Multiplayer Updates

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

December

17th

A fistful of web battle bugs involving inflated damage were fixed.
Web travel zones re-examined; some areas removed. Your comms no longer work inside the hotel. D:
Duration on summoned children boosted to 76 rounds base, with a max of 144.
- Energy cost increased to 20.
- Cooldown increased to 7500.

16th

Sharpening, Bear Hug and Pummel made more awesome to compensate for their inability to help anyone except you, the user.
Mechanical Drone and the as-yet-unreleased Repair Drone given useful powers and combat skills. Should now have some reason to equip instead of children.
Dreidel infection now for sale in the elite shops. No, really. We're almost out of holiday forms!
Template infections, such as Automaton and Plushie, now have standardized rules, and can properly use infection code, are impacted by heat, etcetera.
Automaton parts on children will now turn into giant robot parts.
Badges have been added for assisting in web combat!
Cooldown and Charge times can now only be pushed to double duration. This should help in the face of heavy knockdown or -haste effects.
Group Chat tab added to web interface.

15th

Human infection added to the elite shops.
- The resulting badge does NOT get added to the list of free Recursion forms, like the other purchased (holiday) vials. It can be bought as such, but at the regular 5 mako rate.
Clawed, Avian, Insect, and Animated Flags added.
[legs] added to string parsing; spits out the full leg description.
Kangaroos have lost Roo Aura; being pouched now simply gives 50 rounds of change resistance.
Fortifying distillation created.
Shifting and recursing now ignore TotalChangeImmunity status.

14th

Snowman infection added to the elite shops. We're almost out of holiday infections! Really!
Hard boss and final boss monster ranks are now much harder to knock down.
Repeat attacks should now fire properly, instead of losing one or two attacks on the way.
A whole bunch of cool extensions were added to this wiki, but nobody here knows how to use them quite yet.
Scattershot 2000 recipe added to the Elite shop for 20 mako.
- Many powers have had NoAOE added, as a result.
Auxilium feels it is very important to share that they have put little flags on every "knotted" or "barbed" dick on the grid.

13th

Christmas Elf infection and Nanite Grenade added to the elite shops.
Covering now drops from ferals Deeper in the East Forest.
Self-Cooling and Self-Heating recipes added to the magazine rack in the mall.
"Spread" can now be applied to powers, making them dilute less when spread over more enemies. Milk Squirt and Overpenetrate now both use this mechanic.
Infection code overhauled. Ultimate Infection Resist now resists ALL attempts to change your shape, even dedication-based shifting powers. Abilities designed to bypass immunities (such as the Joey shift or the Christmas boss vials) now bypass form fixatives, EMP gear, and even native resistances.

12th

Boss vials now grant the Total badge upon being used
Festive Reindeer and Santa infections added to the elite shops.
[hp of [player]] added to string parsing; returns the percentage health of a target, so you can check for a target being wounded or at full health.

11th

Terrible Pun's upgrades have been rebalanced.
The Consignment store now sells Mako Batteries for 15 tokens, and Mako for 30 tokens.
Mall Rat tails have been augmented.
DoTs now degrade ten times faster out of combat.
You will now be told when you can volunteer next if you try to volunteer too soon.
New mission editor feature: 'Desperate' fights, which do not end just because you lost.
Death now turns off auto-battle.
Losing a fight in a web battle no longer inflicts the 'injured' status.
Litter Inducer added to the mako shop.
HUGE target button added to web combat screen.
Recursion dedication added.
- Recursion dedication added.
  - Recursion dedication added.
    - Recursion dedication added.
Mako batteries and Mako can now be purchased using Reward Tokens, for 15 and 30 tokens each, respectively.
Battles in the web interface now have a chance of summoning an online player in the same area as you to assist in combat. The summoned helper fights automatically using their own AI settings, and will receive experience, freecred, and any other loot as if they're actually there.
- New group perk, Ready Backup, added.

10th

Mall Rats just got cooler, gaining the Luck of the Rat and Too Cool powers. These are built into the form, and cannot be mastered. You must be cool to have these abilities.
Terminal now able to be checked remotely at the cost of 5% mako battery.
Circus Clown added to Woodfield Park.

9th

Repair costs now are calculated for the level of the user in cases where the level of the item is higher than that. This should reduce costs of repairs a lot, especially for people who always max their item level to 50 while being dozens of levels lower.

8th

Resistance against damage returns was halved.
Targeted Nativizer added to the New Ireland store.
New options added to 'morph' command. You can now associate a morph to your current infection. Every game tick updates your morph if it finds a match for your current infection.
- This can be to a specific mix of parts, not just a pure infection.
- Shifting in any capacity forces your morph to be checked immediately.

7th

Covering 0 damage no longer produces any output in combat, cutting down on cover spam, especially at low levels.
Infusing gear with builder and boss vials revamped:
- You can now fill an item up to 50% of the red band using normal builder vials
- Boss vials can go all the way to 100%
Room exits are now color-coded. Yellow exits are safe, gray are easy monsters, white are normal monsters, and purple monsters will kill you.
Self-Heating and Self-Cooling modifiers coded.
The Ragnarok Beast on top of the Hotel has had its spawn method altered; to summon, go to the room and type 'fight rag'.
- After a few embarrassing incidents involving three beasts at once, the Beast was nerfed, then less nerfed after he got beaten by a bunch of kids. Twice.

6th

Fleeing mechanics changed significantly. Instead of removing all the monsters from your location, it now leaves them there while moving you to a randomly chosen adjoining room with no chance of ambush. Supposedly, party members are able to flee from a battle individually and at any time now.

5th

Mall Rat dedication was added to the main room of the Fairhaven Mall.

4th

Leveling up past level 30 via the web no longer allows you to skip the boss vial requirement. In progress, you now drink a boss vial before attempting to level instead of consuming it in the scary, scary menu there.
Pure Breeding merit added.

3rd

Two new possibilities added to +reward: A free equipment upgrade, and 2 reward tokens.
Kangaroo God dedication massively upgraded. Roo Aura added as a third power, as well as the Pouch command: turns players into Joeys (permissions apply), giving them both the Maternal Love and the Protective Pouch powers.
Long-standing bug removed: Powers with secondary effects now activate them even if the primary attack killed the target.

2nd

A long-standing bug with passive effects falling off has finally been squashed! You will no longer forget you have Muscle Mass for a few brief moments, etc.
A bug of resists capping too hard was fixed. This should result in properly decreased damage for players and monsters, depending on resist and defense.
Resist amount is now displayed during combat for each hit.
[Public] Nuku softly churrls, "Water penalties suck like the old days." Should be Charge, Recharge and energy drain if you don't measure up.
Negative EnergyBreak statuses applied to NPCs now act like Knockdown instead. No change on players.
Hot and cold environments added to the game! Heat causes a small energy DOT and negative EnergyBreak. Cold causes a small energy DOT and negative Recharge.
- HeatAdaptation and ColdAdaptation statuses added. Water Flask supplies a small HeatAdaptation. Icy Hide and Fiery Hide implemented. Furry Hide can be upgraded with either. Assorted armor equipment give negative HeatAdaptation.
- Heat Immune and Cold Immune merits let you ignore the respective environments.
Damage toggles Slime Toss, Quill Wag, Biting Wit and Electric Field energy cost reduced.

1st

Treasure Hunter profession created
Negative statuses no longer increase in magnitude from High Quality or StatusMag modifiers when crafting.
Use of the +reward #gift command to give out a +reward to the whole MUD only costs 40 mako for the duration of December!

November

28th

Common salvage rolls made cumulative: when you fail a check, the next one adds that percentage. When you succeed (inevitable, given it will reach 100% over time) the chance returns to its base value. Currently does not affect the uncommon check from instances.
Level cap is now 45. Holy crap, you guys!

27th

Love Nibble coded and added to Female Husky, Latex Fox, and Latex Snow Leopard heads.

26th

Skitter and Feline Agility have had their defense upgrade magnitudes increased. Don't forget to retrain them!
+haz now tells you if a creature in that area will spawn or not. Mainly useful for nocturnal or otherwise time-dependent creatures.
Players under level 20 should find themselves gaining more creds and xp per fight.
- More precisely, you will receive rewards as if your level has been averaged with 20. So at level 0, you get rewards as if you were level 10, at level 1 you get them as if you were level 10.5, then 11, then 11.5... and so forth until you actually hit level 20, at which point things proceed normally.

25th

Black Friday! All dedications and all Mako Items are half off today only!
- Offer void for dedication registration items.
- A badge to commemorate the day has been placed in the elite stores. It will be removed at midnight, EST.
- The sale has ended!
Breast Care Supplies added to the elite stores.
Upon using a "Hero Revive", you will have a 5-round buff to fleeing. A big one!
Front Row and Back Row now also provide a bonus to Durability and Avoidance, respectively, when you are fighting alone.
A mysterious Nanite Presence has been discovered in the military base. RSX and Zephyr have sent teams to investigate, and are soliciting donations of freecred to the cause of SCIENCE!

24th

New Group upgrades:
- Treasure Hunting, costs 6 levels to increase the chance of finding trinkets after combat.
- Skill, costs 3 levels to add 1 level of to all members. Only once per specific skill.
Web battles now allow use of items from your inventory, such as Energy Snack

23rd

Using a monotreme activator while egg-bearing will now report how many eggs you have, without consuming the activator.
Liberated children can now untrain a skill to return it to level 1, allowing them to respec.

22nd

Repairing your gear will look for the lowest-level salvage necessary, then go up for whatever level of that type you have available.
Poke made way more annoying and hard to resist.
Small Claws are now less threatening. Who's afraid of small claws, anyway?
Snap base power improved, and the upgrades mostly downgraded.
Roleplayers rejoice! The throttle point for RP XP has been increased from 20% to 60%! You'll now earn much more XP from RPing!

21st

Plated Hide improved to be in line with other passive powers.
You can now mark people and rooms with your scent. Be possessive!
Optimized added to Redd's shop, one north of 2500 3rd Street in Fairhaven.
Insulating added to Skize's shop, upstairs in the Fairhaven mall.
Salvage downgrading added and upgrading widened in scope. 100 common -> 1 uncommon, 25 uncommon -> 1 rare. Downgrades go 1 rare -> 20 uncommon, 1 uncommon -> 90 common.

20th

Technical Wizard merit added.
Tough Food added, and placed in the Seelie Sweets shop.
Shock Treatment added, placed in Jack's Hardware.
Medical Hypo added, placed in the Mall.
Electrified Chainsword added, placed in the mall.

19th

Equipment now decays every 24 OOC hours. All Natural, Readiness, and the new Neat Freak perk increase the time between decay ticks.
- Decayed equipment functions at 1 level lower than its true level per tick, and must be repaired to restore full capability. Repairing costs freecred and common salvage (for player-crafted items).
- There is a new item available at the Mall that will automatically repair your equipment when it decays, provided you have the necessary freecred and salvage.
Medicinal recipe and Medicated recipe modifiers added to the reward shop.
Train Remove now functions with innate powers like Rest and Nova Meteor. Mako spent is refunded.

18th

The Mall Rat Salvage Exchange is now open for business! Accessible via the web interface on the Shops page.
- Recipe salvage costs have been increased to compensate for the increased ease of trade.