Multiplayer Updates/July 2013
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July
30th
- Fixed bug in global research that could cause expensive projects to read as unfunded incorrectly.
- New options added to fuck command. fuck <target> mouth fuck <target> ass and fuck <target> breasts.
- NOTE: if the fucker has a darwin's pass, they CAN impregnate the target with this.
- Using the new fuck options does not remove Virgin status.
- +prove mouth|ass|breasts will now show your filled status for these areas.
- Breast descriptions now include filled/Breasts values.
- When a new player is created using the Child Liberation Device, their virginity is pre-set.
- New stringparsing (only for infections since it needs to write data): [fill the <whatever> of [target] by <number>]
- For obvious reasons, only cunt, ass, breasts or mouth will work in 'whatever'.
- +prove will now work with the filled/<body part> options.
- Unfinished NPCs moved out of the Zephyr Coffee Lounge. Until they are complete, that is.
- Functional Miura Mercedes NPC added to the Zephyr Coffee Lounge. Expansion of dialogue to come.
- Functional Louis Ledoyen NPC added to the Zephyr Coffee Lounge. Expansion of dialogue to come. Playtesting encouraged!
28th
- afk command added as alias for goidl.
- Commend no longer works on new, not even placed, forms.
- No more overflows in +census.
- +roll now factors in group purchased skills.
27th
- Fixed crash in AI code when using Renew.
- Many very very old requests(6+ months) closed out to clear the air.
- Not to be outdone, Rod has joined forces with the Prometheans to cook up a new feral training scheme.
- 'How to be cool', is what he calls it, and it's available to all feral mode agents, allowing them to keep their cool and not forget how to use doorknobs.
- This training is available at the mall.
- Area in and around Chandler Hospital updated.
- Obvious exits now marked in white, spacing issues fixed, and spellcheck has been employed vigorously.
25th
- Non-staff cannot change the status of a request that is set Completed, Denied or In Progress.
- New nanomagic, rpinfo biomonitoring nanomagic.
21st
- Finder prop no longer set on finding vials.
- Nanomagic with requirements show this requirement in their rpinfo.
- Setting your birthday made more intuitive, hopefully.
- New avatar accessory, made by our very own Glitch, a pair of fairy wings.
- To make a matching set, he also made bat wings, cause why not?
- Fixed stacked item exploit with craftmod upgrades.
- Fixed a crash with a recent fix to web crafting.
- You can no longer use builder nanites from your backpack.
- Chimera Serum will no longer crash if you have no mastered infections.
- Chimera Serum will no longer infect a body part if the infection it rolls has no parts of that slot.
19th
- New, premium, avatar color, Psychedelic!
- New recipe and modifier created (Piercing design and targeting device) due to stretch goals.
- Both are available for +rewards.
- Staff viewing of alts on other games via +account now MUCH faster.
- When you master a form it will now suggest you commend it if you like it.
- Spring Parsing templates and examples on the Monster Maker wiki page have been updated for form-authors' convenience.
- Also, comments about the 'commend' command added at the beginning of the page.
- Remember to read this page to help you through form creation!
- Social actions that cost resources to do (cash, xp, etc) will no longer cost MORE if you critically succeed.
- Fixed critical error in web patrol missions.
- The update link on the page now shows how many days ago each update post was made.
- Result posted for rocket facility.
- New research available: Construct Rocket.
17th
- Update to the Monster Maker wiki page to provide support for Taur and Serpentine form creation.
- Also, Color Chooser support templates added to the string parsing section of the page.
- Arm and Tail Divider tempalte added to the string parsing section of Monster Maker wiki page.
- New Staff Made Monster added to the Jutting Peaks as per Stretch Goals: Minkitsune!
- New Area Built in Woodfield: Wax Museum - Apocalypse Exhibit with New Staff Monster within! Death (Skullbot)
- Child/roo pet training upgraded!
- You can now buy extra levels of training for your pets (100 tokens or 5 mako per extra level increasing by those amounts per level purchased.
- 100/5 for the first, 200/10 for the second, 300/15 the third, etc).
- These levels can, on a child, be used to buy any further upgrades (masteries, roles or power upgrades).
- On a roo pet, power upgrades and extra roles (beyond the first free 3) can be purchased.
- Additional xp will be required for each level.
- You can now buy extra levels of training for your pets (100 tokens or 5 mako per extra level increasing by those amounts per level purchased.
- Some fixes made to pet level indicators for first and second level.
- Roo pets now gain xp like children.
- You can now buy additional power upgrades in the same power, but only once per upgrade.
- Level expanded pets will become no-trade once the first level is purchased (it warns you).
- New stringparsing options for [if and [case blocks. 'is feminine' 'is not feminine' 'is masculine' 'is not masculine' 'is hermy' 'is not hermy' 'is neutral' 'is not neutral'.
- Each will take into account not only the gender but will also obey the perks.
- To be considered either masculine or feminine, the target must either be pure of one gender OR have the perks to force it.
- To be neutral you must either have NO gender or have the Uncertain Gender perk.
- To be hermy, you must be a natural herm and have none of the perks to specify a gender-view.
15th
- New Mako-purchaseable form: Demonic Fox, now available in the mako shop!
- Added few more level 0 actions.
- Artisan (design) added to Clairmont Marketplace and Eureka Landing Spot.
- Diplomat (socializing) added to Clairmont and Eureka Embassies.
- Banker (academics) added to Clairmont and Eureka banks.
- Vast majority of references to Rsx, as opposed to RSX, cleared."
- Top misspellings in the English language cleared from all room descriptions. Big thanks to the Oxford English Corpus' list.
- Exploit with craftmod selective keys fixed.
- Enhanced Training group benefit now affects XP gained via RP.
- For personal desc use, the public/<whatever> local stat will work in your base propdir.
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Major change for string parsing.- Text is parsed in order of reliance and from left to right.
- So a piece of string parsing like [if [if 1]1[else]0[end if]][local stat skunks of [player]][else]boo[end if] will parse the [if 1] block first, then the outer if, and finally do the local stat section last.
13th
- Level 0 Nanomagic Researcher (arcane) added to Paranormal Classes in Clairmont and Eureka.
- Bartender (socializing) added to New Ireland Pub in Clairmont and to the Internet Coffee in Eureka.
- Inventor (research) added to Clairmont's Garage and to Eureka's Military Workshop.
- Storyteller (legends) added to New Ireland Pub in Clairmont and to the Internet Coffee in Eureka.
- Added level 1 action for Shopkeeper.
12th
- 6644 long-term idle players purged.
- Made renaming of characters be a little more forgiving with new names.
- Aquatic avatar added and assigned to many aquatic forms.
- If you run into a form without it, submit a request to get it added.
- tport command now obeys rooms that are set 'no summon'.
- If the party leader of a party you are joining is mentored, you will mentor down to that level (if your level is higher) automagically.
- Item-based toggles will now not keep getting turned off by the AI system.
- Minor updates in and around the Zephyr Inc building.
- The Psych Department no longer goes full derp is you try to make a +room.
- Huntermun no longer uses past-tense.
- Traveling around the building no longer results in weird [end if] and [at random] bits of text.
- New recipe modifier added to token shop due to stretch goals, Bouncing.
- New, free, avatar accessory, a white cowboy hat!
- New, premium, accessory, a gold crown!
- New, free, avatar accessory, a fiery background!
- New level 1 actions added.
- Supernatural Researcher (arcane) added to Eureka and Clairmont schools.
- Technician (computer) added to RSX center in Clairmont and to the internet coffee in Eureka.
- Security Officer (security) added to Eureka's Military Compound and Clairmont's Police Station, Soldier job moved to Military Cantina.
- Bureaucrat (red tape) added to Eureka and Clairmont's Town Halls.
- Significantly improved accuracy and detection rate of the [redacted] software.
10th
- The Ember Sanctum zone and Ember Matriarch questline have been fully rewritten.
- You will not have to redo the quest if you have already finished it. Playtesting is encouraged!
- Local stat can now work with directories.
- Komodo Dragon added to the Reptile lunar touched forms.
- Commission Tax should be calculated more accurately.
- +census request now shows stats on incomplete requests.
- Fixed a bug introduced with my last fix for web crafting!
- New, player purchased, avatar accessory, shackles.
- Two new red collars available.
- Updated the theme & policy room to encourage people to type terms.
- New option for +monster command, +monster clear all will remove all +monster created enemies in the room.
- New Area added past Deeper in the East Forest called Jutting Peaks.
- New monsters lie in this area, including a Staff created Monster: Chi Lung.
- Other monsters include: Gryphoenix, Sandfire Dragon, and Storm Dragon.
- Direct Connect is now functioning again.
- New, free, avatar color, Goldenrod
- Avatar caching system has been enhanced.
- This has necessitated erasing the existing cache, so avatars might be slow to load for a little while.
- Spoilers: The Coatl High Priest should no longer require you to lose twice to progress. 'Twas a bug, but playtesting is encouraged.
- Quetzalcoatl Quest updated for grammatical errors on mobs as well as fixing bugs in the quest process. All should run smoothly, now!
- It will now require you to be fully Coatl when accessing the idol.
- Fixed critical error in web missions.
- Roboticist (computer) job comes with actions up to level 3.
- Also, multiple choices available for the level 3 action.
- The Long Way web mission is now locked to level 60+
- New Staff Monster: Okami Boi now available in the Petshop of Cuteness!
- Fixed bug in how web combat objects representing players are processed.
- Scientist job available.
- It comes with actions up to level 3, included multiple options based on the skills.
- The job is available (for now) in Eureka School and Clairmont College.
6th
- Minor update to the Church of Promethea.
- Players now warned that it is a dangerous place, grammar fixes, and certain directions no longer teleport you.
- New command added, convert.
- Will convert salvage rarities in game.
- Note: can move multiple steps, so "convert 1 rare chemical to common" will give you a butt-load of common chem salvage!
- Can convert both up and down. Converting down still incurs the usual taxes.
- New string parsing added for [if] and [case] blocks, <string1> ~= <string2> will do a regex on string1 using string2 as a pattern.
- River now properly connected to the highway outside Fairhaven. References to a nonexistent bridge removed.
- Alex the Zebra has received an update.
- Hir sex scene should now be a bit sexier (less typos, proper spacing, etc.), and it will dynamically respond to whether you've... frisked, with hir before.
- Clairmont, Living Museum, and New Ireland updated.
- They have been given more legible spacing.
- Obvious exits in the description are now marked in white.
- All jobs in Clairmont now only show up if you possess the right skills.
- Most minor bugs in these areas have been ironed out.
- Public sector of the Department Store updated.
- As with Clairmont and New Ireland, obvious exits are now marked in white, commands in green, and viewable items in yellow.
- Work on standardizing the older zones this way will continue throughout the month and all new areas will be color-coded accordingly. Polish, polish, polish!
- Exceptions for some special locations.
4th
- If you are already logged in, say via telnet, you will not be given the direct connect on viewing the main page.
- +register now shows, approximately, how much cash you have gained on the muck (game specific) for that day.
2nd
- When visiting the main page of the web page, you are now given the direct connect screen
- This is instead of the Facebook news. Hopefully it will encouraging new players to get further into the game.
- New accessory available, red collar.
- Code changes in an attempt to make the game more gracefully handle multiple text connections to the same character.
- Newly created characters on the web can now agree to the ToS correctly.
- Subscription 'days remaining' counter now working correctly.
1st
- Dusk Dragon questline improved.
- Fixed typos, axed glitches, and fixed a tiny exploit.
- Spacing and format issues in several areas fixed.
- Behind-the-scenes code cleaned up.