.
• Nuke target type now reflecting correctly when viewing items.
• Two new powers for a Bastet Disciple near you!
  • Solar Flare and Lunar Cycle.
  • Both however, require the mystical artifact, the Utchat, fortunately, Zephyr has suitable replicas in their Elite Shop!
• New target type, nuke, causes a power to have a base amount of 10 targets.
  • For reference, default aoe is 4, large is 5, minor is 2, small is 3
  • All current Nuke powers have had their targets updated.
• Cut Rate now has a -1 skill modifier.
• When you +prove a nanomagic data, it now displays the description of the data!
• New Data in the Food Labs for Culinary Nanomagic: Oriental Spices.
• Fixed several grammatical errors due to forms' bodypart gender pronoun replacement on them/they/their
• Good news: feral modes can now get boss vials, and can train crafting skills(so long as they have non-negative technical skill)
• Bad news: feral modes need boss vials like everyone else.
• Acrobatics boost added to the Feline Agility power. Whee!
• All forms in-game are now single spaced for consistency's sake.
• Spacing cleanup part deus: typo'd leading spaces trimmed from all in-game forms.
• +prove/silent for nano data now works!

17th

• The VTOL Lady form has been seriously bugfixed and spell-checked.
• +fish/info now shows the total amount of fish you've caught of each type in the display.
• Bookwyrm added to Bozeman University.
• New String parsing: [one of]A[or]B[or]C[with odds: 1 2 3]
  • You can set the relative odds like this.
    • In this case, one in six cases returns 'A', two in six return 'B', and three in six return 'C'.
  • Please do not use this as a substitute for [at random], since this IS a slower process.
• Help string parsing/random statements has been created to elaborate on the use of the ways to add random statements.
• @viewparse and Co. now recognize the new parsing.
• New channel: Writing.
  • Channel is for general writing, but especially writing content for the game, and getting help with such.
• "Fuck <target> urethra" option added.
  • Also, now when the target of a person scissoring has a rainmaker and a darwin's pass, the initiator has a chance to get pregnant!
• New Area made in Woodfield: Opera House
  • You can find two new forms there: Opera Singer and Masked Phantom.
• Polar Bear added into the Ice Caves.
• Bug fixed in [add flag X to PART of TARGET] string parsing and [remove flag X from PART of TARGET]
• [if <target> is pregnant] is now a thing.
  • This parsing will not work on other people when used in your playerdesc.
• All uses of the old prenancy check replaced with the new one.
• Fixed a bunch of forms using malformed [target] values.
• Heckler added to the Opera House.
• Fixed several bugs in the Arctic Fox, King Cobra, and Lion Beast forms.
• Mutant Hyena Victory messages now actually show up again.
• Fixed nasty bugs in the Kaiju torso.
• New form: The Muse has entered the Opera House.
  • Take a look over her inspiring curves and see if something springs to mind.
• Hyena Herm is not a canine, so canine references and knotted flag are removed.
• Any notion of distillations purged from the repairs.
  • Clearly, those did not - nor will they ever - exist.
• Mosters will no longer hold their cult-meetings in room 666, once the current meeting is over.
• Fixed broken Defeat message for the Two Headed Giant.
• New avatar color: Klein Blue.
• +groin will not allow a mass below 0 to display(it becomes 1).
• +mut display of multi cocks/cunts fixed.
• Stegosaurian ferals no longer derp and attempt to impregnate neuters.
• Interfacing Nanomagic now comes with a buff to your computer skills.
• New Token Modifier added to the Requisitions/Token Redemption: Agonizing.
• New free avatar accessory: Unicorn horn.
• New premium avatar accessory: Viking shield.
• Cock-milkers will now properly display a 'there is a cock-milker here' kind of message when using +glance.
• Fly is now an acceptable way to depart.
• References to Fenrir Wolf having an exact size in its autodesc removed.
• A few places where long floats were being displayed now round to two places.
• Silver Leaf item is now disableable.
• Having a negative fertility will no longer remove your need for a 'bred' cooldown.
• A negative 'fertile' status will now prohibit males from breeding.
• Shifting ball count will now show you the actual count, rather than the stat, which is two lower.
• You should now get feedback when you leash someone.
• Lustful Pheromones tweaked for balance.
  • Feral Moders with this power mastered have been adjusted.
  • Those with the power mastered have had their NaniteMag and TechnicalMag pushed into StatusBoostMag.
  • For those who wish to have it in a different upgrade, please mail Glitch.
• Properly setup the remote command.
• SUCK Nanomagic is now available as an Emotional Aura Nanomagic branching.
• New avatar colors: Grey & Steel.
• New role: Cautious Leader.

4th

• Major upgrade to @viewparse and Co. [if ], [else if ] and [when ] statements will now be checked for correctness.
  • Both false positives and negatives ARE possible, if you're unsure, make sure to double-check.
• We can now mark WARNINGS, which will show up in orange if your client supports 256 color mode. Otherwise, they default to red.
• New command: suck.
  • Suck on your female, herm or shemale, friends to relieve them of all that cumbersome milk.
    • Warning, sucking only encourages those lady udders into producing more.
    • Warning: Breasts do need to be producing some amount of milk before the sucking can commence in earnest.
• Missing ass description added to 0.
• Updated the String Parsing and String Parsing/If help files for greater clarity and readability.
• Lactation increase due to being nursed on increased.
• Fixed several bugs in the Brown Bear Shemale form.
  • Includes tense errors.
• Fixed a critical error in string parsing and @viewparse where the \, |, { and } characters could lock the program in infinite loop mode.
• Greatly optimized Candy Canid local stat logic.
  • Assorted typo fixes included.
• When viewing +jnote, your jnotes will be alphabetically sorted for you.
• Sucking now uses a gender pronoun.
• Combat spam reduced dramatically.
  • There is no longer a specific shoutout when a status with less than 100% chance to apply is applied.
• Suckle now an acceptable way to access the suck code.
• Fixed a plethora of forms that were using "they're" in body descs to use "[they]'re" and "they's", respectively.
• The Giant Bat's original, more detailed Defeat message has been restored.
• @viewparse and Co. now handle 'and' and 'or' a little smarter.
  • It will now consider the left-hand-side and the right-hand-side separately.
• Fixed several bugs in the Mechanical Mephit Victory, OVictory and Defeat scenes.
• Fixed minor bug with a particular feral mode
• Ruts now have a 6 hour mandatory period on either end.
  • If you start a rut, your rut cannot end before 6 hours are up (unless quenched).
  • If the rut ends, it cannot begin for 6 hours. (Barring status based rut)
• Tanuki can properly use the spatial recalculator.
• Fixed bugs in and optimized Fox Taur Victory/OVictory scene parsing.
• Due to demand, mouthfilled removed from sucking.
• Fixed exploit in nanite market.
• Bug found in @viewparse and friends.
  • Subsequently eaten.
    • Ate its brother, too.
• Removed depreciated [if (gender appearance) owned by [target]] from all on-grid forms in favor of the shorter, more powerful [if [target] is (gender appearance)]
• Removed erroneous uses of [player] / [looker] in Victory, OVictory, and Defeat messages. Replaced these uses with [victor] and [loser] accordingly.
• Boss-vials that would wind up below lvl 25 after filtering can no longer be filtered.
• Reworded Chargen - Merits/Flaws slightly for clarity.
• The Parasitic Plant avatar has been touched up with corrected coloring.
• Fixed several bugs in the Walking Vagina infection.
• Nested [one of] [or] [at random] statements will no longer make the game-code cry in agony.
• [if <target> is pure male] is now a thing. Likewise, you can check for pure female, and the negative of this.
  • [if <target> is not pure female]
    • A 'pure' male is male, but not herm.
      • Updated the string parsing/if helpfile accordingly.