Difference between revisions of "Multiplayer Updates"

Revision as of 05:50, 22 June 2012

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.

June

20th

Extra 'Battle Clear' messages should stop happening. Hopefully. For real.
Blowgun recipe and Leeching recipe mod coded.
Crafting Alliance Termination Documents coded.

19th

Field Archaelogist profession coded: Legends, Research, Sports.
Cock Slap slightly tweaked again. It now has a 20% chance of an accuracy debuff, which can be trained up to 100% with both upgrades. You can no longer train the Confused chance, though.
Confused status overhauled. Now it acts as if you 'miss' by the magnitude of the debuff. So if you are 15% confused, and hit an enemy at 25% deflection, they're only taking 60% of the hit, instead of 75%.
- Maximum dodge is still 75%.
- Confused status can be cleansed off by debuffclear effects now, as well.
The ability to give a knockdownresist debuff now exists. At most, you can knock someone down 50% harder than normal.
Transfixing Gaze tweaked. It now has a charge of -1000, making it truly instant.
Heavy Melee recipe coded and put into Jack's Hardware.
Portable Flamethrower and Chainsaw recipes coded but unplaced.
Duplicating and Automated recipe mods coded but unplaced.
Wind Buffet coded and placed on Blue Sphinx, Masked Angel, Sexy Dragoness, Shadow Dragon, Horned Wyvern, and Crested Wyvern.
Typing 'auto #' will now put you onto auto for # rounds, then go back to manual control.
Reconstructor mako pool completed; now for sale in the elite store for 50 mako!

18th

Full Nelson coded.

17th

Death Valley Scrublands, balanced for level 36-44, added to the grid; available from the Survivalist's new helicopter pilot. Contains Roadrunner, Fennec, Peregrine Girl, Shy Gecko, and Quail!
Go a little further north past the scrublands, and you'll end up in the Desert Wasteland. This area is rated 40-48, and contains the Parched Horror, Fire Elemental, Furie, Scorpion, and Stag Beetle.
- There's also a boss, but he's not quite ready for prime-time. You are encouraged to avoid it for now.
Scent of Blood coded. Takes up the Offensive Adaption slot, so be warned.

16th

Promethean ferals can now be infected with things.
Web salvage missions can now be longer than 100 points. Sorry about the mix-up.
All Natural no longer gives +10% to distill effects. It's official, staff hates all naturals!
- Aw, just fooling ya. Yeah, that change is still there, but now distills work at one level higher (to a max of 4). All-Natural players no longer need to use any distill higher than 3.
  - If an All-Natural has a level 4 in an item, the next time it's used it should auto-downgrade to 3.
  - ~~DISCLAIMER: Summons not been adjusted yet. Your drones should stay as they are until these updates say otherwise.~~ Never mind, they work on summons now.
    - But NOT on children and Roo pets.
Three new professions added:
- Field Archaeologist: Legends, Research, Sports.
- Blackmailer: Academics, Design, Intimidation.
- Campus Security: Academics, Security, Intimidation.

15th

It's Casual Friday. Let it all hang out!
- Deep Healing and Lactaid were redesigned. Both are now a little stronger, have very slightly less cooldown, and take a little longer to charge. They both also take a little longer to cool down if you have especially large balls or breasts. Their upgrades are mostly unchanged, save for the loss of the cooldown upgrade.
- Cock Slap redesigned. Having a larger cock now causes more aggro and has a chance of confusing enemies, but also takes more energy to swing around. Upgrades upgraded, but the penetration upgrade is gone. You can, however, buff the confusion chance.
- Breast Smash now works similarly to cock slap, only it causes cooldown debuffs instead of confusion.
- Chock Milk retooled, as well. Slightly longer charge and cooldown, slightly stronger heal, 2 more energy cost, upgrades upgraded, and now takes more energy if you have too many boobs and longer to recharge if your breasts are huge.
- Nurse got a much longer cooldown, lost its raw healing amount, and now takes longer to recharge (and costs more energy) if you have sizable breasts. All upgrades not RegenMag (which went down by .5) were considerably buffed, however.
- Love Box completely redesigned. It's now a 3-stacking energy damage attack with an energybreak debuff attached. How long it lasts, and how much it takes out of you, is based on how long it takes someone to go through the whole thing (how deep you are).
Blowhard was found to be way too strong for a mutant power. Its damage has been dropped to compensate.
Debuffs and confusion are now affected by half of your deflection. 50% deflection now means -25% on the magnitude; 75% deflection means -37.5% magnitude.
When trying to inflict statuses that have less than 100% chance of hitting, dodge resist is lowered by 25%. This means that if you get 0% deflection, you have an extra 25% chance to inflict the status. 25% deflection means no bonus, 50% deflection means -25%, and 75% deflection means -50% chance.
Dumping builder vials into equipment is now faster, and will have a better idea of how much difference it made when you use big batches at once.
Two new roles:
- Trap Setter: Opportunity, Accuracy, Enduring Malice.
- Battlefield Strategist: Opportunity, Accuracy, Tactician.

14th

Having a subscription level of Survivalist or higher now allows Feral mode characters to spend XP on creds.
The 'party' command now tells you who in your party is botting.
The tick timer output now shows game load.
You can now use 'shrug' or 'shrugoff' as synonyms of 'buffclear'. Good for the Kingdom of Loathing players out there.

13th

'buffclear' command added; typing it by itself will demonstrate its use. Allows players to 'shrug off' buffs they do not wish to have active.
Crafted pets now receive all the perks of the modifiers used in their construction.
- Unnamed crafted pets will now use their first modifier to determine their name until you give them a real one.

12th

Color codes can no longer be used in custom mako titles; this is restricted to wizards.
Renamed powers can now be referred to by their new name when you try to 'use' them in combat.
Deflection should no longer reduce damage by more than it's supposed to.
Fennec now cares about the Tail Divider.
Induce Phantasm coded, and put on Nekomata head.
- Oh hey, someone found a stock of Nekomata vials, and put them up in the elite store.
The debuffresistdebuffduration (phew!) on Slip Beneath's upgrades was extended to meet proper budget.
+cookie and +tomato commands added to reward or penalize staff. 'help staff' for details!

11th

Botting rules adjusted. See 'help botting' to see how!
- In short, there's a mode to state that, yes, you're botting. Use it if you are!
- 'botmode here' shows you all botting people in the room.
The starting room of an instance is now random.
Maternal Love, Protective Pouch, and Gouging Claws have been adjusted to be Nanite-immune. That is, they don't care about how many nanites are in an area, and work fine anywhere. On the flip side, they don't work better in nanite-rich areas.
- Expect more powers to work like this soon.
You know what? Let's buff Gouging Claws a little while we're at it.
Eagle Eyes merit added.

10th

Web salvage missions had their maps repaired; this should hopefully get rid of that problem with 1-turn salvage missions.
Environmental effects, utilizing that new Nanite status, have been put into areas with too many (Hotel Oblivion) or too few (Wastelands) nanites about.
The following nanomagics have been overhauled to take advantage of the Nanite status:
The 'trace' command should stop accidentally sucking energy, creds, or giving badges it shouldn't.
Robot Master role added. Damage, Enduring Minions, Technical.
The Technical combat skill now applied to equipment-type pets (such as drones).
- But NOT to children or Kangaroo pets.

9th

Equipped pets used by All Natural players now get some extra little buffs.
Thunderous buffed slightly.
New status 'Nanite' coded. It affects the damage and mag of a power's statuses that is a 'Mutant Power'. Positive will increase damage/mag by a percentage, negative (or debuff) will decrease them.
High danger zones no longer result in extra assistants in web battles.
- Yes, you always get at least one, though.
New combat skill: Opportunity! Every attack hurts enemies, even if it didn't before.
What the hell is a Quetzalcoatl?
Supernatural Vial Distribution License added to the elite store. Allows the owner of a dedication to start putting the boss vial version of their dedication's form in the token or elite shop at their leisure.
- Coincidentally, you can now buy Quetzalcoatl boss vials from the elite store for 10 mako.

8th

Telepathic Nanomagic now has an in-game effect. Boost the accuracy and defense of an ally, but not yourself; warn them of danger!
Data Nanomagic also now has an effect. It will cause you to gain a little more XP and find a little less electronic salvage when applied to yourself.
Electric Nanomagic tuned down a little for being too great.
Furry Hide adjusted; can no longer train water or head adaptation, but there's a little bit of cold and water resistance by default.
Web missions should be a little bigger now.
Doomsday Prepper profession created. Computer, Economics, Survival.

7th

Distillery Expert, the profession, added. Underworld, Academics, Installation.
Fiddling with the talk script editor on the site now defaults to Story Mode.
Hooked now works properly on fishing.
Web salvage missions now have an 18-hour cooldown, just like real ones.
The output of 'list perks' now only shows ones you have any reason to care about. 'list perks all' shows the whole list.
Strike Leader role added. Sacrificial Flurry, Accuracy, Enduring Minions

6th

Using a hero point to revive in a web combat now properly re-performs a startaction, bringing all your buffs and kids back into readiness.
There is now a craft tutorial for every faction. Check your local workshops!
Mothering Instinct given to Kangaroo and Ashen Matriarch infections.
Patchwork infections (such as the old *-infected RSX/Zephyr agents) are back! They have all the infections they'd normally have, plus a little more from their weird mtuations.
There are now a few badges given out for getting lots of commendations on your critters. Write more!
You now get a web notice when a mail is sent your way.
Data Nanomagic now exists. Advanced form of techno; lets you read hard drives with the power of your mind!
Distillation Creator added to the elite stores for 50 mako. Costs 1 mako (or 100% battery charge) to empty it, but it is not consumed when used to create a distill. 10 loadout, 3 upkeep.
The pricing on subscription items have been redued. Hiker/Survivalist/Wasteland Warrior are now 10/30/60 mako, or 50/150/300 tokens for a month.

5th

You can now buy things in the token store with mako directly. 1 mako covers 5 tokens.
- Online token redemption reformatted to take advantage of this.
Nuku Plot reduced to 500 tokens.
Nanite Stimulant Injector reduced to 500 tokens.
Nano Space Enfolder increased to 250 tokens.

4th

Another (tiny) event added to Downtown in story mode.
Piercing distillation massively buffed to bring it in line with original intent.
Improved now improves penetration a little.
Jagged buffed.
Repeating buffed buffed.
Optimized tweaked slightly.
Silent coded.
Uncertain Gender coded.
Telepathic Nanomagic coded. It does not have a power yet, sorry.
Tutoring Loading Downloading Runtime coded, added to the token shop for 400 tokens. Allows you to get an advanced nanomagic!
- Yes, you can still leech advanced nanomagics from others. There's a badge for doing it the hard way, though.
Nanotech Medbot added to the token store for 100 tokens.
The mall instances got smaller. Holy cow!

3rd

Duration on Field of Dread buffed significantly, hopefully keeping its stacks from ever falling off.
Weak Breeding coded.
You can now save and load sets of AI for different situations. Check 'list ai' and 'loadai' from inside the MUD!
Instances now give an additional token reward, based upon their size.
Internal Penis coded.

2nd

Noteworthy Interaction coded.
Duelist role coded. Bleeding, Readiness, Front Row.

May

31st

Story mode updates:
- Downtown now has monsters levels 2-7.
- Peregrine Girl added to downtown.
- Sandra added, with fun for boys and girls of all ages.
  - Females are given the bunny boy infection so they can have more fun.
Talk script now supports string parsing in the random block.
Liberty Leopard added to the token shop for 100 tokens. Limited time only!
Thick Shell adjusted, gaining a little physical damageresist in exchange for a little less healgain and a little more penalty to healing dealt. Upgrades were left unchanged.
Fiery Hide damage upgrade buffed.
All three Crushing Field-based powers gained a little extra base power. Upgrades unchanged.
Field of Dread gained a little power in the same vein; both the base power and the upgrades were tuned upwards.
Extreme Omnivore lost a little charge time, going down from 1250 to 800. Someone's learned to eat a little faster.
Becoming a Man added to the token shop for 150 tokens. Removes feral mode.

30th

Distills no longer come from +reward unless they are high-octane rewards.
- On the plus side, the ones that come out of those high-octane +rewards should be bigger now.
Encounter Editor added to the web interface, allowing people to write situations for Story mode, as well as working on talk script in a sandboxed environment.
Want a new web mission? Course ya do! This one's got a minimum level, though. Just in case.
Enduring Spirit coded.

29th

All Natural buffed. You now get +10% to all effects from distills, the Intense Training skill, and at level 12 Cure.
- Intense Training now gives a little scaling StatusBoost.
Walking Vagina now appears on the grid, in one room of the graveyard. Sneaky!

28th

You can now view your perks while in story mode.
Inventory code optimized for searches.
You can now use mako batteries in your possession. Two batteries becomes one mako.
+mako/reward now adds a shot of 'high octane' to you before it rolls your reward. The amount of octane can be viewed with '+prove/silent high reward'
- If you get an eligible reward, a shot of octane is consumed and the reward becomes awesome. The mako reward becomes much bigger, the distills could be much bigger, etc.
- If the reward is not or cannot be boosted, you save the octane for later.
- You can also buy the high-octane shots directly from the token shop for 10 tokens.

27th

Party Cannon coded.
- Why yes, it was given to Pretty Pony. Why do you ask?
Sati has been tweaking asses left and right. Expect an announcement and/or public apology soon.
- Most notably, Skunk Girls, Skunk Beasts, Blue Gryphons, Wolf Beasts, White Unicorn Mares, Crested Wyverns, both genders of Aassahke, Kangaroo, Shadow Vixens, and Shadow Dragons should watch out!
Oh, that's what she was doing. You can now buy a recipe for Tail Dividers from the elite store for 50 mako. It lets you make consumables that cause your tail spread and multiply, assuming that the mutation has been coded to handle it.

26th

Story mode updates continue.
- A few new perks coded.
- Leveling up now works.
- Fleeing works.
- Pregnancy works.
Reinforced Skeleton coded.
Penetration now applies before resists are capped, and is spread between DamageResist and typed resists.
When using the Prepackaged perk, you are now given an option to spend mako to increase the max level of monsters you pick from.
- Spending 1+ mako will give you the form mastered
- Spending 5+ will let you start with it nativized
- Spending 20+ will give you the recursive badge for it, plus the Recursion dedication.
Story Mode approval added to the monster editor. Get your creature certified for story mode and receive an extra 2 mako.
- Oh, and there are 3 badges related to getting monsters approved for story mode.
If you have already used enough boss vials to level, you will be given a brightly colored warning message that you've got that taken care of when you try to down another.

25th

Story Mode officially released. Access it from the web interface! Or here!
- Story mode now has its own inventory.
- Beating up mutants yield 'infection memories', which allow you to infect body parts. These show up as items in said inventory.
  - Sometimes, you get them from losses or submissions. Sometimes.
Both Front and Back Row combat skills now properly jump in effectiveness at rank 3.
While in feral mode, all powers appropriate to your form are considered nativized; they are +5% more effective, both in damage and status mags.
Rainbow Quills and Prismatic Bolt coded.
Both the Basic and Extreme Spread recipe mods no longer make things heavier, but they do lower the effectiveness of a power a little.
- This applies to the Spread distillation, as well.
While any subscription level gives you +1 character slots, Wasteland Warriors now get an extra +2 on top of that.

24th

The cred price of reward tokens (in the mall) has been turned up a bit.
The findall/wf/who command has been upgraded. It's now faster, and can be customized slightly
- You can do this by setting a local stat. For example, to sort first by name, do "@set me=_who/sortmode:Name"
  - You can sort by several different factors, as well. For example, "@set me=_who/sortmode: Name Location Faction"
Those zombies in the graveyard are now only minions.
Another web mission has shown its face.
Three new fields added to creatures in the monster creator.
- You defeat this mutant
- This mutant attacks you (you are encouraged to use string parsing to make this randomized)
- The mutant appears in front of you
- All three of these are in the first-person perspective, and will be used in the Story mode. Which is still in progress.
Players in Feral Mode also get Feral Recovery at level 25; it's a version of Rest that upgrades as you level.

23rd

The rest of the Solar Dragon questline has been put into place. Hopefully it's going to stick this time.
- As a result, the dedication can no longer be purchased directly from the web interface.
A brand new flaw has been introduced: Feral Mode!
- No roles.
- No picking your power upgrades.
- Severely reduced loadout and upkeep: 10 of each, with no way to boost them.
- No crafting skills.
- You are significantly more powerful than a regular agent, to make up for all these shortcomings.
  - At level 8, you gain Feral Regeneration, a powerful self-heal.
    - Which starts upgrading itself as you gain levels, starting around level 23.
  - +1 Attack (scaling) to all attacks.
  - There are other buffs that we don't have documented yet.
- You also do not need boss vials to level.
The lottery now pays out in three tiers: 50% of the pot, 30% of the pot, and 20% of the pot.
Nuku carols, "HUGE CHANGE: Your energy recover is now percent based. If you have more max energy, you recover it faster."
Prepackaged perk added.

22nd

Feesh got a little smarter.
New players will now find their first infection ripping right through their system, leaving you fully mutated on that first hit. Afterward, you're like everyone else, though.
Combat should hopefully go a little faster now.
Another piece of the Solar Dragon questline got fixed today.

21st

Using a nanite sorter now tells you how much cred it burned doing its job.
Perplexing primes should now actually confuse people.
Ravenous Hunger added to the elite store. It's for the Once Cursed dedication, though.
Items can now require a status in order to work, in much the same way that What is Mine requires nanites on hand.
Singleplayer Extension added to the elite store.

20th

Nanite Stimulant Injector added to the token shop for 1000 tokens. Basically a NERU without the slot to chug vials. This makes it more or less just a second aerobics training. It does not stack with NERU, but does stack with training.
Reward Token Purchase added to the elite store for 1 mako. Use item, receive 5+ tokens! Based on the market value of things.
ANSI codes are now stripped from custom power names. No more shiny purple/orange/blue skills.
Recipes can now be marked 'no commission', preventing them from being made in the web interface, keeping them private.
Nuku Plot added to the token store for 1500 tokens.
New combo: Rage/Reactive/Outnumbered now work together, giving you a stacking aggro, menace, and debuff resist buff, stacking up to 3/6/9 times.
Ferals with the Readiness or Technical combat skills are now given a suit of armor, giving them a little extra damage resistance.
Defeating anything labeled as a Final Boss (like, say, prime ferals) now gives everyone a reward token.
- In the interest of sanity, this is on diminishing returns. You have 100% for the first token, then 95% for the second token, 90% for the third, etc.
- What the hell, let's throw in two badges for getting tokens from bosses like this.
The 'Speed' combat skill has been buffed. It now shortens that 1000-point delay between turns by 100 per point.
Both small and large distill vials have been added to the token shop. Buy the vial, get a random distill. Bigger is better!
The rate of racer bucks to tokens has been lowered.
'+mako/jobnuke all' is free for the next few days, to let people respec in the wake of the changes to tokens.

19th

Objects without any proper scents now smell uninteresting, instead of like people.
+mpool now does partial matching when looking for pools.
The description for Talakai has been clarified; the time after pregnancy before you are fertile again is halved, not 'in a matter of hours'.
The [% %] string parsing (modulus) now works.
New string parsing command: [cunt of target] -- returns the cunt description set in the monster creator for a target.
The return of Mako Pool Madness!
- Big Boss combat role added as a mako pool, then added for reals in like 5 minutes.
  - Endurance, Scavenger, Mastermind
- Older Sibling combat role completed, as well.
  - Rage, Reactive, Support
- AI - Energy 50 completed and placed in the token store.
Massive token overhaul time!
- There is now a token market; buy and sell your tokens for mako! http://flexiblesurvival.com/index?TokenMarket
- Mako removed from the token store and the elite stores. Sorry, can't game it that easily!
- The following things have been removed from the elite store, and added to the token shop:
  - Subscription items (Hiker, Survivalist, and Wasteland Warrior; the things you use to get a month of that subscription level)
  - XP boosters (all varieties)
  - Cred Energy Rejuvinator
  - Terminal Download
  - Nanite Grenade
- The following have been added to the token shop, but are still in the elite store:
  - Salvage boosters
  - Husky Pill
- The token store prices are no longer negotiable; they are flat no matter how much Socializing, Underworld, or Intimidation you may have.
  - Upshot? Prices were slashed. Hard. No more alts for buying things from the token shop!
- Reward tokens can now be purchased from the mall. For freecred. :o
- Dedications can now be purchased for 25 times the mako price worth of tokens. 50 mako dedications cost 1250 tokens, for example.
  - You can do partial payments, as well. Paying 500 tokens and 30 mako is totally okay!
  - Yes, this applies to Recursion forms, too. Buy 'em with tokens if that's what makes you happy.
What the hell, let's overhaul support skills while we're at it.
- The Healing combat skill has been buffed, increasing all healing effects by 5/10/15%, and granting the target of a heal 2/4/6 (scaled) damage resistance and 1/2/3 healgain. The duration of the last two varies by how powerful a heal you throw.
- Support and Lingering Kindness now work on yourself, but no longer work on passives or toggles.
- Combo! The lowest rating of healing, lingering kindness, and support is used to produce a 10/20/30% hpbuffer on those you heal. If all three skills are at 3, and you throw a 100-point heal, you'll give a 30-magnitude, 5-round hp buffer.

18th

http://flexiblesurvival.com/index?Sheet now shows your mastered forms. Scroll all the way to the bottom.
You can now set your title to any infection you've mastered through the new +forms/title command.
You can also, for 5% battery charge, set your title to be "<infection> mother" for five mako, using +mother/title.
- 'list mother' shows what maternal options you've unlocked so far.
Lifegiving Armor was given a slight boost, and now only uses uncommon salvage.
The Regenerating distill was dropped slightly in effectiveness.
Desiccate mutant power coded, for use in a later creature.
Two new web missions! Oh hey, and badges!
Two new recipes! Vuvuzela and Liquid Courage!
- Both have been put into the elite store for 20 mako apiece.
Guarding Stance is now a minor AoE, with AoE upgrades.

17th

The ranks of all monsters in web missions have been knocked down a peg, to make them doable by less solo-friendly builds.
Statuses can now be delayed, taking effect after a set number of rounds.
- What's that mean? Check out the +rpinfo of invigorating oviposition!
- You know what? Let's make this more awesome. Nova Meteor just got redesigned to use delayed, and reskinned to be a big rock from the 'bove.
RP XP ticks are now a little more forgiving of people who take forever to pose, or scenes that take a while.

16th

Instances no longer let you walk away freely from combat. You must flee instead. Make sure to choose a direction!
Damaged softly churrs, "Defense and Accuracy now have the same soft caps as DamageBuff"
- Damaged softly churrs, "Pre size mod, and it is indeed 50(half) 100(quarter) 150(eighth)"
Lifegiving Armor coded, with the schematic placed in the elite store.
You can now use the child gender reassignment on all kids, not just ones with neuter groins.

15th

Children of the new apocalypse! The Native Fine Tuner is here to let you shift just your head (or other single body parts) while leaving the rest alone. Costs 10 mako, requires Nanite Fine Tuner.
Nuku Scene now for sale in the elite store. Insert mako, receive canon.
Some scientists in the living quarters of Zephyr want you to go get fucked. Talk to them for details!
+lotto now tells you how long before the next drawing.

14th

Web combat has even more colors, showing enemy difficulties like direct control.
Mousing over a web combat enemy will show its statuses.

13th

Frenzy was slightly upgraded, gaining a little bit of damage resistance.
Directed recipe modifier buffed, now reducing energy cost along with everything else.

12th

You can now look in a direction (ex: look east) to see what's over that way.
Drinking an infection vial (to recover energy while equipped with a NERU) now causes your turn to be spent. No more chain-chugging.

11th

You can now 'tag' infections, marking their contents. Please see 'help tags' for details.
- tl;dr: You can now mark victory messages that contain things that hurt your delicate sensibilities as things you dislike or hate, preventing the game from showing them to you.

10th

Anti Nanomagic has been clarified a little; it no longer shuts off the involuntary parts of the bubble; it shuts off powers and other nanomagics, though.
New button in the web interface for your inventory, which upgrades all equipped items.
The Ice Caves have been discovered underneath the mountain. Boasts Female Snow Leopardtaur, plus the new White Siberian Tiger, Penguin, Arctic Fox, and Icy Phoenix mutants.
- What's that? New powers? How about Ice Shards, Takedown, Flash Freeze, and the first on-grid ways to get Icy Hide as an epic power?

9th

Alarming distillation added, gives raw aggro.
Focusing distillation reworked, magnifies the aggro the item generates.
The referral bonus now works for the new Trialpay options.
Nekomatas can sniff out what Nanomagics a player possesses, the sparklehunters.
New Dawn finally remembered to unlock the front gate. Sorry about that.

8th

'+census nanomagic' added.
Nuku carols, "Looking for more ways to support the game? Of course you are! You can now pay via mobile phone, or even take up with various offers from other places to get you some sweet sweet mako! Proceed to the usual mako buying page: http://flexiblesurvival.com/index?ecommerce and scroll to the bottom, click the 'here' link and there it is. Ignore that it says 'Engel Batteries'."

7th

"TrinketBonus" status coded. Improves odds of finding shinies!
Bleeding damage (from the role of the same name) now is per-power, instead of just in general. Multiple attacks can cause multiple bleeds!
All nanomagic now has an effect!
- Nanite Manufacturing Nanomagic is a NotUser ability that makes a buddy (or buddies) heal and deal statuses a little better.
- Sculpting Nanomagic is a passive that makes you find more trinkets. Upgrade it to hit your buddies!
BioChemistry Nanomagic is now a toggle.
The colorful invasion continues. DoTs and knockback are now colored.
Quad Punch and Prism Storm now do slightly less damage, to make them less aggro-tacular.

6th

The colors! Heals are now green, hits are shades of red, those of you with 256 color support will see all kinds of red now!
Poke and all powers based on Crushing Swipe got more aggro. More annoying now than ever before.
More nanomagic doing useful things!
- Electric Nanomagic turns on a powerful electric field, shocking enemies who hit you.
- Medical Nanomagic revives a fallen teammate.
- Pyrotechnic Nanomagic draws enemy fire to you for some time.
- Regulation Nanomagic makes a few allies shrug off their debuffs.
- Thermal Nanomagic now makes your party more comfortable against the elements.

5th

The collection rate on the Ultimate Nanite Collector boosted to bring it closer to pre-adjustment levels.
Oh crap, Coyote is available and on the grid now. Someone's going to be busy...
Technical and Bleeding combat roles added. The former makes you better with gear, but worse with mutant powers, while the latter makes all direct damage cause additional damage over the next round.
- Four roles added for Technical:
  - Erudite Speaker: Also has Healing and Bewitched
  - Firebrand: Also has Tactician and Readiness
  - Requisitioner: Also has Scavenger and Sacrificial Fury
  - Weaponsmith: Also has Rage and Fast Loading
- Five roles for Bleeding:
  - Bloodmonger: Bleeding, Sacrificial Fury, Tar Baby
  - Bloodsport Contender: Bleeding, Fast Loading, Tactician
  - Courier: Bleeding, Accuracy, Endurance
  - Shrike: Bleeding, Vampiric, Controlled Burst
  - Undertaker: Bleeding, Damage, Scavenger
Nanomagic is being filled in with powers. Uh, give me a bit to organize this one, okay?
- Anti Nanomagic demolishes status effects, healgain, and debuffs damage for everyone in the area.
- BioChemistry Nanomagic makes it easier to find chemical salvage (one supposes you're excreting them when you have no better ideas), and gives a bit of statusboost.
- Counter Nanomagic is a carefully-directed version of Anti Nanomagic, targetting only one enemy for a long period of time.
- Earth Nanomagic is a repeat attack that hits many, many, many times.
- Emotional Aura Nanomagic confuses everyone in a fight, enemies and allies alike.
- Illusion Nanomagic wrecks enemy accuracy and impairs their successful hits.
- Techno Nanomagic gives you a chance for you or your allies to not need to repair today when it comes time to repair.

4th

Nanomagic. Woah.
Something was apparently wrong with the Pregnancy Simulator that has been fixed.
Some of the Weapon Master weapons do more damage and the Sword does less.
Damaged softly churrs, "Restricted more punctuation from being used in character names. Only ' and - are permissible now."
Paypal offers $30 per month rate!
Seriously, nanomagic. It's a work in progress, but it contains all those fancy RP tricks you were teaching nanites to do beforehand.
- Now with justification!

3rd

How about a little more theme info?
Flamethrower Soldier mako pool complete! Tactician, Readiness and Health. Because those things are big and kinda on fire.
Fishing for another role to suggest? Try the new 'overlaps' command to see what's possible! 'overlaps rage' will get a large list, while 'overlaps tactician' gets precisely one at the time of this writing.

2nd

How about a little theme info?
The totemic pets, and the wisps that Kitsunes drag around, have been upgraded to be a bit more consistently powerful.

1st

When you are defeated in web combat the action menu will reappear, allowing you to use Hero Revive and postmortem powers.
List Perks command won't show merits you have through group upgrades as personally owned.
Players idle for more than 30 minutes won't be included in +pj rewards for that room.
Wielding multiple Nanite Collectors (of different base recipes) will stack.
- Nuku carols, "NaniteCollectRate is now a modifier, not a starting point. Values for the collectors adjusted appropriately. It should all work together much more intuitively"
- Also incidentally fixes a bug in Clever Paws and the like.
Recipe modifiers like Fast were not getting their properties reported by the Wikibot properly. It should report doing something instead of nothing!
You have one day to go out and grab a free copy of the Flexible Survival novel. Head to http://blog.flexiblesurvival.com/ for details!

April

30th

If you are renting a room from, for example, the Five Fingers Inn, you can use #lock and #unlock to bar the door. Anyone inside can #unlock it to prevent being trapped inside.
Dropping items does not send a message to the room you are in.
Xeno group skill upgrade works when looking at mutants.
g #who command will display current and maximum group members.
Stacking powers should stack again.
Using +vote to approve of someone's RP when you have run out of votes will ask to spend 10% mako battery charge.

29th

Headbutt changed around a little bit to be more interesting. Now a fairly heavy hitter with moderate charge and some nice knockdown and a chance for some great knockdown.

28th

The price on true Supernatural Registrations has been dropped to 450 mako.
Sucker Grip coded. It's a special adaption!

26th

Soothing Balm created to give newbies some new gear.
Training - Medicine and Training - Effectiveness created to give you more gear options!
Going forward, there are now three tiers of supernatural registration
- 300 mako will get you a Special Training Registration, just like always. No form is connected to it. This would match Gemini Cyborg, or Survivalist Leader.
- 400 mako buys a Racial Registration, which has a form, but is still scientific, such as Cow Maiden.
- 800 mako is required for a true Supernatural Registration. This has a form, and can be something explicitly magical, such as the Tanuki, Solar Dragon, or Phoenix dedications.

24th

New in the Elite Shop: Private Forum, allowing you to set up a section of the forums for you to run.
Friendly Bandoleer and Hostile Bandoleer added to the Survivalist shop. These allow the use of one expendable item in auto-combat.
- And also debugged so they work properly.
- Said debugging also resulted in Throwing Knives dealing more damage.
Damaged softly churrs, "When trying to spend mako and you don't have enough, if you have a credit card on file, it will ask you if you wish to donate from that card to get enough mako to pay for the thing ($5 minimum)"
Pack Leaders gained an active power Pack Leadership to keep their minions energetic.
The Eastern Highway of Fairhaven has another exit ramp.
Long Burning distill less terrible.

23rd

Fire Dance self-damage increased to match up with players having been given more HP some time back.

22nd

Engulf coded. Sticky!
AI lines set with powers you do not currently have will be ignored instead of tossing errors.

21st

The Pack Leader dedication has arrived! Truly, this is a joyous day.

20th

+glance now tells you if there's a source in the room.
You can now epic powers from the web interface! Hooray, modern convenience!
Prospector and Conservative Miner perks added.
Feesh got a little smarter. Sure spends a lot of time in school for such a lonely creature.
Pets summoned by monsters will have Pet: in front of their names, and not numbers, making targeting the parent infinitely easier.

19th

Dropping a mako item will ask a second time if you are REALLY sure.

18th

The ten-second minimum for autocombat rounds is being fiddled with. It is at 4 seconds at the time of this writing.
Action buttons will be hidden when it is not your turn on web combat. No more bait-and-switch buttons!
Salvage status, both generic and specific like ChemicalSalvage, no longer has a cap. Unfortunately it is a percentage modifier on your base salvage chance, ending up much smaller.
- Clever Paws updated to be useful with the new salvage numbers. And now it increases the nanite vials you get too!
Assorted sources of salvage can be dropped into rooms to reward roleplaying with salvage.
Avatar will announce RP XP ticks in the tick channel. Tick ON!

17th

Expansion backpacks make change. If you have enough items to activate your Small Nanopack but not your large one, the latter won't drain your battery that day. Duct Tape Backpack will always be checked last, alas.
Extravagant Implement recipe coded. Like the last one, this is a private recipe. Seek out the Mechanist's Guild!
- You can tell because private recipes will show the owner's group in rpinfo.
Auto combat rounds can run no faster than 10 seconds per round. Apparently this will speed up the game.

16th

Betraying powers, like Fire Dance, ignore resistances. They should simply do the level-scaled damage to you.
Protein Shield rebalanced. In short, it takes more effort the more you are spraying, and the CritHPBuffer means something.
Child Trainer added to the elite stores.
Unshielded Prototype recipe created. It is private. Aw.
- +rpinfo now tells you if a recipe is private!

15th

Cleansing distillation cleans more, to match other passive Debuffclear effects.
Sati softly churrs, "Non Roo/Child, pet summons are limited to 4 simultaneously. This includes equipment, and power/dedication summons should they come down the line. This was done to limit the effect of Mastermind to something controllable, and also allowed a dedication to get made, and was done under my request. I'm not certain anyone is using more than four so it shouldn't really affect anyone."
Your relative size to a target appears when you are looking at them, right before describing their skin. Everyone is so tiny! What is going on?

14th

Almost all recipe modifiers (in fact, all but cool/protective/amplifying) got their ally status durations doubled. You don't have to spam that banner nearly as often now!
- As a result, the energy cost of Banner and Amplifier went up significantly.
Passive effects of most distills moved upwards, as well.
Group founders can now set themselves to whatever rank they want. They remain leaders. Everyone else needs to be set 'leader' to attain that power though.
You can now use % to act as 'modulus' in string parsing, much like the other (+-*/) operands.
Time for some +reward overhauls!
- +10% bonus XP is now +25% bonus XP!
- That annoying +reward that upgraded items? GONE.
- Got a mako battery recharge? Have a battery, too!
The Cred Energy Rejuvinator got discounted, from 5 mako down to 2.
Blood Extractor coded, and put in the token shop.

12th

Newbie items are now handed out at level 20, so they'll be useful until you can start getting your feet wet with crafting.
Children and Roo pets no longer show up for upgrading on the web page. They're going to go hungry. :<
Minor creature creator tweaks:
- The sayverb boxes are now large enough to see what you're writing
- There is a box to specify size. Remember that 5 is human-sized, and the scale is not in feet. Really.
You now see victories again when mentored up or down. You can once again experience joy while seriously overpowering level 5 skunk girls.
Ranger role added. Health, Penetration, and Roll with It!
Commissar role added. Tactician, Rage, and Avoidance. Also heresy.
Pregnancy Simulators, in light, medium, and heavy versions, added to the elite store for 15 mako apiece.

11th

Nuku carols, "DoTs from player sources cannot cause infections"
Pages sent to another player will have timestamps. Your 'page #last' will be easier to read.
Kitsune Now has Victory messages! (Perhaps we should start worrying about them now...)

10th

Web combat has a Refresh button, in case it appears to have stalled.
Roll With It and Tar Baby have a diminishing chance to activate with hits smaller than the threshold. Much more likely to happen in ordinary combat.
Training resources now cost the same on the web and in direct control.
Damage combat skill will decrease the amount of damage lost when something evades your attacks.
Web salvage missions now tend to not be quite so long.
A new status, Vampiric! Gives all your direct damage powers a (magnitude)% vampiric effect.

9th

No more Easter eggs! Existing ones still work, so crack 'em open.
The various salvage-boosting items, like Cooler, slotted. You can only prefer one kind of salvage at a time.
Web combat has a longer attention span. You won't fall automated if you don't click a button within ten seconds.

8th

Happy Easter! Monsters are now dropping Easter Eggs. Open them up for a surprise!
- Bunny and rabbit enemies are more likely to drop eggs.
- Zombies are not likely to drop them, being too stupid to remember to find any.
- Eggs are also available for 1 mako apiece in the elite store, if you are a silly person.
The inventory section of the web interface has been completely remodeled!
The follow code (the stuff you use hopon and handup to use) now defaults to the 'walk' option, instead of the 'ride' option.
- Want to write your own follow text? Type 'ride #help2' to get started!
Web salvage missions now only use one patrol point at a time, but require twice as many patrols.
Invasive Procedure coded.

7th

The Survival skill now reduces environmental penalties by 10% per point.
Did you know that energymod abilities, but positive and negative, were twice as powerful in combat? Well, if you didn't, now you know why Rest isn't going as far as you thought it should.
The military base is now stamped as High Danger, which means people will come to your aid in web battles there.
New holiday form, just under the wire! Marshmallow Chicken is available for a limited time.
- This form has both Smooth Hide and Expansiveness, by the way.
- Peep!
Expansiveness brought in line with other AoE abilities; now twice as nice!

6th

Tanukis (either active, or inactive with the Golden Leaf) can now make use of the Nanite Spatial Recalculator. The function is identical as when a Nanite Adept uses it.
Caber Tosser role added, possessing Controlled Burst, Endurance, and Tactician.
Gemini Cyborg, a new dedication in progress, has been coded. Expect to hear more from it soon!
- Beep!

5th

Myriad Armor had a math error; its damage resists went up a bit.
- King Cobra now has the Myriad Armor ability, by the way.
Conductive and Solid Frame are a little stronger now, to bring them up to speed with the other discounts to energy powers.
Sharpshooter now has an energy upgrade, so it's not quite so tiring.
Powerthirst was renamed to Ultraquench. Curse you, copyright law!
You're now a little more likely to find builder nanites after a fight when not equipped with a collector.

4th

Least EN AI block added to RSX's store.
Busty Succubus and Raised Pharaoh don't spawn zombies due to lag issues. Just like old times!
Durability, Avoidance and Health combat skills reduce the size of direct heals you apply by 3% per point. Makes non-tank support more useful.
The +census master command will list what people have chosen to make epic.
Energy recovery outside battle is doubled. Less annoying downtime.
Fengrove Hills and Fengrove Caves opened to the public! Look for them on the Fairhaven overworld, near the corn maze.
- The hills contain Ogres, King Cobras, and Fox Taurs!
- The caves contain (deep breath) Blade Beast, Dark Elves in both Male and Female flavors, and both Orthom Ovapeds and Brutes!
  - That's right! I hope you're after a lot of fun new forms!

3rd

Damaged softly churrs, "Added [if status (status name) of (target) (>/</=/!=) (number)] and [status (status name) of (target)] to string parsing"
- This can, for example, allow a victory to compare your accuracy against their defense. Or change your description if you have more damagebuff than the looker.
Further string parsing: Damaged softly churrs, "[systime] will return the current unix system time in string parsing"
Monotreme Activator description made more accurate.
XP and credit rate below level 20 increased.

2nd

Attack status now applies to DOTs.
- Increases the magnitude of the status by its own mag, to a maximum of one-third increase.
- Nuku carols, "So Attack 2 + DoT 2 = 2.6"
- Nuku carols, "Attack 2 + DoT 6 = 8"
Website right-side bar shows XP and credits needed for next level.
Celestial Attendant has moved back to his pool, placed where it used to be on the Mountain Path.

1st

All updates are now done retroactively, their effects propagated back through to the past.
~~A bunch of silliness with names has been introduced~~
- Silliness retroactively deleted. This is a serious game.
The Mall Rats have decided to start collecting all of the shinies. Luck of the Rat is now massively more powerful.