Multiplayer Updates/May 2013

May

31st

• New Mako Item: New Feral Mode Training.
  • Design your own feral training mode and have it added to the game for all to enjoy.
• Fixed Church of Promethea rooms to NOT carry your whole party through when you go to the boss rooms.
• Bug in puzzler fixed.
• When logging in, if your party leader is not online or is not in the same room as you, you will automagically drop from the party.
• pkick command added. Leader only command to kick a player from your party.
• In theory, you will now be told if an item comes off cooldown mid battle.
• Nurturer added to our library of feral training modes available.
  • You can snag it over in New Dawn.
• You now gain a badge based on your feral mode, if you are feral mode.
• Our first premium feral mode training is available: Destroyer.
  • 10 mako in the elite store, created by a player for players.
    • Enjoy this high DPS, savage beast of a training set.
• Fixed bug in new destroyer training(oops). You do not need to do anything. If you have it, it will fix itself automagically.

30th

• You will no longer be given an erroneous message when respawning.
• You will no longer be instantly reduced to judge level 1 when degrading due to inactivity.
• Web Mako exchange more explicit about new round robin mechanic.
• "jobs list" and "sa list" Now show what job(s) might be needed by that social action.
• Feral Mode players can now change training modes, allowing them to change their focus.
  • The first two trainings available are basic(what you have now) and defender(a tank oriented, high aggro build).
    • Feedback desired on defender.
    • You can buy the training at New Dawn.
      • Note, training is one use. Using one activates the training. Use another to switch it.
• Feral Mode 'Defender' training now gets Feral Defense, a powerful, and level scaling, self defense buff.
• Feral Defense now charges faster as you level up, becoming easier and easier to snap out quickly.
  • Note, this is the charge time to activate, not the cooldown, which is static.
• New Stretch Goal added to the monthly stretch goals.

29th

• Heat/Lust/Horniness spam has returned.
• Infection vials for infections that don't exist now will no longer give mastery over something that isn't there.
• New Quest in the Wax Museum.
  • Item collection quest through Hugo.
    • Extra items from the quest can be taken to Tomas in the Wax Museum.

28th

• No Updates.

27th

• Logging out will now remove you from the party you were in.
• Science and Public @channels are no longer coupled.
• A new city, Clairmont, is added to the grid.
  • It is accessoible via New Dawn.
    • There is no unique content in this location yet.
      • There are RP rules of no public sex and of wearing clothes (a shirt is enough).
  • Heat and Lust won't be active in the new city, due to variations in the nanite bubble there.
  • Regular RP of exploration/survival themes will run there - logs will be viewable on the wiki.
  • Social actions and city stats are in use, also global regional bonus or malus will be applied if certain stats are too low or high.
• Level 3 action for Lawyer added.
• North Ireland Pub closed it's gates in Fairhaven.
  • A new pub is now available in Clairmont.
• Added some environment effects in Eureka and Clairmont regions.
  • They can be a buff or a debuff based on the stats of the city's values.

26th

• "Help convert" is no longer a thing. The info is now in "help salvage".
• Gentle Entry Unit added to Elite Store.
• New merit: Slow Simmer.
• Luck of the Rat no longer has nanitesoak.
• Horniness: Increaser and Horniness: Decreaser added to token shop.
  • They work on 'target' with 'Write' level of trust or better.
    • Using the horniness modifying items now alerts the target!
• +staff/addstatus should now no longer crash.
• Accuracy buffs AND debuffs now have a hard cap, based on a power/items base accuracy.
• Certain talk-script poses that were previously recording to rp logs will no longer be recorded.
• Joining a party at a remote location should no longer trigger a combat to start there.

25th

• Powers should now be less spammy when striking multiple people for status only.
• When a party leader logs off, it no longer leaves a party in a bad state
• +reward Will now fail if you have a full inventory.
• More tweaking to kitsunes.
  • • @set me=/child/<child>0/kitsune/fur:<color> sets a child-specific color.
      • That 0 is NOT a typo, it is required. Specific colors override defaults, of course.
• 'renew' AI should now work with targets ALLY and ENEMY.

24th

• +glance now reveals size.
• New Wiki Page: Make a Character. Includes a Template for making a page for your character.
• Deep Healing is now influence by Ball Size.
• +rewards that result in rest xp now give a more helpful message.
• Staffers can now spawn any monster they want.
• Performing social actions no longer give craftmods, but now have a chance of yielding reward tokens.
• +request/new redesigned.
  • Its only a minor change.
• You can now set the fur color on your children that have Kitsune skin/fur.
  • @set me=/child/kitsune/fur:<color>
    • You use this like you already can for yourself.
      • This DOES NOT work on a per-child basis, it affects ALL of your children with Kitsune skin/fur. Now it does, see update above.
        • Supported colors are yellow, red and black.

22nd

• Non leader/quartermasters can now donate money to their group.
• With the stretch goals of 1000-1200 being met, a brand new area is available with with two staff monsters.
  • The area is Wax Museum - Industrial and is located in Woodfield. The newest monsters are the Oil Baron and the Secretary. Also added on-grid is the Melodramatic Villain and Robot Zombie.
    • Area level is presently: 60-66
• Fixed bug in web combat.
• "Unequip" added as synonym for remove.
• Obscure bug in inventory viewing fixed.
• Consignment sales changed to notices.

21st

• Job levels now show in score/sheet"
• New tool for form-writing and string-parsing, now public! @viewparse
  • Gives you an indented, color-coded version of whichever parsing you supply. Critter-writers may celebrate.
• Breast Consolidator and Mammary Magnifier are now disableable items.
  • Just use them in your inventory to turn them off or on.
• Maternal Care added to mako store.
• When out of patrol points and not in the area where your mission is, you will now get a notification of the failure to patrol when search web is used and how to rectify it.
• Made some tweaks to messages coming from In-Game web fights.
• Multiple Maternal Care items will now stack.
  • It is indicated that the healing bonuses multiply the player's +womb room triage bonus.
• You can now remove all your notices at one again.
• Chimera serum no longer infects the head twice.
• Listing another person's form now only requires read permission.
• "list forms for <name>" has been fixed.
• New premium color: mint cream.

20th

• In editplayer players can now disable the auto leveling under lvl 30.
  • Note, excess xp will burn off into freecred instead.
• Fixed a bug in combat rewards. This should stop "Invalid Turn Goer" messages.
• In editplayer players can now disable the auto leveling under lvl 30.
  • Excess XP will burn off into freecred instead.
• Pets should now, for all functions that check their level, refer to their owner's level.
• In string parsing, [owner] will now return the DBREF of the owner of a pet, or #-1 if it isn't a pet.
  • Likewise, help string parsing updated.

19th

• Prize Finder Removed, if you had it, you got perk credit back!
• Fishing now references edible salvage.

18th

• If you are mid battle, you can no longer try, and fail, to start a mission battle.
• If you are very small, size modifying merits will at least modify it by 1 in any given direction.
  • Minimum is still 1.
• Gemini Cyborg dedication retired.
• The size adjuster should now function when shrinking yourself.
• New Profession, Patent Clerk.
• Bug in +fish/patrol fixed.

17th

• Group level up messages no longer refer to 'guild'.
• New avatar unleashed. Also a new mako pool.
• New Research available.
• Arm and Tail divider reduced from 50 to 20 mako.
  • Both are now sold as pre-manufactured items, rather than recipes.
• Mine command now shows an area's native density, in addition to its current bounty.
• Roleplaying in a place with minable salvage will cause it to regenerate any salvage usage the place has.
  • Conservative Mining perk increases the healing done per tick.
• Loadout/upkeep on eggs reduced.

16th

• A very large mako pool has finally completed! As a result, players now have 5 more perk points to use.
  • They will appear when you have spent your 'free' perks and buy 5 points past that.
• New merits: Tiny and Giant.
  • They do the exact same thing as Small and Tall, but they also stack with them!
    • They've been tweaked short time later. Tiny is now -50% size, Giant is now +30% size.
• Butchering skill now displays properly in +fish.
• You are now given more clear opportunity to abort a trouble ticket while filling it out.
• The 'dead' AI should be more reliable now.
• pinvite no longer auto accepts on trusted level.

15th

• Some of the player flags have had their descriptions updated.
  • Hyper, No Hyper, Macro and RSX flages are examples.
• New command: tport.
  • Allows you to teleport to RP hubs.
    • The new feature only works in non-combat rooms.
      • For example, tport #public then tport placename to teleport there.
        • Staff are looking for public RP locations that they may have missed. Let them know via +request if you know of a public RP hub that isn't on the list.
• Effectiveness Training recipe created.
  • Prefab version for sale in the Zephyr wellness area.
• When a party leader flees a fight they will now drag their entire party out with them.
• People trying to recycle items that, due to changes have been grandfathered and are no longer craftable, will no longer get a crash.
• In theory, if you throw a buff, or debuff that is weaker than already exists, it will simply not be applied, leaving the stronger one alone.
• Forms for mothers' day removed from elite store.
• New 'target' type for powers, 'master' will force the power to make it target it's summoner (for pets).
• The ability to become Modified has been removed (chargen and Medical Implanter).
  • The reason is that it has become apparent that players with this ability could deal 160k damage per round against 8 targets.
    • This made them 2 to 3 times stronger than the best Role builds in the game.
      • Staff are requesting player feedback on wrestling Modified back into a sane performance range. +Request with your feedback and send it as a Suggestion.

14th

• Cow Maiden is now available as a boss vial in the elite store.
• You are no longer notice-spammed with influence salvage.
• Influence salvage is now given in one notice.
  • But only when you're checking your notices.
• There is now an Infection Update item in the elite store.
• "help partying" brought up to speed with recent code.
• Descriptions entered for most wi flags.
• The token store on the web page now reveals if you know a recipe or not.
• Jobs that require builder nanites now inform you of the fact.
• Arriving and leaving a room, with parties, is much cleaner now.
• New fishing option: "+fish/patrol"
  • Spends 1 patrol point to catch multiple fish at once per successful catch.
    • You will ignore the usual limit of 12 of any single fish for that cast, allowing you to hoard larger amounts of fish.
• Fishing stock cap removed.
• New command: "+fish/butcher".
  • Slice up those fish!
• If you do a +fish/patrol and net a fish that's too small, the patrol point is quietly refunded.
• Using +fish/patrol bypasses the minute cooldown, and cannot result in random encounters.
• +fish/patrol amplifies your skill for sake of avoiding badly weighted fish, both light and heavy.
• Waiting for a bite while fishing is now much less spammy

13th

• Functionality of Technical adjusted!
• You now cannot join a party with one of your alts
• Technical status can no longer DEBUFF, only buff.
• Party merging (especially into open parties) should now work.
• New research available: Nanite Cannon
  • New recipe, Nanite Cannon. Prebuilt version for sale in the token store.
    • Recipe for nanite cannon also added to mako store for 5 mako.
• When using the crafting tester recipes and modifiers known are now marked with asterisks.
• Cred Energy Rejuvinator removed from token store.
• Go-Go Dancer erotic dancers will no longer cause Confusion.
• Hare Town set up with few social actions and jobs.
• Description of TEAM modified.
• When buying/selling mako/lunar on the web exchange, it will now evenly pick from each order if multiple match the best value.
• Technical stat no longer -decreases- upkeep in the negatives.
• +monster ready Will now search the room for IC players and set the combat as being owned by them (Judges should be set JDG).
• Roll update, you now get +1 die per 5 points above 20.
• New premium accessory: Labcoat.
  • Available for 1 mako and applies to all alts on your acount, past and future.
    • Labcoat edited to look nicer, much thanks to Tova!
• New, entirely free, avatar accessory: a sawed off shotgun!
• New premium accessory, offered by Tova, a dark version of the labcoat.
  • Available for 2 mako for all characters forever on your account.
• Stretch command implemented, showing the monthly donation stretch goals and our progress towards the next.
• Stretch command now shows all potential stretch goals.

12th

• Distillations removed from the system.
  • Distillations no longer have any effect on items.
    • In other words, your Distill-enhanced items are now broken and may inflate your loadout usage (even into the negatives if you didn't have much room left).
      • If you are having issues removing items due to loadout inflation, remove the highest loadout item first to bring you out of negatives.
• 'Distill' tab in web inventory removed.
• You can now cancel auctions, with auction #withdraw
• Altfinder restricted to W3+
• New craftmod for direct sale (player purchased): Gravid
  • 5 mako in the elite store.
• Ride commands now disabled.
  • Please see pinvite #help for details on usage of the new system.
    • Msummon will continue to function normally.
• Case of mistaken helpfile fixed in the Zephyr instance of the crafting-tutorial.
• 'Help basic commands' updated with new party commands.
• For parties: If a player other than the leader is ambushed in a room, the monsters/combat will be based off the party leader's settings.
• The Color Chooser decreased in price from 50 mako to 20 mako.
• The Gold Framed Supply crate is now 150 reward tokens
• Power Regulator reduced in price from 200 to 50.
• Happy Mother's Day! 50 mako poured into the pregnancy tower, enjoy your kids!

11th

• Power and item cooldowns can never reduce to less than 0.
• Instant powers and items should once more be instant.
• XP costs for crafting items removed.
• Crafting items while in a nanite crafting room reduces cred/nanite costs by 5%.
• +reward now has a chance to give craftmods!
  • High octane will make them a non-drop craftmod. There is a small chance of making it T2 or T3!
    • Meaning it is significantly cheaper to apply.
• When using craftmod trades, the description of craftmods will update to the desc of the new modifier.
• In theory, web battles are now entirely patrol point free, unless you're doing a mission.
  • If you're doing a mission, it costs a patrol point, and will not work without one.
• Web crafting using a commissioned crafter can no longer put you into negative freecred.
• When spending a hero point for a +roll, you will get +1 to the end result.
• When training up a top tier craft skill on the web, you will no longer see 'maximum level' when going over the level limit.
• Players can now no longer train crafting skills above their level (excepting top tier, where they can go their level + 10)
• You can now train craft skills back up to max level, instead of your max level.
  • But the costs for over lvl 50 (doubling) now are based off the skill being trained.
• New item: Fishing Hole. Costs 25 mako.
  • Lets you set a room of yours as a fishing area, even a hunting area room.
• Rpinfo of Infertility updated for thematic clarity.

10th

• Web now displays decimal value of premium currency.
• Academics reworded to be a bit more clear as to what it does.
• The Raver Punk's anklets now glow with the color of the person's choosing
  • The color chooser must be in the user's posession for this.
• When pointing a craftmod trade/selective trade at a stack of craftmods, only one will be traded.
• Crafting no longer requires XP.
• Soul Grasp can now be upgraded for damage.
  • Now it counts as a resurrection power.
• Earth Nanomagic's cost and limit updated.
• Hair Triggered and Instant Drawing are slotted into Rapidity.
  • Unslotted instant drawing and hair triggered again.
• [1] updated to make the stretch goals more clear.
• Painted Incubus is now available in the Mako Shop.
• Apart from regular upgrades, no modifiers or modifications will allow a non-instant activatable power/item to become instant.
• Deinoraus form added to the Shadow Pits area.
  • This was our first Stretch Goal monster.
• Feral Mode now gives +1 mastery slots per 25 levels through ingame training.
  • Web Training has been updated to account for this.
• Feral Theme page updated.
  • New information is here: [2]
    • More changes possible.

9th

• Ink Cloud power reworked.
• Bugs that caused erroneous power output for all naturals fixed.
• Monsters above 'Boss' Rank are now more enduring.
• Hard and Final bosses made a bit more worthy of their titles.
• When buying/selling premium currency on the web market, proper account log entries are made.
• You can now use the Sexual Stabalizer as an inactive adept, so long as you own it, without the need for a focus device.
• Hero Regen option buffs.
  • Regen lasts twice as long, and now has a powerful +energy component.
• Craftmods no longer drop randomly off defeated enemies.
• The cost of a Craftmod Key reduced to a mere 40 tokens.
• For a mere 10 tokens, you can now procure a T1 craftmod with a 'small craftmod key'.
• Reward Tokens now occur faster with subscription level. Higher the level, more reward tokens for roleplaying.
• "help subscribing" updated with this new feature.
• The tokens for dedication promotion is at an end. We hope you enjoyed earning dedications via tokens.
• You asked for it, you got it! You can now trade reward tokens, give x tokens to bob. I'm sure bob will appreciate it.
• "help dedication" and craftmod brought up to speed with recent updates.
• RP XP increased significantly. Roleplay and be rewarded!
• Money earned from RP increased accordingly.
• Hero refill properly nabs 1 mako and gives you all your hero points back, so you can go on being awesome.
• New color, Tyl purple, a soft shade of purple, freely available to use on your avatar!
• On the buy mako page, the stretch goal meter now says how much to reach the next stretch goal.
• While RPing, rest XP bonus is now displayed.
• Monsters are no longer randomly upgraded on their powers, providing for a more consistent experience(templates aside).
• Viewing items now shows if they are 'high quality' or not.
• Promethean/RSX/Zephyr mobs WILL get some upgrades.
  • • But only them.
• New monster templates: Multi-Armed, Ignited, Rubber Toy, Unclean, Go-Go Dancer, Breast Feeding and Feesh
• If you auto level, you are now informed in game about it, in addition to the web notice.
• You are now shown the 'cock' transformation whether you are male or not.
  • If you collide with a form that this displays hilariously with, let us know so we can fix it via +request.
• Talakai Essence now makes females 'flexible', allowing them to take monstrously large partners and still breed.
• If you are on the crafting page and look for crafters, crafters on cooldown will not be on the dropdown list as people taking orders, because they can't.
• Bugs that caused erroneous power output for all naturals fixed.
• If you are on cooldown for taking orders, you will be informed on the web craft page.
• All Natural Buffed
  • All Naturals now get 1 point of technical per 10 levels minimal, despite any role selection.
    • So if you're level 30, you're going to have 3 technical, period. If you're level 60, 6 technical.
      • If you have more than 10/level technical, it will leave it alone, so if you take 3 roles with technical, and are level 24, it will not reduce it to 2.
• TEAM recipe created by player purchase, but a prebuilt version is for sale at the Ancient Relics in the mall.
  • Works like having half a point of Technical shared among all allies in your party.
• Mining, via the mine command, now employs builder nanites, not freecred.
• Mining now has a guessing game component. Guess well for much more salvage than normal. Guess poorly and you end up no worse than you started out.
• Ruggedized buffed. Upkeep discount increased from 5% to 15%.
• Miniaturized, Ruggedized and Modular are now slotted together. They all got buffed as well, so be sure to remove and re-equip your equipment.
• The Selective Craftmod Trade now gives 10 choices instead of 5!
• Damage over Time buffed, no longer resisted by hpbuffers.
• Everyone has received a free craftmod key as part of the recompensation package with the recent changes. Enjoy!

8th

• Talking to missy to combine and reroll your craftmods will now make sure you don't get the same mod as either of the two you put in.
• Hare Town has been renovated and improved. (Research completed)
• Price of Flame Bearer dedication reduced from 50 to 30 mako.
• Price of Bastet Disciple dedication reduced from 50 to 30 mako.
• Price of Necromantic Acolyte dedication reduced from 50 to 30 mako.
• Kitsune dedication price reduced from 50 to 30 mako.
• If you purchased a dedication yesterday or today (7th or 8th, server time) that just came down in price, throw up a request to get the difference refunded.

7th

• New item, Craftmod Key, now for sale for 100 reward tokens.
  • Open it up for a tier 2 craftmod!
• New item, Craftmod Upgrade, 20 reward tokens.
  • Increases the level of a craftmod by 5.
• New item, only 10 reward tokens, Craftmod Trade.
  • Takes a craftmod and rerolls its level and what modifier it holds, but retains its tier!
• The Reward Token Purchase now gives 5-15 tokens instead of 5.
  • 20% chance of +5, 5% chance of another +5, each rolled separately.
    • Badge given if you get 15.
• New item, Craftmod Selective Trade, 20 reward tokens
  • Works like a trade, but instead of being entirely random, you get a choice of 5 modifiers to select from.
• Check your web notices.
  • If you created your account before january, you've been given reward tokens in recompense for the final retirement of the distillation system.
• Chance of mastermind reduced.
• New, free, color, brown!
• New Mission button on page no longer so screamingly loud.
• Web combat can now be done even if you are completely depleted of patrol points.
  • This does not extend to web missions.
• Worker Job moved to the Power Plant (always in Eureka).
• New item: Chimera Serum
  • Available for freecred the Zephyr Lobby.
    • One sip and you'll have a new perspective on things. That's what they said in the update channel.
• Added a level 2 action for the Street Lord.
• New recipe: Power Gator.
  • Its intended to replace the Water Flask.
  • There is also a Pre-Fab version without Modifiers where Energy Drink used to be sold..
• Power Gator added to token shop(20 tokens).
  • The recipe, not a completed item.
• Debuffclear added to Power Gator.
• +register fixed
• Upkeep of Power Gator has been reduced.
• Medicinal now has Regen.
• Endurance Training created.
  • It is for sale as a pre-fab item.
    • This will replace Training - Aerobics.
  • You can craftmod it, as it comes without modifiers.
• Crowbar has been renamed to Sharp Light Melee.
  • Its Pre-Fab version is renamed to Pry Bar.
• New recipe: Breathing Clothes.
  • Replaces Earrings in the Ancient Relics store.
• Weighted modifier adjusted to return to relevancy.
  • Also slotted with Improved.
• Repeating modifier buffed.
  • Repeating no longer debuffs damage.
• It is now possible to procure tier 1 craftmods via social actions.
• Recharge now has soft caps at 50, 100 and 150
  • This is no different than most other statuses
  • It hard caps at 200.

4th

• Matriarch and Sterile now properly exclude eachother, like one'd expect.
• Roll With It and Tar Baby now have a combo effect.
  • You gain 0.5 points of reactive skill per lowest of either.
    • So if you have 1 and 3, you'd get +0.5 reactive, 2 and 2, +1.0, 0 and 3, +0.0.
• Modified now has diminishing returns on percentage based things that modify a stat directly(+damage) or to statusmag.
  • Every +50%, it costs twice as much to get another 1% of difference.
    • So 1:1 up to +50%, then 2:1 until it hits 100%, then 4:1 to 150% then 8:1 to get to 200% and beyond.
• Price of relocation adjusted from 30 to 10.

3rd

• Bug fixed in arm divider.
• +xp now shows the number of tickets you have in the RP mako lotto.
• Fixed bug that caused spam with betraying powers.
• Academics no longer has the functionality that was never documented for it.
• Roopet charming should work again.
• ^^ Now works in ooc messages.
• July 4th added to holiday list.
• It is now possible to get more rested xp than normally possible if with a high octane reward.
• If you are not at 75% of your rest capacity when receiving a reward, it will give you rest xp rather than a +xp/time reward.
• When sending a @paste to a specific person(s), you are told which receive it.
• You will no longer receive a health 'tick' update when you're full of health.
• When someone pastes to the room, as opposed to a particular person(s), a message is sent notifying that it's a room send.
• Maximum HP no longer begins to spiral upwards past level 30.
• When handing objects to a person with a custom name, only the custom name will be displayed in the message.
• New mako item, Salvage Surveyors
  • Allows you to permanently increase the salvage amount of a given area by a given salvage by 5.
• Can be used on public areas.
• Submitting can now be done through "submit to <enemy>" as well.

2nd

• Mako gained from answering polls now recorded in account history.
• You will now be told if a group member 'reconnects' as opposed to 'connected'.
• Start of the Month sale is now shorter, the threshold being 500 instead of 2000.
  • Alternate reward system being implemented that will benefit the entire game, rather than just the donator.
• Stretch goals implemented.
  • As the game reaches its monthly monetary goals (starting at 500), the game receives a benefit for all to enjoy.
    • Including new quests, web missions, monsters, and even dedications.
• You can no longer charm Zephyr, Promethean, or RSX agents.
  • Charmed enemy agents should be cleared of their origins, including RSX.
• New items, Pregnancy Harness.
  • • Item is permanent and passive.
  • While worn and offline, you gain 'pregnancy rest' at a rate of 18 minutes per 15 minutes.
  • While online, this time is used to increase your incubation speed by up to twice the normal.
  • If RPing, 20-30 minutes of credit turns into 40-60, if online but not RPing, 5 minutes becomes 10 minutes of credit.
• The pregnancy harness now charges, slowly, if online but not RPing.
• Cow maiden quest updated.
• The RP lotto will run less frequently, but tickets continue to accrue, meaning that those who roleplay over longer periods are more likely to be that winner.

1st

• Turning faction chat on and off now gives feedback.
• Betraying powers properly hurt things again.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent web combat from starting.
• Goo Girl now has an avatar
  • Several other gooey forms now use the goo girl avatar.
• Missy's created craftmods will now have similar naming to new dropped ones (showing tier and dropped status)
• Fixed bug that may have reduced the efficiency of influence for salvage.