Multiplayer Updates/October 2013

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31st

  • The HPBuffer that one is supposed to get from the flurry combat skill now scales with level properly, instead of being comically tiny forever.
    • Related: More info is given when combat debug is turned on in regards to HP Buffers.
  • Bounties will no longer be in private/hidden areas.
  • Tweaked some color stuff in regard to entering a room.
  • Least Health and other AI targets should be more careful in choosing who they are hitting.
  • If you are both pregnant, and a cow maiden, and are milked, your milk will have a new modifier: Mending.
  • Nanomagic Designer updated.
  • Infections with Pony in their name now count as Equines.
  • Collie Herm has new victory, defeat, and observer messages!
  • Siren monsters, when they defeat you, will now actually lay eggs in you. Consider yourself warned.
  • Fixed Collie Herm Victory, Ovictory and Defeat messages.
    • They should now show up correctly.
  • You should no longer get strange messages about (cooling) powers coming off cooldown.
  • Purifying Tablet now fixed (trashing the ones you have and making new ones may be needed).
  • Code adjusted, you should not be seeing so many overheats.
  • When assessing connection history a certain attribute is now being correctly read.
  • You will no longer be prodded with invalid command messages once in a while.
  • Shadow Dragon and Male Gator string parsing errors have been fixed.
    • Additional minor tweaks to Victory and Defeat messages.
  • Fixed Wakiya cock and cunt desc.

Liberty Leopard removed from elite store. July 4th is long gone.

  • Fixed bug that caused items to duplicate when given to other players.
    • Fixed a related bug that stopped you from dropping something you only had one of.
    • Fixed another, related, bug in giving/dropping.
  • Level Costs wiki page updated with number of boss vials required per level.

27th

  • The Scrublands, Twilight Caverns and Shadow Pits have all been tweaked for easier navigation.
    • Broken exits/stringparsing fixed in the process.
  • Fixed legacy looktraps in the Cat Cabal, Department Store, and Furniture Store.
  • Wild Swing now has an aggro upgrade available.
  • Obvious exits mentioned in a room description are no longer highlighted white.
  • New Poll: Mutation Subscription.
  • Gift Wrapped Present has had two bugs squashed, and will no longer eat items in either of those two way.
    • Now it truly is the season to be jolly!
  • Huge update to Feral Mode (shortened to FM).
    • When auto upgrading, FM players will gain ALL the upgrades the power offers instead of a random selection.
      • The 2 upgrades are spread out through the available upgrades, with a mild buff to the total amount of upgrading action if more than 2 upgrades are present.
  • Subscriptions should be better about stacking when appropriate.
  • Many miscellaneous broken looktraps have been fixed.
    • Removed excess aliases that are no longer needed now that looktraps support partial matching.
  • Recovering dropped items should now allow them to stack.
    • +gear/condition is now usable without the vial conditioner item and will be used to remove bad/old props off items
      • Like the finder setting and the one indicated here.
  • When a Feral Mode player ULTIMATE UPGRADES a power, it works like their normal upgrades, spreading the upgrade over ALL the possible upgrades.
  • Junkyard Mountain sectors A and B will no longer show up on the terminal, seeing as it's inaccessible.
  • Main recipes with a status duration modifier that causes a repeat attack will have its affects reversed for the repeat.
    • Meaning a positive duration modifier will make the repeat faster, instead of slower.
    • This now also applies to recipe modifiers.

24th

  • New recipe: Thick Armor
    • The new recipe has been added to the RSX store.
  • New modifier: Attention Grabbing
    • Available via +reward.
  • Search command is now assured to work, botmode or not, unless you're still in the delay period since your last battle.
  • Small errors in Margay Taur fixed.
  • Poll 'Least Favored Combat Skill' has ended.
  • Monsters should spawn properly.
  • Roll With It and Tar Baby now give haste (debuff) in addition to their instant cooldown (debuff).
    • The status will last for 3 rounds on activation.
    • Magnitude is 3x (?) your rating in the combat skill.
    • The rpinfo for these have been updated.
  • Bewitched now twists DoTs, becoming minor regens for twice as long as the DoT.
    • The rpinfo for this has been updated as well.
  • Poll 'Botting Impact' has ended.
  • Fixed several broken 'no spawn zones'.
    • They should now actually not spawn monsters.
  • Rearranged the confusing [Zephyr Inc]: Private Offices layout to use cardinal directions.
  • Cleansing Milk now uses Breast Size to determine the mag of the Debuffclear instead of Breasts.
  • +groin now uses the right pronoun for Breast Size.
  • EnergyDamageResist in Soft as Fur fixed.
    • It is now 10 instead of 0.
  • Bolt-Action Rifle item added to mako store.
  • Inventory now gives another digit for quantity of an item.
  • Energyuse command disabled due to not really working since forever.
  • Broken exit in the Woodfield General Hospital fixed.
    • All four floors are now accessible.
  • Items/powers with abnormally high damage to cooldown will 'overheat' if used before a reasonable amount of cooldown has passed.
    • The player will be notified of this, and the item will enter cooldown.
    • The cooldown to damage ratio is 100 cooldown per 1 damage.
      • This is considered 'fast'.
    • Powers that have a damage rating of 14 or less are not affected by this (ex: Small Claws).
    • Healing powers are given kinder treatment, and are allowed to be twice as fast.
  • Unshielded Prototype is no longer private.
    • You can now procure basic models in the elite store.

21st

  • Powers should now show if they have a proficiency.
  • Fixed some display errors in rpinfo.
  • Fairy now supports Color Chooser.
  • Delay between battles shortened severely, but it is now dependent on how over-hunted an area is.
    • An area at 25% will be at 2 minutes (What it was before this) while an area at 125% will yield fights every 24 seconds.
    • Due to this new mechanic, the search limit has been removed (it is no longer required).
  • Salvage chance now adjusted to use over-hunted percentages.
  • Daily mission fight difficulty now modified by how over-hunted an area is.
  • The delay timer begins at the start of the battle, not the end.
    • If your battle takes 2-ish minutes (for example, in the wastelands), you should be ready to find another fight immediately.
  • Kills from combat now cause the rewards in an area to drop off slower.
  • +health and fprompt now check your proficiency properly.
  • Daily missions will not be given out for areas under 70%.
  • Manually selecting a daily mission (with the 'restart <area name>' parameter) will allow these areas to be chosen but WILL give a warning.
  • Skill requirement of the first researcher of Flexible Societies raised.
  • Global research now uses your EFFECTIVE proficiency rating for proficiencies, if higher than your total amount.
    • This means mako boosters work for research.

20th

  • +register no longer shows the longest remaining subscription (duration) but shows the one that is currently the highest active one.
  • Salamander Femme has its Tail Drop power back.
  • [if variable X </>/==/!= <number>] will no longer crash string parsing.
  • If you are in bot mode, your status (IC/OOC/IDL) will flip to BOT on moving from room to room.
  • "fa/who" now shows 'BOT' as a status, alongside active and idle.
  • Going botmode on will flip your bot status on right away, even if you don't move.
    • Turning it off won't undo it though
    • code has no idea if you want to be ooc, ic, idl, or other. If you move, it will presume ic, otherwise, it's on you.

18th

  • When performing a race #reset, the field will be set to average in length and hazzards.
  • New command: channels.
  • When training in game and in need of boss vials, you will be told how many.
  • Many stats for mutant powers, when rpinfoed, will be updated personally after each number in brown ()s.
  • Fixed crasher in editplayer.
  • Size shifting code fixed to not try to correct when the target is smaller.
  • New research available.
  • New research available(again).
  • One more research topic available!
  • When viewing a specific research topic, skills you have high enough are green, otherwise, red.
  • Flexible Societies now has a description(oops).
  • Periwinkle added as a free avatar color!
  • New recipe modifier due to stretch goals, barb firing.
  • New recipe added to token store for 100 tokens.
  • New poll by Nuku: Least Favored Combat Skill.
    • +poll/view Least Favored Combat Skill
  • Area range of the wastelands changed to 50-60 in accordance to the recent poll!
  • New, free, avatar accessory, the broken city background.
  • Another new poll by Nuku: "Botting Impact".
    • +poll/view Botting Impact
  • The Pack Leader dedication has been heavily optimized and bugfixed.


17th

  • Doctor job got a buff, due being low on xp and freecreds reward compared to other jobs.
  • Bodyguard Officer job available in Clairmont and Eureka Town Halls (for now).
  • Chandler Hospital access from overworld map shouldn't break a party anymore.
    • Entering the building still breaks it normally.
  • Salamander Femme supports the Tail Divider.
  • Poll 'Wastelands Range Recount' has ended.
  • Wiki uploading systems hardened against DNS failures and other issues so as not to cause major lag (like happened earlier).

16th

  • A full list of jobs in Eureka can now be found at http://wiki.flexiblesurvival.com/w/Eureka_Jobs
  • Finder tags are no longer checked or used.
    • Using the vial conditioner or giving them to someone will clear any existing finder tag.
  • Minor bug in combat turn advancement timing fixed.
  • Male Infertility Drug is now on sale at the Mall in Fairhaven.
  • +pregtime updated to show male infertility and statuses too!
  • droprange and +droprange fixed. (Hadn't moved the action to the public world yet, sorry!)
  • New room added to Eureka, Bath House.
  • Non temporary and non rented rooms now only have 12 hours worth of pot history.
  • Fixed numerous string parsing bugs in the Fox Taur infection.
  • Up to 40 items can be viewed in pot now.
    • Up to 40 items can be viewed in ooc #last <number> now.
      • You can now include OOC messages in your pot history (in chronological order) with pot ooc.
        • These changes mean 'room' rp history (accessed via pot) have been removed.
  • wpot now has the same functionality as pot.

14th

  • Chances to get various salvages is now much more random from monster fights.
  • Patrol energy added to +xp.
  • New polls now post to update channel in addition to the public channel.
    • Speaking of which; there is a new poll posted by Nuku: "Wastelands Range Recount".
      • +poll/view Wastelands Range Recount
  • New Proficiency: First Aid.
  • Medical Nanomagic's description changed to use new Medical Proficiency values.
  • Poll activity should now echo to a board post.
  • Toughened is now available via +reward.
  • Priming modifier adjusted.
  • Fixed a few places where the proficiency system was using the old scale.
  • Bugs in Panther Taur Defeat scene fixed.
    • The oral variant now also triggers for neuters.
  • Energy usage of Engulf increased.
    • Engulf mutant power altered in various aspects to be more balanced.
  • Lion Beast's original Defeat message now shows up again. Happy humping!
  • Panther Taur, Cheetah, Small Felinoid, and Lion Beast defeat, victory, transformation messages, and descriptions updated with faster string parsing and improved grammar.
  • Female Husky defeat scenes now reference the player-character in second-person. Additional grammatical fixes and tweaks.
  • Lion Within given a complete overhaul.
    • The changes required the staff to perform a force un-master for all players with it.
      • The power's effect, energy, cooldown, and recharge and upgrades have been changed. Its end results have not.
        • It was deemed safe to re-train the power after this un-master sweep was performed.
  • Statuses should now never apply from repeat ticks of repeat attacks (bugfix).
  • Lucky Roll template power fixed so the chance to debuff actually debuffs instead of buffs.
  • In theory, [cock desc] blocks and related parsings should no longer leave odd lingering string parsing in various non-description places.
  • Format of +groin for breasts adjusted.
  • When an adept attempts to become something, the code will try inflating them up to 20 points of size larger than the base.
    • It reaches for that target value through the soft caps.
  • Fixed several bugs in the Latex Fox scenes.
  • Gravid description a bit less ambiguous.

12th

11th

  • Combat should no longer get stuck.
  • Fixed bug that prevented proficiency enhancing statuses from functioning.
  • Important note, status enhancement cannot push your proficiency above your cap, just to it.
  • Crimson Pegasus and Painted Wolf Herm defeat, victory, transformation messages, and descriptions updated with faster string parsing and improved grammar.
  • Albert Stross' quest line should now work properly.
  • Cat Town has opened its gates.
    • It's along the highway, near the river.
      • Special job "Cat Life" available in that area.
        • Be sure to check the "sa city" command.

10th

9th

  • Cat Life job coded with 6 action (for now at least).
    • It's a fun job, so it has only level 0 actions.
      • Also, most of them requires feline traits to be used (Powers like Purr (even unmastered) or flags like Clawed and Barbed).
  • Cleared the Overworlds of Woodfield and Fairhaven of dead, crash-inducing exits.
  • Priming given a Loadout and Upkeep cost for applying it.
  • Healgain now has 2 soft caps and a hard cap.

8th

  • Duration of leeching's active status lowered to 3 rounds.
  • "Modified" flaw removed from all players.
    • Now it no longer exists in the game on any level.
  • Typo in Suppressing fixed.
  • Fixed an issue in string parsing where variables were nuked unintentionally.
  • When in a no ride/no summon area, you can still join parties of people standing in the same room as you.
  • Fixed WikiBot program to be able to run as a background task.
  • Sentient Latex Pool changed from Hard Boss to Boss.

5th

  • Fixed error on page that showed 0% training allotment despite the true amount.
  • Empathy now affects cred income from RPing as promised, and does scale past 30.
  • Renamed entrances of Cutey's Pet Shop and PetCore for clarity.
  • Fixed crash bug in proficiency buying.
  • Comprehension points no longer count, at all, towards your total proficiency points for sake of inflation.
  • New command, +mako/profreset, it will destroy ALL proficiencies and ALL professions. 5 mako.
  • Prime Primers should work again.
  • +proving a proficiency will display its current acting value in addition to its raw value.
  • Digitized Books has had its required skilled updated.
  • Defunct skill items changed in the elite store.
  • New professions: Swashbuckler, Baseball Player, Stunt Double, Mutant Therapist, Prostitute and Detective
  • Fortitude now coded for happy regen fun.
  • Several fixes to the new string-parsing engine. It should be more robust now, and be less error prone.
  • Purchasing professions from the web works again.
  • Breast-decriptor in +groin no longer shows parsing.
  • More corner-cases in stringparsing squashed.
  • [ and ] now supported in those bits of parsing that use regex ( ~= , the infection X of Y.)
    • Keep in mind that the code first checks valid parsing, and processes. [player] will always be a person's name, never the letters p, l, a, y, e and r.
  • You can now type status or statuses to see a summary of your statuses alone.
  • When a Nanite Adept uses shift block, it will be forever, even after being defeated, until turned off.
  • +roll will now reveal the dice when dealing with pure numbers and/or proficiencies.
  • Becoming a Man is much better at stripping feral powers.
  • Powers at level 5 now display properly on the skills web page.
  • Muscle Mass updated to give a bonus to Strength checks!
  • Many recipes given a proficiency to benefit from.
  • Dramatic rewrite of stringparsing within and near Zephyr Inc for optimal performance.
    • Fixed many stringparse-related bugs in the process.
  • Hiker subscription re-added to the token store!
  • Skitter now offers a bonus to running rolls.
  • All powers based on the 'Accurate' power now buff Perception.
  • Economics updated to use the new scale for combat cred gaining.
  • Trinket gathering and other misc. parts of power use adjusted for new proficiencies.
  • Passive wound recovery from Medicine proficiency ready to go.
  • Improved stringparsing and fixed looktraps in the Weapon Master area.
  • Research in game now properly parses %r.
  • Strength's effective score is now modified automatically based on your current size.
  • The jobs based on deprecated skills now use the right proficiencies as requirements to level now.
  • +groin/real ALSO doesn't show stringparsing in the breast-thing anymore.
  • Looking upon the world and taking pity at the loss of love, Eros calls upon some followers to make a shrine, and behold, in Woodfield a simple garden shrine was made!
    • The God of Love calls upon more to spread, instead of mindless lust and sex, love to all the world!
  • Discription of Scattered Bones brought into Canon.
  • Monsters no longer spawn in the Court of Love.
  • Monster Bounties should now try and pluralize the monsters
  • Breasts now appear larger toward the end of a pregnancy.
    • They also now leak when in the absolute final stages of pregnancy.
  • You can now use @ in chat on a guest name.
  • Fixed few room's job notifications in Clairmont and Eureka.
  • Fixed a crash on the monster maker page.
  • Fox has found a new home, and awaits those willing to ask for his power (More information to follow soon).
    • Bug with the Fox Dedication form fixed.
    • Fox Dedication added to list of web dedications.
  • Genetically Superior Human, Female Commando, Troll, Orc, Mouthless Stranger, Fey Folke, Valkyrie, Gladiator, Leather Mistress, Masked Angel, House Cat, Blue Gryphon, Female Husky, Night Stalker, Stalking Tigress, Nekomata, Slut Rat, Salamander Femme, Lizard Girl, Goo Girl, House Mouse, Pink Panda, Moth Girl, Latex Fox, Raccoon Guy, Wolf Boy, Feral Wolfess, Wolf Beast, Skunk Girl, Skunk Beast, and Christmas Skunk Chick defeat, victory, transformation messages, and descriptions updated with faster string parsing and improved grammar.
    • Pink Panda is no longer erroneously missing the Milk Squirt mutant power.
    • All Goo Girl defeat variants should now work as intended.
    • Nekomata no longer automatically assumes the player is female.
    • Fey Folke Defeat messages are now actually functional.
  • Flirtatious Eyes given slight rebalancing and a new upgrade choice.
  • Blue Balled added to statuses on Arrows of Light.
  • When in bot mode, you will never encounter an enemy while wandering from room to room.(search continues to be 100% effective in bot mode)
  • "pjoin" should now properly set the mentored level of the incoming player if it is below their unmentored level
  • Price of the merit, Instructor, reduced severely.
    • The merit Instructor no longer implies you can have more then one child in combat at a time.
  • Influence gained via RP is no longer level dependant
  • Night Stalker skin description now shows up.
  • Glenstock, a city in Oregon, is now open to player use! It is slowly being reclaimed by the natives, but can be traveled to via RSX to Crater Lake, then Crater Lake to Glenstock.
  • Fixed a case where looking at certain summons locks up your client.
  • Fixed bug in proficiency training.
  • ALL Damage over Time increased by 20% in effectiveness.
  • Rewards for different fighting areas now have a system similar to 'cred energy'.
    • Initially they are worth 130% of their normal rewards per kill.
      • This number decreases as more kills are made in a short time to a minimum of 20%.
        • Over time, the value will regenerate (lower level areas regenerate faster than high level areas).
  • Monster Bounties will now only trigger in places that give a positive bonus to rewards.
  • +haz will now show the rewards bonus/penalty for the area you are in.
  • Viewing the terminal will now show you the reward percentage for each area.
  • Using the 'Travel' list on the website will now show Bonuses for each area.
  • Fixed a corner-case with [else if] statements in string-parsing.
  • New "droprange" command implemented. It now works.
    • It now always aborts if a chained item or if it can detect a mako item in the range of things.
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