12-16-24

• Added the PETS or ANIMALS command. It works similarly to the KIDS command and will show you what, if any, animals are in the room with you.

11-29-24

• It's now possible to wrap single items with a sheet of wrapping paper without putting them in a gift box. Please read board post 100745 for all the details and restrictions.

11-19-24

• Added the 'WEARING' command to tell you, you know, what you're wearing. 'WEARING ALL' will include miscellaneous clothing as well.

11-18-24

• Added the @LAG TOKENS command to see any active lag server tokens you may have.

11-01-24

• The transfer command will now work on private structures allowing suppliers to transfer mined commodities, provided that the structure in question has a Raw Materials Marketplace Node which is also configured to accept specific minerals. Read post 100593 for further details.

10-29-24

• Fixed an issue where requesting a custom costume would impose restrictions on the number of characters in the description (the costume part). That was only supposed to happen on the mask part.
• Peeping Toms despair: Fixed an exploit that would allow people to LOOK <room name> in <structure> if they had spacewalked to that structure, which would let them see any room inside from afar with impunity.

10-27-24

• Upgraded the trick or treat buckets, bags, and pillow cases on Acosta. Now, when holding one and somebody gives you a treat, they will automatically drop it into your bag. (Assuming, of course, you aren't too stunned or occupied to hold the bag out to them.) Similarly, on Halloween, saying 'trick or treat' or visiting the Starship Museum will deposits those tricks or treats into your bag. Unfortunately, exists products won't be upgraded. You'll need to buy a shiny new one.
• Fixed matching weirdness where trying to GET a container from the ground that shares the alias of a container you're wearing or carrying would result in a weird, unhelpful message. (e.g. you're wearing 'a bag of gifts', there's 'a bag of holding' on the ground, and you're typing 'GET BAG' and it fails with something like 'You don't see a bag in a bag of holding.')
• Destination finders will now ask if you really want to clear the list of saved destinations.

10-17-24

• Fixed a matching issue where using the 'my' qualifier would fail to match to objects you own on a surface if you didn't own the surface itself. (For example: You're in a restaurant, sit at a table that the restaurant owns, and set your drink on the table. If you try 'drink my.tea', it would fail.)

10-13-24

• Atmospheric salvagers will no longer attempt to crash due to power failure while in the process of returning to a ship.

10-02-24

• Added some more sanitizing to RSS feeds, which should prevent XML validation errors when less than, greater than and ampersand characters appear in entries. To see a list of all existing RSS feeds, you can visit https://miriani.toastsoft.net/rss/
• Added a GAG-OPTION to ignore custom exit messages, which will force exits to show the default walking message instead.

09-27-24

• Those desiring more control over what they DUMP from one container to another now have another option: TRANSFER <old container> TO <new container>. This gives you exciting possibilities like choosing specific items from a list, choosing one object from a list and dumping all objects of the same name, or variations of these two themes. This only works on bags and such, not fancy containers like artifact storage containers. Happy dumping!

09-15-24

• The @CUSTOM-SOCIALS command now has the ability to view custom communicator socials.

09-01-24

• Fixed ANSI color selection issues when using 0 as an RGB value or using < 100 in 256 values.

08-30-24

• The LRSCAN-command will no longer magically reveal if a sector is interdicted if the ship is powered down.

08-28-24

• Fixed a bug where lying down while using a room pose (LIE <here/thing> as whatever) would never appear in the room when LOOKing or using the PEOPLE-command.

08-21-24

• Stars will now be thoughtful enough to not populate a sector at coordinates directly adjacent to an anomaly.

08-12-24

• It should now be possible to sculpt clay creations with clay previously purchased by somebody else.

08-06-24

• Cloning or importing vanities in the vanity workshop should no longer spit out horrific errors.

07-24-24

• you may now view the anomalies and wormholes top lists with the @anomalies and @wormholes commands respectively.

07-15-24

• In order to respect consistency with GMU notifications in regards to other upgrades, it is now possible to enable anomaly notifications regardless of the presence of the spatial anomaly scanner upgrade.
• The INFO command now accepts 'PREVIOUS' as an argument (e.g. INFO PREV) to display achievements of your past characters.
• Sensor profilers now allow you to save (and restore...) a ship's GMU notification options.
• Video probes have been added to the list of GMU notifications.

07-12-24

• Much like in simulated rooms, it is now possible to use the ambience-messages command from rooms of structures owned by you.

07-08-24

• Since we've had multiple people asking to have their lore computers restored after being purged, Lore computers will no longer be purged along with characters and should appear in salvage containers when the character is restored.

07-02-24

• Added the ability to abort charge transfers via the TRANSFER command.
• Updated the TRANSFER command to allow the receiving ship to see the ETA and abort a charge transfer.

05-28-24

• Vehicles will now automatically return to the ship if there is only one ship in the sector, rather than presenting a single-item menu.

05-27-24

• It is now possible to strip only damaged armor components from the ablative armor store on Mars.
• It's now possible to dump supplies from containers into food/paper bots.

05-26-24

• You can now control whether your ship should use any applicable drives to move toward a jumpgate should the desired FTL destination not be in range through pilot options.
• Complementary to the last change, it is also possible to set a distance threshold for when a drive should be used when moving towards a FTL jumpgate if the FTL destination is out of range through pilot options.
• It is now possible to obtain damage of a single component. Example: DAM turret 2.

05-24-24

• You may now use your vehicle to return from an atmosphere to a different ship, provided that you are the ship's owner or alternatively that your vehicle is allowed to return to that specific vessel. To manage the list of allowed vehicles you may use the menu command from the vehicle bay, which requires the vehicle computer interface to be installed.
• You may now transfer ownership of a vehicle to another player, provided that you and the player in question are in the vehicle bay, you are the owner of the ship from where the transfer is being initiated, and the player meets all the requirements to receive the vehicle. You may initiate the transfer from the menu used to manage vehicles in the vehicle bay.

05-20-24

• corrected an oversight that prevented the renaming of landing pads on private moons.
• When importing room message sets, you will no longer be presented with the option to select all message sets from a room when you've already selected all available message sets. Also, you will no longer get a menu with no rooms to select once you've exhausted the menu of available rooms.

05-18-24

• Selling atmospheric salvagers and combat vehicles no longer auto-deposits into insurance and other greedy funds.

05-16-24

• Players can once again pilot atmospheric salvagers with upgrades they don't have the ranks for, assuming said upgrades have a passive effect such as additional storage. An example in policy 4 has been added to reflect this.

05-03-24

• Bounty hunters will now no longer target ships indefinitely should they manage to make them angry. If a ship stays out of sight for a day, they'll forget about it. The time resets if the ship is spotted before then.

04-24-24

• Beacon strength will now be generated dynamically based on how many other beacon-targeting ships are present in the sector, among other things.
• Fixed a bug that could allow beacon defense missions to spawn more difficult-class (Onati, Onz and Onno) ships than expected.

04-21-24

• Your number of successful beacon rescues will now appear under INFO achievements.

04-19-24

• You will no longer continue to wander like a mindless zombie when stunned.

04-15-24

• Planetary mines will no longer be considered out of local space.
• Deep space artifacts (previously known as out of comms artifacts) will now appear passed 6,000 lightyears from known space. The Artifact Hunting help file has been updated with relevant details.
• You can now ESTIMATE individual artifacts without putting them in an artifact storage container.
• Riding a mount will now force you to emerge into the open if you're taking cover behind something.

04-14-24

• Added long-range communication beacons to the NOTIFICATIONS command.

04-13-24

• You can no longer take cover while riding a mount.

04-08-24

• Confused internal sensors will no longer detect and include simulated crew, treating the simulated ship as if it was docked in the real one.

04-06-24

• Added a WAKEUP-OPTION to make you aware when things were said in the room while you were dozing. (You can check what with the 'HISTORY SAY' command.)
• Boarding a ferry on a private structure will no longer cause you to be out of communications range.

04-03-24

• Added LABEL (or ENTITLE if you prefer) to artifact and archaeology storage containers. No label maker required. Yet...

04-01-24

• Added generative AI support to the DESCRIBE command. Writer's block is a thing of the past! Simply type DESCRIBE and choose the second option from the menu.

03-29-24

• After many, many years and much confusion, the issue of blast doors breaking when ships are restored has hopefully finally been solved.

03-20-24

• Oxygen tank air compressors will now show how many slots remain for refilling tanks when you LOOK at them.

03-10-24

• Added a new lore option: "Use paginated menus whenever possible". This will allow you to view certain huge menus, notably the shopping guide browse categories menu, in much smaller chunks. By default this option is off.
• When viewing the lore shopping guide, you may jump directly to a category by name instead of just by number.
• Your insurance funds will now cover destroyed atmospheric salvagers as well.

02-22-24

• You can now (optionally) dump the entire menu of an Ultrabot(tm) when perusing the adoption listings.

02-20-24

• HELP FREQUENTLY REJECTED SUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS has been updated. Please review it at your earliest convenience.

02-12-24

• You will no longer encounter interdicting enemy ships in uncharted space while the server is being debugged. You can check when this is the case by using the @LAG command.

02-05-24

• Updated HELP PLAYER COMMANDS.

02-01-24

• Mail packages and envelopes can now be labeled with the ENTITLE <package> command.

01-31-24

• Updated HELP TRADESMAN CERTIFICATES to reflect a previous change disallowing certificates being used while out of local space.

01-18-24

• Simulated Ameliorators now have an unlimited supply of replacement components. They won't appear in the ship's cargo, but they're there!

01-08-24

• Enjoy the newly added Super-Enhanced Power system upgrade for atmospheric salvagers. Assuming you qualify for it.
• Using the rank command from an atmospheric salvager's cockpit while a card is inserted will now show the card's information without having to physically read it.

01-07-24

• Ships that have been added to a private organization no longer get automatically removed if the owner decided not to tag them. Whoops!

01-06-24

• Atmospheric salvager upgrade removal now has a confirmation prompt to prevent accidental upgrade uninstallations.

01-04-24

• It's no longer possible to load refined bardenium into raw mineral marketplaces. That's what the bardenium shed is for.

12-30-23

• Fixed some issues with @respond that got introduced when we gave players the ability to respond if they're idle or disconnected when a host sends them a message.

12-12-23

• New players can now use the HOME command (in addition to homeplanet, homeworld, capitalplanet, recall, and a raft of other aliases that new players may type in a confused rage) to be reminded of their capital planet and its corresponding sector.

12-11-23

• You may now store mined bardenium in a bardenium rearm shed. It is effectively a private rearm center, and it can be obtained by changing any room's parent in a private owned station, moon or planet. Help bardenium rearm shed should also introduce you to its basic commands.

12-10-23

• Players that have completed the quest to obtain the small handheld radio receiver will now have their receivers restored along with their characters, provided that the receivers no longer exist.

12-01-23

• You will now be placed into an escape pod should a component of your spacesuit be destroyed while you're in a starship room which has a hostile environment. Apparently some people are silly enough to make this happen.

11-30-23

• You can now TRACE mining things in your hand to determine where the equipment they're connected to is located.

11-29-23

• Asteroid rovers now enjoy the ABORT (or CANCEL) command, allowing you to abort an active cargo transfer. Or request it abort, anyway. It usually listens.

11-27-23

• Updated the text of POLICY 2 (Harassment, Discrimination, and Threats) to explicitly mention humorous sexual commentary. Additionally, added three new relevant examples.
• You will now be able to respond, as needed, to host correspondences sent while you are idle for 30 minutes or more or are disconnected.

11-22-23

• After many years of being blissfully unaware that scents were not left on clothing being washed and dried with laundry soap pouches and fabric softener sheets respectively, your clothing will smell nice and clean now after being laundered.

11-16-23

• You can now EMPTY (or eject or expel) people from asteroid rovers (assuming you own or are authorized on said rover).

11-14-23

• Combat missions can no longer generate infinite hordes of angry Praelor. Relatedly, incursions from combat missions into numbered sectors have been capped at a slightly more sane amount, rather than 200 ships. The time of arrival for such invasions has also been increased; previously, invasions would arrive anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes after warnings on General Communication. Now, this is anywhere between 10 and 25 minutes to allow for more preparation, especially if fewer people are active.

11-13-23

• The STATUS command in atmospheric salvagers now displays if a rank card is present or not.

11-12-23

• Mined and or refined bardenium no longer requires a bardenium storage box to be transfered into a ship. Transfering it without the bardenium box will however not make it available to use by the ship's weapons.

11-08-23

• Added the JAZZHANDS social. Jazzy!

10-31-23

• A recent, minor change to moderate missions resulted in specialty starships not being able to embark on them anymore. This egregious error has been corrected and specialty starships have once again risen from the ashes in their moderate, mediocre glory to defeat the enemy--ahem. Moderate missions can once again be assigned to alliance specialty ships.

10-12-23

• At long last, it is now possible to clear your personal dictionary in one fell swoop.

10-10-23

• Related help topics in help files can now be displayed in a menu for easier navigation. This option can be toggled on in the general-options.

10-09-23

• HELP SOOC has been updated to fall in line with the most recent change.
• You can now use description aliases. Consult board post 99445 for more information.
• Reorganized the Newbie Channel help file and added new content to the Policy Enforcement section.
• Stun armor power packs are no longer able to be activated by players who lack the necessary license and combat points to purchase them.

10-06-23

• Fixed an exploit in stores that could end up giving you credits upon aborting purchases.

09-29-23

• The GC command will now report the region of space in which the ship is located, assuming the Enhanced Sensor Array is present.

09-24-23

• Updated the text of Policy 6 with information about restoring characters from the login screen.

09-23-23

• Added a RELOCATE command to passenger transport stations to move passengers from one ship to another.

09-22-23

• Possibly fixed pets who refuse to wander back into a room they were last in under specific conditions.
• Over a decade later, artifact containers containing only fuzzy corpses can now be researched by those with less than 300 points. For real this time.

09-17-23

• You can now import ambience message sets from different rooms in the same structure when designing in an architectural simulator.

09-16-23

• More toilet love. It is no longer possible for more than one person to plunge a clogged toilet. Thanks Brian for helping find this bug.

09-15-23

• Years late here, but it should no longer be possible to double fill bathtubs.
• You will no longer get taste messages after attempting to drink unopened bottles of liquids that have them.
• It is now possible to purchase food/drink/paper resupplies from Empanda Station, for all of your food/drink/paper robot resupplying needs.
• You can now set the default scooping range when using the scoop command through vehicle-o inside a salvager's cockpit.
• Toilet use messages have been updated. We've finally entered modern times here, folks.

09-14-23

• Fixed non-binary pluralization for a significant chunk of gender-aware messages. Please continue to REPORT oddities as they appear.
• Starships in anomalies, much like nebulas, are now immune to long-range sensors.

09-12-23

• Anomalies now reak havoc on long-range sensors in strange and mysterious ways.

09-09-23

• 'MAKE ALL' in a ship store (or selecting 'All' from the menu) will now give you a box containing keys to every starship you own. For a modest fee.

09-08-23

• Added AUTHORIZE and DEAUTHORIZE commands (or ALLOW and UNALLOW, if that's your thing) to private organization offices, which let you grant and revoke permission for people to enter, respectively.

09-06-23

• HELP TRADESMAN ITEMS has been slightly revamped.

09-05-23

• It is now possible to store food spreads in food storage rooms.

09-03-23

• The MARK command now accepts 'off' as an argument to clear your marked room. (Similarly, MAP UNMARK will do it.) This can be handy if you want to, say, walk to a room named Mark but have previously marked a room. Which happens a lot.

09-01-23

• It's no longer possible to bypass a Lore's biometrics and access the galactic news via the news command in a ship's control room.
• It's also no longer possible to bypass a Lore's biometrics and access its device options via the lore-options command.
• Letters and notes must now be unfolded before being scanned with a Lore computer.
• Fixed an oversight that allowed beacons to be checked while landed on an asteroid in a sector with an anomaly.

08-29-23

• Hot tubs will no longer soak your clothing and other items in your inventory if they're empty.

08-28-23

• Starship registries now allow you to look up any arbitrary part of a ship's name rather than insisting that it be the very beginning.

08-27-23

• Specialty starship applications are no more. Now you're only required to fill out a simple agreement, which will be automatically approved or denied sometime within the hour. If you have an application in the queue, you'll need to fill out an agreement instead.

08-26-23

• Parents can now INSPECT <child> to get a fairly extensive rundown of its capabilities and custom options.

08-25-23

• For maximum convenience, Pax docking bays now provide a pneumatic pod network for rapidly transporting busy organization workers to their private organization meeting room. Simply type TUBE on a docking bay and marvel as miracles of modern technology effortlessly whisk you away to the comfort and privacy of your meeting place. Oh, one caveat, you have to pay a modest fee to have your organization linked to the network. You can find the installation option in the Pax private organization convenience center.
• You can now VACATE private organization offices. Additionally, you can purchase more office space in the Pax private organization convenience center. All private organizations have one free office by default.

08-24-23

• Being inside a private organization meeting room (or any rooms off of the meeting room) will no longer unambiguously report your location via the TransLink network. Instead, you'll show up as being on Pax.
• Added offices for private organization admins. You can enter your new, snazzy office by typing OFFICE in your organization's meeting room.

08-23-23

• Players can now choose their pronouns. Please see the message board post 99354 in OOC / Announcements for all of the relevant details.

08-21-23

• The communicator spellchecking option no longer applies to / gets in the way of certain private link recipients. Namely: Combat Mission Notification Service and Auction Service.
• Introducing the WALKING command. In case you have forgotten what the skip to your step actually is.

08-20-23

• Landed ships will no longer receive surprise announcements about other ships being destroyed on the landing pad.

08-19-23

• The SORT command now supports rearranging your walls. Don't delay, 'SORT WALL' today!

08-18-23

• Pawn shops no longer pay into your various tithes and auto-deposits. Just your credit account.
• Non-tradesman levitating transporters should no longer show up in the tradesman adoption list. They can still be purchased in the usual way, they just won't transfer across rerolls or be up for grabs.
• Removing photos from picture frames on the wall now follows the same logic as unhanging the picture. That is to say now odd ducks can't steal your photos out of the frames on the walls.
• You can now use SOOC anywhere on a private structure, regardless of whether it is in or out of doors.

08-17-23

• Fix: The Jump Hub trading center now has a proper demands list for producing the spaceport infrastructure that it supplies.
• Fix: The Kelen trading center now has proper demands for its production as well.

08-16-23

• Sensor profilers now allow you the option to download select NIRP categories rather than all data.
• Added a management interface to NIRP to allow for the rapidish deletion of points of interest that no longer point to points that interest you.

08-12-23

• Reduced the likelihood of encountering interdicting Praelor in a sector with an anomaly. Still possible, but now with an extra roll of the ol' die for good measure.

08-08-23

• Added mountable lockboxes to the tradesman adoption menus.

08-05-23

• Possibly fixed the cost of repairing courier ships going through, even if the player does not have the funds on hand to complete the purchase.

07-28-23

• Simulated building avatars should now stop following each other when their controllers disconnect from the simulator.

07-24-23

• Added a tradesman lab to the Empanda Station Design Complex for the automation of character appearance requests.

07-18-23

• You can now clear an auto-deposit at a credit registry by hitting enter or typing '0'.
• Credit registry auto-deposits now show in the CASH INFO command.

07-15-23

• Fixed a bug that caused upgrades on atmospheric salvagers to be removed when installing other upgrades.

07-14-23

• Going forward, if your starship is force renamed, you will no longer be required to wait two weeks to try renaming it. If your ship has recently been force renamed and you wish to pay for a new name, please assist and we'll set it up.

06-29-23

• You can now add gift boxes to stationery robots using the robotics lab.

06-25-23

• SCANning an asteroid will now alert you if it detects a significant amount of mining junk on the surface. The amount of junk it needs to detect depends on how damaged your ship's sensors are.
• Airlock descriptions now inform you of the various pertinent environmental conditions. Only 16 years late!
• If your soundpack sadly gags everything, you can also LOOK PANEL inside the airlock to get similar information.

06-14-23

• Anomalies no longer magically warp you to the coordinates you were occupying when pushing you into a new sector.

06-06-23

• The atmospheric salvager scooper extension upgrade will now drain more or less power based on the units it's being extended to.

06-04-23

• Updated the help topic about atmospheric salvaging to include information on the atmospheric salvaging program
• A new atmospheric salvager upgrade has been added, High capacity Storage Containers.

06-01-23

• It is now possible to ask for an atmospheric salvager rank record card replacement. Note that losing your current card will lose your whole progress to the next rank.

05-30-23

• Flight Control Officers have been added in certain locations. These NPCs will now provide flight control messages concerning their sector as well as reporting enemy activity in long range scans. Incapacitating them will consequently interrupt flight control updates in the concerned sector.

05-25-23

• Placing people on furniture now removes them from any group they may be in. No longer will you have to worry about dragging around unconscious dead weight. Like Victor.

05-13-23

• Alcoholics no longer possess the rather unique ability of convincing starships to run multiple drives at the same time in a physics-defying, hull-rending show of strength.
• When your legs are injured, you will no longer limp if you are riding a mount.
• Splashing around in rivers (among other things) will no longer say that you're in a pool instead.

05-12-23

• Simulated avatars can now use your character's custom socials, both of the regular and comm varieties.
• You can no longer establish a commlink if the initiating ship or the target has begun undocking.

05-11-23

• The applaud, golfclap, and slowclap socials now check for free hands in order to match the clap social.

05-05-23

• Fixed a bug that caused droid remotes to be stuck in your inventory when trying to give them to droids with no free hands.

05-04-23

• Added the BONUSES command to asteroid hauling station docking bays to see the number of bonuses remaining in a bonus cycle.

05-01-23

• Updated the previously broken changelog/announcement Twitter auto-poster-thing(tm) to post to Mastodon instead of Twitter. (Thanks Elon!) Find Toastsoft on Mastodon at https://mud.social/@toastsoft
• Updated the developer changelog RSS feed to provide 50 entries instead of 25.

04-30-23

• Battery storage rooms now allow you to check the starship CHARGE remaining without laboriously walking to the control or engineering rooms.

04-24-23

• It is now possible to specify an argument when destroying objects launched by a ship, such as interdictors.

04-19-23

• Fixed an issue where GATE would haunt drunk and / or brain-addled individuals with roundtime as the ship moves.

04-15-23

• Fixed an issue with uncharted archaeology sites that could cause tracebacks instead of the production of sweet, sweet artifacts.

04-05-23

• Pirates rejoice! Stunning someone will now prevent them from repairing a ship's hatch lock. Why this wasn't already the case we'll never know.

03-27-23

• You can now view doors in a room's description. You can include doors in your look-options for the change to take effect. Biometric locks are also included.

03-18-23

• The TAG command now detects contraband aboard ships that are docked within other ships. (This restores some balance to smuggling now that you can easily dock ships on the ground.)

03-13-23

• You can now use ATSM or debris, shortened to deb, to view a list of directions to the debris pieces present in an atmospheric salvaging sector.

03-06-23

• The battlecruiser test now checks to make sure someone has enough credits to retake the test instead of happily settling for whatever it can get.

02-18-23

• You no longer have to remove the augmented scoop range before you can buy a greater one.
• You can now use direction aliases such as "nw" or "se" when using the scoop command.

02-17-23

• New atmospheric salvaging changes have been added. Refer to board post 99031 for more details.

02-11-23

• Medical centers now remove all first aid treatments before healing injuries.

02-10-23

• soundpack maintainers can now explicitly set a meta frequency channel users can refer to.

02-09-23

• Added HELP INTRUDERS to condense some pieces of otherwise fragmented basic information.

02-08-23

• Resolved some issues with the game getting confused when clipping a communicator to a belt and then trying to wear another. Also added a warning when removing a belt if your communicator is clipped to it.
• Fixed an issue where the custom starmap symbol color for planets wouldn't apply properly.
• Out of band soundpack social messages are now always sent to the player who performed the social, even if they have socials gagged. This way you will always see AND hear your own socials.
• Caretakers are now able to load inventory into mineral marketplaces.
• Droids should now properly stop following someone if they're deauthorized from the owners list.
• The infant sequencing lab now lets you choose between a baby and older-than-baby. No more need to add it as an extra request. babies woo

02-04-23

• You can now view information on different skills by providing a name as argument to the skills command.

01-23-23

• The information about vacation mode in policy 6, help vacation mode, and vacation mode itself is now synchronized.

01-19-23

• It's now possible to PLACE pets on furniture. As with babies, PULL them to remove them from the furniture.

01-03-23

• It is now possible to transfer minerals out of mining factories.

01-01-23

• Introducing the GOLFCLAP social. Victor held a gun to my head and made me write it. So if you don't like it, blame him.

12-29-22

• Relocation requests can now be submitted for houses, except you will have to do so from the Interstellar Construction Agency's Public Office located on Aquatimis.

12-26-22

• Added the SLOWCLAP social. For those times when your friends mess up so badly that you just have to show it.

12-25-22

• The SHOW command now accepts two new arguments: First, 'all' or 'here' or 'room' will spam all players in the room with whatever you want to show people. Second, you can now use a list of names to show something to those people. (e.g. show pants to syndra, fred, grepthar) Friendly reminder that ITEM-O 3 exists to ignore things people show you.

12-22-22

• Added two new stores from which to peddle sculptures. The usual rules apply. Nothing obscene, nothing riddled with typos or misspellings, no violence.
• Parachute soldiers gotten from Christmas crackers now have a small chance of doing something new and possibly exciting. Thanks to Brian for the devious suggestion.

12-21-22

• Added the BLUBBER social. You know, for all you crybabies out there.

12-11-22

• Tradesman lab certificate requests now get returned to the lab when cancelling them with the @crequest command instead of seeming to disappear into the void.

12-10-22

• If you USE a toilet, there is now a chance to clog up the works. Innovation!

12-07-22

• Added the ability to TOSS things into toilets, FLUSH toilets and if the great random is in your favor, the toilet will clog, facilitating the need for a plunger. Plungers have also been added and can be purchased wherever fine toilets are sold. Only the most important changes around here, folks. We're changing the world, one porcelain throne at a time.
• Starship bathrooms now come with toilet plungers.

12-02-22

• Added the FLINCH social, as suggested by people who know who they are.
• By popular demand, BLINK ME no longer causes players to flinch. You're welcome.

11-28-22

• The Empanda robotics lab now knows all about programming robots to bake fortune cookies.

11-20-22

• Message board options now show the current setting when available.

11-12-22

• You may now transfer ownership of your lore computer to a person in your current location from the device's options.
• A soundpack hook for weapon fires has been added. View help soundpack hooks for more information.
• Internal stun turrets now take cover into account.

11-09-22

• There is, at long last, a place to learn all about diving equipment! Simply locate your nearest diving gear store and talk to the possibly friendly sales clerk.

10-30-22

• much like with plates, drink containers will now have their descriptions cleared when drinks are finished.

10-25-22

• Updated the in-MOO spell checker to use the interactive spell checker found on ChatMUD. Added SPELL-O 10 (Use Invalid Input as a Manual Correction) and SPELL-O 11 if you hate everything and everyone. The interactive spell checker supports performing spell operations directly from the initial prompt, viewing a word within context, ignoring all instances of a word at once rather than choosing ignore on every single word, and more. Type "help" or "?" at a spell prompt for further details.

10-13-22

• Soundpack hooks regarding atmospheric combat vehicles now properly show whether the vehicle is landed or in the atmosphere. Unlike atmosphere salvaging vehicles, the planet classification will not be shown.

10-09-22

• Private station owners may now submit request to relocate the structure through their security center.

09-24-22

• Purchasing starship avatars without first having RAVEN AI present will now fail.

09-20-22

• You can no longer transfer ships to people if they don't have the necessary points to own the ship or buy any of the upgrades currently installed on it.

09-15-22

• The soundpack hook responsible for socials will always return the full social name rather than possibly returning a partial one.

09-12-22

• A new soundpack hook has been added to report the distance of the nearest ship while utilizing starmap shipcoords or (SMC) for short. Refer to help Soundpack Hooks for examples.

09-11-22

• Changes to the starmap command have been added. Refer to board post 98703 for further details.

09-10-22

• Moderators in a room using forum mode may now use @speaker-queue to view who wishes to speak.
• Corrected an oversight that caused private structure observation rooms not to receive general sector communication. Whoops!

09-08-22

• The VIEW / POINTS / MENU command in point centers now accepts a new argument: precise. This will display your point summary in all of its floating point glory.

08-25-22

• Vehicles can now be painted in the same manner as starships. With... egg paint. Makes sense to me!

08-15-22

• Asteroid mining cables, tubes and reactors can now be entitled.

08-14-22

• Improved Bardenium refineries and enhanced excavation unit construction facilities are now available for purchase at Remote Outpost 3.
• Produced mining equipment can now be sold in Upgrade Sales Facilities.

08-13-22

• You may now entitle asteroid mining excavation units and asteroid mining storage towers.
• The Vehicle Computer Interface now works with asteroid rovers as well.

08-12-22

• Individuals that enjoy asteroid mining may now obtain chips to produce charge boosters 6 times more efficent than the standard at Outreach Mineral Processor.

08-06-22

• Added a number of new deep space (out of comms) artifacts for discovery.

07-27-22

• Addressed a few bugs that allowed babies to stay inside ships when main power was cut.

07-26-22

• You can now have an asteroid mining warehouse in your private space station, moon, and planet. Read post 98562 for further details.

07-20-22

• The WORTH command in starship stores now displays how many points and combat points the ship and its upgrades are worth.

07-05-22

• When auctioning an item or property, entering a blank line as a minimum bid will now set the minimum bid to the default instead of causing a big, scary traceback.

06-28-22

• Recharging a powered down ship via the recharge command when standing on a landing pad now powers it up.

06-23-22

• When changing your gender on Syrgyria, you will now be warned if you can't change your name due to having done so less than six months before.

06-17-22

• You can now LABEL oxygen tanks to give them exciting custom aliases and mildly snazzier descriptions.

06-03-22

• The Pax real estate office now displays the owner of a private property. Sadly, due to the economy and all of that, they now charge a small fee for their services.

05-31-22

• Added Armor Kit kiosks to all planetary mining facilities.

05-25-22

• The LRSCAN command now accepts 'energy' (or 'ener') as an argument to only display energy signatures. This, of course, requires the existing energy scanning upgrade. Otherwise you just look, and surely feel, foolish.

05-24-22

• Messages in history should now be properly filtered when viewed.

05-22-22

• Freshly restored characters will now be moved to one of their owned ships if any were restored with them, rather than being placed on their capital planet's landing pad for the amusement of all.

05-17-22

• Added @PENDING-DESCRIPTIONS (or @pending-d) to view, you know, pending descriptions.

05-07-22

• Droids forcibly removed from private structure now go to their owner's alliance's capital planet's drone storage room rather than the random planet that nobody would ever think to go to look for them. Just so you know!
• Private structure owners can now give loitering starships the boot from the convenience (or inconvenience) of the Aquatimis property office. See message board post 98258 for details.

05-02-22

• Spaceport stun restrictions no longer apply if you have a valid smuggler ID scan somewhere in your inventory. Obviously you can only shoot the person identified by the scan.
• Smuggler ID scans now plainly indicate whether or not they have expired when LOOKing at them. No more painful number crunching to figure it out.

04-30-22

• Auctions with a deleted player as the high bidder will now fail and the item will be mailed to the owner.

04-25-22

• The HEALTH command now shows when medical intervention is in play.
• Added an upgrade for identifying artifacts with the SCAN command (assuming a research facility has encountered the artifact before).

04-24-22

• Pax now offers private organization data access terminals (useful for accessing your organization menu from the comfort of your own organization meeting room). Additionally, knowing that you will no doubt be spending hours upon hours accessing those menus with all of your friends and family, it provides private organization restroom construction services.

04-21-22

• Anomalies added to starship simulators now properly simulate sensor interference and other inconvenient effects. Existing simulators will need to remove and re-add any anomalies for this change to take effect.

04-12-22

• Sick of asking a host to show you everything your baby can say? Introducing the BABYTALK command!

04-10-22

• Added a new COLOR-OPTION for general sector communications.

04-01-22

• You can, finally, buy furniture shipment crates for all your furniture shipment needs! Please note that once the crate is closed, opening it again results in its destruction, and the item inside being deposited into the room. Consult your nearest Lore computer to find out where to buy one.

03-28-22

• Removing a ship's holographic avatar now removes the cost of a holographic avatar from the ship's worth.

03-19-22

• It is now possible to use clothing <BabyName> to only inspect the clothing without looking at the whole description. Very innovative!

03-17-22

• Updated HELP HOUSES because it was outdated. Just like the hosts.

03-14-22

• Mirrors have gone back to school and no longer switch narratives when looked into.

02-16-22

• When tracking sectors with the odometer, the ship will now stop once the number of sectors tracked has been reached, provided the ship has the GATE upgrade.

02-12-22

• Sanitation drones can now go through out exits in houses so long as that exit doesn't lead to a room outside the house.

02-09-22

• Fixed a bug that made it possible to fill an entire room with raven holograms by summoning and ejecting them from the comfort of a possibly warm shower.

02-05-22

• Support for wandering messages has been added to the mount lab.
• It's now possible to lead simulated mounts in the mount lab.

02-04-22

• Support for lead, unlead, and unauthorized lead messages has been added to the mount lab.
• GATE will now behave the same as autopilot in terms of wormhole prompts and autolanding when the destination is changed with the move command.

02-03-22

• Scratch Pad input will now automatically be stored in export memory when set in the lore options.
• Fixed a bug with auto pilot constantly resetting when gate is sent to a particular destination.

02-02-22

• Rerolling with a tradesman communicator will now irradicate any pre-existing links to starship communication relays. Never wonder why random new players have gained access to the most secret of channels again!
• Rerolling with a tradesman metafrequency communicator will now untune it from all frequencies.

01-18-22

• Modifying the price of a certificate on the Tradesman Certificate Marketplace will no longer create tradesman certificates from thin air if certificates are purchased while you're in the process of confirming the price modification. Confused and overwhelmed? Me too.
• The BEACON DISTANCE command now supports NIRP destinations for quickly referring to a set of saved galactic coordinates.

01-14-22

• Private planets should no longer yield planetary survey scans.

01-06-22

• The mount lab now supports the setting of custom ride messages.
• Updated help Player-owned Space Stations, Moons, and Planets as well as the @SHOP verb to clearly indicate that setting up a store will cost 500,000,000 credits.

01-04-22

• Mission-time tops lists are now in character. Thus, @mission-time has been disabled and you can view the leader boards in the respective mission assignment rooms.

01-02-22

• It is now possible to build mounts through the use of a lab. Enjoy working at your awesome projects in the Mount Warehouse and Wholesale Club located at Empanda Station.
• Medical facilities will now prevent the loss of precious cash if the person needing medical attention is already being healed or mounted.

12-30-21

• Hangable picture frames now accept holographic imaging discs. I like to think they're a more primitive static projector, but you can think whatever you like!
• In the spirit of making Christmas related changes after Christmas, Santa's Trees over at Narth Polus now has some fancy new tree options! No more colorless trees, hurray!

12-22-21

• Christmas tree ornaments now save their tradesman item status when put on trees.

12-20-21

• Failing a battlecruiser test will no longer require the filling out of a new battlecruiser application. The test can be retaken in two weeks for free or any time before that for a modest fee.

12-19-21

• Your awesome contenders will now have interdictor launchers. Have an awesome combat day.

12-14-21

• The baby, forcefield spacesuit, and gadget bot labs on Empanda now support the tags mentioned in board post 97853 in addition to the normal pronoun codes.

12-13-21

• People in showers and tents can now hear people yelling outside.

12-07-21

• Added the FINGERCROSS social. For those times you really hope something happens.

12-04-21

• A new advanced combat mission has been added to Alliance High Guard Command. Be sure to read the mission briefing and have a ground crew ready before heading through the mission jumpgate.

11-23-21

• Furniture created in architectural design simulators will no longer have the number of people able to sit on it repeated several times in the description.
• Sanitation drones will now pick up rolling backpacks if left unattended on a ship for over an hour. If the bag is owned by the owner of the ship, the drone will ignore it. You can USE your sanitation drone to filter rolling bags if you don't want this behavior.

11-16-21

• The Empanda Robotics lab now allows the creation of stationery robots. (Reports of oddities welcome!)
• The Empanda Robotics lab now supports a number of shortcut commands to avoid going through the tedious main menu 3,000 times. Type SHORTCUT in the room to view the available commands.

11-15-21

• The Empanda Robotics Lab now lets you specify the scent and taste of food, drink, and multislices.

11-13-21

• Here by not-so-popular demand, we give you the BOO social.

11-01-21

• Booting mounts no longer causes a traceback. Whoops!

10-31-21

• Added INFO HALLOWEEN for sure to be delightful statistics on your yearly Halloween shenanigans.

10-20-21

• Removed the menu of damaged components that would appear when you type REPAIR by itself in an engineering room.
• Fixed a bug where Lore computers would purport to take a photograph of one thing and then, upon later inspection, reveal that it actually took a photo of something completely random. Note that existing photos are ruined forever, this only applies to new ones.
• Removing clothing from someone's hand no longer rudely strips any clothing with the same layer they may be wearing and leaves it stuck in their inventory.

10-14-21

• Pool lockers no longer shove pulse emitters up the noses of unfortunate players when retrieving their clothing.

09-30-21

• Added a notification option to announce when the laser overdrive capacitors have been fully charged. Presuming, of course, that your ship has such an accoutrement.

09-07-21

• Renaming funds should now properly update the fund lists of those who have access to them. Have fund!

08-18-21

• Recoded stun armor power pack recharging stations to behave more like diving air compressor stations. Now they shouldn't get stuck when powering down a ship while they charge power packs.

08-14-21

• Fixed a bug in stores that caused extra spaces to appear in some things when none was chosen as an option.
• Asteroid mining drill bits no longer save their loose status when detached, since attaching them should also make sure they're nice and tight. Why they did in the first place we will never know.

08-04-21

• Architectural design simulator avatars can now use the ALL-ROOM-MESSAGES command to spam themselves with every room message in the simulator.

08-02-21

• Added LONK as an alternative to LOCK or AIM in order to help people who type one-handed.

07-28-21

• Added the 'all' argument to the NOTES command for architectural design avatars to view all notes for the blueprint, regardless of room.
• Added the DELNOTE command to architectural design avatars for deleting notes from within the simulation. Arguments can be partial text of a note, a note number as shown in the NOTES ALL command, or "all" to delete everything.

07-24-21

• Added blockades, proximity weapons, and interdictors to the list of possible notifications given by the Galactic Map Unit upgrade.

07-22-21

• It is now possible to remove things from sleeping people's possession if they trust you enough to do so while they are awake.

07-21-21

• After many, many years, security centers now tell you how much money you get when arresting someone for smuggling illegal trading commodities.

07-20-21

• Updated the text and examples of POLICY 3. Please review at your earliest convenience.

07-07-21

• Putting an already blackened hotdog or marshmallow on a campfire will now tell you that said hotdog or marshmallow has already been roasted instead of trying to render it inedible.

07-04-21

• Curious who trusts you enough to remove clothing and items from you? Now introducing the TRUSTED command. Enjoy!

06-30-21

• You can now spray perfume in the room with the syntax: SPRAY HERE WITH <perfume>
• Added the TRUST command. When trusted, another player can freely remove your clothing or items from your hands without asking. Use with care.

06-26-21

• Added a CHECK verb to oxygen tanks for the lazy among us.

06-25-21

• At long last, you can PLACE sleeping people into chairs. Strap their lifeless body in quickly or it's apt to fall right out!
• The WALK command is now slightly smarter about hiding destinations that you can't actually walk to when there are 5 matches or less. This should greatly help with commands like 'WALK LAND' on planets with multiple landing sites.

06-24-21

• Added a debris isolation compartment upgrade. Potential buyers may want to utilize the VIEW command in the store to read about the upgrade before gleefully installing it on every ship they own.

06-23-21

• ITPN flights now allow you to buy tickets for those in your group. See message board post 97188 for a slighty wordier explanation.
• You can now discard unwanted ITPN tickets with the DISCARD command wherever ITPN tickets are sold.

06-22-21

• The DRAW command now accepts a weapon name as an argument. Standard matching disambiguation rules apply if multiple weapons of the same name are holstered. (e.g. draw 2.tur)

06-18-21

• Added '@TRADING-PROFIT TOTAL' to show the top 10 players in terms of total lifetime trading profits.

06-17-21

• Destination finders now include an asterisk next to sector names that are within FTL range of your ship. Assuming you're in a ship.
• Added a PASSENGERS (or PASS for short) command to quickly and conveniently display a list of passengers on your ship, where they're going, and how long you have to take them there.

06-16-21

• The SCAN ALL command now accepts an additional argument to filter the results by label. e.g. 'SCAN ALL DEBRIS' to only show debris.

06-14-21

• Owners of rooms equipped with forum mode can now use '@SPEAKER BAN <person>' to prevent <person> from requesting the ability to speak. Repeating the command will reverse the ban.

06-11-21

• Fixed a bug where unfilled oxygen tanks on air compressors would be invisible if the ship was powered down.
• Quality of life improvements to trading: 1. If you only have one commodity to sell, it's automatically selected. 2. Hitting enter at the unit selection prompt will select the maximum number of units. 3. If you only have a single ship on the landing pad, it's automatically selected when buying or selling.
• The BUY command in trading centers now accepts a commodity name as an argument. e.g. 'BUY TEA LEAVES'
• Added @TRADING-PROFIT as a new tops list to track the most profitable trades.
• ITPN stations now categorize private properties under a separate menu header from intrasector and galactic destinations.
• ITPN stations now conceal private destinations that you don't have access to from appearing in the main menu.
• Fixed a horrific error that would occur if you requested a list of categories from NIRP and had no other destinations added yet.

06-09-21

• The POINTS command in starship stores now shows a 0-9 numeric rating for industry eligibility, similar to how industrial dispensation is displayed in upgrade stores. Additionally, fixed a bug where every ship after the freight carrier would show the industry warning despite not requiring it.
• Fixed an issue with trading production where certain base commodities weren't regenerated in a timely manner.

06-05-21

• Corrected some oversights in the infant genetic sequencing lab that could result in it thinking that you added actions and phrases when you hadn't.

06-02-21

• Forget where you just came from? Yeah, me too. Introducing FLIGHTLOG (or FL or LOG or LOGS)! This handy command will show the last 20 or so places your ship happened to be and when it was there. From this point forward, since the data was unavailable prior to the implementation of the command.

05-21-21

• Minor injuries will now gradually heal over time without medical intervention.
• First aid kits are now available for assisting in the healing of some types of injury. They can be found in any standard supply store. Either USE <kit> to use it on yourself or USE <kit> ON <person> to use it on somebody else. You can CHECK <kit> to see how many supplies are remaining and purchase replacement supplies wherever first aid kits are sold.
• All starships now come standard with an emergency first aid kit. To retrieve it, use the FIRSTAID command in a control room near you. To put it back, use the FIRSTAID command again.

05-20-21

• Fixed a bug that existed between May 18 and May 20 that would allow anyone to dock with private space stations, regardless of flight control configuration.
• Updated the builder host application with some new questions and deleted some less relevant content. Old applications that were filled out have not been retroactively updated, and will still be considered valid.

05-19-21

• Private structure owners can now assign access groups to secondary landing sites from the horribly convoluted FLIGHT menu.

05-17-21

• Back by popular demand, we proudly reintroduce. Wait for it. CROSSBOWS! They can be found at some place or other. Go forth and hunt!

05-14-21

• Added BAWL social and communicator social.
• The TRANSFER command will now prompt you for how many pieces of debris you want to transfer (if the condense option is enabled).

05-08-21

• Starship simulator stores now sell highly reflective data discs to facilitate the transfer of settings from one device to another.

05-06-21

• Owners of stations, moons, and planets can now change the clearance level of secondary landing pads from the Security Center. This option exists in the FLIGHT menu if you are an owner and the structure has one or more compatible secondary landing pads.

05-04-21

• That one guy that retrieves tradesman items will no longer become stuck and confused after boarding ferries.

04-27-21

• OOC, ROOC, and SOOC now support soundpack emote out-of-band messages when using a colon to emote.

04-26-21

• Unwanted droids and drones can now be destroyed on Zander. Just look for the scary door at the back of the inventory return center and access the MENU.
• When struck by a surge of energy from an anomaly, there is now a small chance that the ship's internal structure will be distorted for several minutes.

04-23-21

• It should now be possible to dump archaeological artifacts from normal containers into archaeological artifact containers.

04-20-21

• Changing the scent in a sauna while it's running will now change the scent of everyone inside it.

04-19-21

• Cleaning a private structure now unregisters everyone from any mailboxes.

04-18-21

• Darkened rooms may now receive slivers of light from adjacent rooms.
• Added the COUNT SEATS on <furniture> command to quickly count how many people can sit or lie upon it. This may not work for sittable surfaces, such as tables or desks.

04-17-21

• Added a LIGHTSWITCH command to indoor house and apartment rooms that lets you toggle the room's lighting at will.
• The LIGHTSWITCH command (or LIGHTS for short) can now also toggle room lighting in ship staterooms.

04-15-21

• Ship owners can now configure who is allowed to BOLT things on a ship-to-ship basis. You can choose between owner only, keyholder only, or everyone. You can find the setting in the PILOT-O command of the ship in question.
• Removed armored spacesuits from Luna. There will likely be no takebacks this time.

04-14-21

• Sorting NIRP destinations alphabetically should work once again. Please REPORT any oddities.

04-12-21

• Due to unforseen circumstances and poor planning, nutri-paste is back! It can now be found in a store connected to the robotics lab on Empanda Station. The store also offers conversion of old food robots to the newer model, so no more assisting to get them converted.

04-10-21

• Mounts will no longer half-dismount you if you have a single group member and he, she, or it gets left behind.
• Nutri-paste has been removed from all supply stores. If you still have a food robot that uses it, please assist to have it converted to the new style bots.

04-08-21

• It's no longer possible to add blank entries in journals and books.
• Hapless travelers will now leave your ship upon landing if you take more than three days to rescue them and bring them home.

03-31-21

• Fastidiously hand-written tradesman requests (options 1 and 2 in the REQUEST or @CREQUEST menus) will now be subject to the same naming limitations found in tradesman labs.

03-30-21

• The MISSIONFIX command will now forcefully abort a pending mission if the target mission sector or companion jumpgate have been unceremoniously recycled.
• NIRP points of interest can now be categorized from either the 'Add Destination' menu or from the menu presented when viewing an existing destination.

03-29-21

• Passengers will no longer remain trapped in landed ships after the time to transport them has expired.

03-28-21

• item-creating robots should now use better logic to determine whether or not they have enough supplies to produce certain items.

03-24-21

• Added remote passenger transports. See HELP PASSENGER TRANSPORTS for more information.

03-23-21

• Added an option to the event schedule to ignore notifications for specific events.

03-22-21

• It's now possible to use the SIMULATE command if your simulated starship is docked inside another simulated starship.
• Simulated ships docked inside simulated ships will now be destroyed when a simulator resets.
• The INFO command in trading centers now supports partial matches instead of tricking you into thinking a commodity doesn't exist.
• The Lore shopping guide will now display the price as 'Unavailable' if you're occupying a ship that a displayed upgrade can't be installed in.

03-21-21

• In light of recent events, HELP TERRORISTS has been updated with a new contact if you find yourself flagged a terrorist.

03-20-21

• Fixed a bug that allowed ameliorators to replace two or more solar panels at once if conditions were just right.
• Updated POLICY 3 (Roleplay) with an example that discusses references to room names in character.

03-16-21

• Fixed an oversight where certain actions performed by spacewalkers could be announced to every ship and structure in the sector.

03-14-21

• Fixed a bug that could result in you being unable to buy a starship upgrade even if you met the license and combat point requirements, but simultaneously weren't eligible for industrial dispensation.
• Removed industrial dispensation values from starship stores and point units and disabled the @TOP-INDUSTRY and INDUSTRY-GOAL commands, to bring the game further in line with what is described in the Industrial Dispensation help file.

03-13-21

• Discharging a stun weapon now actually clears its ammunition along with ejecting the magazine. Whoops!

03-11-21

• Praelor-lethal grenades now get transferred when dumping ammunition from one ammunition container into another.
• LOOKing at an ammunition container will now show grenades inside it if there are no other types of ammunition stored.
• Resolved a bug where the BEACON NEAREST command would refuse to accept any galactic coordinates that were negative.

03-10-21

• Per the previous baby change, disabling main power will no longer rip unsuspecting children from the clutches of safe, oxygen-filled starships that are docked.

03-09-21

• Jamming from Praelor Onatoznalk now effects the starmap.

03-07-21

• Added INFO PROPERTIES to view private properties that you own.
• Added a DISCHARGE command to stun guns. This will deplete the ammunition cartridge and cause it to vanish, never to be seen or heard from again.
• Improved the baby-sensing capabilities of certain things (like mission jumpgates) to detect babies hidden away in docked starships, vehicles, or starships docked within other starships that happened to be docked in yet another starship Inception-style.

03-06-21

• Fixed a bug where TR LINKS could, in very specific circumstances, incorrectly show players as out of locals.

03-04-21

• Having more than one thing strapped to your back no longer makes you appear to have more than one back.

02-22-21

• Fixed a bug where architectural design simulators would fail to remember that a room was a raw materials marketplace node when expanding a previously compressed blueprint. In other news, marketplace nodes will no longer be quietly merged with the current room's parent. Selling raw minerals from your pool is assuredly a bad idea.

02-20-21

• Praelor drop pods should no longer slam into your ship if you happen to land right after they've been launched.

02-19-21

• Droids no longer lovingly hug the air in response to being hugged.

02-16-21

• Raven is now up-to-date on all active Praelor classes, minus the Urmunati.

02-11-21

• Moved eye and lip makeup into the base description near their appropriate body parts. Minor rearranging of player descriptions is ongoing and it's unlikely every little change will be logged. Keep an eye out!
• Jewelry and select other "miscellaneous" articles of clothing now appear above the normal clothing line in player descriptions and indicate, however vaguely, where they're being worn.

02-10-21

• Vanities now support painting the keratinous plates at the tips of your feet.

02-09-21

• Fixed an oversight that meant manual movements were overriding push pulses of all kinds, including Onatoznalk and anomalies.
• Jump Hub Station now has a starship hangar.

02-07-21

• Fixed an oversight in the laser overdrive capacitors upgrade that caused it to not turn an empty room into a laser capacitance chamber when installing. It can also now be removed.

02-06-21

• It is now possible for a ship with charge transfer couplings to DOCK with a Praelor dampening device and TRANSFER charge to it.

02-05-21

• Have you ever wanted to include all of your friends in a massive group hug? Well now you can! Simply separate their names with commas when you use the familiar HUG social. You might even catch a random whiff of a random person in the group!
• Following up on the most recent very useful changes, you can now also WAVE and SMILE at groups of objects. Furthermore, commas are no longer needed to separate objects. Spaces will suffice!
• Added Praelor dampening devices. Consult the good ol' HELP command and the Lore shopping guide for more details.
• You can now LOOK <parent> IN <container> to only look for specific types of objects inside of containers. Currently supported parents are: clothes, drinks, food, letters, notes, and remotes. (Suggestions for useful parents welcome.)
• You can now SEARCH <container> FOR <string> to look for objects in <container> that match to <string>.

02-04-21

• The grabfriendandshrieklikegirls social now accepts multiple people, separated by commas, as an argument. (e.g. gfaslg fred, mitchell, merugle) Top-notch innovation.

02-03-21

• Addressed an ancient bug that caused some objects from multislice containers to have incorrect determiner.

02-02-21

• Bumped the maximum RAGELOCKOUT time to six weeks. It was a month prior to this change.
• Praelor Natoznalk are now known as Praelor Onatoznalk, to better conform to the Praelor language.

02-01-21

• Fuzzy creatures, like Praelor, can now be shot in spaceports.
• Escape pods from NPC ships that carry no player characters will from now on be redirected to a host-only planet, in order to prevent immersion from being shattered when an empty escape pod arrives at a capital planet.

01-31-21

• It's no longer possible to transport a ship to a garage while launching, resulting in the poor ship being stuck moving forever.
• Praelor troops will no longer exit ships that are landed on asteroids.

01-29-21

• There is now a significant chance that Praelor troops will enter unlocked ships if they stumble upon ships that have a broken or unlocked hatch. They can also exit ships if the ship is landed, although that chance is much smaller.

01-26-21

• An anomaly may now push your ship off course if you are only one unit away from the anomaly when unusual activity is detected at its coordinates.
• Added a soundpack hook to video feed messages from video cameras and entertainment centers. It is a replacement for the greater than sign that prepends video feed messages for those who don't use a registered soundpack. See HELP SOUNDPACK HOOKS for more details.
• Tired of waiting for the next frame when watching a video? We hear you loud and clear! Entertainment centers now have an option that lets you specify a maximum number of seconds between each frame. You can set it (and other options) by typing CONFIG <entertainment center>.

01-24-21

• Looking at a Lore computer will now indicate whether or not files, photos, or photo albums are waiting to be imported.

01-21-21

• Escape pods can now be redirected to supercarrier class ships.

01-17-21

• Service records for destroyed ships can now be printed up to six months after the ship's destruction. Some restrictions apply. See board post 38943 for details (replacing seven days with six months).

01-16-21

• Empanda Station now has a lab for creating custom closets with compartments.
• It should, probably, no longer be possible to pitch tents in showers.

01-11-21

• Praelor troops are no longer able to scurry through locked biodoors.

01-10-21

• It is now possible, for a modest fee, to transfer tuned frequencies on a metafrequency communicator to another.

01-06-21

• Drones, being the unsophisticated dolts that they are, no longer recognize rocks as threats. (More advanced droids, however, still heroically help.) (Also rocks now smartly support the THROW verb. And pronouns.)

01-05-21

• Drones and droids will now react to rocks being thrown at people.

01-03-21

• Mounting a mount that has riders in your group will now remove said riders from your group instead of telling you that you need to disband.
• Added a soundpack hook for flight control announcements. This should make it easier for soundpack makers to add sound support for custom flight control scanners.
• The auction list (TR AUCTION LIST) is now sorted by expiry date.

01-02-21

• Rebalanced the way collision damage is applied when hit by a push pulse or Praelor Natoznalk, as it pertains to one starship impacting another.

12-23-20

• Because documentation is hard work and I didn't post this sooner, Christmas crackers now have the ability to be used properly. By which, I mean, you can either do it yourself, or ask a friend to participate with you.

12-22-20

• The PACT and BACT commands will now respect spell-o 3 (Spellcheck Emotes).

12-21-20

• Added more context-aware parsing to the ARMOR command. If the ship has no ablative armor and you are wearing at least one piece of armored clothing, the game will opt with checking your armor if you provide no arguments, instead of checking the ablative armor status for the ship. If the ship has ablative armor, you can still use the 'me' argument to bypass the ship's armor command as normal.

12-20-20

• Hopefully fixed the chicken game in pools.
• Added the who symbol for out of local space (^) to tr links.

12-17-20

• Freistadt will now deaquify stun weapons for a hefty premium.
• Hopefully fixed an oversight that caused architectural design simulators to set the worth of private structures higher than it normally would be. Consequently, all structures have had their base worth set to default since total worth is dynamic.

12-11-20

• Santa's lumps of coal for naughty boys and girls should no longer be able to be dropped. Merry Christmas!

12-09-20

• Updated the limited edition Christmas tree ornaments. Only the most important changes around here, folks.

12-08-20

• Because people are naughty jerks, Santa will now kepe track of ships that manage to escape after firing upon his sleigh. Should he find them later, they will be punished most severely.
• Added the ADD <destination finder> command to destination finders to add destinations to destination finders.

12-06-20

• The BEACONS NEAREST command will now accept NIRP destination labels.

12-03-20

• Added the SANTABOX command for ease of disconnecting your thousands of Santa boxes.
• You can now change metafrequency frequencies without first having to untune and lose the existing label.
• Added HELP CHRISTMAS to explain... stuff. Mostly pertaining to Christmas.
• Updated HELP CHRISTMAS slightly.
• Bardenium refineries are now only capable of refining Enhanced and Super-Refined bardenium. On the bright side, it now does so twice as fast.

12-02-20

• Being drunk will now make you smell like alcohol.

12-01-20

• Santa, having finished his YouTube tutorial series on rudimentary starship operating system hacking, is now giving away 2020 Santa Boxes. He hopes a little part of him will always be with your ship.
• Santa's hardworking elves have learned some basic engineering skills. If your ship is damaged and Santa is feeling particular disdain for his eager helpers, he will deploy them to your hull to repair some component damage.

11-29-20

• Candles (and more importantly, cakes with lit candles) are now considered valid light sources.

11-28-20

• Added a few more goodies to Christmas crackers. As usual, please report any oddities.

11-19-20

• Added a collection mission, of sorts, that you can do every three days in exchange for 3-4 artifacts (with a 1 in 10,000 chance of getting one or more fancy out of comms artifacts). Just look for the sad, harried looking woman on Acrylon and TALK to her to learn more. [Note that if it takes you longer than three days to complete the mission, you get nothing but shame and embarrassment.]
• NPCs can now be detected with the NPCS command and/or by setting the 'Color NPC Names' COLOR-OPTION.

11-13-20

• It should now be theoretically possible to store drink mixes in food storage rooms.

11-08-20

• Children no longer wander off when following someone.
• You can now type HELP SEARCH <keywords> to search for help files containing <keywords>.

10-25-20

• Upgrade stores now support the VIEW command for viewing an oh-so-brief blurb about menu items.

10-24-20

• Inanimate objects such as starships no longer smell a player's scent when they are hugged.

10-20-20

• Updated HELP TERRORISTS slightly.
• Fixed DEMOLISH-GO thinking avatars needed money. As an apology, you can now DEMOLISH-GO with no arguments to get a list of the go exits in the room instead of all of that ghastly name typing.

10-16-20

• Made it so that @CREQUEST no longer works while not in local space.

10-15-20

• The DIG-GO and DEMOLISH-GO commands are now available to non-avatars.

10-13-20

• The RECHARGE command no longer causes ships to power up when main power is disabled.

10-12-20

• It's no longer possible to exit a tent while sitting or lying down.

10-09-20

• Fixed an oversight that allowed the slip and subwarp drive optimization upgrades to be installed more than once on certain ships.
• Typing RECHARGE in a ship's control room no longer recharges the overdrive capacitors if the ship isn't simulated.

10-04-20

• Boxes of pancake/waffle mix no longer rot in food storage rooms since they don't rot outside of them.
• Spacesuit navigation computers now remember the last known galactic coordinates of the ship when you exit the airlock.
• GMU notifications (e.g. a planet, an artifact, and a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater have been detected in the sector) now rely on having operational sensors. Otherwise you get nothing.

09-30-20

• Aliens now have a small chance of depositing an artifact or two upon leaving a sector (assuming you didn't fire at them or offend them). What fun!

09-28-20

• droids can no longer pick up food robots,vanities, or locked compartment closets unless the player issuing the command is the owner of that object.

09-21-20

• The reverse room and area option once again works with locating ships.

09-20-20

• Corrected an oversight in the Empanda robotics lab that caused cloned food robots not to inherit the ability to accept food or drink for resupplying.

09-18-20

• Mounts now have their being led status cleared when the player they're following enters a ship's ducts.
• Pets will now stop following when chasing after thrown toys.

09-15-20

• Added the INVITE command to architectural design avatars, allowing them to invite people in the room to be visitors (not builders) in the simulation.

09-11-20

• Added ITEM-OPTION 'Paginate Long Store Options Menus' to paginate long store options menus. It will allow you to paginate long store options menus by paginating long store options menus.
• Added the PPD command to point centers, allowing you to view the number of points you've made in each category today. Or the last day you made points.

09-09-20

• Valkyries will now face significant resistance (up to 30 ships) from the Ontanka when out of locals. Beware!

09-06-20

• Escape pods now cause people to dismount properly.
• Droids can no longer wear things that people shouldn't be able to wear.
• Separated ears and shoulders into left and right ear and shoulder.

09-04-20

• Added a LOCATE command to universal drone remotes for those of us who have trouble keeping track of what remotes go to what drones that share the same name. This only finds drones on your person and in your location.

08-28-20

• Pets will no longer wander away if they're following someone.

08-26-20

• The BEACONS command now lets you sort the list of beacons by x, y, or z coordinates using the BY argument. For example: beacons by x

08-24-20

• Sleeping players no longer show up in rooc who.

08-22-20

• Updated HELP BEACONS with information about how to sort the list of beacons by sector number, sector name, or distance.
• Dishes will no longer automatically drop into closed trash cans when dropped.

08-21-20

• Private organization administrators now have access to a log of actions taken by members of that organization. (e.g. changing settings, making keys, adding ships, etc.)
• Boxes of waffle/pancake mix now recycle immediately when used up.

08-15-20

• Updated HELP BUILDING COMMANDS with information about the LP and GARAGES commands.

08-14-20

• Fixed a bug in grills that caused foods with spreads on them to have the bit about spreads duplicated in their names.

08-11-20

• Landing on a planet that has atmospheric invasion may now result in serious damage or possibly even destruction of the ship. The damage will be relative to the amount of hostile entities in the atmosphere. A confirmation prompt will be displayed if you attempt to land on such a planet.

08-09-20

• Fixed an exploit that made it possible to watch droids in local space from out of local space by inserting the droid remote into an entertainment center.
• Structural weakness scanners for the advanced station mission are now able to account for the circular nature of the grids. For example, a weak point at 10 10 would be in the immediate area if the grid is 10 by 10 and you are scanning at 1 1.
• Readaloud no longer allows you to read folded letters and notes.

08-03-20

• Fixed an oversight that let donators use their garages to enter their apartments when their donator status was inactive.

07-28-20

• Information gleaned by the @WHERE command will now be delayed for up to 15-30 minutes to curb potential abuse.
• Resolved a bug that resulted in many ship classes sharing the same manufactured on date.

07-27-20

• The OCCUPANTS command now lets you filter the output by category. See HELP Advanced Internal Sensors for more details.

07-23-20

• Updated the first section of the DEFENSE handbook with some information about the importance of a secret AUTH code.

07-20-20

• Added @TOP-PATRONS as a companion to @TOP-SALES for the sheer excitement and bliss of knowing what stores are the most popular vs most profitable.

07-19-20

• The REPAIR command in Fighter Repair centers now supports matching of ship names. It also lets you choose a fighter that can be repaired by typing the command without arguments.

07-18-20

• Made some minor changes to the advanced mission named Destroy a Praelor Troops' Training Facility, including randomly sized station and random number of explosives. Muzatini is now also a part of the mission.

07-17-20

• Added NAVI-OPTIONS to starship control rooms. NAVI unit is required for this command to work.
• Added a help file for the NAVI OPTIONS.

07-15-20

• Added a print option to the menu for managing private organization member applications.

07-14-20

• To offset the changes to damage dispersion, long-range lasers on the Valkyrie are now more powerful, and require less time to recharge.
• Added a NIRP option to display destination names in long-range scans.
• Added the ability to alter the coordinates of saved NIRP destinations from the points of interest menu.

07-13-20

• A new courier company has opened on Alliance High Guard Command.
• Updated HELP COURIERING to reflect the addition of a new company.
• Added @TOP-SALES to rank the most profitable stores.

07-12-20

• The HELP command now allows you to specify the name of a header with the syntax: HELP <topic> | <header>. This makes it easier to share specific snippets of a help file with people who would otherwise balk at a huge onslaught of text. e.g. help communicators | private

07-11-20

• It is now technically possible to launch an ACV into any planet that has atmosphere. Beware that hitting the surface with bombs or detonators may result in the planet activating defense mechanisms similar to what happens when a starship fires at a planet. The exception is if the planet's atmosphere is already invaded by Praelor.
• Added a REVERSE argument to the NAVI and GATE commands. Respective help files have been updated.

07-10-20

• ODOMETER readout now also includes the current status of odometer tracking.

07-08-20

• The GATE upgrade now allows you to use the MOVE command (or M for short) to move to a specific target in a sector without stopping NAVI / GATE first.
• The WALK command now supports the MARK argument, similar to how the MAP command has always worked with the MARK command.
• The Spatial Anomaly Scanner is now operational and available for purchase at a relatively reasonable price, at least in terms of credits.
• Added Anomaly to starship notification options. This option will only appear if the ship has both Galactic Map Unit and Spatial Anomaly Scanner installed.

07-07-20

• Added the GATE Unit upgrade.

07-06-20

• It is now possible for NAVI to alter course without stopping the ship first by using the NAVI command.

07-05-20

• A complete set of body armor should now (in theory) protect a dress or other types of full body clothing.
• Improved the Starship Drive Engagement Matrix upgrade and updated its help file.
• Added a tops list for radio transmissions, which you can access by typing @radios.

07-01-20

• The DRONE command for launching combat drones now support arguments. Possible arguments include ALL, NONE, an item from the DRONE main menu, or anything that matches a valid target.
• The LRL command (for auto-locking long-range laser) now lets you specify a target by providing the name as an argument.
• Improved the Move feature of droid remotes. It now supports directional abbreviations such as nw, sw, e, s, n, etc.

06-30-20

• It is now possible to follow somebody into space when they launch from the outer hull of a Praelor station.
• Increased the storage capacity of the three-person antagonizer by 1500 units.
• Fixed a bug that didn't send organization notifications to the primary owner of an organization if that notification is sent to admins only.

06-29-20

• Fixed a bug in the fecho command that caused the filtered text to be repeated for the number of lines entered.
• Fixed a rather nasty exploit that allowed players to enter any ship without a key. Big thanks goes to Devante McKenzie for finding and reporting it quickly.

06-27-20

• Updated the help file about Planetary Mining.

06-26-20

• The MAP and WALK commands now accept index-based matching, such as 1.stateroom, 2.corridor, and so on. You can also use just an integer followed by a dot to match with whichever room in your area that has that index.
• It is no longer possible to pitch tents in mining sites. Sorry, you should be enjoying nature, not trying to camp in a dangerous tunnel.

06-24-20

• Pilot NPCS no longer respond to possible challenges from a ship that indicates that it wasn't issuing a challenge for up to an hour.

06-20-20

• Added the @tunnel-rats tops list and added exterminated tunnel rats to achievements.
• Another advanced mission has been added, named Destroy a Praelor troops' training facility. more information can be found in the advanced mission assignment room on High Guard Command.

06-19-20

• 10 different types of mining sites have been added to planetary mining, each with its own reward and point requirement.
• Added an unstability factor to planetary mining sites (starting at level gold). The greater the reward the greater the risk of rocks falling down and impacting your body in unpleasant ways. Armor is recommended for these levels.
• Added tunnel rats of various shapes and sizes to planetary mining sites (starting at level cobalt). Higher levels have greater chance of spawning more vicious rats.
• Mining drones now know that an area has been scanned when all minerals have been exhausted, and thus won't scan it again when activated.

06-16-20

• The mission briefing for the sabotage mission has been updated with some hints about how special missions can be triggered.

06-13-20

• Fixed a bug where channel history could be viewed, even if a player's communicator was turned off.

06-11-20

• Armor now cuts the stun time received from a Praelor attack in half. There's also a chance of being thrown to the ground by the force of the attack as well, possibly causing normal injuries. Watch your team carefully!
• It is now possible to read books, letters and other such printed things out loud. READALOUD <item>.

06-10-20

• The new advanced mission (named Sabotaging a Praelor hive world) is now ready. The Special Mission Assignment room on High Guard Command is also operational now, and will automatically spring to life when it's needed.

06-02-20

• Increased the charge of vanguards to 12 hours.

05-31-20

• Added an option to the Navigational Information Retention Program (NIRP) that will allow you to sort all saved points of interest alphabetically.

05-26-20

• Fixed a bug in the robotics lab that would count menu headers as items that go against the item limit when creating a new robot from a dump file.

05-24-20

• Fixed various problems with advanced mission failsafes. They should actually work now, although there may still be issues that haven't been caught.
• Ships owned by hosts no longer appear on the @mission-time list.

05-23-20

• Added Offline Mode to LORE-OPTIONS. This option is only available when a TransLink card is installed, and it has the same effect as unloading the TransLink card.
• Message board reader menus now support literal matching.
• Corrected an oversight in HELP ATMOSPHERIC SALVAGING that misdirects intrepid would-be salvagers to go the wrong way to redock with the main ship.

05-21-20

• Mission sectors are now considered out of local space. Not to be confused with out of comms range.

05-16-20

• Added Red Alert Auto Initiation to PILOT-OPTIONS.

05-12-20

• Owners of private planets can now use the PARENT command to create rivers, lakes, and oceans. Lakes and rivers are also permitted for private moons.

05-11-20

• For soundpack developers, we've added room types to environment messages. HELP SOUNDPACK HOOKS has been updated to reflect this change.

05-09-20

• Increased the chance of stun time chances on poor unsuspecting targets having rocks thrown at their heads.

05-08-20

• Chalkboards purchased from Angelus and elsewhere should now be hangable.

05-05-20

• Private organization admins can now configure the automatic posting of applications to an organization board category.

05-04-20

• The nearby command no longer causes an error inside ships without airlocks.

05-03-20

• The spacesuit command no longer shows other people as wearing your forcefield spacesuit as their spacesuit.

04-07-20

• Tradesman items that are auctioned or transferred are now removed from the player's hand. Whoops!

03-28-20

• Fixed a slight oversight in ship room theme modification that caused the aliases of a renamed room not to be updated to match the new name.

03-25-20

• Seatbeltscan now be installed on sittable tables, if that's your thing.

03-21-20

• Pool lockers now take shoes that change walk styles into account.

03-20-20

• Removing shoes that change a person's walk style from someone will now restore their normal walk style.

03-19-20

• added jumpgates to the inhabited planets, moons and space stations prompt when locking on to coordinates.

03-15-20

• Fixed a logic error that wouldn't allow the claiming of docked ships if the player would be at the ship ownership limit after claiming.

03-10-20

• Added a ROOM-OPTION to hide individual debris groups and instead display 'you see x pieces of debris here'.

03-07-20

• The Orelor Znalkgana Outpost should now be fully tagged as within communications range to fall in line with the recent line adjustment.

03-02-20

• Ordering large items from stores on private structures with multiple landing pads no longer breaks spectacularly. In fact, it shouldn't break at all!

02-29-20

• Galagtic coordinates no longer appear on starmaps in simulators.

02-27-20

• Fixed a bug that caused people to be both sitting and lying when lying in a sleeping bag while sitting on something else.

02-26-20

• Added the @TOP-INDUSTRY tops list, to see top players in terms of points gained from industrial activities.

02-25-20

• Fixed a bug that caused you to be able to spacewalk without a spacesuit thruster after using a pool locker to remove said thruster.

02-23-20

• Tired of the responsibility of defending alliance space? Is the High Guard bullying you or your loved ones? You can now voluntarily surrender your battlecruiser license. Simply use the battlecruiser license shredder in the battlecruiser testing area.

02-21-20

• Lag servers that have not sent latency metrics within the last 15 minutes will now be automatically suppressed from the @LAG MORE listing.

02-20-20

• Diving equipment bags will now remove weight belts if you're wearing one.

02-18-20

• The Lore scratch pad now aborts if you exit the editor without entering any text.

02-17-20

• Added the @EVENTS command to see a current in character event schedule. See board post 94578 for more information.
• Added an 'All' option to vehicle rearm and repair, which will automatically check for and load all available options into the specified atmospheric combat vehicle.
• Typing MAP ITPN will now make an attempt to find any ITPN stations in your current vicinity, even if ITPN is not in the name of the room.

02-15-20

• Fixed a bug that caused secondary owners of apartments to be selected for charging rent before the primary owner.

02-12-20

• Fixed a bug that caused vacuum-safe containers to be unsalvageable.

02-10-20

• Buoys are now available for purchase on Pax in Sector 15.

02-08-20

• Added a Praelor Scanner upgrade for detecting Praelor troops on planets, moons, and stations. The upgrade can also detect the presence of Praelor lifesigns aboard regular starships.
• Added moons and warning buoys to starship notification options.
• Added Experimental Weapon Sales to High Guard Command in Sector 12.
• Uncharted sectors designated as Praelor Space will now be properly labelled as Praelor Space on starmap displays. Travelling through uncharted space in these regions will increase the max number of spawned Praelor ships to 30.

02-04-20

• Fixed a dynamic room pathfinding issue that could cause asteroid rovers to move to the wrong coordinates or the TRACE command on asteroid lines to give bogus directions.

01-28-20

• Fixed a bug that allowed people to duplicate the contents of their archaeology storage containers endlessly. Anyone who abused said bug instead of reporting it is hereby cursed for life, simply because I say so.

01-25-20

• You will no longer magically snatch planetary survey scans from the console in the control room if you happen to scan the planet from another room.

01-23-20

• Finally fixed a very old bug in pool lockers that caused them to not deactivate forcefield spacesuits if they were clipped to belts, which caused players to believe that their forcefields were protecting them after putting their belts back on when they actually weren't. Thanks goes to Jaque Schnee for helping to track this down.

01-18-20

• Pilot NPCs should no longer go after ships that aren't Praelor during an invasion.

01-16-20

• You can now launch interdictors in simulated starships.
• Removed the limitation that wouldn't let you launch proximity weapons if there were ships less than 6 units away.

01-13-20

• It is now possible to pay to have droids removed from a private structure that is not a house. Sorry, house owners.

01-12-20

• Deep fryers will no longer accept foods covered in spreads.

01-11-20

• Fixed a bug that caused stun weapons not to lose shots when shooting someone with stun armor.

01-03-20

• Added a TRANSFER command to washing machines to dump laundry into a nearby dryer.

01-01-20

• Gunning NPCs should no longer fire on ships on combat missions or ships coming from combat missions.
• HELP APPLICATION RESPONSE CODING has been updated to fall more in line with actual response codes.
• Added another response code to application rejections.

12-29-19

• Reverted the no food and drinks in containers change. It was more trouble than it was worth.

12-26-19

• Added a cooldown for modifying the price of tradesman item certificates on the certificate market.
• New characters (including rerolls) are now subject to having existed for 3 months instead of 30 days prior to selling tradesman item certificates. Also made the same restrictions apply to the @CGIVE command.

12-18-19

• When restoring ships, authorization codes will be unset for the forgetful among us.

12-17-19

• Due to false alarms and honest mistakes, the specialty starship scanner will now send a warning to the owner of a ship instead of fining them the very first time they're caught.

12-16-19

• Updated POLICY 3 to reflect the stance on disabilities in roleplay.

12-15-19

• The Jump Hub Station Starship Enhancement Center now, for a slightly increased but still modest fee, offers starship overhead lighting adjustments to fit all styles and budgets.

12-14-19

• You can now uninstall diving modules from diving suits using their module names if you don't remember the name of the object.

12-11-19

• You can now LRSCAN for points of interest by name if you have them saved in the Navigational Information Retention Program (NIRP) logbook and also have the long-range galactic coordinate scanner(tm).

12-05-19

• It's no longer possible to dance with someone if they're not standing.

11-27-19

• Fixed ship renaming so that a ship's last rename time won't interfere with the ability to rename support fighters.

11-21-19

• Changed the RESEARCH command for artifact containers to display the names of everybody who will be a part of the split when asking if you want to split the reward.

11-17-19

• It is no longer possible to put drinks or food items into containers that are not packages to send in the mail.

11-15-19

• Added support for connecting via IPv6. You can explicitly connect with the host 'ipv6.toastsoft.net' on the TLS port (1443) or standard port (1234). To check your connection was successful, you can use the 'INFO ACCOUNT' command.

11-13-19

• Pilot NPCs can now be challenged to a fight via general sector communications. Simply transmit a warning of hostile intentions or demand surrender of all enemy ships.

11-11-19

• Updated some of the industrial bounty code so it works properly with the freight carrier and bulk freighter. Also fixed some issues regarding the asteroid hauler.

11-10-19

• Added HELP RAGELOCKOUT.

11-08-19

• You should now be able to import images to your Lore's photo album when you don't have any images in your album.

10-31-19

• Fixed a bug where the starmap always claimed a sector was explored even when it was, in fact, not.

10-27-19

• Created a new upgrade store on Amalthea in Sector 2 that sells Advanced Internal Sensors. A help file has also been added for this upgrade.

10-26-19

• Picking up lockboxes no longer requires authorization.

10-24-19

• Temporary hair dyeing has been added to Surgyria. The dye will override permanent hair color and last for about 30days.

10-16-19

• The Starship Enhancement Center on Jump Hub Station now offers room renames by choosing from predefined lists of names.

10-11-19

• Hit reports after combat missions will now include your average number of hits per minute.
• Destination finders are now able to find flythru stations, such as Plump Paul's Partariryan Pizzeria.

10-09-19

• Increased the accuracy of the COURSE command. Precision is still limited to whatever time it takes for the relativity drive to traverse one unit, which is 5 seconds for enhanced relativity drive and 7 seconds for standard relativity drive.
• Corrected an oversight that caused medical drones and droids to be unable to heal in spaceports due to the stun jamming field.

10-04-19

• The INVENTORY [item name] command now works with various 'compressed' containers (closets, wardrobes, ammunition containers, etc).

10-02-19

• Fixed a bug where temporary OOC channel boots would be not so temporary after all.

10-01-19

• Increased the refire time of proximity turrets from 10 to 20 seconds in order to give ships time to land or jump out after launching into a full blockade of turrets.
• Fixed an oversight that caused proximity turrets to always hit with full damage instead of the damage being somewhat random.

09-28-19

• The task that cleans up proximity weapons and blockades no longer cleans up simulated proximity weapons and blockades instantly.
• Automated turrets no longer continue to fire at a ship when scan show that they're two units away.

09-27-19

• Added a help file for whittling.

09-22-19

• Updated Policy 6 to include information about the purging of private funds of deleted players.

09-19-19

• Added a DOCKED command to starship control rooms that tells you if the ship is currently docked to another ship.
• The SLOCATE command now accepts 'mine' as an additional argument to only show ships that you own. e.g. SLOCATE ALL MINE, SLOCATE HERE MINE, etc.

09-17-19

• Updated the section of the couriering help file about destroying courier ships of rival companies.

09-16-19

• When disowning tradesman items, you can now choose to remove them from the game permanently instead of allowing others to adopt them. Please understand that this means they will be recycled and you won't be refunded a certificate or donator time. Do this at your own risk.
• The Empanda Station security checkpoint will now check for active donators that are following for you and allow them to pass as well, rather than disbanding the whole group.

09-15-19

• Added a game-wide OOC channel. See the OOC Channel help file or board post 93252 for more information on its usage.

09-14-19

• Your character's options will now be used when using the Flexible Editor as a simulated avatar.

09-12-19

• Hopefully fixed it so that more than one ship can't be assigned to the same ACV mission.

09-10-19

• When using SCAN / FOCUS / MOVE, you can now use a number followed by a period to refer to items in the menu. For example, "focus 1." will focus the first starship in the sector.

09-04-19

• Corrected a years old oversight in asteroid mining that caused dull drill bits to have no effect on an excavation unit's speed. Now there's a reason to replace those dull drill bits before they become critically dull!

08-23-19

• You can now request a list of available replacement components from your friendly neighborhood aliens. (Note that this list will depend on the specific damage to your ship. No damage? Empty list.)

08-22-19

• Added a SIMULATE command inside starship simulators to access the main menu without exiting first.

08-19-19

• Owners of houses, stations, moons, and planets can now use the REVIEWS command to peruse approvals and rejections related to room renames, room descriptions, and door requests. The command is available in security centers, or any house room in the case of houses.

08-18-19

• Addressed an oversight that allowed people to dig exits inside lifts.

08-14-19

• You can now remove carpeting from your ship's rooms on Jump Hub.

08-13-19

• Friendly alien starships now accept certain gas giant and aquatic atmospheric debris types in payment for services rendered.
• Increased the payout for aquatic atmospheric debris slightly.
• Lowered the cost to purchase and upgrade aquatic salvagers. But sorry, no refunds on existing models.
• Fixed an oversight that allowed courier ships to be upgraded.

08-09-19

• It's no longer possible to request tradesman certificates when controlling a simulated avatar. Sorry! Not really.

08-08-19

• Staterooms now have a BATHROOM command that, similarly to the DUCT command, will transport you to magical lands of wonder and mystery.
• You can no longer use a toilet while someone else is sitting on it.

08-07-19

• The tradesman item retrieval NPC no longer grabs items that are currently being auctioned.

08-06-19

• Moved the pet lounge on Empanda to directly south of the checkpoint, allowing players who lack donator status to still retrieve their pets.

08-05-19

• Added ROOM-OPTION 16, allowing you to see a condensed list of droid names in the room rather than their full superfluous titles.

07-29-19

• Odometer distance alerts will now obey your computer piping preferences.

07-25-19

• The tradesman item retrieval NPC no longer allows you to request a retrieval while a retrieval is already in progress.

07-23-19

• Updated the text on battlecruiser applications to refer to the Rolukssica base, rather than including sector 24 as well.

07-18-19

• You can now enable GENERAL-OPTION 17 if you prefer that confirmation prompts repeat until you explicitly answer Yes (Y) or No (N).

07-14-19

• Added information about cash discard to the cash help topic.

07-13-19

• A drone remote is now provided when simulating a gadget bot design in the lab.

07-08-19

• The WALK command is now compatible with escalators and ferries.

06-29-19

• Owners of houses, stations, moons, and planets can now use the LP command in private garages to connect and disconnect landing pads if multiple landing pads are available.
• Garage-option 3 has been modified to work better with access groups for garages. Now it enables you to simply ignore garages instead of removing yourself from authorization lists.

06-28-19

• Owners of houses, stations, moons, and planets can now add access groups to their private garages.
• Added a GARAGES command to landing pads. Owners of stations, moons, and planets can use this command to toggle the availability of garages for each landing pad.

06-27-19

• Added access groups to the ASSIGN command for rooms in private structures.

06-22-19

• Sittable objects (such as sofas and chairs) can now be sorted using the SORT command. You can also put almost anything in various positions on sittable objects now, including pets and babies.

06-19-19

• Added a few more examples to Policy 3 regarding the treatment of rerolls.

06-16-19

• Added an INDUSTRY-GOAL (IGOAL for the lazy or short of hand) command that will, much like the other point goal commands, give you a summary of what you must complete prior to achieving a certain industry point level.

06-14-19

• The REQUEST and RETRIEVE commands on keyrings have been merged. Now you can use either one for public or private garages.
• Fixed requesting ships from keyrings that were clipped to belts.

06-12-19

• Fixed a slight oversight with bulk freighters that allowed them to dock ships with docking bay masses larger than the available docking bay capacity shown in status. No more docking bulk freighters in bulk freighters.

06-07-19

• The gadget bot creation lab now asks if the gadget bot should be wearable or not when creating a new one.

06-06-19

• September now offers three levels of temporary protection against salvage lifeforms to protect even the fanciest of clothing.

06-05-19

• Atmospheric salvagers (and friends) now announce to the control room when another starship enters the sector with the mothership (assuming its sensors are intact).

06-01-19

• The tradesman adoption menu is now sorted into categories to make it easier to find a specific type of item.
• Fixed the @WHERE command to no longer work if you're trying to use it outside of communications range.

05-29-19

• Fixed some bugs that caused debris effects not to go off, which caused bardenium not to explode and stopped fuzzy creature encounters entirely.

05-27-19

• You can now unload unsellable trade commodities on Shadius. It's unlikely you will profit but you'll make more than expelling!

05-25-19

• Added two new industrial-focused starships to parallel the progression of the combat-focused starships.

05-22-19

• Fixed an issue where incorrectly configured trading centers would hoard goods instead of consuming them, creating a stale market.
• Added COLOR-OPTIONs for ship destructions and 'this ship has been hit' messages.

05-18-19

• Very important, pivotal new additions to Miriani: You can now thumbwrestle, armwrestle, and toewrestle.
• Updated the welcome message that is shown to a player when they connect to the MOO for the first time.

05-16-19

• Adding a door to a go exit will now attempt to match to the first go exit available on the other side if an out exit can't be found.

05-15-19

• Metafrequency communicator labels now work again when you have roundtime.

05-14-19

• Changing the parent of a room in a private structure no longer kills the PA in that room.

05-10-19

• NIRP now supports partial matching for arguments. Destination name is also included in the output when an argument is provided.

05-08-19

• Rewrote the BROADCAST command to be significantly less laggy. Please REPORT oddities!

04-27-19

• the FIND command on mineral scanners should work once again.

04-24-19

• Fixed an oversight where the Angelus landing pad wasn't considered a spaceport room as far as stun jamming technology was concerned.
• Fixed an exploit with security drones where it was possible to stun people in stun jammed rooms by moving in a peculiar way.
• Fixed a number of bugs that would result in archaeology sites not regenerating properly.
• Fixed (we hope) a bug that would occasionally cause tracebacks when walking through archaeology rooms, particularly if you were really hoofing it.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in long-range broadcasts causing an endless slurry of tracebacks.

04-14-19

• Planets and space stations will now show the status of hostile military occupation, if any, in their SCAN readouts.

04-09-19

• Increased the chance of receiving alien radio transmissions while out of comms slightly.

04-07-19

• Praelor Muzano will no longer spawn out of comms unless you're in a battlecruiser.
• The amount of Praelor ships one can receive out of comms is now directly proportional to the distance from local space. For every 5,000 lightyears, one ship will be added to the base amount (either 1 or 2). This means that, if you were 25,000 lightyears from known space, you could receive up to 7 Praelor ships in a single sector if random number generation isn't on your side.
• The chance of an out of comms artifact being generated will now increase the further from local space you go.

04-02-19

• The specialty scanners no longer fine stunned people when they're in a ship they're not authorized to fly, since they can't exactly fly when stunned.

03-31-19

• Added headlights to levitating transporters(tm).
• FTL jumps will no longer throw you off winged mounts, like hoverboards, hover chairs, levitating transporters, etc.

03-20-19

• Add a 24-hour style option to COMM-O 10.

03-16-19

• Expelling drones on Zander now unsets their guarding status.

03-13-19

• Fixed an embarrassing bug where players who had an OOC identity set could upvote their own message board posts.

03-11-19

• Fixed a bug in the auction terminal that would generate an error when trying to auction off a property.

03-03-19

• Fixed a bug where amorphous alien constructs might not leave your storage room when undocking.

03-01-19

• Babies no longer act as if they're being stuffed into an escape pod when main power is turned off and the ship isn't in a hostile environment.

02-28-19

• Food storage rooms can now store glasses and plates.

02-25-19

• The base damage of proximity mines and turrets has been cut in half.

02-24-19

• Fixed a years-old bug with the Flexible Editor where seemingly capricious lines would be mysteriously removed from the working text when performing a delete operation.

02-18-19

• It should no longer be possible to dock a ship in the docking bay of another ship after the other ship has been destroyed, resulting in the first ship being recycled. Oops!

02-13-19

• To prevent fraudulent claims, bounty claims now require the person submitting them to give the details of the claim. Liars will have their ability to submit bounties revoked.

01-30-19

• Fixed a bug in ammunition transfer that could cause one ship to get stuck if it undocked mid-transfer.

01-27-19

• Added the ability to save and restore different GAG-OPTION configurations.

01-25-19

• Added the @RC alias to @REQUEST-CERT for ease of use. Or because I'm lazy. Your decision.
• Fixed a bug where the HISTORY / CHISTORY command didn't work as expected with new metafrequency communicators.

01-21-19

• Fixed a bug that caused objects to be unable to be unbolted from rooms on uncharted planets.

01-19-19

• Metafrequency communicators now support multiple frequencies. See message board post 91491.

01-13-19

• The ARMOR command is now slightly more intelligent about deciding whether you want to view ship armor or another player's armor.

01-10-19

• You can no longer transport a ship to a garage while docking another ship.
• It's no longer possible to cut power to the docking bay while docking or expelling another ship.
• Cutting power to the docking bay door just before a ship launches from the docking bay will cause the launch to be aborted.
• The salesman in the Lore store now knows about image data extractor expansion cards.

01-09-19

• the ragequit command no longer bypasses the reroll cooldown.

01-04-19

• You can now provide a numeric argument to the ODOMETER command, which will cause your ship to notify you once it has traversed that many sectors and how long it took. Using 0 will reset the counter.

01-02-19

• using hardlinks without using the transmit command now properly makes use of custom communicator transmit messages.
• You will now no longer see a Praelor NPC slipping from your grasp in the third person.

12-31-18

• Good news! After many long and painful months, the Toastsoft MOO-Twitter bridge once again works. This was due to a missing file on an external server, not anything to do with the Twitter API changes.

12-29-18

• Auction comm history no longer grows infinitely large.

12-18-18

• The HISTORY command now works appropriately out of communication range.

12-17-18

• Added text that is printed to the room when somebody uses the VEHICLES command in a starship control room or vehicle docking bay.

12-16-18

• Pilot NPCs now understand the concepts of accidental and friendly fire and will no longer consider you a target unless you attack them persistently.
• Typing status in an imported simulated ship with solar panels no longer causes a traceback.

12-15-18

• Removed text printed to the room when people sniff/smell.

12-08-18

• Atmospheric salvagers should no longer get stuck transferring if the ship is out of storage space in mid-transfer.

12-05-18

• Added the AMINAUGHTY command to see if you are naughty or nice. This command is subject to removal.

12-04-18

• The walk command should now work in simulators.

12-02-18

• Increased the sale worth of salvagers to 50% instead of 15.

12-01-18

• Pilot NPCs will now try to avoid proximity weapons when chasing people. The key word here is try. Have fun!
• Pilot NPCs will now circle the place where their current target lands for a while if another enemy can't be found. No more launching and hoping to escape their wrath because they're some distance away.

11-30-18

• Corrected a slight oversight that caused support fighters to be destroyed over and over again.

11-24-18

• Pilot NPCs such as bounty hunters will now target ships if they are hit by proximity weapons launched by those ships. Be mindful of just leaving weapons around when NPCs are flying about.
• Fixed a slight bug that would cause service records not to have valid bounties when they should.

11-23-18

• Removed PA-CHECK/OOC-PA, and updated the warning displayed upon first using a ship or structure intercom.
• Added a new ship/structure-wide OOC communication command, SOOC, and updated POLICY 3 with pertinent information. More details in board post 91202.

11-19-18

• Updated the 'Treatment of Hosts' section and added a 'Treatment of Players' paragraph to POLICY 8 (Hosts). Announcement pending.
• Added a few more examples to Policy 8 (Hosts).

11-18-18

• Unknown starships no longer flee from Krenelia, and Krenelia no longer go after them.

11-17-18

• Removed the purchase cooldown for battlecruiser-class starships.

11-12-18

• Babies no longer get dragged to drone storage if they have an owner (uh, parent) in the room, awake, and idle for less than three hours.

11-09-18

• You can now establish an OOC identity to use on the OOC message boards. To do so, either try to post on the OOC board (you will receive a one-time prompt) or access your message board options and choose 'Set OOC Identity'.
• It's no longer possible to launch a ship while an escape pod sequence is in progress.

10-19-18

• Fixed a bug where disabling ANSI would just laugh and do nothing at all.

10-17-18

• Added a check to private structures to only permit the primary owner to submit stores. Sorry about that.

10-16-18

• Mineral scanners can now share everything they know with other mineral scanners using the TRANSFER command.

10-15-18

• Auction history has been split from private communication history. You can now find a new 'Auction Service' menu item in the HISTORY (or CHI for some reason) command, or use 'HISTORY AUCTION' to display auction history going forward.

10-13-18

• Priests galaxy-wide have been re-ordained and can once again perform wedding ceremonies. Also Elvis.

10-12-18

• Added per-component ablative armor. Engineers may find the ARMOR command useful after purchase.

10-10-18

• Fixed a bug where the UNCLIP command didn't respect matching aliases.
• Video probes in uncharted sectors will now persist for up to one month after launch.
• Lowered the chances of a mining excavator suffering a catastrophic engine failure.

10-06-18

• The tradesmanfix command will now retrieve donator items in the Empanda Daycare Center and Pet Lounge if you don't have donator status to go get them yourself.

10-05-18

• It's no longer possible to hold host characters and drag them around if they have the proper group options set. The Skeleton on Deneii, for example.

10-02-18

• Fixed a bug introduced with the implementation of directional scanning that wouldn't allow objects starting with certain letters to be scanned by name if a ship had advanced sensors.
• Fixed some bugs in the hatch lifeform discriminator.

10-01-18

• Blocking a Lore ID in device options now stops unauthorized tracking alerts from that ID. Like file transfers, the tracker won't be given any indication that they've been blocked.

09-25-18

• Priests should hopefully no longer traceback when marrying people.

09-24-18

• At long last, ship observation rooms will: Spam you with sector announcements, have a built-in starmap viewer, and allow you to use the SCAN command. If your ship isn't doing these things, please REPORT it!

09-20-18

• Added a 'Retired' status to the @STAFF command and include old hosts that continue to be recognized as contributors to Miriani but are no longer involved in the project.

09-03-18

• Fixed a bug where expanded drones could not be included in custom poses.
• Fixed a bug where attempting to remove an oxygen tank that you weren't wearing would cause your current oxygen tank to become displaced, resulting in copious amounts of stun time if you were underwater.

09-02-18

• Minor updates to the privacy policy: wording and formatting changes, mention TLS/SSL connections, mention e-mail being used to send purge notices and how to opt-out, and mention changes being posted to the changelog. Like this one.

08-22-18

• Probationally added the @WHERE command to raise awareness of the bestish spots to go to engage in quality improvisational roleplay. See HELP @WHERE for what are bound to be plentiful and exciting details.

08-21-18

• Added the @HOSTS (or @STAFF) command, which displays the current host team, along with small blurbs and statistics about each.

08-14-18

• Updated HELP HOUSE again with more disallowed locations.
• Updated HELP LIFTS to reflect that lifts are no longer requestable via tradesman request and where to obtain them.

08-13-18

• Pool lockers will no longer rip activated forcefield spacesuits or vacuum-hardened apparel from your soon to be lifeless corpse if you use them in a hostile environment.
• Solar panels and laser reflectors will no longer say that they're functional in a starship STATUS report if they've been destroyed.

08-08-18

• Blueprint touring avatars can now unlock doors in simulated structures.

08-06-18

• HELP HOUSE has been updated with a couple new locations that are not accepting properties.

07-31-18

• Solar panels and laser reflectors will no longer appear under the DAMAGE TURRETS command, and will properly be categorized under DAMAGE OTHER.
• Fixed a bug where solar panels would engage but never get around to the charging process.

07-30-18

• Fixed an oversight discovered in the midst of code cleanup where automatically locking long-range lasers would not trigger subsequent laser reflections if objects were nearby.
• Laser reflectors and solar panels can now be damaged.

07-25-18

• Fixed a bug with the Decker Trisolar Catapult Array that could, if you were crafty enough, allow you to transit to top secret host sectors.

07-22-18

• Babies should no longer wander away while being fed like rude little jerks.

07-21-18

• Added a potential fix for NAVI randomly getting interrupted for no good reason. Please REPORT oddities!

07-17-18

• Babies requested through the genetics lab can now be added to existing pregnancies.

07-14-18

• Added the FILTER-OPTIONS command to toggle between full and basic filtration for communicators, metafrequencies, says, and intercoms.
• TR FILTERS now works while out of comms.
• Metafrequency channel 500.0 (the unofficial OOC channel) is now subject to your filter options for metafrequencies, rather than automatically falling back to basic filtration regardless.
• Point units now show inter-organization cooperation points.

07-13-18

• Enhanced sensor arrays can now scan via vectors to examine what exactly is adjacent to the ship in <direction>. For example, to see what's directly north, you can type SCAN 8, or to see what's down and south, SCAN -2.

07-12-18

• Testing something with changelogs. Ignore it.
• Made it so that unbolting a running sink is no longer possible.

07-11-18

• Added a refresh option to message board message listings (to show new posts) and to individuals threads (to show a potentially missing 'next in thread' option).
• The prompt to overwrite or append to a Lore file when editing it will no longer appear if you use the flexible editor.

07-10-18

• Fixed a massive oversight with the catapult in sector 32 to no longer allow ships to leave the sector if interdiction is present.
• Specialty starship scanners now count anyone in outbound atmospheric salvagers as occupants since they have access to the ship.

07-07-18

• Sensor profilers should no longer overwrite a ship's galactic destination database when told not to.

07-05-18

• Bounties can now be filed against ships that destroy freighters with outbound atmospheric salvagers. Please note that this is for freighters only, so you're out of luck if you're atmospheric salvaging in anything else but a freighter.

07-04-18

• Yelling in a tent will now be audible to anyone outside the tent.
• Laser reflectors have received a slight change. See board post 90126 for details.

07-03-18

• Modified the wording of the COURSE command to be more in line with the reality of the situation of nonsensical Miriani space travel.

07-01-18

• Female players who request babies via the genetic sequencing lab will now have the option of having the baby delivered via pregnancy if they're not already pregnant. This will place the item in a storage area until the pregnancy ends, at which time the baby will be placed in their current location.

06-28-18

• Added a privacy help file. (Really, it's a mirror of the privacy policy on the website, but SHHH.)

06-26-18

• The @ISITWORTHIT command will once again properly reflect the items that are included in your worth total.

06-23-18

• Attempting to place someone on furniture that isn't bolted will now tell you what needs to be bolted instead of simply "that."
• Fixed an oversight that caused people to walk normally when exiting airlocks with injured legs instead of limping.
• You can no longer enter vehicles such as atmospheric salvagers if you are not standing up.
• It's now possible to look at blast doors that occupy 'up' exits.
• You can now LOOK BLAST DOOR (or LOOK BLAST, if you prefer) to peruse a fine menu of available blast doors for the lookin'.
• The /pass command should work once again when editing text in the flexible editor.

06-21-18

• Posts on the OOC message boards will now display the real life year instead of game year.

06-20-18

• Modified the disclaimer when transmitting to the newbie channel.

06-17-18

• Scanning a ship will now show how many outbound atmospheric salvagers and atmospheric combat vehicles it has.

06-16-18

• In theory, fixed an oversight with emoting children that allowed them to perform their emote even if they've wandered elsewhere.

06-12-18

• POLICY 2 has been updated. Please read it at your earliest convenience.

06-10-18

• Fixed a bug where an orgless person trying to file a bounty against another orgless person would report that those two people are in the same private organization and the claim would fail. Hogwash!

06-09-18

• Fixed a bug where AI ships (simulated or otherwise) could mistakenly appear in your INFO list and/or affect your net worth.

06-07-18

• Fixed a logic error that caused players flagged as terrorists and their ships to be unable to land on private structures.

06-05-18

• Fixed a bug that would misleadingly show players that were banned from purchasing a battlecruiser as having a battlecruiser license.

06-04-18

• A section on server restarts has been added to POLICY 9: Server, along with complementary examples.
• Made @worth snappy.

05-31-18

• Private structure STATUS reports have gotten a facelift. Sorry houses, no makeover for you.
• The housecleaner maid service should now ignore security cameras. For real this time, guys. Really. Believe me.
• Fixed some of the apartment complexses on Venus. They will no longer say they are full when they have no apartments.

05-26-18

• The FREEPOINTS command no longer works while the starship is unpowered.

05-24-18

• The GROUP-POSE (GPOSE) command now allows you to change the order of pose groups in the room.

05-13-18

• Zander can now detail drones inside your ships for a modest convenience fee. Also, to make it less annoying, detailing now takes place in an infinite menu so you can slightly more easily detail billions of drones at once.

05-12-18

• Custom objects in simulators can now be given sure to be exciting and definitely appropriate names.

05-09-18

• Throwable rocks now give the target and player random stun time instead of a flat three seconds for the target and one for the player.

05-06-18

• The AUTHORIZE command in salvager bays now provides a more helpful message when a vehicle computer interface upgrade is not present.

05-04-18

• Added a COMM-OPTION allowing you to prefix droid camera feeds with the remote title instead of the room name.

05-03-18

• added a new example to the cheating policy regarding allowing people to use ships they don't have the points for.

04-29-18

• You should now be able to unbolt things you own and bolted down in rooms you don't own.
• Removed communicator ignoring.
• The control room can once again use the PA even when it's disabled ship-wide.

04-28-18

• Private organization meeting rooms can no longer sneakily be revealed by using the MAP Command to match to multiple targets on Pax.
• Fixed hyperlinks on the 'Policy', 'Help', and 'Help2' pages on the webserver to point to the https://miriani.toastsoft.net subdomain instead of http://toastsoft.net:1111, which is now defunct.

04-27-18

• Hits attained with pulse weapons no longer count towards your cumulative enemy kill bounty.
• Rejiggered login to make it so traditional client auto-login (CONNECT <username> <password>) will now accept passwords with underscores.

04-26-18

• You will no longer awkwardly receive a spell check prompt when courier receptionists transmit if you have spell checking enabled.
• It's no longer possible to sort items in shopping bags.

04-25-18

• Added 24-bit color selection to ANSI-OPTIONS. Enable it with ANSI-O 2 and afterward, when you change a color option, 'RGB Value' will be an option in the color list. Client support is required. Rainbow should not be ingested.

04-24-18

• Hitting enter without providing an option at the 'Multiple landing sites' prompt when landing on Angelus will now default to the primary landing pad.

04-22-18

• Tradesman design labs now require that an item is simulated before it can be submitted for approval. Changing an item in any way will unset its simulated status.

04-20-18

• Fixed a 118 year old bug where being intoxicated would allow you to fire starship weapons twice in quick succession under very specific circumstances.
• Hopefully fixed a bug that caused unfinished tradesman items created in the tradesman labs to be recycled soon after being simulated.

04-18-18

• Updated the code that handles the distinction of whether a sector allows firing or not. It is much more dynamic now, which should cut down on situations where hosts need to directly involve themselves to allow firing. Sectors with active enemies will always allow firing and, once all enemies have been dispatched, you will no longer be able to fire. A distinction is also made between weapons and video probes now; sectors that allow you to fire weapons simply because of enemies being present will no longer permit you to circumvent existing restrictions to launch video probes. (This change only really applies to the Central Jumpgate Hub, but I felt like being wordy.)

04-16-18

• Planetary discoveries are now properly added to your achievements sheet. Consequently, @TOP-SURVEYED will now display slightly more useful data.

04-15-18

• You can no longer access the TransLink network if you are aboard a cloaked ship. Similarly, people outside of the cloaked ship can no longer track people who are aboard a cloaked ship.
• Fixed a bug where empty strollers being present wouldn't allow you to cycle an airlock.

04-12-18

• It should no longer be possible to dump containers into earrings and communicators.

04-08-18

• Removing doors from out and go exits will no longer cause horrific errors and leave the door in the next room intact.
• Removed the dig out restriction from private stations.
• Adding exits to existing rooms in a blueprint no longer adds the worth of those exits to the worth of the room. All rooms with a worth of over 10000000.0 credits have been set to 10000000.0 credits. Digging exits to an existing room still costs 5000000.0 credits if done outside of a blueprint.

04-03-18

• Corrected the message you get when trying to request structural damage repairs from an unknown starship when you have no structural damage to repair.

03-28-18

• The baby lab on Empanda Station will now ask you for a first name and append your surname when creating a baby or changing its appearance.

03-24-18

• @TOP-POSTS and @TOP-IDEAS now show the post reference beside the title.

03-23-18

• Announcements will now be syndicated to the Toastsoft Twitter feed via the @toastsoft Twitter account.

03-21-18

• Fixed a logic error that made it impossible for private planet blueprints to be expanded.

03-20-18

• Made a few back end changes to battlecruiser/eviscerator licenses.
• Fixed a logic error where custom items in blueprints would be destroyed irrevocably if the blueprint compression task ran while you were carrying the simulator (either in your hands or otherwise). Thanks goes to Mitchell for tracking this down.

03-18-18

• The secho command can now be used with roundtime and stun time.
• Corrected an oversight that caused ships to complete a self-destruct after being destroyed by other means if conditions were right.

03-17-18

• Added a spell check option for newbie channel messages.
• You can now SORT the contents of closets.

03-13-18

• Added 'Paranoid Reply Mode' (COMM-O 21), which will give you a confirmation prompt if using the REPLY command up to 3 seconds after someone has sent you a private transmission.

03-06-18

• Passengers will no longer request to go to aquatic planets.

02-28-18

• Giving a pulsed droid its remote no longer disables remote mode.

02-25-18

• Fixed a bug that caused archaeology site rooms to be flagged as indoors.

02-24-18

• The task that lands empty newbie ships will now ignore newbie ships with outbound atmospheric salvagers.

02-21-18

• Vanity mirror things will now display how your hair will appear prior to going through with the styling.
• Metafrequency communicators will now apply default filters prior to parsing for socials, instead of after. This means that sending something like "LOL" or "Laughs" will now translate properly into its social equivalent. (Except on channel 500.0.)

02-19-18

• It's sadly no longer possible to WALK WANDER with leg injuries and accumulate infinite roundtime.

02-10-18

• Coffee and tea discs can now be unloaded from coffee makers.

02-06-18

• Food storage rooms can now store pancake/waffle mix.

02-05-18

• Fixed a bug with the WALK command that would cause players following you to never see full room descriptions as you moved.
• You can no longer HAUL asteroids while an escape sequence is in progress.
• Point units now remember the last value they saw when you USE them and will display that to you outside of communications range.

02-04-18

• Added refrigerated shipping boxs for all your food shipping needs.

01-25-18

• Fixed a bug that caused weapons to remain powered on green status if a weapons room's weapons were damaged beyond repair.

01-24-18

• The newbie channel no longer shows you as a hologram if you use it while in a simulator.
• Added a few more complexions to the master list. Because it's 2018 and time to be PC.

01-19-18

• Tattoos have been completely redesigned from the ground up. See message board post 89064 for more information.

01-12-18

• Fixed an oversight that would move the pilot of a destroyed salvager to the mothership's storage room, even if the mothership had since left the sector.

01-03-18

• Updated the 'Frequently Rejected Suggestions and Ideas' help file with an entry for external camera upgrades.

01-02-18

• Restoring a character now gives that character a keyring, communicator, and message board reader if they don't already have one.
• Ships that are restored along with a character now have the key placed on their keyring.
• Accounts that have been locked out are no longer eligible to activate vacation mode until the lockout duration expires.

12-29-17

• Fixed a bug where loading ten packs of pulse emitter clips would not stack correctly in ammunition storage containers, creating a very spammy list.
• The private property PA has been rewritten as a room module. As such, it should now work in all room types. Please REPORT any odd behavior or room types I forgot to add the module to!
• The house cleaning service no longer stuffs ships in packing crates.

12-28-17

• Added face shape modification to Surgyria.

12-27-17

• Character descriptions will now show an approximate age range instead of their precise age.
• Added a face shape option to character generation. If you've already set your character's appearance, use the NEWAPPEARANCE command to set this.
• The Toastsoft Twitter auto-poster(tm) now supports 280 characters. Better late than never!

12-18-17

• A new maid service has been added to the private property transferral office. See message board post 88846 for details.

12-16-17

• The exit airlock on Tusckilium now actually checks to see if you and everyone in your group is wearing a spacesuit.
• Asteroid haulers can now haul in not one, not two, but THREE dimensions simultaneously.

12-06-17

• Fixed an issue where buying from raw materials marketplaces could produce a traceback after a tremendously successful sale.
• Fixed an issue where objects would lose their room pose when you tried to SORT them.
• Fixed an issue that caused the BROADCAST command to fail spectacularly.
• Room poses applied to objects hanging on the wall now display properly in the room description.

12-03-17

• Added a MATCH-OPTION to disable multislice content matching.
• You now get the full profits from a raw materials marketplace instead of them applying to your tithes and autodeposits.
• The LIST command in raw materials marketplaces now works again.
• Added proper sales history to raw materials marketplaces.
• The BUY command in raw materials marketplaces now accepts a search term instead of all numeric input.

12-02-17

• A few new ornaments have been added to Santa's Trees. See if you can spot which they are!

11-30-17

• The text of POLICY 2 has been updated to explicitly include doxing as an out of character threat. If you're unfamiliar with the term, please review POLICY 2 for a definition.

11-26-17

• You should actually be able to send letters to Santa now. Sorry about the trouble!
• Fixed a bug where the landing pad for a simulated private structure would become improperly set when it was compressed.

11-23-17

• Fixed a bug where followers might not follow you if you're following another player.
• You can now refer to baby feeders (bottles, spoons, etc) and multislices (pizzas, cakes, paper wrapped pork chops, etc) by the kind of food or drink they contain. For example: 'get pork' instead of 'get wrapper' or 'get peas' instead of 'get spoon'. Dreams really DO come true! Also if this is annoying, please REPORT and I can make it optional.

11-05-17

• Asteroid surface rooms will now always be flagged as outdoors.

10-31-17

• Modified how matching works in the MAP and WALK commands to return better results when multiple potential matches are found.

10-29-17

• The WALK command for setting your walk style has been renamed to WALK-STYLE.
• Added a WALK <destination> command to walk to a mappable location. See message board post 88590 in OOC / Announcements for more details.

10-25-17

• Added a Distance Format' option to the Navigational Information Retention Program that will toggle between showing distances in sectors or lightyears.

10-22-17

• Removed the roundtime that happens if you try to enter a ship too quickly after exiting another one.
• Assists can now be voluntarily paused by typing ASSIST PAUSE. Similarly, ASSIST RESUME will put you back at the end of the queue.

10-20-17

• Fixed a bug where ROOM-OPTIONS 22 (Display Outdoors Status in Room Title) would occasionally report incorrect information.
• Uncharted planet rooms will now always be flagged as outdoors.
• Fixed a bug where spaceport weapon jamming would mysteriously stop droids from firing in starships that were in the vicinity of the spaceport.
• Spaceport weapon jamming no longer stops droids or drones from firing healing shots.
• You can no longer finish making or duplicating starship keys if you are moved away from the starship store or stunned.
• Increased the charge of fighters to 9 hours and runabouts to 12 hours.
• Lore computers will now notify you that there's no one in the room to show images to instead of angrily spitting out a horrific error.

10-19-17

• Fixed a bug where one-time walkstyles would refuse to work when attempting to move into an airlock from the ship if the connecting room wasn't a control room. (I.e. battlecruisers, expeditioners, and others).

10-18-17

• Fixed more ammunition storage container bugs: Loading pulse energy packs now stacks correctly, unloading and reloading different shots goes to the appropriate stack now, the DUMP command is now aware of stacking, and only one person can unload a container at a time now.
• Fixed a bug where attempting to remove a spacesuit thruster in space would fail with an error message but still leave you unable to move in space.
• Potentially fixed NAVI being interrupted for seemingly no good reason. Please continue to REPORT if that's a lie!
• Added a soundpack hook for emotes with stripped quoted substrings. See board post 88355 and HELP SOUNDPACK HOOKS if you're an interested developer.

10-17-17

• Fixed a bug in ammunition storage containers that allowed you to reset the shot count of nearly depleted ammunition. Similarly, UNLOAD <container> now shows the shot count and how many are loaded in the container.

10-16-17

• Added SAY history under the HISTORY command. This will show the last 10 says your character has heard, and will be cleared on disconnection.
• Added a few more rooms to Desolo to facilitate the erection of housing.

10-13-17

• Filling a drink container that isn't disposable should no longer make the container disposable when the drink is emptied. If you find cases in which this still occurs, REPORT it so it can be fixed.

10-10-17

• Changing a room to a food storage room in an architectural design simulator no longer ttries to charge your building avatar.
• Architectural design simulators should now properly take food storage rooms into account when calculating the worth of a blueprint.
• Pausing a starship simulator should now pause any non-AI starship movement.
• Fixed a calculation error that would result in changelog entries longer than a certain length not being posted to Twitter. Now they truncate properly!

10-06-17

• Checking to see when you can request a donator item will now inform you if your donator status will expire before you can request your next donator item.

10-03-17

• Added a 'Last updated' field to @SOUNDPACKS. Currently, this value is set to the date your soundpack was first created with @REGISTER-SOUNDPACK. For soundpack maintainers, altering the version of your soundpack will automatically update this.
• Updated soundpack environment hooks to display whether a room is indoors or outdoors. The HELP file for soundpack hooks has subsequently been changed to detail this.

10-02-17

• You can no longer access MOO-generated content on the web (web boards, channel history, etc) if your account has been locked out.
• Updated the RAGELOCKOUT warning to include not being able to access features of the website that require an account.
• Renaming centers should now allow you to rename back to a previous name ,as long as it isn't the name of a previous character.

10-01-17

• Added GROUP-OPTIONS to control who can HOLD or JOIN you.
• Added ROOM-O 22 to show whether a room is inside or outdoors in the title.
• Abolished stunning in populated spaceports. See board post 88340 for more information.
• Added the @OUTSIDE command to see if your current room is indoors or outside.

09-26-17

• Fixed some bugs related to setting room passwords via a private structure security center.
• Fixed it so people assigned to rooms in private structures can unhang and unbolt things. Woops!

09-25-17

• To prevent confusion, added a check on the CASH command to see if you're an avatar. Get it? Check? Cash? Aren't we just the cleverest?

09-24-17

• The wavewarp drive will now be used by the FTL command when accessing the jumpgate network for travel.

09-21-17

• Fans no longer throw phantom messages at players who are no longer in a room with them when being turned on and off.
• Updated HELP DONATING to reflect the times. We're going to join 2017 eventually. We promise.

09-20-17

• The Tethys decontamination chamber no longer teleports you from two or more rooms away should you move before it allows you to enter.

09-19-17

• Reinstated in-MOO Twitter support. Game changes and other important information will once again be posted to our Twitter, which is viewable at https://www.twitter.com/toastsoft/

09-17-17

• Removed an unnecessary comma from stun weapon unloading. Sorry, all you soundpack users out there.

09-13-17

• You can now set a NOTIFICATION for when the starship arrives at the border of local space (50 LY).

09-11-17

• For all you fancy Michael Buble wannabes out there, you can now CROON. Thank us later.

09-09-17

• The time it takes for tradesman items to appear on the Empanda adoption menu has been changed from one hour to six months.

09-06-17

• You can now specify a menu number or option name to the MENU command in the Pax Private Organization Center. (e.g. MENU TITHE or MENU 20)

09-02-17

• The auction terminal now asks you to confirm the information you enter before starting an auction.

08-30-17

• Fixed a bug where trading centers would allow you to purchase more than their supply.
• Buying things with no supply in trading centers now fails outright instead of trying to buy 0 units.
• Added appropriate supply and demand to produce relativity drives in trading centers.
• Similarly, droid components also have what they need to be constructed.
• Grouped room poses now support object matching (similar in syntax to normal room poses). Couple of caveats in board post 88151.
• Fixed a bug where ferries would sometimes get stuck forever.

08-28-17

• Simulated avatars now inherit the walk style of the controlling player.
• You can no longer pitch tents in salvager cockpits.
• It's also no longer possible to tackle or pounce objects in salvager cockpits.

08-24-17

• Fixed a bug where destroyed ships wouldn't produce a debris cloud if destroyed by a Praelor ship.
• Droids, drones, tradesman items ,and other important things should no longer be recycled and spit out when a ship with a lot of objects it in is destroyed.

08-22-17

• You can now get information about a soundpack by supplying an argument to the @soundpacks command. For example, @soundpacks 1 will pull up the information about the Not Real soundpack.
• To one up Mitchell, @soundpacks now also accepts a string argument to search names.
• Added the ability to ignore blank lines with GENERAL-OPTION 16. Test it with our theme of the day, @soundpacks!
• Nanny bots now have the ability to care for babies in cribs and strollers.
• It's now possible to add babies in cribs and strollers to nanny bots.

08-21-17

• Added a pronoun practice option to the forcefield lab on Empanda, which can be found in the options for changing forcefield messages. This allows players to practice using the various pronoun codes that can be used in forcefield messages without having to go through the process of changing them on their forcefields.

08-20-17

• Babies should no longer be yanked ruthlessly out of daycare by spaceport workers.
• Notes and letters can now be FOLDed or UNFOLDed. You must FOLD a letter before putting it into an envelope, and both notes and letters must be unfolded (or opened) to be written on and read.
• Fixed a bug where one-time walkstyles (e.g. MOONWALK NORTH) didn't work in dynamic rooms (asteroids, digsites, etc).
• Fixed an issue that caused 'Pinpoint Point of Purchase' to lag for up to a second. Also (unrelatedly) made it skip the menu if you only have one object in your hand.

08-18-17

• Fixed a bug where saying text directly to someone (` or -) would duplicate messages in forum logs.

08-12-17

• The food robot lab now accepts hand-written menu dumps. See the 'Robotics Lab Menu Dumps' help file for more information on the format. This feature is considered experimental, so please keep backups of your dumps and REPORT issues.

08-09-17

• Added the TRADESMAN-OPTIONS command to allow more control over creative works. Please see the 'Tradesman Object Permissions' help file for more sure-to-be-helpful information.

08-07-17

• Sector numbers can now be provided as arguments to the NIRP Command to retrieve the distance for the corresponding sector's coordinates.
• Because I forgot to log it yesterday when I actually fixed it, the roller coaster on Venus that takes tokens will no longer greedily snatch one from your hand and refuse to let you on if the ride is already going.

08-06-17

• Removed the anyone command from the new food robot type, because they don't follow and also because allowing anyone to pick them up is probably a horrible idea. If people really want it back it can be done.
• Reinstated the anyone command for food robots and removed the reference to following.

08-05-17

• The genetics lab now lets you add several annoying (erm, cute) pronoun-subbed messages that get announced to the room at random.
• Added a SECHO command for people using soundpack negotiation. This will be pretty useless to everyone else. Someone somewhere may find it useful though.
• Draining a drink with a taste message will now display said message.
• Ever wanted to create your own gadget robot thing but don't want to wait 16 years for us to complete it? Mosey on down to Empanda today and craft your own fine contraption! (Added a gadget bot creation room to Empanda.)

08-04-17

• Room lighting in blueprints should now be saved when blueprints are compressed.

07-31-17

• Fixed a bug in the shopping guide where items with the same name but different types (e.g. Slip Drive repair vs Slip Drive the drive) wouldn't group properly, causing all but the first entry to show up multiple times and not get grouped together.

07-30-17

• Help file updates: SHIP-DOCK added to 'Ship Commands' help file. Mention SHIP-DOCK and SHIP-EXPEL in the 'Docking' help file. Added a 'Wormhole Tracer' help file and removed the alias from the 'Gadgets' help file. Added an 'Alert Statuses' file. Added a 'Readily Available Very Educational Network (RAVEN)' help file. In the 'Ship Commands' help file, corrected several 'see x help file' references, corrected some aliases, and added the following commands: 'Starships, maintenance, panel, modulate, wavewarp, status, timer, mail, navi, self-destruct, dock, undock'. Removed 'barrier' and 'pellet'.
• Fixed matching in the private property lookup menu.
• Fixed a bug where simulators wouldn't let you join ships docked inside of other ships.

07-29-17

• Other players no longer need to be standing in the same room to be deauthorized from vehicles if using a vehicle computer interface.
• The game will no longer send a keep alive message if you have recently sent a #$#soundpack_ping out of band command.
• Keep alive messages now act as #$#soundpack_pong responses, which means clients can immediately respond to a keep alive with a #$#soundpack_ping_reply to obtain calculated command latency.
• The MAIL command in starship control rooms no longer works when landed on uncharted planets.
• Values of 0.0 or less are no longer averaged into the current or daily lag metrics.
• Using the ms argument with the #$#soundpack_ping_reply out of band command will now respond with an integer rather than a float.
• Simulating a food robot design will now create a cork remover and empty glass if you have drink bottles on your menu.
• Added a dump menu option to the food robot lab on Empanda.

07-28-17

• Fixed a docked cargo transfer bug that could allow ship storage to go into negatives.

07-26-17

• The LIST (or TOGGLE) command in atmospheric salvagers is now a character option (meaning you only have to set it once and it applies to all salvagers).
• Added the #$#soundpack_ping soundpack hook. See HELP soundpack hooks for usage information.

07-21-17

• Added a LOCATE (or LOC) command to mineral scanners to quickly search for previously identified minerals by name.

07-16-17

• Updated the crew NPCs help file slightly.
• Simulated anomalies now behave normally when scanned.

07-15-17

• It is no longer possible to access the NIRP upgrade on a starship while the starship is unpowered. Take that, you pesky bug, you!

07-14-17

• Hopefully fixed the Empanda Station request area's adoption menu's ability to work with certificates.

07-12-17

• Fixed a few cargo transfer bugs related to asteroid mining materials.

07-09-17

• Trying to bow while sitting or lying down will now have rather painful results.

07-06-17

• You can now HANG shelves on walls.
• CARGO <name> now allows you to filter your gigantic cargo list by name (say, canister). This won't affect the total / remaining weight display at the bottom.
• Fixed an issue where transferring atmospheric debris to a docked ship would result in the transfer appearing to 'freeze'. Now atmospheric debris moves in visible chunks (and twice as fast as before).
• It is no longer possible to pitch tents on Charon while floating down the river. For that matter, it's also no longer possible to pitch tents in rooms flagged as pools.
• Rejiggered airlock cycle messages because of this and that. Be aware that we may just revert back to the original messages.
• Post voting has been enabled on alliance message board subcategories.

07-03-17

• Possibly fixed deep fryers so they won't announce to the person who started them heating if they are no longer in the room.
• Fixed a security loophole where accounts could be registered under an already in use address by appending a plus sign followed by text, such as victor+whatever@toastsoft.net

06-30-17

• Hopefully fixed it so that purged players don't end up with courier debt and courier ship destructions when their courier ships are purged.
• Old-style circuit transport pods no longer take you into black holes or inside planetary atmospheres. Only pod stations now!

06-24-17

• To avoid confusion, stabbers will no longer be transferred to the winner of an auction if their sheathes are auctioned without the stabbers inside of them. Stabber sheathes will also not be transferred if their stabbers have been auctioned as a separate item. If you want to sell a stabber and its sheath together, put the stabber in the sheath and auction the sheath.

06-23-17

• Fixed a bug where under very specific circumstances newly created starships that reused old object numbers could appear as viable candidates to add to your private organization, even if you didn't own them or have a key.

06-22-17

• Fixed a logic error with design duplication that resulted in the real lift counterpart being used inside of a simulated copy.
• Fixed a bug where your first ten rooms would not be counted as free in an architectural design simulator when evaluating worth.
• Fixed a slight oversight in passenger transport that wouldn't allow you to request passengers from the place you just dropped your last passenger off without landing again.

06-19-17

• You can no longer exit scooper control rooms if the ship is cycled to an aquatic environment and you lack diving gear.

06-16-17

• You can no longer alter your character's age or birthday when getting a sex reassignment surgery.

06-15-17

• Apartment complexes that are out of local space will no longer make their occupants appear as if they are in local space.

06-14-17

• Fixed a bug with removing spacesuit thrusters that failed to unset the appropriate property on the player, thus rendering them permanently thrustered.

06-12-17

• Made destination finders less horrible (maybe). You can now simply 'FIND <destination>'. Destination can be the name of a planet, moon, space station, sector name, or sector number.
• You can now import navigational data from your NIRP into your destination finder for use with the FIND command. Simply type IMPORT <destination finder> in the ship of your choice. You can manage your saved data with the OPTIONS <destination finder> command.

06-03-17

• Fixed a bug that would allow players to propose a treaty for a military alliance, even if there were no active hostilities between the three alliances.
• Alliances that are on hostile terms with any other alliances (either full war or declaration of hostility) will now have their capital planet's long-range laser disabled. This means that capital sectors can be interdicted, blockaded, or otherwise disrupted if any sort of hostility is in effect.

06-01-17

• Viewing information about a forcefield spacesuit in an auction now shows its messages.

05-31-17

• Autopilot will now fail if your sensors are destroyed in the midst of moving to a destination.

05-28-17

• Using asteroid hauling kits has been reverted to its old functionality and no longer provides the option of stealing every single piece of nearby equipment in one fell swoop.

05-26-17

• Fixed an oversight that allowed players to adopt tradesman items using a donator item without having donator status via the @crequest command.
• Added pistol holsters to the High Guard Command armory, because putting a pistol in a rifle holster is silly.

05-23-17

• TR AUCTION SHOW <id> will now display detailed information about tradesman items akin to what is displayed on the Empanda Station adoption menu.
• Added a ROOM-OPTION to separate sections of the LOOK command with a blank line.
• Added a COLOR-OPTION to change the color of room descriptions.
• You must now be in space to atmospheric salvage. See the updated help file and board post 87455 for more detailed information.

05-20-17

• Added a new example to the roleplaying policy regarding out of theme roleplay.

05-14-17

• Certain upgrade stores will now more readily respect your set active ship when you're prompted to choose a ship to install the upgrade on.

05-12-17

• You can now vote on message board posts that are less than 6 months old. Previously, this limit was 30 days.

05-10-17

• Added an option to restore personal dictionary entries from past characters in the 'Restore options from a previous character' menu.
• Added how much profit you've made from trading (beginning at some arbitrary date that I can't remember, sorry) to INFO ACHIEVEMENTS.
• Fixed a bug where trading centers would sit on manufactured components forever, never driving up demand after an initial influx. Now they will slowly but surely lose stock of components, increasing their demand for more.

05-09-17

• Fixed a bug where attempting to walk after removing specialized gait-modifying shoes would cause a traceback.

05-07-17

• Fixed a bug where demand for a commodity wouldn't rise as that commodity was consumed in the production of goods.
• Select trading centers will now consume certain vital goods, driving up demand on a regular basis.

05-06-17

• Added an exciting 'Communicator Private Link Services' help file to raise awareness of link services. Also updated the auction help file to include selling items. (Also feel free to REPORT your favorite missing help file!)
• Added the ability to flag inaccurate soundpacks in @soundpacks.
• Added more help files: 'Blast Door Tripwires', 'Starship Drive Engagement Matrix', and 'Proprietary Sensor Blob'.
• Corrected an oversight that allowed the transfer of specialty starships to people who were unable to purchase them due to the time limit after having a specialty starship destroyed. Doing this does count as cheating, folks.
• Auctions started by players no longer kill the task scheduler. Woops!

05-05-17

• It is no longer possible to bid on your own items.
• The antiscripter will now be twice as forgiving if the game detects critical amounts of server lag.

05-04-17

• Added an auction terminal to Pax that allows you to sell your old, worthless properties and tradesman items to the highest bidder. See message board post 87234 for more information.
• Abandoned properties are now automatically auctioned off on the courthouse steps (or the auction service) once a week.
• All auctioned properties now show up in the blueprint simulator in the Pax real estate office for your holographic touring pleasure.
• Corrected an oversight in the show all ships on enter option that allowed players to bypass stun time and enter ships from the menu.

04-24-17

• The A, X, and C commands will now be acknowledged properly by the alternative navigation option while spacewalking.

04-16-17

• Added a new example to the roleplay policy.
• Revised the 'Your Obligation' section of the cheating policy.

04-08-17

• It should no longer be possible to throw piercings without first removing them. Make the pain stop.

04-04-17

• Courier companies can now repair your courier ship for a modest fee. To request a repair, type REPAIR in your company's starship requisition center.
• Couriers destroyed with proximity weapons will now only issue a reward to the hunter if the mothership that placed the weapons is launched and in the same sector.

04-03-17

• Proximity weapons now display how much damage they have taken when scanning them.
• Automated laser turrets now show how much charge is remaining in scans. This information is only visible to the ship that initially launched it.
• Added the @TOP-TRADERS tops list to see players ranked by trades completed.
• Automated laser turrets will now gradually lose charge over time.
• FTL jumps will no longer make you invisible to proximity-based weaponry until you next move the ship.

04-02-17

• Automated laser turrets will now cause laser reflectors to engage with a small chance of imparting damage on the turret itself.

03-29-17

• The presence of alien transmissions will now be announced after entering a sector, rather than immediately before the transition.

03-27-17

• Added MUTE <communicator> and UNMUTE <communicator> to make it easier to, you know, mute and unmute channels.

03-25-17

• Fixed a calculation error that caused automated laser turrets to not fire if you weren't directly north, south, east, west, up, or down from them but were still in proximity.
• Updated NAVI in a myriad of ways that will more than likely not be noticed by many. REPORT if NAVI does something unexpected or unintended, such as causing your ship to do eager backflips throughout the sector for its own entertainment.
• Assuming its previous functionality, the STOP-command when executed while transitioning to another sector will now wait until the starship has moved to the new sector and then stop, rather than not allowing you to stop at all.

03-24-17

• Fixed a strange inconsistency that could cause objects in a dynamic room that were visible on the MAP to be invisible in reality when you traversed to the room in question.
• Fixed a bug where entering certain sectors that were in communications range could spuriously cause your computer to announce that the starship had left communications range.

03-22-17

• Fixed a flaw where aborting while getting a survey scan from an artifact container would go ahead and do it anyway.
• Fixed a bug where the DUMP command on artifact containers would lose classification data.
• Added classification counts when you COUNT SCAN IN <artifact container>
• Objects that surround a launching ship's coordinates will now be notified that an object has entered proximity. This means that proximity mines will now be triggered if you launch within one coordinate of them, automated laser turrets will begin to fire, and other starships will receive a notification that you're in range of them.
• There is now a 20 second grace period before proximity mines activate if you launch within proximity of them. Your computer will consequently notify you that the starship has launched into an armed minefield.

03-18-17

• Handheld radio receivers now permit you to CONFIG <receiver> to set an ANSI color for transmission notifications.

03-16-17

• Natural wormholes will no longer miraculously bring you back in local space while transiting through if the wormhole is found out of local space.

03-14-17

• Droids will no longer transmit camera feed video to people out of local space if the droid is in local space.
• Planetary mining rooms will now mark you as out of local space instead of out of communications range.

03-12-17

• Added the @HOST-CORRESPONDENCES command to view a log of your correspondences with the hosts via the admin message system. Only messages from this point onward are shown.
• Adopting and transferring babies will now give the baby the surname of the new parent.

03-11-17

• Handheld radio receivers will now notify you of transmissions while attached to a belt.
• The baby renaming center has been made a bit more strict about proper baby names.
• You can now 'look door <direction>' to view a blast door if you're unfortunate enough to have clothing that matches <direction> and prevents you from seeing blast doors.

03-10-17

• Added the @TOP-POSTERS tops list to show the highest ranked board posters by cumulative vote score.

03-09-17

• Reverted a previously undocumented change to starship movement that could cause AI ships to stack precariously upon one another in a single set of coordinates.

03-07-17

• Added the OIC social. INNOVATION!

03-05-17

• Added the @TOP-POSTS tops list to see the best OOC board posts by overall vote score.

03-03-17

• Asteroid kits once again default to only picking up what they need when you USE them. If you want / need more, you can CONFIG KIT to change that behavior. (Sorry buddy haulers! I forgot you existed.)

03-02-17

• Added the HELP-SEARCH command to search for arbitrary words or phrases in all of the help file texts.
• Asteroid kits no longer care or limit how many anchors and lines are inside when you USE them. Go nuts! Steal them all. (And also other behind-the-scenes kit changes that may require REPORTing if things get weird.)

02-26-17

• Select alien ships will now accept planetary survey scans (of their choosing) in exchange for one service. See post 86696 for slightly more information.
• Friendly alien ships will now make a best effort to run away from Praelor instead of sitting around waiting to die.

02-25-17

• Information about starship's that a player has will now be preserved in the database after character deletion or purging. This allows us to restore ships and their upgrades along with your character. Ship restoration does not apply for couriers, and anyone using this feature to obtain ships that were made unobtainable prior to deleting will more than likely be banned from ever restoring again, as well as lose the ship in question. Furthermore, this information is only saved going forward, which means old characters will not have such a luxury.
• Activated voting for the General/General message board subcategory.

02-24-17

• High Guard Command has now decreed that most missioning starships can no longer carry vessels greater than 1.0 in mass into Praelor space if they are not on a difficult or advanced combat mission.

02-21-17

• Friendly aliens now persist after you leave the sector. (But they won't stay there forever!)
• Fixed several hundred marine planets that were very dry.
• Added voting support to the web board.

02-20-17

• Added the @TOP-IDEAS command.

02-19-17

• POLICY 3 has been updated to reiterate that sex with minors is illegal.
• Galactic coordinate tracking will now properly pipe announcements throughout the entire ship if you have PIPE mode enabled.

02-18-17

• You can now exit ships any time during the launch sequence before the ship actually starts moving.

02-17-17

• Private organization admins can now toggle message board voting on a by-category basis from the admin options menu. See post 86609 for more details regarding board voting.

02-16-17

• added message board voting. See post 86609 for the juicy details.
• Transferring a tradesman item to someone will now move the item to their hand unless it's something normally unmoveable like a mount.

02-11-17

• The IGNORE <entertainment center> command has been removed. In lieu of this, you should now WATCH <entertainment center> if you wish to see what's being displayed on it. Unwatching it will cause you to stop seeing the output once again.
• You can now LOAD a droid remote into an entertainment center to play the video feed on the screen to everyone in the room who's watching it. If you're holding a remote in your hand while watching the live feed on the center, you won't be able to see it. Stow your own remotes first!
• Added a printer to the battlecruiser testing room that allows both new and old battlecruiser pilots to print off their very own license. Your first license printing will be free; after which, further copies will cost a nominal fee. Physical licenses are required when visiting the battlecruiser store as well.

02-09-17

• Fixed the player renaming and sex change code to make it painfully clear that there is a six month cooldown on performing either action.

02-05-17

• Changed the YELL verb slightly. There is now a HOLLAR alias and it behaves just a bit differently.

02-01-17

• Added a 'Detailed Tracking' option to the NIRP upgrade that will show precisely how many sectors lie between your ship and the destination, akin to the calculate to coordinates function.

01-30-17

• Fixed an oversight in HELP COURIERING that excluded Pluto from the list of available planets with courier companies.

01-29-17

• Added the Navigational Information Retention Program (NIRP) upgrade for the GMU to store galactic points of interest or calculate distance and direction to specific galactic coordinates. See HELP NIRP for more details.

01-27-17

• Added a TREMBLE social.

01-23-17

• Fixed a bug where aliens who repair structural damage would leave behind miniscule amounts that would show as 0% in the DAMAGE report.

01-16-17

• Planetary scans will now reveal how many vehicles are cloistered away in the atmosphere.

01-14-17

• Added time of last processed donation to the INFO command.

01-08-17

• Added a COLOR-OPTION for direct private messages from hosts.

01-07-17

• Implemented a system that allows for private communication between hosts and players to preserve immersion, rather than having people awkwardly talk to themselves in potentially populated rooms while being creepily watched.
• Pilot NPCs now leave combat drones alone unless they fire upon them, and ignore combat drones that fire upon them if the combat drones aren't targeting them.

01-03-17

• The CHICKEN command in pools is now more aware of when people aren't, in fact, in the pool. It also shows some stuff in the room description now.

01-02-17

• Testing! Feel free to ignore this.
• The game now serves RSS feeds to the web for people that want to keep up to date. You can subscribe to these in any RSS reader on a computer or mobile device, or view them from the website. A list of our currently available feeds can be found at http://toastsoft.net:1111/rss/

01-01-17

• You can now print fund history from your neighborhood fund center.

12-31-16

• Fixed a comical oversight that could cause intelligence officers announcing incoming invasions to adopt the name of a Praelor starship if the fleet happened to pick up more ships on its way to known space.
• Pilot NPCs will now make an effort to use the subwarp drive if present to escape from situations where they might be completely surrounded on all sides by spacial objects, such as ships, rather than happily sitting still.

12-30-16

• Fixed a bug where authorization groups set to always be denied landing would sometimes be allowed to land anyways.

12-24-16

• You can now use preexisting channel labels when tuning metafrequency communicators. Example: Say you have frequency 0.1 labeled as 'jerks' and frequency 500.0 labeled as 'OOC'. You could then type TUNE METAF TO JERKS and, seeing your 'jerks' label, your communicator would then be tuned to frequency 0.1. Once you were sick of the jerks on frequency 0.1, you could then type TUNE METAF TO OOC to enjoy the significantly better conversation there.
• For your pre-connection convenience, @soundpacks can now be viewed from the comfort of your web browser: http://www.toastsoft.net:1111/soundpacks/
• The NOTIFICATIONS command now allows you to temporarily mute all object notifications. Running the command again will restore your old settings.
• Fixed a bug that could, under very annoyingly specific circumstances, cause a ship transitioning between sectors to freeze for the duration of a checkpoint.

12-23-16

• Fixed a bug that would prevent you from issuing an 'Exit Ship' command to a droid in remote mode if you had started moving it from another room other than the airlock.

12-21-16

• Potentially fixed an egregious bug with NAVI that would cause it to delay several seconds during sector transitions or after drives had been utilized. Please REPORT if your NAVI still randomly stops or unexpectedly pauses, including what direction you were moving, your galactic coordinates, and other vital information such as what drive had been in use prior to NAVI pausing.

12-19-16

• Fixed a bug where non-combat day ships could fire pulse weapons at combat day ships.
• It should now be a bit more difficult to steal Combat Day kills. You won't get credit for destroying the ship unless you have the majority of the hits.
• Reverted the previous change because it can actually cause more problems than it intends to fix. Please don't cheat. Thanks.

12-18-16

• Corrected an oversight where planets selling specialty ships didn't allow ship expulsion / docking.
• Added HELP ROLEPLAY COMMANDS to give a brief description to the various roleplay enhancing commands that exist but we all forget about because they were never enumerated anywhere.

12-17-16

• Fixed a bug where GET stopped working with multislices that were in your hand.

12-15-16

• Upgraded the REQUESTCHECK-command to indicate precisely how much time remains until you're able to make a tradesman item request, including tradesman item certificates.
• Christmas gift rejection letters will now be unceremoniously flung at rejectees if they are outside communications range.

12-14-16

• The COMMANDS command will now make a best effort to report on verbal commands that a tradesman object probably responds to.

12-12-16

• Fixed a traceback when trying to authorize somebody from an asteroid rover control room.

12-10-16

• Pets can now be room posed without the cruelty associated with bolting them to the floor. And babies, I guess. If you're into that sort of thing.

12-09-16

• Tweaked the cost of gunships and expeditioners in a minute, but hopefully noticeable way.

12-08-16

• 2016 Santa boxes will no longer spam out internal stun turrets.

12-07-16

• You can now ROOM-POSE objects in apartments if you're an owner of the apartment in question.
• Grouped room poses now look slightly different. Each group is its own separate sentence to avoid clobbering other groups. As such, you may have to alter your poses ever so slightly to make them sound sensical with the new structure.
• The fighter CALLBACK and RESCUE commands now accept fighter names as well as numbers.
• Fixed a bug that could potentially cause freshly generated sectors out of communications range to get marked as in communications range.

12-06-16

• Fixed a bug with sector generation that caused a secondary star to be created 50% of the time if an asteroid was present.

12-05-16

• Added oh-so-experimental support for room-posing objects. ROOM-POSE will use the same permission checks as the BOLT command. So if you can bolt something, you can also room-pose it. The syntax is ROOM-POSE <object name>. Please pose responsibly.
• Added support for numeral matching to ROOM-POSE. e.g. -4.apple to match the fourth apple in the room.
• Added extra experimental grouped room poses. This means you can group a collection of bolted objects under a single room pose. For example: 'You see a chair, a stool, and a fence sitting atop a rather sizable garbage pile here.' The command to try it out is GROUP-POSE.
• Added a ROOM-OPTION to separate the output of grouped objects from not-grouped objects when LOOKing.
• Fund centers now sell credit transfer cards. These are physical objects that can be mailed, given away, lost, stolen, hoarded, whatever. From a fund center, you can LOAD them with credits, REDEEM credits from them, or CHECK the balance.
• Credit transfer cards can be PUT in holiday cards for ultimate enjoyment and amusement for all! Opening cards with a credit transfer card hidden inside will cause it to either fall on the ground or be deftly caught in your waiting hand, depending on how many hands you have free and some plain old luck.

12-04-16

• Added a vehicle computer interface upgrade that will allow lazy people with lots of vehicles to quickly and easily manage authorization lists from the comfort of their own vehicle bay using the AUTHORIZE and DEAUTHORIZE commands.

12-03-16

• You can now enter ships from the outside using temporary walk styles. e.g. 'perambulate ballet' to enter your ship called Butterknife Ballet.
• Santa, being the generous soul he is, will now mail random gifts to people if he misses them in space.

12-01-16

• Santa, being the innovator that he is, is now handing out Santa Box 7's! These boxes are familiar, but different. They will excite you with their new revolutionary color and the ease of interface that you've come to know and love. Nobody can do what Santa does.

11-25-16

• Santa should no longer subwarp into the exact same coordinates as a ship or planet.

11-24-16

• Forcefield spacesuits can now be removed in aquatic environments.

11-23-16

• Falling objects in underwater rooms now have a random chance of hitting intrepid divers on the head. Hard.

11-22-16

• Droids now properly exit remote mode if you hand them their remote rather than invoking the verbal remote command.
• IMPORTANT UPDATE. You can now HOLD a CAMPFIRE to initiate (or join) a handholding circle of friendship and love. Around the campfire. Preferably while singing songs of camaraderie.
• Updated the "What is a ban? How long does it last?" section of POLICY 10. TL;DR don't assist on behalf of other players asking about their bans. They will be force canceled.
• Emergency propulsion devices will now pull you to the top level of water before depositing you in your ship. Weight belts will be negated mostly, but not entirely, during this process. Try it today!
• Fixed a physics-defying bug where you could put a belt inside of a belt pouch that was attached to that belt by using matching aliases.
• Fixed an oversight that allowed you to transmit with metafrequency communicators that weren't on your person or clipped to a worn belt.

11-21-16

• Added temporary submersible shelters that can be EXPANDed underwater to offer safety and respite to weary divers. These structures come with a certain amount of oxygen and will break apart after several minutes, dumping you back into the water.
• Diving suits will now have a random chance to move up or down if they lack neutral buoyancy. Neutral buoyancy can be enforced with an integrated buoyancy compensator module.
• Increased the time one falls unconscious due to drowning to 10 minutes.
• Divers can now wear weight belts to keep themselves from rising from the bottom due to buoyancy changes.
• Buoyancy compensators are now required to move up and down in aquatic environments.
• The blind map for three-dimensional dynamic rooms will now only detect objects that are on the same level as you.

11-20-16

• Unconscious divers without any source of oxygen will now randomly drift through the water against their will.
• With no major red flags after observing its usage, character microdetails have exited from beta testing and are now available for general use. What are microdetails, you ask? These are temporary lines of text that you can add to your description for a preset amount of time from anywhere between an hour to a week. To set your microdetails, type MICRODETAILS (or MICRO for the lazy). Please review the rules before completing your microdetails; this command is not meant to replace coded systems like clothing, makeup, or custom hair styles. You can quickly view other player's microdetail additions by typing MICROS [person] or EXTRA [person]. Help file coming soon.
• Drone and droid descriptions now indicate if they have amphibious enhancements present.

11-19-16

• Fixed the couriering help file to correct a company location being on Miriani rather than Pax.
• Added two new levels of improved diving oxygen tanks, high capacity (1.5 hours) and super capacity (2.0 hours).
• Included oxygen tank refilling in the 5 second water pulse that handles everything else having to do with diving. Consequently, this fixes a few oddities, including but not limited to tanks not being refilled if your ship was powered down for an extended period of time.

11-18-16

• Fixed a bug related to trolley pushing detection that caused holographic images of players to only display "You see nothing special" in their descriptions.

11-16-16

• Fixed a bug that could potentially cause a sector to recycle just as a ship was coming into it, plunging said ship into the depths of purgatory instead.

11-15-16

• Objects left in aquatic rooms will now gradually drift downwards if possible. (This excludes droids and drones.)
• Fixed a back end issue that prevented hosts from keeping track of Christmas gift items for later gathering in case of loss or destruction. This will only work on items created this year.

11-14-16

• LOOKing at diving helmets while worn will now display your underwater depth.
• Remaining oxygen is now displayed when LOOKing at a diving helmet underwater rather than being shown on the tank itself. Looking at a tank while in a non-aquatic environment acts as it did previously.
• Sighted players will now see a colored meter detailing how much oxygen is left while diving.

11-11-16

• You can no longer push furniture trolleys underwater.
• Programmatically updated archaeological artifact generation to take three-dimensional dynamic rooms into account. Artifacts can optionally be generated everywhere on the Z-axis or only on the bottom.

11-10-16

• Decreased the chances of hydrophobic coating damage while digging by approximately 33%.
• Gadget bots and cases can now store hatch bombs.
• Added yet more safety checks for falling unconscious while diving.
• Fixed a bug where 'View Upgrade Configurations' in starship simulators did nothing at all.
• Fixed a miniscule chance that multiple ships going through a jumpgate at the same time could end up at the same coordinates on the other side.
• Implemented three-dimensional dynamic rooms for new dig sites and other places that would realistically allow one to maneuver up or down.

11-09-16

• Implemented more sanity checks for diving to prevent being blasted by an hour of stun time while switching oxygen tanks.
• Armed emergency propulsion devices will now engage if you're underwater and manage to somehow lack a piece of your diving suit. This only applies if you are not in a ship.

11-08-16

• Added GAG-OPTIONS 24 to suppress text from holographic avatars in starship computer announcements.
• Added a new COLOR-OPTION to customize the color used for starship computer announcements.

10-30-16

• De-old-ified dynamic rooms (asteroids, dig sites) to give consistent walking messages for leaving and arriving similar to normal rooms.
• Bored and lonely people can now type @CHANGES RANDOM to view a random day from the changelog.
• Answering questions on application forms with the ANSWER <question number> on <application> command will now load your old answer into the editor if you wish to correct or delete parts of it.
• Added stores to the PARENT-command for host approved blueprints that are designed for the game's public geography.
• Added the (slightly limited and crippled) @ADD and @REMOVE commands for adding and removing items from blueprint shops. As noted in the previous change, this is only for areas intended for the game's public geography that have been specifically approved by a host.
• Added the ability to create sets of timed ambient messages for blueprint rooms with the ROOM-MESSAGES command.
• Temporary walk style adjustments now work when entering and exiting airlocks. (e.g. 'waddle in', 'perambulate out')

10-28-16

• Throwing water balloons at people no longer adds two similar lines about being drenched in water to their description.

10-25-16

• Boxes of dental floss are no longer stun armor battery packs.

10-24-16

• Typing MOVE or M by itself in an asteroid rover will now present you with a list of objects to move to.

10-23-16

• Landing beacons should now be able to be deployed in the same location as solar-powered recharging platforms.

10-22-16

• Increased the speed of asteroid rover autopilot.

10-21-16

• Enormous asteroids now come with a 50% chance of also generating a star in the sector.

10-20-16

• Added solar panel and recharging platform construction facilities for your asteroid recharging needs. See HELP SOLAR PANELS for the gist.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in asteroid rovers getting stuck nowhere when launched from a starship without a vehicle ramp.

10-19-16

• Added information to the STATUS of select factories to warn you about why the factory is sitting there doing nothing. (It only shows if needed.)

10-15-16

• Added the MASSRENAME-command to simulated blueprint avatars to facilitate quickly replacing a specific term in all room names with a new one.
• Added open and close message confirmation prompts to the dooradd command to let people see what their messages will look like before submitting doors.

10-11-16

• Aborting out of the prompt that asks whether you wish to build a returning go exit or an out exit with the DIG-GO command in architectural design simulators no longer creates an unusual deathtrap out of your destination room.
• Armor storage bags will no longer report that you put your combat suit in them when, in fact, nothing happens.

10-09-16

• A letter will now automatically be sent when a property rename is rejected. Consequently, hosts are now required to give a reason for rejection, which will be shown in the letter for your and our convenience.
• Lazy (erm, uh, busy) engineers can now substitute 'lrl' for 'long-range laser'.

10-07-16

• Wake up notifications will no longer excitedly proclaim that you're only wearing a bra if the undergarment (or undershirt!) isn't really a bra. Awkward.
• Added literal matching support to the main menu in Lore computers.

10-06-16

• Ship selection menus now support standard menu things, like typing your selection in by name (instead of number) or using $ to select the last option. And stuff.

10-05-16

• Players with a newbie tag who fire on planets and stations will no longer be automatically flagged as terrorists and be fined.

10-04-16

• The SORT and AUTOSORT commands now work on keyrings. You must have them on your person and not on a belt for this to work.

10-03-16

• Fixed a bug that could cause errant mission failure notifications at seemingly random times.

10-01-16

• Fixed a cagey bug that would allow destroyed simulated starships to wipe real world ship names from the ship registry, allowing multiple real ships to have the same name. Consequently, due to another bug, this would skew a poorly crafted index in the ENTER code that would cause the matched ship name to not correspond with the correct ship (fixed earlier but I didn't know how it happened and now I do!).

09-29-16

• Fixed a matching issue when trying to ENTER ships that would cause the lookup to fail in interesting ways and send you to a seemingly random ship in the area.
• Renamed the 'FTL Drive' option in repair centers to 'Wormhole Drive' for sake of consistency.

09-23-16

• Added the ACTIVE command as a shortcut to SHIP-O 19. No arguments in a ship room will assume you want to use the ship you're standing in. No arguments everywhere else will present the existing SHIP-O 19 menu. Arguments are assumed to be a ship name that you have a key to.

09-22-16

• Added the pirate social. Have fun.

09-19-16

• Cardenium reactors now ship disabled to minimize the loss of their factory charge.

09-18-16

• Added a LIGHTING-command to blueprint avatars that allows one to toggle whether the room is lit or not. Unlit rooms mask the room description and contents from view when LOOKing.

09-16-16

• Specialty ships that have been locked down can no longer be SHIP-DOCKed into another ship.

09-15-16

• You can no longer enter a starship that's in the middle of a launching sequence.

09-14-16

• Fixed a bug where private upgrade facilities would cut off handheld upgrade names if there were not also starship upgrades for sale.
• Fixed an issue where multiple people could install replacement locks at the same time, wasting replacements.

09-11-16

• The handhold social now requires at least one free hand.
• The simulator in the Office of Interalliance Real Estate on Pax now automatically updates itself. Oops!

09-09-16

• You can now HANG corkboards on the wall.

09-04-16

• Simulated avatars can now input information into a flexible editor prompt with 67% more success.
• Added a third section to the private organization information menu that will show administrators how many message board categories and org renames they have left.
• Added a note about the specialty starship scanners to specialty starship applications that will show up when the applications are read.

09-03-16

• Worth in the info command should really match the worth breakdown in point centers now. Maybe. Possibly. Hopefully!

08-29-16

• Fixed a number of bugs with food storage rooms that would cause the menu to appear strangely or include spurious '0' characters. Multislice containers will no longer sometimes appear awkwardly under the menu (a bowl containing a gallon bucket of vanilla ice cream is the best example that springs to mind). Finally, you can now store regular drinks that have the word 'bottle' in the name.
• You can no longer glance down at a watch while stunned.
• Removing apartment owners will now automatically unregister them with the apartment mailbox if one is present.

08-25-16

• Fixed it so the new types of food robots can be claimed like the old types are when someone deletes and doesn't reroll or restore within an hour.
• Like pets, babies, and food robots orphaned by their owners, vanities can now be claimed.

08-24-16

• It is no longer possible to take cover behind ships that are launching, being expelled, being docked, or otherwise moving.

08-22-16

• Added a GAG-OPTION to suppress starship repair messages.

08-20-16

• Claiming ships docked inside other ships should now add to the count in INFO ACHIEVEMENTS.

08-13-16

• You can no longer transmit to alliance channels if you have them muted.

08-12-16

• It is now possible to track down those pesky missing vanities at your local pet tracking facility.
• Video probe launches are now announced sector-wide.

08-07-16

• Added an 'Adopt' option to the @CREQUEST command to allow non-donators to magically request orphaned pets using a tradesman item certificate.

08-03-16

• Retrieving a ship from a private garage on a private structure with multiple landing pads will now send the ship to the landing pad you're standing on instead of the main landing pad.

08-02-16

• Speaking into your communicator while in space is no longer visible to video probes that might be present.

07-30-16

• Added a TRADESMANFIX command that will retrieve tradesman items that have moseyed off into the unknown land of #-1.

07-25-16

• Fixed a horrifying bug that would cause you to emote your last command entered if you had an automatic custom social enabled after waking up from a doze.

07-22-16

• Claiming starships will now transfer ownership of on-board mining equipment to the claimee.
• It is no longer possible to claim a ship if doing so would put you over the starship ownership limit. This doesn't affect claiming specialty ships or battlecruisers for cash.
• Fixed ancient bugs in hand handling (ho ho) that had two undesired effects: First, it would make you 'drop' things that were on your person but not necessarily in your hand. Useless. Second, it would never execute the original request to add something to your hand, so you'd end up with phantom objects inside of you instead of in your hands, which is always hard to explain in the ER.

07-20-16

• You (yeah you, Wilhelm) can now match private comm recipients using regular expressions and use subsequent capture groups in your message. Your expression should begin with ^ to make the MOO aware of the fact that you're not intending to match another way. It might even work!

07-19-16

• Fixed a bug where organization joining cooldowns would not be respected if the joinee was invited by an administrator, rather than applying and being accepted later.
• Added oh-so-experimental support for fuzzy searching private link names. There is a COMM-OPTION to enable it. You can also mess with the internals of how it works with FUZZY-MATCH-O and test them against your private links with FUZZYTEST [name], depending on how bored you get.
• Added wily and experimental fuzzy matching support to MATCH-OPTIONS.

07-18-16

• Fixed a bug in lockbox menus that caused added owners not to be recognized as owners.

07-17-16

• Added a WAKEUP-OPTION to be notified of new changes and announcements when waking up from a doze.

07-16-16

• @changelog now displays all of your unread changes at once (when you have unread changes). If not, it displays a smattering of the last changes without having to select individual dates. It also accepts a numeric argument indicating how many changes to view. (e.g. @changes 50 to view 50 changes)
• Added a GEN-OPTION to reverse the order of the changelog for those who prefer the newest changes at the bottom.
• Added a WAKEUP-OPTION to perform a custom social upon waking from a deep, dark doze.
• You can now type OPTIN or OPTOUT in apartment lobbies to choose whether you are sent monthly rent slips upon rent being deducted.
• Expanded the GEN-OPTION for login changelog notification (option 4) to allow you to display the full text of all new changes upon login.
• Added the ability to search the changelog by date. If that's your thing. Example: @changes 3-3-13
• The auction service (TR LINK AUCTION) will now announce when newly abandoned properties become available to purchase at the Shared Offices of Interalliance Real Estate on Pax.
• You can now choose to use a tradesman item certificate to obtain an item from the adoption menu on Empanda Station if you're a donator. Standard timing restrictions apply.

07-14-16

• Tired of the arduous, Herculean effort required to type '1' after connecting to log into your character? Tire no more! You can now send 'connect [username] [password] [menu option]' as your username (or, you know, just put '[password] 1' in your client's auto-login password field) to avoid all of that uncomfortable typing.

07-12-16

• Disconnecting in the middle of manually correcting a word in spell check will no longer replace the word with type mismatch.

07-10-16

• Added WAKEUP-OPTIONS that add exciting spam to your login experience! Quickly take stock of what matters to you the most, like how you're standing in your underwear (or naked) and what's in your hands. Maybe the two are unrelated, maybe not. We don't judge. Publicly.
• Added health awareness to WAKEUP-OPTIONS.
• Added a WAKEUP-OPTION to show an awareness report when you become active again after dozing.
• Removed Trajrrks from combat missions.
• The TALK <npc> command will now only match to NPCs rather than matching to anything in the room. For example, if you had a spectacular bar in the room first, followed by a bartender, previously it would match to the bar when you typed TALK BAR. Now it will match to the bartender.

07-09-16

• Paginated menus in Lore photo albums now go back to the correct page after viewing or deleting a photo.

07-08-16

• Fixed a permissions oversight that would result in vacation mode not being unset upon connecting if you weren't a wizard.
• Innocent, harmless NPCs will no longer be thrown into a vicious if not slightly amusing infinite loop of switching work shifts if the next shift isn't on the same date as the prior one.
• Ownership of toothbrushes no longer matters. They now take into account the first person to use them.

07-07-16

• Updated Policy 6 with information about vacation mode.

07-06-16

• Like battlecruiser applications, org applications can now have a preface. The preface will be displayed before any questions when the application is read.
• After many years of wondering why this wasn't a thing, applications of all kinds can now be trashed like letters and notes.
• Updated the tradesman rules help file to include rules about proper item descriptions.

07-05-16

• Made a couple changes to private organization applications. 1. Your organization no longer has to be private to enable applications. 2. Since you can now mass-print applications, private private organizations have to mail applications out to potential candidates, re-establishing the security and privacy that private private orgs once enjoyed. Or something.
• Fixed org applications to, you know, work if you print them yourself and hand them out to other people. Also added a helpful error message when the application belongs to somebody else instead of it saying nothing at all.
• Org applications now use the description of the org as their description.

07-04-16

• Private organizations not set to public can now enable membership applications. Org owners will find a slew of new options in the MENU on Pax for configuring questions, letters, and approvals.
• Added the ability to print semi-large quantities of organization applications. For a modest convenience fee, of course.
• Fixed an oversight where one couldn't BOOT people from a starship if the ship was expelling another ship from its docking bay.

06-30-16

• Hopefully fixed a bug that would cause NPC work shifts to be sped up rather dramatically if it was midnight.
• Improved support for piped commands in custom socials. Relatedly, added a ROOM-OPTION to always or never show standard command output with piped emotes / socials.

06-29-16

• You can now IGNORE <hangman> to filter out some of the spammier elements of hangman games.
• The SCENT command now accepts scent names (or 'none') as arguments.
• Added a ROOM-OPTION for confirming emotes before they get sent to the room.

06-28-16

• Sanitation drones now clean up puddles of vomit.
• Added streaming to message board threads. When toggled on for an individual thread, the new message notification will include the full text of the reply without you having to enter the message board interface.
• Added a message board option to stream all threads as they come in.
• Added an entry to the message board options to see and delete streamed threads all in one place.

06-27-16

• The my <thing> match keyword should now work with approximately 178 more commands than it worked with before.
• Per the descriptions, stairways have been added to all levels of Medraska's. Thanks to those of you who suggested, reported and harassed us about these. We love you all.

06-26-16

• Stalkers can now utilize the dazzling TR WHO ORG command to see who is tuned to your private organization channel at any given moment.
• NPC bartenders will now periodically clean empty plates and glasses off of their bars.
• You can no longer delete your character if you have rerolled previously within the last two weeks. If you have a solid reason for needing to circumvent this rule, please ASSIST.
• Select spaceports (the ones that let you SHIP-EXPEL) will now assist you in docking one ship within another. Simply call them forth with the SHIP-DOCK command while inside the ship with the docking bay. This requires that you own the ship you're trying to take into your docking bay or that you know the authorization code of the ship in question. Ships that you do not own and have no authorization code set can't be transferred at all.
• Added a PILOT-OPTION to allow you to disable the ability for anybody to SHIP-DOCK your ship into their docking bay regardless of what magic codes they happen to know. And also the owner (presumably you) won't be able to ship-dock it either.
• Spaceport security will no longer BOOT moving starships. Not since the lawsuits.
• Added brute force protection to the SHIP-DOCK command.

06-24-16

• Mail will no longer be put in bundles if you only have a single item in your mail.
• Fixed a bug where being moved out of the room while in a ship name confirmation prompt would still allow you to purchase the ship.

06-23-16

• Added industrial dispensation as an alternative to combat points for certain purchases. See message board post 84469 for all of the long-winded and potentially nonsensical details.
• Added an 'upgrade' to scan Praelor Trajrrks for the easiest money you'll ever make. See the Galactic News for details.
• Raised the combat point cutoff for training mission assignment to 20 combat points instead of 6 to be more friendly for new players.

06-22-16

• The POINTS command has been rewritten to be slightly more helpful. It now displays a column indicating whether or not you have enough points for the item, it adapts to your set linelength instead of being needlessly huge, and it accepts arguments. The argument can be a search string (e.g. POINTS DRIVE) to narrow the list down or you can add eligible (e.g. POINTS ELIGIBLE) to only display what you have enough points for. This, of course, excludes items that require no points and assumes you know you're eligible for those.
• Added the /CHANGELINE <line-number> <new-text> command (shorthand /change) to the flexible editor to replace an existing line in the text with something else.

06-20-16

• Fixed a bug that would cause piloting NPCs to stop flying if there was a space station in the sector and the NPC was attempting to land to recharge the ship.
• You will no longer receive messages regarding blast doors being sealed or unsealed if you leave the ship in the middle of the opening/closing process.

06-19-16

• Distance recorded on the starship ODOMETER is now 66.67% more accurate. Traversing on more than one axis at a time will now accurately calculate distance, rather than always assuming 0.5 lightyears between each sector.
• Updated the text of POLICY 4. Previously, people were allowed to communicate with other players outside of the game as long as their characters could communicate inside of the game, regardless of being logged in or not. It is now illegal to communicate information to other players if they aren't logged in and active. Telling someone to unidle or connect to the game based on IC occurrences is a policy violation.
• Lore albums now have the option to search photos by name.
• Added the ability to reverse the sort order of photos in your Lore album.
• Added an ALBUM command as a shortcut to jump directly to the Lore photo album.
• The flexible editor is now enabled by default. No clue what this is? A help file has been added to explain things and offer a way out if you hate it, accessible via HELP EDITOR. You can alter options by typing EDIT-OPTIONS (or EDIT-O for the chronically lazy).
• Cloaked jumpgates will no longer always appear as a rock fragment to debris scanners.

06-18-16

• Simulated starships can now use the same names as real life starships without one affecting the other.
• Added the CLEAR <message board reader> command to mark all pending messages as read without having to enter the menu.

06-15-16

• You can now PRINT a list of your ship approvals (battlecruiser, specialty) in point centers to prove that you're not a liar. Or for other sure to be interesting reasons.
• Laser reflectors can now be disabled via the SYSTEMS command.
• Added dump chutes to litter space. Use the CHUTE command in engineering with a vacuum-safe container.
• The SCAN command now displays labels ahead of the huge list of output. If this is undesirable to you, a new SHIP-OPTION has also been added to revert to the old behavior.

06-14-16

• Fixed an information leak where that starmap symbol of a focused (but now cloaked) ship would remain green.
• Fixed an oddity where mimicking a ship that cloaked after the mimick would make the mimicker show as 'Debris (Starship)' in the SCAN list as well as showing half-cloaked information in the detailed scan output. Now it appears as the uncloaked ship in both locations.
• Fixed yet another (embarrassing) information leak where a cloaked object's actual name was used in the autopilot selection messages.
• Added a small story-relevant random occurance to certain combat missions.

06-13-16

• Added food storage rooms to the parent list on houses and spaceborne structures. These rooms allow you to STORE food, drink bottles, and multislices that contain food, drinks, cups, napkins, or plates. To retrieve an item, you can UNSTORE [item], and to view everything that's been stored you can type LIST or MENU. If the list is too long for your liking, you can narrow things down by typing LIST [search term] to only show items that match to that term. These rooms also compress items for the people that enjoy hording such things.

06-12-16

• Airlocks are now much better about detecting that baby that's in a backpack in a stroller in a shower on a furniture trolley when cycling.
• Babies created using the genetic sequencing lab will now properly article themselves when using the term "infant" in their type. You might or might not need to have yours fixed if it has already been created. Assist if there are any problems I failed to see.
• Going forward, INFO ACHIEVEMENTS will show you how many ships you've claimed, uncharted sectors you were a part of charting, planets discovered while you happened to be standing around on the ship, and profitable trades you made when you accidentally bought something at a trading center and had to unload it somewhere because you forgot about expel.
• Rejiggered mission assignment rooms a great deal, mostly to modernize and organize things in a more streamlined fashion. No outward-facing changes should be apparent, but if you encounter something that isn't working as it should, please REPORT it.
• Training missions are now categorized properly as training missions instead of 'other'.

06-11-16

• Alastor 'Mad-Eye FOCUS Command' Moody can no longer penetrate cloaking devices.
• Fixed a bug where cloaked starships would give a specific debris title instead of just 'Debris' when scanning their coordinates.
• Fixed a bug where scanning debris that was, in fact, a cloaked starship would show the coordinates as 0, 0, 0.
• Fixed a bug where cloaked proximity weapons would say OH HEY I'M A CLOAKED PROXIMITY WEAPON when you typed SCAN with no arguments.
• Fixed a bug where the LOCK command would reveal a cloaked proximity weapon.
• Fixed a bug where the LOCKED command would reveal cloaked things.
• Fixed an information leak where FOCUS DEBRIS would give a different message if debris matched to a cloaked thing.
• Station observation rooms now share in the glory of the relevant cloaking fixes above.
• Cloaked starships and proximity weapons now choose a random piece of common debris to fool debris scanners.

06-09-16

• For those of you who request babies through the tradesman labs, the approval letters will now be sent by an actual merchant rather than by nobody at all. Only the most important changes here, right? Right.
• Droids now respond correctly to commands when using the ] alias for whisper.
• Removed the confusing and mostly useless feature that allowed multiple people to submit different names for a single room.

06-08-16

• Disowning specialty starships and battlecruisers will now destroy ALL ships that happen to be docked inside at the time of the final reckoning.
• The specialty ship purchase time limit once again applies for destructions. You can no longer purchase a specialty ship of the same class as the one that got destroyed up to two weeks after the ship's demise. Example: Albori's Hale runabout is destroyed. He wouldn't be able to buy another Hale runabout until two weeks have elapsed since the initial destruction.
• Much like cargo haulers, you can now only own 5 flitter-class starships. (This change is not retroactive and will not effect people that are already above the limit.)
• Claiming specialty ships will now destroy any ships that might be docked inside rather than spontaneously ejecting them onto the landing pad. The claimee, of course, will be paid handsomely based on how much the ship's are worth.
• For an extra fee and some time, you can now claim docked ships that reside in a freshly claimed ship. You will receive a prompt asking you if you wish to do so after claiming the first ship if any such ships are present.
• Photo collections are now copied over when cloning data to another Lore device.
• Amphibious stun weapons and pulse emitters are now referred to as aquatic. All current weapons in existence have been renamed.
• It's now possible to add a self-updating list of your private organization members to authentication groups if you're an administrator of the org in question. When adding a member, simply use the keyword "org" or "organization" and your private organization will be added to the authorized members.
• Droids have suddenly and completely spontaneously gained the ability to move through any biometrically locked exit that their owner is authenticated to pass through. Exciting times!
• To aid with testing and quality assurance, you will now see messages as they would appear to everyone else when simulating a design in a tradesman lab.

06-07-16

• Exciting as it was, it should no longer be possible (or desirable) to dodge counter-stun pulses. Do REPORT if you notice it happening!

06-05-16

• Droids that are out of comms will no longer transmit camera feed activity back to the remote if they aren't in the same sector. (This was always the intention, but you know, 8 years later...)

06-02-16

• House lifts will now remove any demolished rooms upon accessing the menu.

05-31-16

• Much like unbolting, you can no longer unhang items from the wall if you don't own the item itself and aren't an owner on the property or ship where the item is hung.
• For the drunks among us, expressive speech will now make you appear 10 times more inebriated than you really are by adding "drunkenly" on to the beginning of any socials. True innovation.
• You can now read notes and letters that have been placed in display cases.

05-28-16

• Since locking yourself out of the game is meant to be an alternative to deleting your character, it is no longer possible to delete your character while your account is locked out.
• Station biographies (if available) can now be accessed with the LOOKUP command in the real estate office or by asking your RAVEN a question about a property name.

05-26-16

• Destroying couriers with combat drones will now distribute the reward to the occupants of the ship who launched the drone instead of casting it off into oblivion, never to be seen again.
• Diving suit modules can now be stored in diving gear bags.
• Disbanding your group in architectural design simulators now works correctly. By which I mean it actually disbands other avatars now.

05-25-16

• Majorly rewrote the way network lag is calculated in the @LAG command, thanks to Albori. Metrics are now pulled from multiple sources, making the results more accurate than ever. Also added the more/summary/detailed argument to view a 22.2% useless graph of how much lag each location is receiving.
• Fixed a bug where trading centers would neglect to charge you at all if you were buying a commodity that already existed in your storage room.
• To prevent people from going to sleep to avoid the wrath of the infamous space cat, players that have been disconnected for 20 minutes or less are now vulnerable to attack.

05-23-16

• Rejiggered the INFO command in ship stores to show proper upgrade names instead of behind-the-scenes upgrade designations. (Excitement level 0.3)
• Room poses are now sort of supported during spacewalks. If that's what you're into.
• Added a ROOM-OPTION to condense the drone list in the room into a single 'you see 199 drones' statement instead of a full list. LOOK DRONES or LOOK DRONE LIST will show the full list.

05-21-16

• Babies created with the genetic sequencing lab will no longer have a bunch of garbage objects in their trust lists.
• Fixed an age-old exploit that allowed salvage lifeforms to attack (and destroy the clothes of) defenseless sleeping players.
• Tradesman items should now give much more informational information to administrators upon being destroyed in case they need to be restored later.

05-20-16

• Fixed a bug where trading centers didn't apply bardenium weight modifiers, resulting in the ability to vastly overstuff your storage with bardenium and resulting in a negative remaining weight capacity.

05-14-16

• Loosened automatic emote abuse flagging quite a great deal. Using somewhat common phrases should no longer flag you as abusive in most cases.

05-12-16

• Standard shops will now include ships from all landing sites when trying to deliver items if they're on a planet that has them.

05-10-16

• Escape pods that have been redirected to another ship will now make a few somewhat necessary course corrections to go to the owner's home planet instead of depositing passengers in the recycling plant if the target ship is destroyed mid-flight.

05-06-16

• Fixed a bug that would prevent transporting a ship to a private garage if the planet lacked a public garage.
• You will now always receive a confirmation prompt regardless of ship-options 13 (auto-confirm landing and Jumpgate prompts) being active if you move to the destination via manual navigation.

05-03-16

• Fixed a bug with floor to ceiling blast doors where failing to maneuver over an opening door would incorrectly say that it was closing.

04-28-16

• Floor to ceiling blast doors will no longer say that you hop/leap under the blast door. Ceiling to floor blast doors will now properly denote whether the door is opening or closing when you're unable to venture forth beneath them. Finally, to aid with extraneous output, the blast door control activation message will now only appear for the room and won't be shown to the person activating it.
• Fixed an oversight that would result in no output when trying to move through a moving blast door going up or down.

04-27-16

• Wandering babies should now be able to wander on private stations, moons, and planets. Please REPORT or ASSIST if you notice any weirdness beyond how weird babies are in the first place.

04-26-16

• Fixed an issue where a whole group of people and objects would follow you if you succeeded in dramatically crossing the threshold of a closing blast door.

04-25-16

• Airlocks will now refuse to cycle if a baby is present but inside a stroller.

04-23-16

• Droids can now be booted from private property. If on a station, moon, or planet, the droid will be booted to the landing pad. If in a house, the droid will be booted to the same place other players are booted to. Ways to forcefully drag droids off of space-born private property entirely coming soon!
• Fixed an issue that would cause the BOOT command in observation rooms to not work on a small subset of private structures.

04-16-16

• It is no longer possible to clap if you don't have both hands free. Yes, this is how bored we are.

04-13-16

• Simulating a food robot design will now automatically create baby spoons and baby bottles if you have babyish things of that nature on your menu to facilitate testing messages.

04-12-16

• You can no longer trash tradesman envelopes if they have a certificate wafer inside, to prevent accidentally forfeiting your replacement certificate.
• Fixed a bug where security centers in newly minted properties created from a simulated blueprint would not receive camera announcements.

04-06-16

• The SITTING command will now show who might be sitting to your left and right on furniture, to facilitate the jerks that enjoy not-so-discreetly elbowing each other in the ribs.
• Added the 'RESET' argument to the TUR command in starship control rooms for ship owners to reset all installed internal stun turret labels to the default.
• Added options to purchase starmap viewing terminals and independent damage monitoring consoles for all compatible rooms in your ship. Also rejiggered the store menu where they're sold slightly to be less cluttery.

04-02-16

• The HITS command now shows a total at the bottom.

04-01-16

• The DOORRESET-command will now work on custom apartment doors. Also added it to the 'Building Commands' and 'Doors' help files.

03-27-16

• Added number of landing pads/docking bays and date of property registration to the STATUS command in private structure security centers.
• The Office of Private Property Information Services on pax will now show the date of registration for any properties you own.

03-21-16

• Added internal turret camera profiles. You can access the configuration menu by typing TUR PROFILES (profile, config, conf, prof, or other variations also work). Adding rooms to a profile will result in their cameras being activated upon loading the configuration. For quickness, you can also add a profile name after the command (e.g. tur profile mission). The full profile name isn't required either, so you could, in theory, do TUR profile MIS to activate the mission profile if you had nothing else that matched.

03-20-16

• You can no longer create a custom social command that begins with an at (@) sign.

03-18-16

• Added the REORDER-BLASTDOOR command for ship owner blast door reordering shenanigans.
• Friendly alien starships, forever grateful for assistance, will now offer one free service if you happen to destroy all of the Praelor in the sector before they attack the unknown ship.
• Stores now offer the option to use the same options when purchasing multiples of the same item.

03-17-16

• Installed tripwires will now show under the SECURITY-command next to the corresponding blast door.
• Cutting torches and handheld metallurgical scanners now count towards your overall worth.

03-16-16

• Blast doors can now be cut with torches to gain entry. Battlecruisers can now have two blast doors. Players can now choose where to place blast doors in the ship. More information available in board post 83862.
• Added blast door tripwires. More information available in board post 83864.
• Added current / maximum installable blast doors to the STATUS command for those fanatics.
• Battlecruisers can now be DISOWNed to prevent conditions where a player would be unable to purchase another one ever again.
• It should now be possible to duck under or leap over blast doors that are in the process of opening if you time things right.
• In order to prevent nasty accidents, it is no longer possible to launch an atmospheric salvager when landed on a planet with a hostile environment without a spacesuit.
• You can now TRANSFER ALL in an atmospheric salvager control room to avoid seeing the transfer menu.

03-12-16

• Updated HELP TRADESMAN RULES to include some of the stuff from announcements that never made it into the help file. Most people are already aware, but it's nice to have it all in one place. Feel free to REPORT your favorite missing rules!

03-09-16

• Updated the examples listed in POLICY 3.

03-08-16

• Updated the enforcement section of POLICY 4 to clarify the distinction between scripting and other forms of cheating. The primary clarification is that cases of bug and loophole abuse carry different penalties from scripting. (Previously this distinction was made by an initial paragraph that was easy to miss or misinterpret due to formatting.)

03-07-16

• Notifications of Praelor locks are now controlled on an individual basis. If you previously had NOLOCK enabled on your ship, you'll now want to enable GAG-OPTIONS 22. Or type NOLOCK again, which is now a shortcut for the gag option for backward compatibility.

03-06-16

• Fixed a longstanding bug in character creation where you wouldn't receive your tradesman items (or penalties!) if you disconnected in the middle of appearance generation.

03-04-16

• Stores on player-owned structures in uncharted space are no longer eligible to appear in the Lore shopping guide.
• Added a NOGUIDE command to private stores that allows the primary owner of a structure to redact a shop's listing from the Lore shopping guide. Typing it again will re-add the shop. Loretech Industries, of course, charges a small fee for such requests.

03-02-16

• Fixed an exploit that permitted people to read letters that weren't addressed to them if they put them in picture frames.

03-01-16

• Certain apartment rooms now come with basic doors. See board post 83816 for details.

02-29-16

• You can now use the equals (=) sign instead of a plus when inputting directions to NAVI. Other small corrections have also been made, such as being able to use +5 and -5 to go up or down if you're verbose.

02-28-16

• Closets, duffel bags and other containers that facilitate clothing compression now obey ITEM-O 10 (display container contents as list).

02-24-16

• Fixed an issue where the Lore shopping guide was too stupid to recognize when a price was worthy of adding commas to according to the cash comma option.
• Fixed a traceback condition in the Lore shopping guide for variably priced items like starship upgrades.

02-23-16

• Spacesuit forcefields will finally show in your description if you clip them to belts.

02-22-16

• Fixed an oversight in GAG-OPTIONS 21 (control room 'fired at' messages) that would cause observation rooms to not see when ships were firing at one another.

02-21-16

• During host-noted events, the PA-CHECK command will now indicate that out of character communication via the intercom is not permitted, regardless of the preferences of people aboard.
• Our long national nightmare is finally over! GAG-OPTIONS now includes an option to gag 'fired at' messages from other starships.

02-20-16

• Escape pods launched from support fighters out of communications range will no longer temporarily put you back in communications range.
• Escape pods launched from starships out of comms will now remain out of comms until they have traversed through the wormhole back home.

02-19-16

• The POINTS command in ship stores now accepts search arguments. (e.g. POINTS DART or POINTS ONE)
• Added a ROOMFIX command to building avatars that allows people to destroy rooms that lack any exits and seemingly exist in limbo.

02-18-16

• Atmospheric combat vehicles now count toward your worth.

02-16-16

• Fixed a small oversight that allowed people to END card games even if they weren't playing. You can still end a game if none of the players are left in the room where the game is taking place.

02-13-16

• Fixed a bug where PEEK would show objects that should be invisible.

02-12-16

• Added the LAG FORMAT command to toggle whether lag is shown in milliseconds or seconds.

02-10-16

• Private properties put up for auction will now automatically have their door passwords and garage access lists cleared.

02-08-16

• Added a note when activating GENRAL-OPTIONS 9 that warns people about the visibility of tuned metafrequency communicators or other private information that might be perusable by less-than-savory individuals.
• Contrary to the last change, made it so metafrequency channel labels and frequencies will not show up at all when the communicator is not on your character in some fashion or in your location.

02-07-16

• Fixed an exploit that would allow starships to launch more than one interdictor every three seconds if multiple people initiated the launching process at the same time.
• Added a note to the text of policy 6 that details specifically what characters might not be eligible for restoration.
• Blazon rockets (also known as twink weapons of doom) have once again received a rebalance. They will no longer target weapons, and instead, will target all components on the ship. Damage incurred on components has been decreased. Time to fire rockets has been increased, based on how many rockets are loaded. You will now receive roundtime when firing rockets. The firing message has been moved to display after rockets hit, not before. Prices for rockets have also been increased. Any assists requesting to discuss these balance changes will be force canceled. We (mostly I) am sick of trying to keep up with people that can't be responsible, so this is what happens. More changes may come in the future.

02-06-16

• Hang and unhang will no longer show in commands if the object isn't hangable.

02-05-16

• The tradesman adoption menu on Empanda Station now allows you to peruse all available items as well as view attributes on particular items even if you cannot request a donator item at that very moment.

02-04-16

• Added a new GAG-OPTION (gag-o 20) for candle burning messages.

02-03-16

• Fixed a seemingly inconsequential exploit where one could join another player on a landing pad and then hold them while the other player was prompted, resulting in both players following one another.
• Archaeological artifacts that aren't empty can no longer be put it archaeological artifact containers.
• You can no longer wear pieces of stun armor over combat suits.
• You can no longer wear combat suits on top of or beneath standard armor to create a double layer of protection.

02-01-16

• Trading centers now explicitly tell you when they're maxed out on a commodity (no current need) instead of just not wanting it ever (no demand at all).

01-31-16

• Fixed an oversight that caused Outreach and Acrylon to utilize very old style pre-2010 flight control when ship's were launching.
• You can now only transport ships you have keys to from garages on capital planets. Thank spammers.
• Made a few more slight changes to blazon rockets. 6 rockets are fired instead of 12. Fixed it so you can't choose a target in the menu if they're no longer in range. Rockets will no longer hit a target if they move out of range similar to long-range lasers, giving people a chance to evade them if they know how.
• Ducts now allow you to PEEK to catch glimpses of objects in the room beyond. There is a 50% chance (per-person) that people in the room will notice the duct panel moving, so spies beware.
• Blazon rocket salvo size has been restored to 12, although the distance fixes remain.
• Trading centers now indulge in monthly cheats where they will reset their supply and demand levels to factory defaults for... reasons...
• Magnesium is now in demand instead of being sold for no reason whatsoever.
• In order to fix an exploit, guarding security drones will no longer stun someone if they're already stunned.

01-29-16

• Fixed starship communication relays so you can unlink them with the TR SHIP UNLINK command, even if your communicator is not in range. Also added the more natural command TR UNLINK SHIP (or starship) and made TR UNLINK not count against your communication flood limit.
• Letters and notes in your hands will now always match before notes tacked to corkboards in the room.
• You will now be notified if you have any pending IQMN messages upon connecting to the game or activating a RAVEN holographic interface.
• Added a new spell option (SPELL-O 6) "Don't Engage Spell Checker On Certain Metafrequency Channels". This allows one to exclude certain metafrequencies from ever being spell checked if you have transmission spell check enabled.

01-28-16

• It should no longer be possible to load or unload gadget bots if they're not on your person or on the ground.
• You can now UNLOAD <ammunition name> from <ammo storage container> to quickly unload weapon ammunition without having to deal with a menu.

01-26-16

• The robotics lab will no longer prevent you from adding additional menu headers if you've added the maximum amount of menu items.
• Lockboxey-like containers now support item-options 10 (Display Container Contents as List).
• Evaluating the worth of a compressed blueprint will no longer fail. (This was an artifact of switching blueprint compression to use text files instead of in-database monkey business.)
• Fixed a bug where your coordinates would be updated after following somebody into a dynamic room from a regular one, instead of before. In turn this would usually result in incorrect coordinates being displayed upon following somebody, but LOOKing later would show the correct ones. No more unpredictable confusion!
• Editing book pages with the flexible editor should now work 100% more successfully.
• Since it is entirely out of character, the tradesman certificate marketplace can now be accessed out of communications range.
• Private property can no longer be transferred to someone if their previous character has owned the property in the past. Thank people that thought they weren't getting noticed.

01-24-16

• The timeline now details (or briefly mentions, whichever) the events of unlucky 2127.

01-21-16

• Babies now lose all their clothing upon their parent's deletion. This means that rerolls won't get penalized for graverobbing their baby's clothing anymore. In theory.
• Gadget bots, both conventional as well as the wearable types, along with those mounts with the ability to contain things now follow the lead of babies and expel their guts into the recycler when their owner deletes. Take that, graverobbing fees!

01-18-16

• The nearby-o command will now notify you if you enter an invalid option when changing your nearby order.

01-16-16

• Strollers can now be added to the filters of sanitation drones. Sanitation drones will also no longer steal strollers that are following someone.
• Detailing drones on Zander now looks 100% less stupid when choosing colors beginning with vowels.

01-15-16

• Planets and space stations out of communications range will no longer sentence you to time behind bars for firing on them. This doesn't mean other, less than desirable things might not happen, however. If you know what I mean.
• Looking at earrings and other piercings will now tell you what part of your body they're meant to go in.
• Added the RAGELOCKOUT command.

01-14-16

• Transmitting using communicator hardlinks now announces to the room like normal.
• Jumpgates now show up on long-range scans.

01-12-16

• Books and journals now allow you to edit the current page inside the flexible editor by typing WRITE <book> again while turned to the offending page.
• You now need at least one free hand to PULL people to their feet.
• Added a PASTE command to the flexible editor which allows one to insert the contents of notes or letters into a working body of text. You must be able to read the letter or note that you wish to paste.

01-11-16

• Throwing wood into a fireplace while there's already a fire going will now refresh the fire.

01-08-16

• Looking at baby food and drinks will now tell you how many servings they have left. This should also help with testing baby food and drinks in food robots when creating them in the robotics lab.

01-07-16

• I don't see that here? YOU don't see that here!

01-06-16

• The SILENT-command can now be typed anywhere, regardless of whether you're standing in a starship control room or not.

01-03-16

• You can no longer transfer leadership status of a group to somebody else while standing on a landing pad.
• Entering a blank label in the LABEL <multifrequency communicator> command now clears any existing label for that frequency. Also removed a silly reminder to enable the label matching option and instead enable the option automatically.

01-02-16

• Fixed a bug where checking the worth of a blueprint that had been compressed into a file would cause a horrific error.
• Added the LEADER <player> command to transfer leadership of your current group over to somebody else in the group.

01-01-16

• Added the NAMES <object> command to give you a best guess as to what names an object will respond to if it accepts verbal commands.
• ... now with 100% less admin checking. By which I mean fixed an issue where the NAMES command would never work for anybody.

12-31-15

• Trying to register with a courier company you're already registered with will now tell you that you're registered with it, instead of telling you that you should quit your job first.

12-29-15

• Baby food an drinks can now be added to food robots using the robotics lab.

12-28-15

• Yelling in a shower will now be audible to people in the same room as the shower.
• Fixed a bug where starships with on board asteroid rovers would cause a traceback when ownership was transferred.

12-26-15

• In an attempt to make doing laundry a bit less tedious, washing machines and dryers now have a maximum capacity of 30 objects.

12-24-15

• To avoid finishing that last Christmas gift request, I made packages of stationery show the type of stationery contained within.

12-23-15

• Fixed a bug (I guess?) where multiple types of filth wouldn't show in your description at the same time. Now one type of slime or snowball or whatever won't take precedence over another and cause it to be hidden.
• Stamps can now be used on letters, notes, and packages. Excitement abounds.
• Added a docking bay/landing pad parent for structures designed inside of architectural design simulators. The new parent will show up under the PARENT command, and will not appear for players outside of a simulated environment.
• Fixed a bug in wind instruments that wouldn't allow you to play a specific tune.

12-22-15

• Updated the enforcement section of policy 4 with information about client scripts.

12-12-15

• Communicator hardlinks can now be used while you have roundtime.
• Private property transferrals on Aquatimis should work once again. (The reason for them being broken has to do with something that will be revealed in an announcement in the coming hours. Or days. Nobody can predict these things!)
• Flight control scanners that have the CHRISTMAS alliance filtered will no longer announce Santa's space sleigh launching.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the 2014 Santa Box(tm) to not function properly if you didn't have a pre-existing laser color modification in place.

12-07-15

• Clay storage cabinets should actually prevent clay from rotting out when closed now.
• Fixed a bug that would strip the last period from an ellipsis, making you look like a fool. Sorry.

12-06-15

• You can no longer bid on auctions if you are already the high bidder.

12-05-15

• Fixed an error with the communication loopback recipient that would rear its ugly head if you were transmitting via a communicator hardlink.
• Fixed a bug with store-bought multislices that would result in the number of slices being saved to the description upon being purchased. This would in turn result in the enumeration of slices at purchase time plus the current number of slices remaining being shown. (For example: You see 12 slices of delicious pineapple pizza remaining. You see six slices of delicious pineapple pizza remaining.)
• Pilot NPCs will no longer attempt to get repairs or charge from privately owned structures.
• Christmas trees will no longer fit into backpacks or other probably-maybe-quite-possibly-too-small containers.

12-01-15

• Added experimental support for Lore regular expression searches. From the memo menu, you can type a forward slash (/) followed by a regular expression and see what happens! Hopefully not bad things.
• Managing organization membership requests will now clear the list of any non-player objects.

11-30-15

• Introducing the XMAS command. Just type it to see if you're a Scrooge or if you're on the naughty list.
• Added communicator hardlinks, which have nothing to do with filesystem hardlinks. Hardlinks are basically forced aliases used to refer to a private link, but they also function like metafrequency labels in that you can use a hardlink name as a command name to communicate with that individual. A quick example. TR HARDLINK SANTA. It asks for the link name, you type 'fatty'. From now on you can type 'FATTY OH HELLO.' or 'TR FATTY OH HELLO.' to communicate with Santa. When that gets old, TR HARDLINK REMOVE.

11-25-15

• Added a NOTES command to building avatars to list all notes written for the room you're standing in.

11-24-15

• You can now force whole-word matching by adding a plus sign (+) in front of a matching term. e.g. 'look +bar' or 'look +2.bar' will look only at the first and second things that have bar in the name and not a part of other words in the name. That is to say in a room with barbed wire, a gold bar, Barry Allen, and a bar of soap, typing 'look +bar' will match to the gold bar and 'look +2.bar' will match the bar of soap. Perfect sense!

11-23-15

• Fixed another oversight that would show the object number of your target (along with other miscellaneous goodies) if you used a 0 when referencing an object name in an extended emote. For example -Mitchell0.

11-22-15

• Added the ability to overwrite a design stored on a blueprint data disc with a different design.
• Also added a few more items to the list of items creatable inside architectural design simulators (this was actually 3 days ago, but I'm terrible at this changelog thing). Suggestions for more custom item types are always accepted!
• Fixed a bug where communicator socials marked as 'don't work singularly' would, in fact, work singularly. This resulted in infortunate situations where, for example, you couldn't transmit 'Quiet.' to tell a group of miscreants to shut up.

11-19-15

• Fixed a bug with the emote command that would result in object numbers appearing if you capitalized another player's name when matching to them.
• Linking a new drone remote will now automatically transfer ownership of the remote to you if you didn't own it previously to prevent baffling circumstances such as owning the drone but not owning the remote it was linked to. 9 times out of 10 this would also result in not being able to control your own drone. No longer!

11-18-15

• You can now set how many uses food spreads and drink mixes will have in the robotics lab on Empanda Station.

11-17-15

• Fixed a number of bugs with blueprint data discs: you can no longer start an import or copy operation if there is already one in progress and importing discs now checks to see if the blueprint name is already being used, and if so, the name will automatically be changed so you can differentiate. Also fixed a much more obscure bug where structures imported from discs would allow you to install biometric locks on the wrong side of an exit.
• Are you vain? If so, you probably think this changelog's about you. If not, be aware that Empanda now offers a vanity workshop where one can build, you know, a custom vanity. Beware, it has a lot of options. And I barely understand them all. Oh, and for this one, you can type GENDER in the simulator to swap your gender-defining parts.
• Storage containers have been added to hold your unsculpted clay. Please consider using them if you do not wish for your clay to dry out and disappear.

11-16-15

• Fixed a bug with new message board posts that would result in the confirmation menu being repeated infinitely if you chose to edit your post and conditions were appropriate enough.
• Introduced clay sculpting. Please report if you encounter any oddities.
• It is now possible to ENTITLE your clay things prior to firing. It isn't required, but it is recommended.
• Also changed the wording on the name of sculptures. This only applies to new creations, not old ones.
• Added the ability to set custom exit messages in architectural design simulators. To set the messages on an exit, type EXIT-MESSAGES <exit name> (EXITMSG is the shortened version of this, for the lazy). You can use various substitutions and pronouns in exit messages as well, which are detailed in the PRONOUNS command when connected to your design.
• Simulated avatars will now be notified when they cause tracebacks.

11-15-15

• You can now add multislices to food robots created in the robotics lab on Empanda Station.
• Have you ever wanted to design your very own forcefield spacesuit, only to be so frustrated because you weren't able to design one to your exact specifications due to not knowing how they're made that you wanted to slam your head into a wall until you fell unconscious? Your troubles are over! Introducing the personal forcefield research and development lab on Empanda Station!
• Tradesman labs now check if it's Christmas time before denying you access. (This means that non-donators and people without tradesman certificates can make their requests now.)
• Droids now respect your options in regards to silent and quiet ship modes.
• You can now force an E2 object match to be capitalized by capitalizing your match string. e.g. Lowercase: -toast. Uppercase: -Toast. YOU GET IT I'M SURE.
• Rejiggered the way new food and drink items are generated in the robotics lab in a quite meaningful way. This won't mean anything for players, but it does make adding new item types considerably more streamlined for us. Relatedly, added drink bottles to the robotics lab and made food robots parse options in item descriptions (A %size cookie looks quite scrumptious becomes a giant cookie looks quite scrumptious). New food robots(tm) likewise support drink bottles now. The number of drink supplies taken from the robot upon ordering a bottle is dependent on how many servings are in the bottle itself.
• Implemented blueprint data discs to copy designs from one simulator to another. To use them, INSERT <disc> into <architectural design simulator>, copy your design to the disc, and then EJECT it. Once your disc has a design written to it, INSERT it into the destination simulator and import the design from the menu. You can also LABEL or ENTITLE <disc> to give it a fancy name.
• Biometric locks can now be installed on go exits with the BIOADD <go exit name> command.
• You can now use your first or last name in E2 by adding a 1 or a 2, respectively, to the asterisk. e.g. *1 will be replaced with your first name and *2 will be replaced with your last name. * is your full name.
• Added drink mixes and food spreads to the ever-growing options in the Empanda Station robotics lab.

11-14-15

• Lore memos now allow you to jump to menu selections by typing a partial name instead of searching for a number in the menu. (You can also use matching, so if you have 50 documents called 'Secret Popsi Formula' you can do '30.popsi' or 'third popsi' etc)
• Added a COMM-OPTION to exclude link recipients (auctions, missions, loopback, reminders, etc) from cluttering your private communication history (HISTORY PRIVATE).
• Tracked down and fixed a bug that let people land on private moons and stations even if their alliance was denied landing.
• Added ITEM-OPTION 13 (set default Lore device) to choose a Lore computer that your shortcut commands will always match to if you're in the habit of wearing more than one.
• It is now possible to purchase abandoned property from the real estate offices on Pax without having to go through a (sometimes lengthy) process of assisting to have a host transfer it manually. To do so, Wander on over to the Shared Offices of Interalliance Real Estate on Pax and type BUY. Pick the property that you're interested in, confirm the transaction, and you're golden. Of course, this means that assists requesting to purchase property for sale will be furiously force canceled with fervor.

11-13-15

• Do you like makin' babies? *CREEPY WINK* We don't either. So we're cutting costs by making you do all the work! I mean uh, we're providing you the opportunity to customize your babies like never before without (much) host intervention! Interested parties should mosey on down to the infant genetic sequencing lab on Empanda to create awful, unnatural, filthy vat-grown babies today!
• The daycare center on Empanda has been moved to facilitate the retrieval of infantile life forms for donators and non-donators alike requesting from the genetic sequencing lab.
• Introducing sticky notes! Stick them to your friends! The walls! People's babies! Dogs, cats, camels, 'gators, starships, even space itself! The possibilities are both endless AND spammy! (Commands: stick note to <thing>, unstick note from <thing>)
• Auctioneers (by which I mean hosts) now have the ability to provide summaries for an item that goes up for auction. Item summaries will appear under the TR AUCTION SHOW <ID> command if there is one available.
• The robotics lab (and future Santa-approved labs / workshops) now allow you to submit your request as a Santa request if it's that time of year.
• Added a reset option to the menu on architectural design simulators to delete all blueprints if you are the owner. This will work regardless of designs being password-protected.
• Are you forgetful like me? Worry no longer! Introducing the DOORRESET command to clear the passwords on any doors in a private structure that you own. Who needs privacy, anyways?
• Fixed a bug where sticky notes wouldn't budge from walls. Also, you can now use WALL or HERE to refer to the room.
• LOOK FOR NOTES now presents you with a fine menu of all the notes you can find in the room to help disambiguate.
• Improved Lore photo album pagination so you (probably) always get the option to import or close the album regardless of which page you're on.
• Added HELP LOOK COMMAND to remind you of the smattering of ridiculously exciting special options available to look at.
• You can now (experimentally, of course) configure custom match ordering on a per-command basis. You can find this in MATCH-ORDER! Beware that it might have unexpected consequences or not work at all depending on the command. Be sure to REPORT where it doesn't work and we'll see what we can do.

11-12-15

• Fixed a bug where doors that lead through go exits would be deleted when importing an existing design into an architectural design simulator.

11-10-15

• Fixed a bug where modifying existing robots would end up cloning them instead.
• Improved parsing of communicator socials when using a custom delimiter.

11-09-15

• Fixed a bug in the robotics lab where you could only add three options before it kicked you out and claimed you'd added five.
• Fixed a small bug where reviewing booze in the robotics lab could cause a traceback if there wasn't a high enough alcohol content (generally only affecting older, converted robots).

11-08-15

• Quiet running mode (aka pointless spammy message mode) is now an individual SHIP-OPTION instead of a per-ship option.
• Silent mode is also now an individualized ship-option instead of applying for the whole ship. Typing SILENT (or the less known SILENTSHIP command) will still toggle the option for backwards compatibility.
• Fixed a bug where the new silent/quiet mode alterations caused simulated avatars to never see ship movement messages, regardless of their settings.
• Cigarettes and cigars now tell you if they are lit when LOOKing at them.
• Moved all of the options related to spell checking into their own subset of options, accessible under the OPTIONS command or SPELL-O. Also added options for spell checking messages sent via ROOC and over PA systems.

11-04-15

• The Empanda robotics lab (and future things of that nature) now accepts tradesman certificates in exchange for its exciting wares. It's also been relocated to a more convenient location for non-donators who may have certificates to burn.
• You can now clone existing food robots into the lab to duplicate them (instead of modifying the existing one). Relatedly, completed robots now get mailed to you instead of going to the pet lounge.

11-02-15

• NAVI will no longer randomly fail to announce the presence of an anomaly if the omnidirectional software patch is in use.
• NAVI will no longer be interrupted by inferior debris that stands in its path, and instead, will plow right through it like the animal it really is. This of course means that your ship will sustain some damage. How much damage, you ask. The same amount of damage you would receive if you receive the message about feeling a mighty shaking as something seemingly large impacts the hull.

11-01-15

• Masked people are no longer eligible to change their names. (Also, you can now @abort during a rename! No more embarrassing people named @abort @abort)
• Introducing the NEARBY command! Ever wondered exactly how many droids are spying in the adjacent room? Have you ever wanted to know how many ships lie dormant in your favorite garage? Or maybe you wanted to know who exactly is about to sneak up on you from another room. The NEARBy command does all of that and more! Typing it reveals the following data about the rooms around you: players (asleep and awake), drones, droids, and ships. Information on drones, droids, and ships is only in amounts, whereas info on players will give you exact names (unless there are many sleeping players, in which it will fall back to amounts). For flexibility, you can also provide arguments. Typing NEARBY <exit name> will only pinpoint the specific room through that exit, and typing NEARBY <people | starships | drones | droids> will offer information only pertaining to the specific type of object you're interested in. Finally, if you don't like how this information is delivered, you can type NEARBY-OPTIONS (shortened to nearby-o for the lazy) to configure it down to a tee. Good luck!

10-31-15

• You can now OFFER multislices to other players, allowing them to get a piece of the action without the multislice being on the floor or a table. What in the game is a multislice? You know. Those things you GET <thing name> and it gets a thing from the thing.

10-28-15

• Fixed a bug where you could buy more than the maximum amount of holographic imaging discs for a Lore computer if you had inbetween 41-50 discs already available prior to purchasing.
• Auction listings (and any future new things that display in columns) no longer attempt to truncate columns to fit within your linelength by default. If you want to bring that behavior back, there's now a GEN-OPTION for it.

10-27-15

• Made the walk antiscripter more lenient when typing similar directions (south south south south south, for example).

10-26-15

• Added the 'atmospheric' argument to the INFO command to see how many pieces of atmospheric debris you've salvaged.

10-25-15

• Ships landing on asteroids should no longer end up in the recycling plant if the asteroid is recycled during landing.

10-24-15

• Hopefully fixed a bug that caused auctioned drones to be stuck in their shipping boxes.

10-23-15

• Fixed a bug where firing a pulse emitter at a ship's PA multiple times would result in the PA reactivating multiple times instead of only once. Also fixed a traceback condition if your pulse emitter had a specific kind of custom message and fired at the wall.

10-22-15

• Fixed a bug where sector 0 wasn't considered a sector to the Lore 'shop by planet' search.

10-21-15

• Added a CONFIRM command to the auction service that will toggle bid confirmation prompts.
• Fixed a bug where divers would incur debilitating amounts of stun time if their oxygen tanks were contaminated and they ran out of oxygen at the same time.
• Food robot designs can now change the message players receive when ordering.
• Removed the limitation on turning main power on and off. As with the previous changes related to this, we can and will make it limited if you think spamming it is a cool thing to do, because trust me, folks, it isn't.

10-20-15

• Added a robotics lab to Empanda for designing, testing, and holographically gorging on the products of food robots.

10-18-15

• Removed the global limitation on POWERing up and down in rapid succession. If somebody spams powering up and down, please REPORT them and they will have the limitation placed back on their character.
• You can now use an equals sign (=) in place of the + to navigate up when using the omnidirectional NAVI software patch.
• Similarly to the earlier power throttle removal, TRANSPORTing ships from inside the control room is no longer limited either. We can, however, make it limited if you feel that spamming it is a great idea.

10-17-15

• You can now SORT PIERCINGS to reorder any various items stuck in punctures in your body that you may be sporting.
• Added (experimental) support for typing option choices into menus instead of using numbers.
• You can now LABEL equipment racks. LABEL EQUIP AS [exciting label goes here]

10-16-15

• Added ferries to pathfinding. This should help with various things like MAP EXIT and DEMOLISHing doodads and whizbangs.
• Removed some code that was causing the specialty starship purchase time limit to not be enforced.

10-15-15

• Transmitting BID <ID> without a value will now assume you want to bid the minimum amount to be the high bidder and will handle the details for you.
• Auctions that receive bids within the last 10 seconds will now be extended by 5 seconds to facilitate fierce and brutal bidding wars.
• You can now TR AUCTION WATCH (or UNWATCH) all to automatically begin watching auctions as soon as they're posted.
• Added TR AUCTION HISTORY to show you which auctions you've won. (From this point on.)

10-14-15

• Added a watching feature to the auction service to let people observe auctions as they unfold. Use the TR AUCTION WATCH/UNWATCH <auction ID> commands to begin or stop watching an auction and TR AUCTION WATCHING to see a list of the auctions that you have under close scrutiny.
• Oh, added escrow to auctions. See HELP AUCTION for some vague details about what that means for you.

10-13-15

• Added an auction private link recipient. TR LINK AUCTION and TR AUCTION HELP for more information and to participate in thrilling auctions!

10-12-15

• Fixed a bug where the starship computer would falsely claim that line stability had been compromised on an asteroid if someone removed an anchor that was not adjacent to the hauling ship itself.

10-11-15

• Since people are seemingly incapable of picking up after themselves, strollers and baby vehicles can now be taken by anyone regardless of location if they're empty and haven't moved for more than a day. Sanitation drones will also pick up empty strollers, because this plague of random empty strollers everywhere needs to stop.
• Added gas detonators as atmospheric combat vehicle weapons. See HELP ATMOSPHERIC COMBAT for what is sure to be an exciting read.

10-10-15

• Fixed a bug where you would always get partial hits on a ship if it was in the midst of a self destruction sequence.
• Fixed a bug where it would be possible to unbolt lamps and other lightish things of that nature, even if you didn't own the object or have ownership status for the place it was bolted.

10-09-15

• Using Lore shortcut commands will now prompt you to pick a device if you have more than one in your inventory.

10-08-15

• Private station, moon, or planet blueprints are now automatically set to deny landing from anyone except for the owner when initially created. This should hopefully cut down on those awkward situations where your completed design is approved by a host, moved into the sector you requested, and a random stranger stumbles upon the structure before you even have a chance to close things up.
• Fixed an issue where human defenses in an atmospheric combat sector would turn on their human masters and serve their Praelor overlords. Relatedly, human defenses no longer count as viable objectives in an atmospheric combat mission, meaning you now get an ACV reward if you didn't (rightly so) destroy the human structures.

10-07-15

• You can now cancel description submissions by typing DESCRIBE again in the room it was submitted for.

10-06-15

• Added a PILOT-OPTION to select which axis the slip drive will utilize when spurred on by the omnidirectional NAVI drive patch.
• The omnidirectional NAVI software patch will now use autopilot much more efficiently after the slip drive has engaged. Don't know what I mean? That one person that reported it does, and that's all that matters.

10-05-15

• The bias drive will now automatically adjust your trajectory if the destination coordinates are occupied.
• Added a long-desired omnidirectional software enhancement for NAVI that will allow it to traverse three-dimensionally. To use it, add a plus or dash (+ or -) in front of the direction, such as NAVI +north for up and north. See the HELP file for more details!
• Fixed various bugs in the creation of atmospheric combat missions. As a result, quantum vacuum accelerators should work at least 50% of the time, which is a 49% increase in functionality!

10-04-15

• Fixed a bug where droid remotes couldn't communicate with the linked droid if you were in a launched gas or aquatic salvager out of communications range.
• Transferring a ship with support fighters equipped will now transfer the fighters to the new owner if they have the points for them.
• It should now be possible for people assigned to a store, docking bay/landing pad, and ITPN station on a private structure to bolt objects.
• Simulators now allow you to duplicate any existing simulated ship's upgrade configuration. Just in case you object to saving upgrade profiles. Or forgot. Or maybe /I/ forgot.
• Simulators no longer count drones against your total starship limit. Relatedly, drones are no longer options for duplication in simulators.
• Fixed an issue where importing ships did not import repair upgrades.
• The simulator RECHARGE command now fills up the overdrive capacitor if a ship is such-equipped.

10-03-15

• The DOORAUTHORIZE command now indicates who is already authorized instead of making you wildly guess what's going on.
• You can no longer TRANSPORT ships to a private garage while standing on a landing pad if you don't own the ship in question. This is to prevent people from sneakily transporting somebody else's ship into their own private garage for safe keeping.
• The TRANSPORT command in starship control rooms now has an accompanying announcement to indicate who's moving your ship around.
• Improved the odds of a ship launching from a docking bay NOT ending up in the same coordinates as an incoming AI ship.
• Fixed a bug where USE TELESCOPE would not work without arguments. Now it does!
• Dryers are now better able to mercilessly extract all semblances of moisture from anything unfortunate enough to be caught inside of them, now including things attached to belts or shoved in pockets. NOWHERE TO HIDE.
• NAVI can now resume after a wider variety of failures, including after stopping for an interdiction field.
• You can now DUMP/EMPTY archaeological artifact containers into one another.
• Communicator socials now count towards the @TOP-SOCIALS list.
• Internal stun turret cameras will no longer cut off trailing quotation marks from text they see.
• Droids that share names with socials should now be much more obedient when instructed to do those socials (e.g. Slap the droid wouldn't be able to slap people).
• Added yet more sanity checks to short-range rockets on CTN Blazons to prevent firing on a ship that has since left the sector.
• Improved support for MATCH-OPTION 4. It should now fail in a lot more places, including the ENTER command.
• Matching in rooms with hundreds of thousands of objects (like, say, garages) is now up to 66% faster and that much less destructive to the game's overall resource usage.
• Fixed a bug where planets, stations, or moons that lack flight control would fail to give a message about being unable to find a launch trajectory if launching was unsuccessful.
• Fixed a bug where space stations checked the flight control status of the sector rather than the structure when deciding whether or not to announce landings.

10-02-15

• Climbing ropes can no longer be bolted and now you must HANG them.
• Fixed a bug where image discs containing ANSI colors would not match correctly.
• It is no longer possible to change a starship's authorization code if said starship lacks power.
• Added an option to Lore computers to allow anyone to track the position of the device via the TransLink network, regardless of tracking authorization (also known as 'stalker mode', or less colloquially, masochism). Use at your own risk! For hopefully obvious reasons, it's set to off by default.
• Deauthorizing somebody from a droid that is following them will now cause it to stop following.
• Going on a planetary mining expedition will now result in you being out of comms until you return on the transport.
• Praelor freighters will now automatically leave the active mission sector if there is no debris to be had.
• Fixed a bug where docking with the docking ring would still work if the ship that was trying to dock lost main power.

10-01-15

• Sitting in bathtubs or hot tubs will now make you smell delicious if there is scented bubble bath present.
• Blockading using English directions (blockade up south, blockade e) now works 100% of the time instead of saying 'invalid direction' in response to perfectly valid input.

09-30-15

• Shooting the wall (or speaker) in a ship, house, or other private structure with a pulse emitter will now result in the intercom being disabled for that room for a short time. Never be tormented by the constantly droning voices of your mentally deranged comrades again.
• Fixed a bug where handheld electronics manufacturing facilities would complete their work at 10% rather than 100%.
• Fixed a bug where you could open a wormhole even if you didn't have enough power to do so.
• Fixed an ever so small oversight that made it so people couldn't KNOCK on doors.
• Per the Starship Room Naming Guidelines enacted in 2352, all weapon rooms in current and future three-person cruisers have been renamed to 'Weapons Room'.
• Fixed a bug where trying to LOCK <ship name> or UNLOCK <ship name> would fail without a message in certain locations.
• Interplanetary transport pods will no longer open a wormhole if their destination is in the same sector as the place they launched from.
• TR LINKS no longer counts against your communicator flood / spam limit.
• Fixed a bug where match aliases wouldn't work when trying to GET things from standard containers.

09-29-15

• Apartment doorbell settings can now be changed by ANY owner and not just the primary owner.
• Communicator socials now work properly if your message is entirely numeric (e.g. tr bob 4000 *laughs*). Also fixed a bug where the aforementioned number fix would break 'lazy invocation' (e.g. tr bob 8laughs8).
• As HOTLY REQUESTED, you can now COUNT WALL to count how many things are hanging on the wall.
• Booze can no longer be opened with any old object (say, a Lore printout or a book) that has 'cork remover' in the name.
• Simulators no longer duplicate damage when importing real ships.
• You can now PRESS/PUSH <level number> in a lift to quickly commence movement to the corresponding floor number.
• Added a COMM-OPTION to change the character used to indicate a word is a comm social. (e.g. change 8laughs8 to zlaughsz or whatever you're into)
• Ever vigilant starship computers now announce when gigantic rocks (asteroids, my friends) fly into and out of the sector.
• You can now prefix lines in the flexible editor with a back slash (\) character to make sure they don't get parsed. For example typing '\/help' would allow you to write '/help' in to the working text.
• Fixed a bug where typing SHOOT WALL in a room by yourself would result in shooting yourself in the head instead.
• Hardcoded morality now prevents you from shoving babies into diaper bags.

09-28-15

• Lore tracking now tries harder to find rooms instead of reporting the names of random unhelpful bags.
• Fixed a bug where drones added to a paused simulator would not move after unpausing.
• The EMPTY command on tents now includes typically unmovable objects, allowing the tent to be collapsed.
• Transmitting static over private communicators no longer shows as an empty message to the transmitter.
• Fixed a bug where the ENTER command in space would show all ships you had keys to in the sector regardless of what coordinates they were occupying.
• Fixed a bug where the SLOCK/SUNLOCK commands in space would show all of the ships in the sector that you had keys to, allowing you to lock or unlock ships you werent sharing coordinates with.
• Fixed a (possible) issue that could cause unknown friendly starships to remain in the sector after announcing their departure.

09-27-15

• Combat drones should now be considerably more vocal about their demise.
• Fixed a bug where lifts in structures that were imported into an architectural design simulator would connect themselves to the structure in the real game, resulting in your holographic avatar existing for a blink of an eye inside of the real place that the design was imported from.

09-26-15

• Added a 'Starship Destruction Bounty' help file to help clarify the new(ish) way kills are tallied.
• Tables and other miscellaneous table-like furniture will now show who is sitting at them when you look at them.

09-25-15

• Lore photos can now be transmitted to up to six IDs at one time.
• Combat drones have been optimize to be much less resource intensive. The ship will now store which drones have been launched, rather than looping through the entire contents of the sector every time they're recalled. Succinctly, checks were also added to prevent drones from duplicating out of nowhere. Finally, you can no longer recall combat drones immediately after launching them. Thank the people that thought it would be great fun to spam everybody with this over and over.

09-23-15

• Fixed about 71 different verbs to not cause unwelcome matching ambiguities.
• Typing @ABORT inside the flexible editor will now always abort regardless of your command prefix.

09-22-15

• Added a help file for lag. Please read this instead of asking if everyone else is dealing with horrible bouts of lag and unresponsiveness.
• The MAP EXIT command will now detect go exits leading out of a house.

09-21-15

• Added an ANYONE command to mounts to configure trust options.
• Added an @LAG command (or just LAG) that will print estimated server and network latency.

09-20-15

• Starship drive engagement matrices will now display in the ship's STATUS report.

09-19-15

• It is no longer possible to submit an untitled video disc to sell to the public.
• When finishing video discs, if left untitled, you will be harassed to ENTITLE prior to finalizing.
• Added the 'destroyed' argument to the DAMAGE command to display only destroyed components.

09-18-15

• Implemented the ability to edit the text of an already written letter if you're using the flexible editor.
• Added a FIND command to the flexible editor interface.
• Added an upgrade that allows one to reconfigure the drive order that's used by NAVI. Access with DRIVE-ORDER from a starship control room, or DRIVE-O for short.
• Simulated building avatars now have the ability to DEMOLISH enter exits.
• The repairall command in starship simulators now repairs structural damage.
• You can now change the door type for biometric entrances in simulated houses by typing DOORTYPE <door name>.

09-17-15

• Implemented a highly experimental editing interface that allows one to change and manipulate bodies of text prior to submitting it, without having to erase the whole thing and redo. You can opt in to the beta test by typing EDIT-OPTIONS. The editor will automatically appear when you receive a multiple line prompt, such as a new message board post or writing a Lore file.
• Flexible editor(tm) will now interface with Lore files correctly. This means if you are using the editor, your Lore computer will now allow you to list, delete, or insert into already written files without having to overwrite or append.

09-14-15

• Passenger transport has been added to Outreach to fall in line with the other capital planets.

09-13-15

• Gadget bots can no longer carry more than 250 items.

09-12-15

• Private organization admins now have the ability to alter the organization's description that appears when someone examines the public information available.
• Implemented a somewhat experimental comm social blacklist feature to ignore specific communicator socials. Available under COMM-OPTIONS.

09-11-15

• Observation rooms have been added to Acrylon and Angelus.
• Updated the examples and enforcement sections of the cheating policy.
• Fixed a matching issue where matching would fail if you tried to PUT ART IN ART (or otherwise used the same name referencing different objects) while spacewalking.

09-09-15

• Removed ancient (and pretty terrible) pre-artifact container container code from the ESTIMATE command that made it possible to estimate things you shouldn't, like people or ships.
• Severe arm injuries now affect how long it takes you to dig with manual tools. Broken arms prevent digging altogether. Powered tools are unaffected.
• Fixed a bug where asteroid kits would retrieve anchors if they had been deployed but not tied.
• Fixed several matching issues with the LOOK command during spacewalks. Please REPORT if you suddenly see anything you shouldn't see.

09-08-15

• Fixed support fighters and their whacked out charge. Now new purchases should have a full battery and all existing ones have had their batteries refilled.
• Added a new difficult combat mission primarily directed toward gunships and other smaller combative ships. Balance pending.

09-06-15

• Fixed a bug where new closets(tm) would not compress baby clothing properly, resulting in clothing not going into the right slot when PUT on a baby if you had stored it in a closet.
• I finally got tired of people being dirty spies, so you can no longer do @tops 1-567843 to see every player in the game. This applies for every tops list.

09-02-15

• Combat announcements pertaining to CTN ships via flight control now enjoy the same spam capping as Praelor ships.

09-01-15

• Added SLOCATE HERE (or LOCATE HERE ON KEYRING) to list the ships that track to your current planet or space station.

08-31-15

• Penalties such as OOC warnings and policy violations will no longer appear when viewing your point summary to preserve immersion. They will, however, now appear under the SCORE-command. You can use the arguments 'penalty' or 'penalties' to quickly list them.

08-25-15

• Fixed a bug where if you had spell check say messages (ROOM-O 15) enabled and were moved in the midst of correcting errors, your message would show up in the room you started speaking in instead of the one you were moved to.

08-21-15

• Fixed a bug where droids would mysteriously respond to socials if the first part of the arguments provided matched to the droid, but the rest did not. For example, typing 'punch the world' would result in the first droid in the room responding, even though the social failed to match.

08-16-15

• Disabled the procedure that would prevent ships from doing anything meaningful if they were sharing coordinates with another ship. Please find more creative ways to destroy people other than placing them into no-win scenarios where they would never have a chance of getting away.

08-14-15

• Requesting a new courier ship without a promotion will no longer steal all of your money and put you in debt.

08-10-15

• Fixed a bug where getting sex reassignment surgery and choosing to keep your current name would cause a horrific implosion.
• Ships should no longer get stuck launching if the ship they launch from is destroyed in mid-launch. Try saying that three times fast.

08-07-15

• Fixed a bug where the Central Jumpgate Hub cleanup task would consider Praelor starships eligible for being moved back to Jump Hub Station if they had lingered too long.
• Couriers are no longer immune to super special awesome Praelor interdiction.
• Added a DEAUTHORIZE command to atmospheric combat vehicles to remove any previously added users.

08-06-15

• Demolishing rooms or exits will now remove accompanying doors and biometric locks.
• Praelor ground troops should now be much less synchronistic in their attacks. Also fixed a bug where they would randomly scurry away while in the middle of attacking people, and added some automated protection against those situations where Praelor NPCs could hold people trapped indefinitely. As usual, please REPORT if things go disturbingly awry.
• Fixed a bug where private station owners could not SORT the room's contents.

08-05-15

• Fixed a rare bug where someone could MAKE a key to a ship they didn't actually own if a recyclable had snuck into their ownership list, and then had been reused to make a new ship for somebody else. Perplexed? Me too!
• You can now reference internal stun turrets via their assigned labels when operating them via the TURRET-command.

08-03-15

• Pilot NPCs will now intelligently choose from a list of sectors in range if there are any, rather than always being random. If there are no sectors in range, they will fall back to using jumpgates for transit.
• Fixed a bug where pilot NPCs would randomly tell their crew to harass courier ships for no good reason.

08-02-15

• Added the ability to dig or demolish go exits inside of an architectural design simulator. To add a custom exit, type DIG-GO <exit name> to <room name>. To demolish an already built go exit, type DEMOLISH-GO <exit name>. Be aware that these two commands will not work in real structures and are only available in a simulated environment.
• Added the ENVIRONMENT-command to architectural design simulators to alter the environment of the room you're standing in.

07-28-15

• Modified the message you get when trying to dock an asteroid rover when there are no ships that can be docked with to include a hint about needing keys.
• Added the EMOTETEST <action> command to calibrate your emotes without subjecting the entire room to seeing them.

07-27-15

• Fixed a bug where the synchronized modulated laser pulse firing sequence could not be started in ships that lacked weapons in the control room.

07-26-15

• Lore computers will now endlessly nag you about pending photos or photo collections waiting for import, similarly to pending files.
• Fixed a bug with starship relay channels where a communicator could still be linked with a ship that was in the recycling plant.
• You can no longer transmit images to a Lore device that lacks a holographic imaging card.

07-23-15

• Fixed a bug with alternative manual navigation commands that would result in the inability to navigate west.
• Fixed an oversight with combat AI that would result in various aggressive ships not making any attempt to evade incoming fire.

07-22-15

• Purchasing a new starship will now prompt you to confirm its name. A new option to turn this prompt off has also been implemented, just in case people get sick of it and feel like smashing their heads open on their desks.

07-21-15

• The odometer command now requires the ship to be powered.

07-19-15

• You can now DRY various wet items with towels. Primarily used for wet electronics.

07-16-15

• Fixed a private organization bug that automatically promoted members when someone left the organization.

07-14-15

• Removed crossbows and all associated things from the game because people weren't able to handle having them.
• Updated the 'Donating' help file with information regarding refunds.

07-12-15

• Praelor AI has been reverted to its state prior to May 27, which means they should be a lot less bouncy and will still lock, even if they lack weapons. Furthermore, a number of Praelor ship classes will no longer trigger laser reflectors on opposing ships.
• Droids can no longer enter or exit airlocks on remote mode if the internal environment does not match the external one.

07-10-15

• Fixed a bug with pilot NPCs that would cause them to unceremoniously give up on following a wormhole trace if the sector they were trying to jump to was out of range.

07-09-15

• Food and drinks now show the number of bites and sips left respectively.

07-08-15

• Weapon detectors will now take note of the presence of tradesman wearable pulse emitters.

07-07-15

• Implemented some remedial infinite loop detection code into AI bounty hunters and piloting NPCs that should hopefully automatically stop endless FTL jumps to the same two sectors.
• Added the option to PRINT a ship's damage report.

07-06-15

• The GMU upgrade can no longer detect cloaked starships.
• Since designs are now automatically compressed after not being accessed for several hours, simulated blueprints will no longer be deleted after two months of not being connected to.
• Blueprints will no longer hang around in the database indefinitely if an architectural design simulator gets recycled.

07-05-15

• Ships belonging to terrorists or that have terrorists aboard can no longer be expelled on planets with flight control.

07-04-15

• Added 'droids' as an argument to the PEER-command to specifically look at a group of droids in the adjacent room.
• You can no longer propose a full military alliance if no alliances are hostile with one another. This does not apply for alliances that cannot be played, such as the CTN.
• You now must provide valid reasoning for proposing an alliance treaty and have it approved by your alliance leaders.

07-03-15

• You can now peruse a list of known TERRORISTS in any security center.
• Updated the terrorists help file to make it a bit more clear about what it would take to be manually flagged as a terrorist.
• Video probes deployed out of comms will now transmit to a linked ship if the ship shares the same sector with the probe.
• Anomalies now have a random chance of disrupting a video probe feed.

07-02-15

• The INV [search] command now pluralizes objects with the same name in the same location.
• Since certain people seem to lack even an ounce of maturity, it is now impossible to fire at planets, moons, stations and jumpgates.
• Reversed the previous change and made it so if you fire on a planet, moon, or space station that has flight control, you will automatically be flagged as a terrorist. This will result in your inability to land anywhere with flight control, as well as NPC ships attacking you on sight and planetary long-range lasers targeting any of your ships.
• Terrorists can no longer receive insurance on any of their ships, regardless of the circumstances surrounding its demise.
• Players flagged as terrorists can no longer reroll until a host unsets the flag.
• Firing on planets, moons, or stations with flight control while you are flagged as a terrorist will now result in the inability to operate a starship until a host manually unsets the status.
• Capital planets now have the ability to scan the occupants of a ship to see if a known terrorist is aboard. If so, that ship will now be targeted by the long-range laser until the terrorist has been removed from the ship in question.
• Players can now be flagged as terrorists. Please see board post 80966 or HELP TERRORISTS for more details.

07-01-15

• You can no longer view metafrequency 500.0 history on the website if your character is out of communications range.

06-30-15

• Implemented code to find the most direct FTL path to reach a sector, primarily used by pilot NPCs.

06-29-15

• After copious turmoil, apartments out of communications range should no longer magically make you appear as if you were in comms. As usual, REPORT any idiosyncrasies.

06-28-15

• Identifiable power sources in scan readouts for planets, space stations and moons will now reflect the correct amount of powered up ships if there are multiple landing areas available.

06-26-15

• Fixed a bug that could result in gruesome amounts of stun time if you tried wearing an oxygen tank when you already had one equipped.
• You will no longer successfully unbolt items if you become stunned during the unbolting process.
• Removed the confirmation prompt on bolting items down since they no longer break upon being unbolted.
• You will no longer foolishly walk face first into a door if you attempt moving in the direction of the door and it happens to be closed.
• Gadgets CLIPped to belts are now vulnerable to being soaked by pools, showers, or hot tubs like all other clothing.
• Added a ROOM-OPTION to show other player's room poses in parentheses.

06-25-15

• Destroyed starships now create minor debris fields (depending on ship size) with a composition that varies based on the ship's pre-death configuration.
• Fixed a bug that all but made salvage lifeforms extinct inside communications range.
• Droid remotes will no longer indicate that a droid has been deactivated if you could otherwise not communicate with them via the remote.
• E2 has been exported to the EMOTE-command and any references to E2 have been changed to 'extended emoting'. E2 still lives on as an alias for the EMOTE-command to stimulate backwards compatibility.

06-24-15

• You will no longer board an ITPN flight if you become stunned before the pod arrives.
• NPC gunners no longer respond if a ship's sensors are destroyed.
• A new example has been added to POLICY 3. Please review it at your earliest convenience.
• Added a ROOM-OPTION to ignore droid names in room descriptions. (e.g. 'thirty-six droids' instead of 'Jim, Bob, Roy, Telford, Grim, Pebbles, Yokel, Grepthar, etc')
• Similarly, you can now LOOK DROIDS to see the full droid list if you care about such things.
• Sanitation drones now dispose of stun traps that have not been assigned a target.
• Fireplaces now burn 67% longer than ever before!!!

06-23-15

• Classic photos and image discs will now show your room pose in the object name, if any. For example: a picture of Victor E_DIV Veilencia balancing on his head.
• To exercise our utterly inhumane methods, babies will no longer continue to wander around a planet if they have been deposited in drone storage.

06-22-15

• Private structure owners now have the ability to boot someone from the premises while standing on any landing pad inside the structure itself.
• It is now possible to use the intercom from a private space station docking bay.

06-21-15

• Multislice containers will now show how much of their contents they have remaining in the description. This mostly applies for boxes of food.
• Fixed a bug with the Commonwealth precision wormhole drive that would allow one to wait at the coordinates prompt and then type in coordinates eons later, resulting in inexplicably strange occurrences if the ship had since moved.

06-18-15

• Support fighters will no longer cause their mothership to be stuck docking with them if they are destroyed in mid-dock.
• Updated POLICY 3 and the Communicator Rules help file to reflect that the long-range broadcast channel should remain IC at all times.

06-17-15

• Firing on a jumpgate will now result in your inability to use that jumpgate, permanently. You will also be sent to jail if you fire on a jumpgate in a capital sector.
• You can no longer delete your character while in IC prison.

06-16-15

• Fixed a bug that would cause Praelor destruction messages to sporadically not be announced while in an advanced combat mission sector.
• Fixed an oversight that would teleport a destroyed starship back into a jumpgate, even if it had been recycled just as it was entering.

06-14-15

• Added the STARSHIPS-command to starship control rooms to review a list of any ships that might be docked.

06-13-15

• Implemented rudimentary code to detect who primarily engineered on a ship. This will be used later in an upcoming system for new combat missions.

06-12-15

• It is no longer possible to show objects to themselves.

06-09-15

• Fixed a bug with bounty collection board posts that would cause them to not be seen if you were the one that fired the killing shot.
• Fixed a bug with courier destructions that could cause them to be destroyed multiple times in succession if they took enough damage to the hull in an extremely short period of time. This could in turn cause several oddities, such as phantom courier payments or multiple courier destructions appearing on your scoresheet.

06-08-15

• Fixed a loophole with precision proximity weapon launchers that would allow a ship to continue launching proximity weapons even if a ship was less than 6 units away.
• Handheld gadgets (Lore computers, communicators, metafrequency transmitters, destination finders, point units, others) will now experience strange symptoms if used while wet. Effects range from doing nothing at all to being rendered entirely inoperative if too soaked. Experiment at your own risk!
• Automated long-range lasers will now announce if the target has been destroyed after firing.

06-07-15

• Private structure flight history will no longer append logs regarding a ship launching if the launch was unsuccessful.
• You can now bellow if you feel so inclined. Yes, this is what happens when we are bored.

06-06-15

• Hopefully fixed a timeout with the E2-command that would cause an error if you were in a room with a bajillion objects.

06-05-15

• Eviscerators will now show heavy support fighters under the ARSENAL-command.
• If you destroy an industrial starship that has a bounty on it with another industrial starship, you can no longer have a bounty claim filed against your ship.
• Fixed a bug with the Lore computer upgrade estimator that would cause it to exclude the battlecruiser if you had a battlecruiser license.

06-03-15

• Rejiggered some flight control things. Planets and stations that might not have had it enabled in past do now, and conversely, some that did now do not. Confused yet? Good so are we.

06-02-15

• Updated HELP FAQ to no longer list port 5190 as an alternative port and added information on the @SOUNDPACKS-command. A few other tidbits about checkpoint times and outdated information regarding game OPTIONS were also modernized.
• The reference to POLICY 4 in HELP FAQ has been changed to reflect the new policy.

06-01-15

• Due to stock restraints, it is no longer possible to purchase a battlecruiser if you have bought one within the last 7 days.
• You can now type STOCK in the battlecruiser store to view the number of remaining battlecruiser supply. Once that number hits zero, battlecruisers will most definitely be a thing of the past.
• Proximity weapons will no longer activate in proximity to a newbie's ship.
• Updated the examples for POLICY 1.
• Battlecruiser stock will now periodically decrease to emulate NPC pilots purchasing them.

05-31-15

• Added a cooldown to the TRANSPORT-command inside starships, similarly to power limitations. This means that you can no longer transport your ship back and forth repeatedly within a set period of time to minimize unnecessary landing pad spam.
• Ships that are hit by proximity mine shrapnel should now take a bit less damage than before.

05-30-15

• You can no longer view a scan for a ship if it cloaks while you wait in the SCAN menu.

05-29-15

• Added a help topic for the BETA channel.
• Fixed a bug with black holes that would cause them to stop working if an asteroid was present in the sector.

05-28-15

• Fixed an exploit that would allow people to assign missions to ships they didn't own if they had set another person's ship as their active starship.

05-27-15

• Blockades and interdictors now have a preemptive knowledge of where autopilot will move the ship next, preventing tactics that would allow people to conveniently share coordinates with them when launched.
• Tweaked space combat AI to only lock on you if they have operational weapons. REPORT any strangeness, such as Praelor lying down and letting themselves get destroyed with minimal effort on your part.

05-26-15

• Fixed a bug that could cause a starship to share the same coordinates with an interdictor if it was moving and the timing was opportune.

05-25-15

• Fixed a bug with the spell checker that would cause it to say contracted words were spelled incorrectly.
• Added a GENERAL-OPTION to show connection statistics at the bottom of the @WHO listing. It defaults to off for brevity.
• Added the TEXT argument (can be shortened to 'T') to the @WHO-STATS command to see textual connection metrics instead of a graph.

05-24-15

• High Guard couriers in moderate missions are now actually carrying cargo.
• Added the ability to emote with ROOC :<yourtext>. You should use any out of character gestures or socials on this, rather than doing them in the room globally.
• Made it so private structure owners can DESCRIBE their landing pads/docking bays.

05-23-15

• Water guns can no longer be used in hostile or aquatic environments. For realism's sake they also must be FILLed with water before soaking someone. The FILL <water gun> command will automatically detect sources of water in your general area and use them accordingly to fill the soaker.
• Realism fixes: You can no longer throw confetti in space or in aquatic environments. You can no longer light or smoke cigarettes in aquatic environments. You can no longer toss frisbees in space or underwater. You can no longer set off party poppers or fireworks in hostile or aquatic environments. You also must be holding party poppers before they can be set off.
• Fixed a bug where it would be possible to add players who had since moved out of the room to a drone's friend list.
• Slip drive, subwarp drive, wavewarp drive, starship communication channels, solar panels and salvage lines will now reflect appropriately in the starship's status report if they have been deactivated.
• You can now PEER through doors with passwords if they are left open.
• The MAIL-command, similarly to the landing notification for mail, no longer works in uncharted space.
• Dynamic rooms (asteroids, dig sites, etc) now check to see if you're wearing the proper environmental equipment before letting you walk around freely.
• Wrote mission briefings for the Praelor Onno, Onz, Otona, and Potateoton class starships.
• Fixed a problem with blockade obstacle checking that would cause an error if you're last manual movement was on the Z-axis.
• Sitting down in hot tubs/bathtubs or swimming in pools, rivers, or lakes will now actually make your clothes soaking wet.
• It's been this way for a number of weeks, but it seems it was never noted. Galactic coordinates are now visible with the GALCOORDS-command, regardless of whether you have a galactic map unit installed. You still need the GMU for sector notifications and the bonus of galactic coordinates appearing overhead on the starmap, however. The reason for this change is that starships presumably have a vague knowledge of galactic positioning, since navigational beacon information is attainable without a GMU.

05-22-15

• Emergency propulsion devices will no longer activate if the player using the diving suit lacks the points for such a module.
• You can no longer YELL in aquatic environments.
• You can no longer REMOVE diving gear from other players while in an aquatic environment.

05-21-15

• You will now automatically stop dancing with a player if they get deleted. Dancing with dead corpses can't be that healthy.

05-20-15

• Fixed a bug with oxygen tanks that would cause the switching process to never be completed.
• You will no longer begin drowning while in the process of switching oxygen tanks. You also will take a breath from a tank in use before disconnecting the regulator if it has oxygen, which will deplete the tank's supply up to 30 seconds. Oxygen tanks that have been disconnected due to being switched will subsequently no longer lose oxygen, since you aren't breathing from them. Finally, you can no longer wear a second oxygen tank or cylinder if the tank you are wearing has no remaining oxygen.
• Stopping a ship while the self-destruct sequence is active is no longer possible. Typing STOP will now abort the sequence instead.

05-19-15

• You can no longer finish switching oxygen tanks if you become stunned halfway through, and can no longer wear an oxygen tank if it is on the ground. Also adjusted the messages so it doesn't say that you're holding your breath when you switch a tank inside of an oxygen-filled environment.

05-18-15

• Added the ability to ZAP [person name] inside architectural design simulators to automatically teleport you to the location of that person's avatar.

05-17-15

• Fixed an annoying-to-track-down bug where moving droids in dynamic rooms would cause the droid to use the exits for the location of the player controlling the droid rather than referencing the droid's location itself.
• You can now UNINSTALL unwanted modules from diving suits.
• Added a RESET command to emergency propulsion devices to unlink them from a ship.
• The adoption MENU on Empanda Station will now list the items that newer(tm) robots can produce.

05-15-15

• You can now remove independent damage monitoring terminals.
• You can now remove standalone starmap viewers.

05-12-15

• Added starship lighting customizations. for sale on THAT PLANET somewhere.

05-11-15

• Updated flight control announcements to primarily use sector titles instead of numbers. Sector numbers will still be used if the sector shares a name with the planet that is making the announcement. The Central Jumpgate Hub will also always use numbers, to prevent mystifying confusion.

05-10-15

• Droids can now be instructed to exit the ship via remote in aquatic environments if they possess an amphibious enhancement.

05-09-15

• You can no longer JOIN players on landing pads while they are reading input to prevent people from inundating each other with yes/no prompts.
• You can no longer DUMP containers into lockets.
• You can no longer DUMP containers into empty plates or glasses. Whoever tried this has far too much time on their hands.
• Added an ODOMETER command to track how far your ship has travelled since you last remembered to push the button to reset it.

05-07-15

• Sabotage devices purchased from private structures should now use the correct article in the beginning of the title. All existing ones with such a defect have been renamed. If I missed one please ASSIST!
• It is no longer possible to launch blockades directly in the manual pilot trajectory of the ship. This also applies for east, west, or full blockade shields.

05-06-15

• Updated the examples in POLICY 4.

05-05-15

• Fixed a bug where moving a ship to a private garage with the TRANSPORT-command would result in the game telling you that there was no garage available, even though the ship was moved.
• Reinstated joining other players in garages or private garages. Also introduced a prompt to request joining someone's group on landing pads.
• Enhanced SHIP-OPTIONS 16 to allow a much greater degree of flexibility.
• You can now LABEL (or ENTITLE) file folders.
• Pausing the recording of a video and resuming it hours later no longer causes the playback to hang for a billion hours.

05-04-15

• Pending upcoming ground combat changes, you can no longer JOIN someone's group in garages or private garages.
• Added a new example to Policy 8.

05-03-15

• Fixed a cosmetic issue where the message board main menu would always show an organization board as [1] regardless of where it actually was in the menu.
• Added the DOS command to auto-configure keep-alives to settings players report seem to help.
• Claiming a ship now checks to see if you're stunned after the confirmation prompt.

05-02-15

• Split the FINISH command on video discs into two commands. You can now ENTITLE <disc> to give it a title but maintain writability. To sell the disc or make it write protected, you will still need to FINISH or FINALIZE <disc>. Also made it so droids can't write to finalized video discs.
• Updated the examples in POLICY 5.
• TransLink hardware will now lock you out for 30 minutes if you spam tracking. Please, I know it's hard, but try to not be obnoxious. Thanks.

05-01-15

• Updated the arsenal command to include eviscerators when checking for support fighters. Also made it say support fighters for battlecruisers and heavy support fighters for eviscerators.
• Shooting someone with an empty pulse emitter will no longer cause following droids or drones to retaliate or heal the target when no damage was inflicted.
• Starship destruction bounties are now split between everybody who fired at the ship. The more times you hit, the more of the bounty you get. Also the 'killer' of the ship is now determined by who achieved the most hits rather than who hit last.
• added two new sabotage devices, the autopilot scrambler and manual navigation scrambler. See HELP SABOTAGE DEVICES for details.

04-30-15

• Fixed a bug with mailboxes that would allow you to REGISTER with them while they were bolted in a starship.

04-29-15

• INVALIDATE in ship stores now accepts ship names as arguments.
• Simulators can now add asteroids to their sectors.
• People disconnecting from simulators now display an exciting message to the room.
• Added a SHIP-OPTION to set an active starship. An active starship will, when possible, be used as the default option in most ship prompts. See HELP ACTIVE STARSHIP.
• Added an image zoom feature to the Lore camera that let's you zoom in on specific objects without having to wastefully make an imaging disc every time.
• Added a MAKE command to courier starship requisition rooms that let's you recreate a key to your courier ship if you managed to lose the old one.
• Fixed an exploit that could allow one to expedite healing in a medical center if they stood up from the medical bed and typed HEAL again immediately after.
• Introducing image data extraction hardware for Lore computers! These cards, as one might probably presume, allow you to extract the data from a holographic image disc and save it to memory. You can then import the image from the holographic imager menu if you have that card installed.

04-28-15

• Added the ability to adjust the total number of custom items available in a structure in architectural simulators. This is not available for people who aren't hosts, but allows us to increase the number upon request if you are building an area for public consumption.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent you from disbanding a holographic avatar following you in an architectural simulator.
• Added a plethora of tiny secondary help files for previously undocumented options.
• You are now given the option to keep your current name when receiving sex reassignment surgery.
• Fixed a bug that would allow one to speak after being incapacitated if they had ROOM-O 15 enabled and waited at the spell check prompt.
• Added an EMPTY (or eject) command to tents to bodily haul people out. No longer are these fine places a sanctuary against unrelenting day to day evils.
• Fixed a bug with communicator socials that would prevent one from transmitting numbers alone with a social. For example, "tr chat 30 *chortles*" would return "[Chatter] Albori chortles." erasing the provided number from existence.
• Fixed a bug where directing speech at someone could result in text being spell checked twice if you were using expressive dialogue.
• You can no longer wait at the SHIP-EXPEL menu and expel a ship after someone else has commenced a launching sequence. Why anyone would want to do this is beyond me.
• Expressive dialogue now appropriately makes you transmit instead of speak normally if you are in an unforgiving hostile environment.
• Toilets now must be BOLTed before being used. Awkward indeed.
• You can now organize Lore images into named collections.
• You can now transmit Lore image collections to other Lorefolk.

04-27-15

• The owner and caretaker lists on private properties will now be cleared upon being transferred to a new owner.

04-26-15

• Control rooms with no actual weapons will no longer alert you to weapons powering up or down during alert status changes.
• Weapon rooms with no viable weapons no longer hear weapons powering up.
• You can now CLIP metafrequency communicators to belts or belly chain waistish things. This does not apply for pins, earpieces or anything else that is not a standard communicator.
• Updated the policy quiz to be in line with the new set of policies. As always, if you notice any glaring inconsistencies or errors, please REPORT them. Enjoy!

04-24-15

• Fixed a bug in trivia rooms that caused players to be removed from the game if they removed objects from the room.
• Converted all existing pocket knives from that store in the mall there to an updated version that can be used for top secret things.

04-23-15

• Added a new example to POLICY 4.
• Added the personal dictionary blacklist, for words that you always want to be marked wrong while spell checking even if they're in the main dictionary. Good for common typos!
• Possibly fixed another bug that could cause many people to buy tradesman certificates on the tradesman certificate market after supply had been exhausted.

04-22-15

• Added two new ROOM-OPTIONS to provide spell checking for emotes or speech sent with the SAY-command.
• Stage talking (directed say) now optionally uses expressive speech. For example, if you are not ignoring expressive speech, you are no longer required to type "say -Jude Hello." Instead, you can simply do "-Jude Hello." and it will respect your settings. The old syntax is still available for those who preferred it.
• Added the SPELLCHECK command to spell check text via the menu-driven spell checker. You can use a single line as an argument or type it by itself for a multiple line prompt.

04-21-15

• Updated a number of the newbie tips with the new policy numbers.
• Moved the text from the old policy 25 to HELP NEWBIE.
• Updated POLICY 7 to reference the tradesman certificate and donator markets.
• Updated POLICY 5 to detail the two hour stranding cooldown referenced in the examples.
• Updated POLICY 3 and HELP FAQ to not mention the ACCEPT-POLICIES command.

04-20-15

• Added an OOC / Development Ramblings message board category.
• Updated any new point summary printouts to not show point penalties since most of those are blatantly out of character. You'll still see them if you type SUMMARY in a point center without making a printout!

04-19-15

• Reduced the POLICY set down to 10, added examples, added how enforcement will work for each, and changed some information around. Please re-familiarize yourself!

04-18-15

• Perfume can no longer be sprayed in hostile or aquatic environments.

04-14-15

• Full military alliances will now be automatically dissolved if there is no present declaration of hostility or war between any of the three alliances.
• Blueprints will now be compressed to save database space if they haven't been accessed in several hours.

04-13-15

• Fixed a mysterious bug that could cause pending Lore images to be spuriously deleted.

04-12-15

• Simulated blueprints will now maintain passwords and notes if their parent is changed.
• Added an option to DOCKING-OPTIONS that allows you to protect players aboard certain docked ships from being flagged as intruders.
• Added PETDUMP to salvage containers for those pesky pets and babies and whatevers that you own but just can't GET out of a salvage container.
• Jayden, in her infinite boredom, now provides written transcripts of your favorite video discs.
• You can now load video discs into your droids with the verbal DISC command. See HELP DROID for certain restrictions and limitations.
• Jayden now produces 500 frame video discs. She needs a hobby or a friend.
• Private station, moon, and planet owners can now PARENT rooms to a trivia room for a 100,000,000 credit fee.
• Diving gear can no longer be removed while an airlock is cycling.
• You can now DIG ENTER TO <room> in a house to create a biometrically protected ENTER exit. You must be outside before digging it.
• You will now receive roundtime upon trying to move underwater without any remaining oxygen.

04-11-15

• Added a description for oxygen tanks.
• Private comms displayed under HISTORY PRIVATE ALL will no longer display single comm socials as a blank message.
• Fixed a bug with the Miriani HUD that would cause other players aboard a ship with a HUD user to be spammed needlessly with the room title.
• Fixed a long-lived bug that involved people being improperly tagged as intruders if they walked into a docking bay directly from the ship's airlock and lacked a key.

04-10-15

• Connecting exits with the DIG-command is now counted in blueprint worth. (This does not apply for rooms connected to before this change.)
• Added an option to import an already existing structure into an architectural simulator as a new design.
• Fixed a bug where layout duplication would include doors and GO-exits that went out of a design into nowhere.

04-09-15

• Added architectural design simulators. See post 79867 or read the HELP file for more information.
• You can now HOLD or JOIN other avatars in architectural design simulators.
• By popular demand, limits on number of default stores for private moons and planets has been increased. Subsequently, help Player-owned Space Stations, Moons, and Planets has been updated to reflect this.
• Architectural blueprints will now be purged from the database if they have not been accessed in two months or longer.

04-08-15

• Fixed a bug when scanning galactic coordinates that happened to be negative in the middle.

04-07-15

• Added a description for diving suits.
• Enhanced the KISS social for the lovebirds out there to accept specific body parts to kiss someone on. The syntax is KISS <person> on <location>.

04-06-15

• Since I've been neglecting the changelog, you can now use the ESTIMATE-command on archaeology containers similarly to artifact containers if you don't feel like surfing through a potentially spammy list of artifacts. You still need 50% skill or higher to do so.
• Added a new GENERAL-OPTION to hide login ASCII.

04-05-15

• Fixed a bug that could cause a starship store to become stuck transferring a ship forever if the conditions for the transfer were not met.
• Reinstated the restriction that forbid people from putting Easter eggs in baskets they don't own. If you want to win the hunt, you need to go through the agonizing process of putting eggs in your own basket.

04-04-15

• Droids can no longer exit the airlock into space in remote mode.
• Uncle Shady no longer deals in courier ships.
• Disabled the fill command on Easter baskets to discourage people sharing eggs. If you want to win the hunt, get your own.

04-03-15

• Simulated engineers will now be generated in starship simulators when you use crew NPCs if a room doubles as an engineering room and weapon room. (Like vanguards.)
• Diving air compressors no longer work if a ship lacks power.

04-02-15

• Droids no longer see themselves through their cameras.
• The sector announcement for ships launching from an asteroid now sounds slightly less stupid.
• Logic fix: Disabling main power in the SYSTEMS-command now looks for diving gear if your ship is in an aquatic environment, rather than relying on a spacesuit like before. Take heed that this means you will be sent in an escape pod if you do disable main power while the ship is in an aquatic environment and you lack underwater equipment.

04-01-15

• Fixed a bug where non-customized wanderers could be buckled into seats and still wander away, leaving them in a state of perma-buckle. Now they won't wander at all when sitting (or while buckled) and, for any previously broken ones, will automatically unset their buckled status.

03-31-15

• To prevent grievous injury, you can no longer USE a diving gear bag to wear or remove a diving suit while the airlock is cycling.

03-30-15

• You can now COUNT <artifact name> in <ARTIFACT CONTAINER> to see how many of an artifact you have. This works for both normal artifacts and archaeological finds. Using the old syntax (count container) will still show the number of artifacts overall in a container.
• Fixed an earlier fix to dynamic room maps. Players with SIGHT enabled now also see people who are alone in dynamic rooms.

03-29-15

• Sanitation drones should no longer, uh, pick up tents with players inside. Awkward.
• Archaeologists can now estimate the overall point value for archaeology containers if their skill in archaeology is 75% or higher.
• Mattress Massacre no longer falsely advertises sleeping bags as holding two people when they couldn't do so in the first place. Now they can!

03-28-15

• Fixed a bug where diving bags would not let you stow your diving suit if the bag also contained extra oxygen tanks.
• The CARGO-command will now give a more sensible message if your ship lacks a storage room.
• The menu for adding mutually owned starships to a private organization will no longer show starships that have already been added.
• Increased the likelihood of finding an archaeology site when surveying a planet outside of known space.
• Fixed a bug in the dynamic room MAP command that would hide players if they were alone in a room.
• Added a Lore option to alert you when an unauthorized user attempts to track your device. It's off by default.

03-27-15

• Added diving gear bags to contain diving suit components and extra oxygen tanks. They can also be USEd similarly to armor storage bags to quickly remove or wear available gear.

03-26-15

• Added an option for private space station, moon and planet owners to adjust the list of people assigned to rooms on the structure from the security center.
• Diving suits and other associated components now count toward your overall worth.

03-25-15

• Droids will now respond appropriately if you include communication socials in your message.
• Added a CONFIG <oxygen tank> command to allow changing of when it will start alerting you of low oxygen levels. You can also now alter how oxygen is displayed when looking at the tank.
• People who lack the necessary points can no longer equip diving gear.
• The DESCRIBE command now accepts a 'clear' argument to reset a description to default.
• You can now PEER out in tents.
• Added an option to make internal stun turret cameras or external cameras ignore expressive speech. Toggle it by putting 'SAY' as an argument to the turret or camera command. Droids being watched via remotes will now also make an effort to respect the speech options of the person holding the remote.

03-24-15

• After a minor reconsideration, decreased the archaeology point requirement on diving equipment to allow slightly lower level archaeologists to indulge themselves and to bring it in line with other supplies available.
• You can now use E2-style matching with baby and pet emotes to directly reference an object in the room or in the child's inventory. Just use -(object/player) to match to an object. For example: spits up all over -Albori's freshly pressed suit.

03-20-15

• Fixed a bug that caused awkward object numbers to show up in your pose under the RPOSE command.

03-19-15

• Docking using a docking bay should now make a concerted effort to send the request to the least idle player that is awake in the control room of the main ship, rather than being entirely random.
• You can now type ETA in a support fighter repair room to see the estimated time till completion of the (probably) short-lived repair process.
• Updated the description for mutated space cats to be more grammatically correct.
• The 'Sectors Travelled' number now only goes up when you enter a new sector, not every time you happen to launch into a sector.

03-17-15

• You can no longer redock support fighters if they lack the charge to do so.

03-16-15

• Added a 'Trading' category to the General message board to facilitate any friendly trading of everyday goods or potentially disreputable bartering.

03-15-15

• HISTORY PRIVATE ALL will now show you your full correspondence with a given individual for the day.

03-14-15

• Added a new COLOR-OPTION to apply different colors to different metafrequencies.

03-13-15

• To alleviate certain tradesman advantages, wearable pulse emitters (pulse gloves and otherwise) as well as pulse emitters attached to combat suits now require at least one free hand to fire.
• Added some checks to prevent starships from destroying multiple times after damage is added numerous times in quick succession. This should (maybe) address several lingering bugs, like proximity weapons being able to destroy a ship 5 or 6 times giving the owner many times the amount of insurance they should have received, destruction by a black hole printing several destruction messages to the sector, destroyed ships being duplicated on service records, and a varied array of other issues.

03-12-15

• The FOCUS-command will now check if a focused ship has moved out of sensor range prior to giving you coordinates that you should not otherwise have been able to see.
• Using a handheld planetary surveyor should no longer perpetually mark the room as already surveyed if the scan fails.
• Mines have been raised in price slightly, and their damage has been modified again. They now do less damage to drives and hull, but full damage plus a little random damage to everything else.

03-11-15

• Added sector-wide announcements for proximity mine's detonating and automated laser turrets firing at other ships. To aid in spam reduction, messages will only be announced if it has been two minutes or more since the last announcement, similar to blockades being launched.
• Fixed a number of docking bugs: the SYSTEMS-command will no longer always indicate the docking bay doors being on if they aren't. You can no longer request to dock into a ship if it has no docking bays that can accommodate the size of your ship. Eviscerator docking bays have also been adjusted to not hold 10.0 worth of mass in each one. The primary docking bay can hold up to 10.0 mass, whereas the secondary docking bay can now contain up to 5.9.
• Starship weapons can no longer miss blockades if you are less than two units away.
• Babies can no longer start following you if they are sitting or lying down.

03-10-15

• Added an option to the AUTOCONTRIB-command that allows one to toggle whether they automatically contribute or not without erasing any existing contribution preferences. Especially for those times where you despise the owner of the ship with every part of your being and don't feel they deserve your credits.
• You can once again launch blockades while the ship is moving. Go forth and bully once again, you crazy pirates.
• Made some balance modifications to proximity weapons. Mines do more damage, will damage other ships one unit away when they explode, and proximity weapons can no longer be launched if there are other ships less than six units away from you.

03-09-15

• Ships will now alert you when you enter and exit a nebula. You can toggle this functionality from within the NOTIFICATIONS if you hate information.
• Interdiction, natural or otherwise, is no longer functional inside a nebula.
• Fixed a bug where things inside a nebula DID show up on long-range scans when, in fact, they should not have.
• Added the hotly anticipated nebula help file.
• The SAY-command has received a facelift, making way for much more emotive conversation. See @ANNOUNCEMENTS or board post 79416 for the details.
• Throwing objects at stunned people and/or people busying themselves with a task now has the effect one might expect.

03-08-15

• Intrusive sanitation drones should no longer take trolleys if they are being pushed by someone that happens to still be standing in the room.
• Private structure owners with stores can now set sale prices. See message board post 79396 for details.

03-07-15

• Fixed an oversight that caused High Guard to be greedier than normal when taking debris for acid dispersive hull plating, recycling all Praelor debris in the cargo hold instead of stopping at the required amount.

03-06-15

• Fixed a horrific bug with message boards that allowed out of comms players to gain access to in character boards if they were crafty enough.

03-04-15

• Flight control scanners should no longer intermittently stop working if you remove and wear a belt that they might be attached to.

03-03-15

• Starship stores now take the liberty of transferring asteroid rovers to the new ship owner.

03-01-15

• Rejiggered the credit and point reward for eviscerators successfully completing missions of the difficult variety.

02-28-15

• Fixed a bug where damage footnotes such as indications of the structural integrity of the hull being compromised would not show up if there was no other damage. I'm sure at least one person understands this. You know who you are.

02-25-15

• Fixed some formatting issues with metafrequency history under the http://toastsoft.net:1111/me/comm_logs/ page and added a link to the beta channel history for those that don't want to take the time to remember the direct link, like me.
• People out of comms now have a minuscule chance of encountering Praelor Krenelia starships. You can now also get up to 3 hostile Ontanka starships if you are beyond 5,000 lightyears away from the communication beacons.

02-21-15

• You can no longer transfer eviscerators to non-licensed pilots or pilots who already own one, whether via more elicit means or from a ship store. Similarly, you can no longer purchase more than one.
• Starship armor can now be repaired at a repair center. It will no longer be removed from the components list as well, making it a permanent fixture until removed at an armor vendor.

02-20-15

• Advanced missions in an eviscerator will now encounter marginally more enemy ships that must be disposed of.
• Ablative hull armor will now show in starship description's if it is present!

02-19-15

• Planetary long-range lasers positioned on capital planets and Alliance High Guard Command will no longer take pent up aggression out on innocent Praelor Krenelia starships.

02-17-15

• You can no longer change the parent of a private garage if it has ships stored in it.
• The power drain on eviscerator laser turrets and bardenium cannons has been increased. It was never intended to be one second for all weapons.

02-16-15

• Viewing a Lore photo that was transmitted from another Lore device will now show the ID it was sent from. This does not apply for photos sent before this change.

02-14-15

• You now receive appropriate roundtime for walking into a starship airlock from inside the ship if your legs are injured.
• Eviscerators will now encounter fleets of Praelor beyond communications range. These fleets are markedly larger than fleets encountered by the battlecruiser, but consist of the same ship classes.

02-12-15

• Gunning NPCs now take into account the range of the weapons they're using instead of assuming all starship weapons can only fire one unit away.
• You can now type REPAIR-ALL inside of a simulated starship control room to reset all damage that may be present. Sorry cheaters, this won't work on the eviscerator test or any other such examination.

02-11-15

• BC fighters have been renamed to support fighters in favor of a universal design shared between the battlecruiser and eviscerator.
• Added heavy support fighters for eviscerators, purchasable in the same store that sells fighters for battlecruisers.
• Rearm centers can now load bardenium storage boxes onto heavy support fighters to facilitate TRANSFERing small amounts of bardenium from an eviscerator directly into the fighter for later skirmishes. Balance pending.
• The Miriani HUD will no longer display damage to starship components if you wouldn't be able to see them via the game itself (i.e. mundane rooms without damage terminals).
• The twelve-person eviscerator will now appear in starship simulators.
• If your ship has multiple docking bays, you can now disable each bay door independently of the others via the SYSTEMS-command.

02-10-15

• Like all other starship applications, you can now print pending or approved eviscerator APPLICATIONS in a point center.

02-08-15

• You can once again simulate battlecruisers in a starship simulator.
• Engineering NPCs now respond to the command 'Start repairing' to restart repairs if they were told to stop. They should also be much more obedient when asked to stop repairs.

02-07-15

• Fixed a slight oversight that allowed insurance payouts for bountied starships if they get destroyed by a Praelor starship.

02-05-15

• Engineering NPCs will no longer fruitlessly and repeatedly try repairing ablative hull armor after it has been destroyed.

02-01-15

• Entry biometrics on houses that are put up for auction will now automatically be set to public without host intervention.
• Updated starship authorization codes and door passwords to no longer use regular MOO-crypt(). Codes will now be checked past the first eight characters and rehashed upon the first validation to be compliant with the new algorithm. WARNING: This means that if you were using a shortened version of your code before, you should use the full code to ensure it rehashes properly. Using a shortened version will replace your existing code with the one you entered. For example, if your code is 'abcdefghijkl', entering just 'abcdefghi' to validate will change your new code to 'abcdefghi' instead of the full string. If this whole idea is confusing, you probably have nothing to worry about!

01-31-15

• You can no longer use the ROOC channel to circumvent simulators by communicating with people outside of the simulation when that would otherwise not be possible.
• Fixed an ancient bug that caused people to get doubled destruction bounty pay and small amounts of extra combat points from missions if they were the only one to fire on a Praelor ship.
• Rejiggered base mission payment and combat points for the second easy mission, disrupt Praelor salvaging operations. It should now be more in line with the difficulty of completing it.
• You can now use PIPE as an argument for the CHIME-command to pipe your airlock entrance chime throughout the entire ship. For convenience, this toggle is also available under PILOT-OPTIONS.
• The Office of Interalliance Real Estate on Pax will now display the price for any properties that are available for auction.
• Disambiguating private link recipients (COMM-O 8) should now be much more intelligent with who it matches to. For example, before, typing 'tr red Hello!' would have the potential to match to people named Fred and Red. Now, it will only match to Red.

01-30-15

• Interdictors have been weakened roughly 60%, resulting in significantly less hits to destroy them. Additionally, the price for interdictors has been lowered from 3,000,000.0 credits to 2,000,000.0. To offset this change, starships can now hold 12 interdictors at one given time rather than 6.

01-29-15

• Classic difficult combat missions (stop an invasion fleet) will now trigger invasions if they go uncompleted or a crew is forced to abort one. High Guard officers will give a brief warning over general communication, informing you of an ETA on the Praelor fleet and what sector to expect them in. Assigning missions for the sole purpose of causing incursions of Praelor will be met with harsh penalties, not limited to being permanently banned from going on missions or landing on Alliance High Guard Command.

01-28-15

• Fixed some bugs that would cause engineering NPC's to ignore various commands if conditions were right.
• Crew NPC's should no longer be sent in an escape pod home if a starship loses power in a hostile environment.

01-27-15

• You can no longer TRANSPORT starships from a landing pad if they are in the process of launching.

01-25-15

• Fixed an oversight with player renaming that would allow someone to assume the previous name of a past character. For example, Joe Bob renames to Bob Joeson. He then deletes, rerolling as Jack Jerkson. Jack Jerkson can now take up the name Joe Bob via a renaming center, since that wasn't the name of his character when he deleted. Confused? Me too.

01-24-15

• Pawn shops now obey ITEM-O 6, the automatically confirm store purchases option. Buying an item with this toggled off will prompt you before following through with the transaction.
• Added a 'Submit Word For Inclusion In Main Dictionary' option to the DICTIONARY-command. Similarly, it now appears when spell checking board posts or communicator transmissions as well.

01-23-15

• You can now follow the beta discussion on the website here: http://www.toastsoft.net:1111/beta_history/
• Added the option to hide timestamps and/or the prefix in @beta-logs.
• Transmission Spell Check (COMM-O 12) should now smartly identify when a word is a comm social and ignore it when appropriate.

01-21-15

• Fixed an issue where trying to GET something from certain closed containers would over-inform you that the container is closed.
• You can now choose how skilled (fast) simulated gunners are when creating a new ship in a simulator.

01-20-15

• Because it bugged the heck out of me (Mitchell), private links should now be restored when a character is restored, in theory. Note that this is only so for characters who delete starting today. A link won't be restored if the other character is at the private link limit or is deleted.
• You can now type CREW in a simulated ship to manage simulated crew. This allows you to retire certain crew members or switch them with other ones. For whatever reason.

01-19-15

• The UNBOLT command can now be issued with total impunity. Things will no longer shatter, although we reserve the right to reinstate shattering for things that may be particularly fragile.
• Simulators now allow you to configure various aspects of the combat drones and save their configurations for future simulations.
• You can now select teams for your simulator drones. Fight with them, fight against them, make them fight each other! POSSIBILITIES.
• Simulators now have an OBSERVER command that will cause drones to ignore that ship. (Only newly added drones will respect the observer alliance.)
• You will no longer receive out of band soundpack messages for socials if you have socials gagged under GAG-OPTIONS.
• Combat drones will no longer move or fire if they are added while the simulation is paused.

01-18-15

• Added INFO HISTORY to get a glimpse of who you once were with death dates accurate to within two months. ENJOY CATO.
• Private structures no longer care about bounties and will happily allow you to land and dock.
• Planets, moons, and stations with flight control no longer allow the expelling of starships with bounties of 50% or more of their worth.
• You can now type URL or LINK inside of a board post to retrieve a link to the post on the web board.

01-17-15

• Poor, unfortunate souls outside of communications range now stand a miniscule risk of flying into a nebula.
• The courier command now displays your courier company's location.
• Repair centers can now repair structural damage caused by corrosive nebular gasses. (Under complete repairs.)
• Friendly aliens outside of communications range now take pity on those with structural damage and will offer to repair part, or all, of it. FOR A PRICE.
• Fixed a bug where completed combat missions were being added to the service record for the last Praelor ship in the sector instead of the ship completing the mission itself.
• Simulators now allow you to configure the sector to be a big fat disgusting nebula.
• The STATUS command now shows how your standard sensor range is being affected in any old sector. Similarly, being landed now reduces your sensor range anywhere from 70 to 90%.
• Added custom structure requests to facilitate making custom additions to private structures. See board post 78382 for details.

01-16-15

• Updated the way completed combat missions are logged on starship service records. This shouldn't mean anything for you as a player for the most part, but please REPORT if strange and bizarre things happen! Examples include certain missions not adding to a ship's overall completed missions, strange output from the RECORDS-command, and a varied range of other terrible things.
• Out of band soundpack messages should no longer appear when socials fail to match to a target.
• Failed matches should no longer count against your social spamming count.

01-15-15

• The wavewarp drive can no longer instantly destroy interdictors. Instead, damage is distributed much more randomly.
• It is now not possible to buy storage upgrades for your supercarriers.

01-14-15

• Altered the text output on pulsed ships to be less presumptuous about your assumptions.
• You can now PLACE stuffed animals on furniture. We love you Merugle.
• Modernized Outreach pods to be not-so-2008ish. Consequently, disbanding a group inside them will no longer strand the members of the previously dissolved group inside the pod forever.

01-13-15

• Added a GAG-OPTION to suppress starship drive messages.
• Fixed that pesky landing bug where starships would announce themselves landing to the sector after having been destroyed.

01-12-15

• Added an option in slime dispensers to allow for anybody to be able to use them without specifically adding trusted persons. This is accessed in the TRUST menu of the dispenser.
• Starship pulses are now covered by gagging starship weapons (GAG-O 11).

01-11-15

• You will no longer be sent to IC prison for firing on space stations and planets in uncharted space.
• Ahem. Space stations, moons and planets with flight control will now automatically deny landing from any people who attack them, along with the ship they're in for a week. This does not apply for private structures.

01-10-15

• EXCITING NEWS. You can now PLACE babies on to furniture and PULL them away from furniture. Standard GET checks apply to PULL. May not work if your baby is heavily customized, but probably will. Maybe. Guess you'll find out!
• Babies now enjoy the same status as players, droids, drones, pets, and mounts when it comes to riding in the escape pod instead of the salvage container.
• You can now CARGO PRINT to print your ship's cargo manifest. For whatever reason...
• The BABIES-command now displays if a baby is sitting up, lying down, or buckled into furniture.
• Added a message that is piped to the sector when a combat drone redocks to the main ship.
• Combat drones now display 'Unmanned' rather than 'Filled' in the occupancy section of a scan.
• Combat drones should return to the main ship more or less much faster now, rather than continuing to chase a target and then realizing once it arrives to head all the way back.

01-09-15

• Fixed an oversight with the D <item> alias that would allow you to bypass special drop verbs, such as salvage containers and empty glasses shattering after being dropped.
• Fixed a bug with the WHY social that would leave you awkwardly buckled into the ground. Important changes here only.

01-08-15

• E2 now supports dot-style matching. e.g. 'E2 * expertly juggles -apple with -2.apple and -3.apple.'
• E2 now supports ~ for stripping a or an off the beginning of a matched object name. e.g. 'E2 * proudly displays his ~toaster.'

01-07-15

• By popular demand, sensor profilers can now memorize scan ordering configurations set with the SCAN-ORDER command.
• Private comms are now subject to any profanity filters that you may have enabled.
• Most (if not all) channel history will now censor any profanity if you have profanity filters enabled.
• The BETA-channel now has spectacular timestamps and can be accessed using the HISTORY-command. It will not show up on the menu to prevent OOC distraction. Instead, use the channel name as an argument.
• You now require at least one free hand before you can successfully USE a spacesuit or armor storage bag.
• I forgot to document this, but D <item> can now be used as a shortened version of DROP, similar to the G <item> and T <item> aliases for picking items up. Let the laziness commence.
• Stun batons can now be used on stun targets.
• Contextual matching (MATCH-O 3) will now SIT you down into the first empty chair that matches your command rather than forcing you to play the match game.
• Similarly, those with contextual matching enabled can now type SIT ANYWHERE to sit in a random available seat. And it'll probably work!
• Added a new MATCH-OPTION that will cause a failed match if you specify a number greater than the amount of matching objects. e.g. If there are three apples in the room and you try to 'get 500.apple', it will tell you you don't see that here.
• Dot matching now accepts $ as an argument to return the last possible match. e.g. 'get $.apple' will get the last apple in the room without any of that pesky counting business.

01-06-15

• Modernized the intruder detection code in debris salvaging in order to prevent innocent people getting salvaged with a key from getting flagged as intruders.
• Added confirmation prompts to combat drone bay removal and other such things.

01-05-15

• Fixed a minor oversight with occupancy that would allow a player to not be counted in the occupants of a ship if they were inside a shower.
• If you become incapacitated whilst using an asteroid anchor or attaching a line, you will no longer finish the job successfully.
• Fixed a bug with metafrequency transmissions that caused messages sent from 12/23/2014 to 01/05/2015 to be formatted strangely on the website.
• Added a <total> argument to the CARGO-command in scooper control rooms to print a short summary of how many units reside in the cargo hold, similar to starships.

01-04-15

• Fixed a bug that caused issues with submitting bounties for destroyed cargo haulers and freighters. They should now actually be valid.
• You can no longer change the parent of a pool room if players are swimming, or a hot tub room if players are soaking.
• Added the EVERYONE command to food robots. When toggled on, everyone will be able to use them whether authorized or not.
• In order to put a stop to future abuse of the industrial bounty system, your alliance must now approve a bounty before it is put into effect. Similarly, fixed a few grammatical errors in board posts after a bounty is approved or updated.
• Battlecruisers and eviscerators will no longer see themselves transmitting over the external loudspeaker via the external camera.

01-03-15

• Fixed a bug with the tradesman certificate marketplace that would allow two people to purchase the same tradesman certificate if timing was ideal.
• Advanced combat mission changes! Since advanced missions were being completed in such a short time in recent months, base mission pay out has been decreased 1,500,000 credits to create more balance appropriate to the difficulty. To combat this, the bonus for killing all Praelor ships and Praelor NPCs has been increased exponentially.

01-02-15

• Fixed a bug with the FOCUS-command that would allow one to retrieve coordinates for a starship that had since left the sector.

01-01-15

• Normal (unmutated) fuzzy creatures are now much less rare in places that aren't 15.0 lightyears from known space or in sector 14. Previously, you had a one in one-hundred chance of receiving a fuzzy creature along with your debris. No longer!
• I don't know how we overlooked this, but you can now type DANCING to see with whom you are shaking your groove thing.

12-30-14

• It is no longer possible to activate subwarp, slip, or wavewarp drives while another ship is docking via the docking bay.

12-29-14

• Added the @SOUNDPACK-STATS command (or @SOUNDPACK-STATISTICS for the verbose) to allow soundpack maintainers to see statistics regarding their soundpack(s). For any meaningful statistics, the soundpack must support out of band negotiation.
• You can no longer revoke your status of consenting to OOC communication over an intercom if someone has spoken over the PA in the past two minutes.

12-28-14

• It is no longer possible to AACT your wearable remote holder things. Sorry kids.
• To prevent abuse, simulated starships can no longer be created that assume the name of a recently destroyed starship. If you want to steal someone's starship name, you'll have to be slightly more creative, friends!

12-27-14

• To facilitate the expedient removal of users from biometric locks, a clear users option has been added to biometric lock menus.

12-25-14

• BC fighters will now initiate an automatic destruction sequence if they are not in range of the mothership (same sector or fighter bay), as they always should have.
• Added a GAG-OPTION to suppress people taking pictures with a Lore Computer or camera.

12-24-14

• Mutant salvage lifeforms will now only appear in sector 14 or more than 500 lightyears from known space.
• Droids in remote mode no longer move silently through dynamic rooms.
• Being booted from a ship now disconnects you from any simulations you may be simulating in a simulator.
• BEACONS NEAREST and BEACONS DISTANCE no longer accept coordinates that would be outside of the galaxy.

12-23-14

• Communicator socials should now display themselves correctly in private communication history. Note that this doesn't apply for any older transmissions that were received before this.
• Metafrequency communicators now show comm socials in the channel history. Please REPORT any strange behavior if things go wild!
• Services (loopback, combat mission notification, reminder, etc) no longer count toward the private link limit.

12-22-14

• You can now DUMP clothing pockets into other containers.
• Fixed an inconsistency in private link limits where one could bypass the 250 link limit by having other people ask them for a link instead of requesting it themselves. HOORAY LINKS!
• Reinstated the flavorful and slightly humorous Praelor destruction messages sent to flight control. Furthermore, Krenelia now have their own messages so one can differentiate between the two factions. Also added tasteful randomized flight control announcements for planets, stations and moons being attacked.

12-21-14

• Probably fixed the issue where typing CARGO while salvaging would corrupt your cargo listing and, if you're devious, allow you to fill your ship with more cargo than it should hold. Feel free to REPORT if I'm wildly incorrect!
• Supercarriers can no longer partake in easy missions.
• In line with the Diplomacy help file, requesting to land or dock with a space station, moon or planet should no longer deny starships that are hostile with the alliance that maintains it if the structure lacks flight control.

12-20-14

• You will now be targeted by the planetary long-range laser if you fire on a capital planet.
• Automatically guided projectiles launched by planets under fire will no longer strike your ship if you manage to leave the sector just in time.
• Fixed a number of exploits involving the 'Confirm Sector Exit' option that would allow one to move to a new sector after the ship had since been moved by another party, lost power, started moving, or a range of other things that would otherwise make it impossible to exit the current sector.
• Docking in docking bays should once again work as intended, and not just for supercarriers.
• You no longer require a key to enter a simulated starship.
• All followers should once again be properly moved after you are booted from a ship.
• Starship transfers are now 98.7% less apt to become frozen for no good reason.
• The Decker Trisolar Catapult Array will now charge a greater fee for alliances that The Hale Collective is hostile with. Similarly, shooting the array will result in the inability to use it for a week.
• Booting everybody now follows suit with the previous change and no longer leaves people's followers behind to rot in a ship forever.

12-19-14

• Fixed a bug with KNOCK <starship> while spacewalking that would allow you to knock on any hull in the sector, even if it wasn't sharing your coordinates.
• Trying to match to dead players while engraving statues from The Gift Garage on Miriani should no longer result in a horrific error.
• You should no longer be sent to jail if you fire on a planet, moon, or space station that is controlled by an alliance that your alliance is hostile or at war with. Similarly, firing on private structures will no longer give you a fine and sentence either.
• Bugfix: Starship weapons should no longer show as powered on scans if a ship somehow manages to maintain it's red alert but lacks any charge.

12-18-14

• Removed the 'Confirm Weapon Firing' combat option, as nobody in the history of ever has used it and waiting at the prompt would enable some pretty amusing exploits anyway.
• Fixed an oversight with flight control scanners where filtering the CHRISTMAS alliance would prove ineffective. Scroogedom prevails.
• Added a place on Shadius to facilitate the immoral transferral of starships. For use when a mundane starship branch just doesn't want to cooperate with your demands.
• Confirmation for firing on an inhabited station, planet, moon, etc has been moved from the firing commands (LAS, CAN) to the LOCK command to address an exploit as well as make it more convenient by not having a constant prompt should you go on a rampage.

12-17-14

• Flight control scanners will now announce the alliance of starships navigating into or out of local sectors.
• Fixed a bug with the DOORLOCK and DOORUNLOCK commands that would cause it to give no output if the arguments provided matched to an object in your inventory or in the room. For example, typing DOORLOCK S would often return nothing because it was matching to a keyring or other object.
• Starship stores now expressly forbid the transfer of ships if both parties are members of alliances that are hostile with one another. Take that, treasonous and treacherous friends.

12-16-14

• Your starship computer will no longer permit you to expel a ship that is registered to an enemy alliance if diplomatic relations have descended to a declaration of hostility or war.
• NAVI will no longer automatically and mysteriously teleport you to a new sector if autopilot fails to find a route to the destination coordinates.
• Santa, not wanting people to become complacent with his common wares, now offers a supplemental version of the Santa Box. Since nobody was around to stop him, he named it the Extra Boxy Santa Box.

12-15-14

• Introducing notifications for most major events occurring in your private organizations today! You can now receive alerts for members joining, members leaving, members being promoted or demoted, fund deposits and withdrawals, and key creation. To be eligible to receive such alerts, your communicator must be enabled and organization channel active. Additionally, organization admins now have a much finer control over which notifications go to who. Simply mosey on over to the Private Organization Center on Pax, and under the MENU, go to Set Admin Options -> Configure Notifications. Notifications can be set up to be piped to all active members, only administrators, or nobody.
• Custom profanity filters should once again apply for metafrequency communicators.

12-14-14

• People who are stunned will no longer be asked to approve or deny a docking request.
• Scented candles now count towards a rooms overall smell, even if they're in a candle holder on a table-like surface.
• You can no longer STAMP <person> with <stamp>, wait at the menu, get stunned, and then finish stamping your target after being incapacitated. True misery at its finest.
• Fixed a bug where new closets(tm) wouldn't save the color for compressed pieces of LED clothing.

12-11-14

• Fixed a bug with mountable lockboxes where one couldn't remove them from containers under certain and rare conditions.
• Video probes that are in the same sector as a black hole will no longer transmit back to the mothership. Blame the inevitable interference that black holes reek upon a starship's systems.

12-08-14

• Demolishing exits should now remove any accompanying biometric lock attached to that exit.
• You can now disable and re-enable biometric locks from the BIOLOCK-command under 'Toggle Access'. Disabling a biometric lock will let anyone pass, without having to remove the lock from the exit,, similar to the PUBLIC command in houses. Users of the biometric are kept intact for when you wish to re-enable it.
• You can now PEER through exits containing a disabled biometric lock.
• About six-and-a-half years late, but @WHO OUT OF LOCAL (and all associated abbreviations) is now synonymous with @WHO OUT OF COMMS, since being out of locals while still remaining in communications range is an impossibility.

12-07-14

• Asteroid mining drill bits and antenna arrays should no longer end up in salvage containers when ships are destroyed.
• Closets have received an overhaul, allowing compressed clothing to be stored in a much more convenient format. This should not affect anything for you as a player, but please do REPORT if anything strange happens like jeans randomly losing pockets or tradesman clothing no longer being considered a tradesman item when you remove it from a closet.
• The point of purchase should now be set properly on a piece of clothing that has been freshly removed from a closet.
• Added yet another positively thrilling COMM-OPTION! This one allows you to ignore custom communicator socials from specific players.
• You may now configure biometric identities for individual exits in a room, rather than the list of users being shared for all biolocks in the vicinity.
• Santa will now take more...drastic measures against people who shoot his space sleigh repeatedly.

12-06-14

• Santa should no longer ignorantly wander into local sectors that are filled to the brim with AI ships.
• Ground Praelor NPCs now ignore newbies that are less than an hour old. If anyone is caught abusing this to use a brand new player as a shield, they will receive a penalty.
• Shooting at Santa's space sleigh will no longer result in the immediate destruction of your starship.
• Added a new COMM-OPTION for ignoring out-of-band messages for player created communicator socials.

12-04-14

• You can now cancel any tradesman certificate requests that you have submitted to the queue by typing @CREQUEST again. This means that assists to get certificates removed will be force canceled. With FORCE.

12-03-14

• New-style food robots can now be loaded with sheets of wrapping paper, rolls of same, food spreads and drink mixes. They also now properly count jars of food spreads toward energy use when ordered. No more free rides!
• Sorry for the confusion, but the ability to load ultrabots [TM] with single sheets of wrapping paper has been redacted owing to the fact that single sheets are not purchaseable anywhere.
• It seems I neglected to add this to the changelog! The @CERT-MARKET command now accepts a <history> argument to see the last recorded messages on the channel. The time of last activity on a sale is now also displayed so you can gauge when a sale is about to expire.
• Comm socials once again work without asterisks if the entire transmission is meant to be a social. (e.g. tr org snort)
• The BOOT list is once again ordered with players first and everything else second instead of all mixed together.
• You can now define your own comm socials using the @custom-socials command. Please read the, frankly unprofessional but nonetheless true, disclaimer that pops up before adding your social. This feature should be considered a TRIAL RUN. Please use it responsibly or I will, in fact, cut you.
• You can now TR LINK LOOP to link with a friendly communication loopback recipient that will parrot back everything you say to it. This has the advantage of allowing you to test comm socials without making everybody hate you and remove links with you.
• Need to remember to do something? TR LINK REMIND and tell it! See HELP REMINDER SERVICE for some examples and bask in the triviality of this change.

12-01-14

• You can now remove custom doors that you have submitted by typing DOORADD [exit] again.
• Use of proper punctuation and capitalization is now a requirement with submitting newly written door messages in a private structure. Failing to use punctuation and capitalization where it is necessary will notify you what you need to fix and no longer add it to the queue.

11-29-14

• You will now be required to reread POLICY 4 if you receive more than five OOC warnings.

11-27-14

• Improved the responsiveness of the BOOT command. It should now detect things more or less instantaneously.
• Matching in the GIVE command is now slightly smarter. If you're holding something with the same or similar name to who you want to give it to, it will no longer assume you mean to give the item to itself. e.g Carrying a Will Carter action figure. Typing 'give will to will' will now actually work instead of trying to give the action figure to the action figure.
• Removing clothing from other players should no longer mysteriously break any spacesuit forcefield that they might be using at the time.

11-26-14

• Added a help file for the laser overdrive capacitor.
• Channel 500 history is now always available regardless of when you tuned in.

11-25-14

• Praelor Frnalk are now differentiated from Ontanka and Krenelia on starmaps, scans, and flight control, since they're technically not a member of either faction.
• The 'ignore thread notifications' option can now be toggled from the web board when viewing, you know, a thread. That you want to ignore.

11-24-14

• Room environments have been updated to be more dynamic for future programming. Probably none of you know what this means, but this isn't technically a changelog for you to follow. You just can if you want.
• Life support is now (mostly) independent of main power. Unless you have main power disabled, in which it won't have any power to function in the first place. Removed the power environment throttle on the SYSTEMS-command.

11-23-14

• You can no longer use names containing dashes in character generation or renaming prompts. If you strongly feel that you should be allowed to have a hyphenated name, ASSIST to speak to us about it.
• @COMM-SOCIALS is now sorted alphabetically! I know at least one of you cares about this.

11-21-14

• By popular demand, engineering NPCs now respond to REP <component> as well as a more natural sounding REPAIR.
• Disabling and reenabling life support in hostile environments is now a gradual process, rather than automagically changing every room's environment faster than a single airlock can cycle. The wait time is dependent on starship size.

11-20-14

• A help file detailing crew NPCs has been added.
• The PA command in houses now supports comm socials and the speech color option.

11-19-14

• The EXTERNAL loudspeaker now more or less supports comm socials.
• Simulated engineering NPCs have had a massive overhaul. They can now accept commands via the intercom. Furthermore, they now follow much better routines of repair prioritizing. Documentation coming soon!
• Fixed some pretty glaring bugs in the engineer NPC code where repairing the hull when it was at critical levels would be considered less important than, say, a nearly destroyed laser turret.

11-18-14

• Simulators now allow you to save and restore upgrade configurations. You can now also change your mind in the menu and remove standard upgrades. Also added a full upgrade option to skip ahead to the good part...
• Simulators now also offer the fantastic ability to delete upgrade configurations from the main menu.
• The SITTING command now recognizes mounts as a thing.
• The scientist on Humuhumunukunukuapua'a will no longer shun you for life if you happen to have an empty credit account when you try to exchange containers of junk for useful items.
• Pets have had their AACT verb overhauled. You can still AACT <PET> to bring up a prompt, or you can AACT <PET> WITH <ACTION> to skip the prompt and get right into the aactin'.

11-17-14

• Tired of that pesky spacewalk prompt? Me too! Introducing a new SHIP-OPTION that suppresses any confirmation prior to embarking into the dark reaches of space.
• You can now tell simulated gunnery NPCs to "FOCUS <ship name>" over the intercom. For example, "focus third drone" or "focus 123456."
• Fixed a bug where gunnery NPCs would cause a task timeout after a simulated starship was destroyed.
• You can no longer abuse pre-programmed communicator filters to get around the enforced blank message limitation.
• Removing a custom social now prompts you to ensure that you really want to delete the selected social.

11-16-14

• Spacesuit bags can now carry handheld planetary surveyors or handheld radio receivers. To prevent confusion and outcry, the option is not on by default. You can enable it by typing CONFIG <spacesuit bag> and picking the corresponding item from the menu.
• Added the seemingly obscure spacesuit configuration menu to the OPTIONS-command.
• Fixed a bug with communicator socials that would result in you transmitting a zero. Probably.
• Communicator socials can now be used over the ship's PA.
• The STARMAP command no longer shows information on objects one unit away when the sensors are destroyed.
• Numbers (like, say, coordinates) should no longer be screamed over the PA or communicators.
• Tradesman certificate marketplace sales will now expire if they haven't received any activity in more than two weeks. (Activity can be defined as updates to the sale itself or people purchasing certificates.)
• You can now add simulated crew to simulated starships in starship simulators. Have fun with your simulicious simulated simulations of simulation.

11-15-14

• It is no longer possible for sleeping players to catch frisbees that have been tossed to them.
• Archaeology containers now respect the display container contents as list ITEM-OPTION.

11-14-14

• Fixed a bug allowing people to continue milking cows even after having been removed from said cow's location. Probably.
• Also fixed it so that stunned players and players who fall asleep on the job can't keep milking cows. Maybe.
• Fixed a bug where scanning anomalies in rooms other than the control room would pipe output to the starship's control room rather than displaying it in the room that it was scanned from.

11-13-14

• Rooms in laser tag arenas and starship simulators now send out of band soundpack messages.
• Color options will now carry over to simulated laser tag avatars. (Amongst a number of other options.)

11-12-14

• Your status of consenting to out of character communication via the intercom will now carry over to simulated avatars.
• You can now type TURN COMM INTERALLIANCE to mute or unmute the interalliance channel, rather than the awkward syntax that was being used before.

11-11-14

• Once more, POLICY 4 has been updated.
• Pulse emitter bug fixes: Wearable pulse emitters work once again when used on targets. Gadgets that can be pulsed (such as stun detectors) will no longer show as being deactivated when they already are. You will now get a message upon the reactivation of an EM pulsed gadget.
• Fixed an inconsistency in house owner transferral where the old owners list would not be cleared, subsequently making it so the new owner couldn't do crucial things like booting people off of the property.

11-10-14

• you can now type @SPEAKER QUEUE (or list) to see a list of people who have requested to speak in a forum-enabled room. The queue will clear once forum mode is disabled once again.

11-08-14

• Babies will now be violently thrown into an escape pod if a starship's main power is disabled in a hostile environment.
• The SECURITY-command in starships now accepts arguments to display specific elements of information. For example, SECURITY internal will display all installed internal stun turrets.

11-07-14

• stunned players can now disable OOC room communication (ROOC) if they so desire via the ROOC OFF command. Once it has been disabled, it's gone FOR GOOD until you become unstunned.
• Policy 4 has been updated. Again.
• Added the OOC-PA command to indicate whether you are consenting to out of character talk over the PA.
• Added the PA-CHECK command to starship rooms to see if everyone aboard is okay with OOC talk over the PA.
• Sleeping crew members are now excluded from the PA-CHECK command.
• People who are stunned now automatically count as nonconsenting for OOC PA communication, regardless of their options. If you're going to hold someone, please don't pepper them with your flagrant out of character speech.
• Fixed a bug with aquatic salvagers where landing on prospective debris after getting hit by a massive wave would not activate the scooper.

11-06-14

• Instead of counting twice, atmospheric, gas and aquatic salvagers now only count towards your individual worth. This required modifying the worth of hundreds of ships actively being used in the game, so please REPORT if your ship suddenly ends up being worth far less than it should or something similarly wonky.
• Atmospheric combat vehicles now count towards worth.
• Asteroid rovers now count towards overall worth.

11-05-14

• You can now use E2-style object matching in your room poses. Simply prefix part of an object's name with a dash (-) and go to town. Example: rpose with his fist firmly entrenched in -victor's teeth. Note that your room pose will dissolve once the object leaves the room.
• You can now RPOSE <player name> to force them to dissolve their room pose if they have matched to your name inappropriately. (Note that this won't work if they type your name in manually, sorry!)
• Fixed a bug where room pose matching only worked for hosts because I never remember to remove admin checks.
• Transferring canisters of atmospheric debris is no longer instant. Sorry, no more transferring 820,300 canisters in less than a second.
• It is now possible to rename your private properties in the Transferral Office on Aquatimis. No more having to assist to rename! Be warned, this comes at a small fee.

11-04-14

• Drawing weapons now does a check to see if you're trying to draw it using a broken arm.
• Added an @GROUND-KILLS tops list for ground Praelor killed.
• NAVI should no longer sneakily activate drives that would otherwise be unable to be used if a black hole was present.
• Fixed a spurious bug with using an intercom in a private structure observation room.
• You can no longer use the PA on private structures in rooms that are outside.
• It is no longer possible to enter houses while in a position other than standing.
• Fixed a bug where a host's colors could override those set by the player for the 'color player list in rooms' color option.
• Arguments to the NOTIFICATIONS command no longer require you to exactly type the name of the option you want. e.g. NOTIF RECHARGE rather than NOTIF DRIVE RECHARGE NOTIFICATIONS.
• Tradesman items will now get sent to your capital planet upon the successful disowning of a specialty starship rather than disappearing into oblivion.
• OPTION-SEARCH [part of option name] is now available for those who, like me, can't remember where in the world a particular option is housed in the tangled web of options commands.
• Removed the new SHIP-OPTION and rejiggered starship scans to fix the bug that listed mining equipment by name in the first place. (Sorry Victor!)
• You can no longer expel starships while landed in an aquatic environment.

11-03-14

• WHO -ooc now displays percentages, similar to WHO ooc.
• You can no longer disable main power seconds before activating a jumpgate or while the ship is transiting via the trisolar catapult in sector 32.
• You can no longer disable main power if the ship is in the process of expelling another ship. Conversely, other ships that are being expelled are under the same restriction.
• Fixed a bug where you could board or depart lifts if you weren't standing.
• Rejoice, for you may now retrieve items from gadget bots using the syntax UNLOAD <item name> from <bot>. The menu is still there for those who like organization and hate change.
• You can no longer communicate over a starship relay channel if the paired ship is unpowered.
• You will no longer get trapped forever if you're in the shower when a ship is destroyed.
• Bounty hunters, unknown starships, and anything else that responds to being shot should now respond to EM pulse weapons.
• Stores that sell starship pulses will no longer harass you to pick a placement location when there is only one eligible room to pick from.
• Wavewarp drives will no longer be activated by NAVI if the ship is in sector 0.
• Droids with personality enhancements will no longer respond to socials if they happen to be disabled after the social is invoked.
• Babies should no longer wander into rooms with a hostile environment.
• Added Praelor troops to INFO KILLS, for those who care about how many praelor NPCs they've heartlessly murdered.
• Fixed the ever elusive traceback that some people would get if they attempted to REPLY to someone who had since removed their communicator.
• People can no longre catch tossed frisbees if they leave the room.

11-02-14

• Your walking style will now be altered while in an aquatic environment.
• Forum logs will now be moved to an archival folder upon a room recycling rather than sticking around indeterminately. This addresses a very rare hole where people could view disassociated forum logs if the room they were in shared the object number of an older forum room.
• You will now receive a kindly warning after using the ROOC-command if a host is present and assisting another player in the room. Hosts are out of character, you don't need to be using ROOC redundantly! Or do you?
• Fixed the (reported by little) bug where anyone could write on a varied amount of signs that were placed in public areas before June of 2009.
• Rearming Blazon rockets will now charge you with an amount that scales with how many rockets are being purchased. Consequently, you also have the option to select how many you wish to load, rather than being forced to refill the ship to capacity every time.
• You can no longer launch a BC fighter from the mothership while it is being repaired.
• You can now use 'STOP' as an argument to the repair command in fighter repair to abort a repair in progress.
• BC fighters no longer prematurely show themselves docking 5 seconds before they actually redock.
• Rescuing or calling back a BC fighter will now cancel any pending escape pod launches or self-destruction sequences in progress.
• You can no longer check history for your private organization channel if you have the organization channel muted.
• You can no longer link a droid to a new remote while it's following to prevent the awkward situation of having it on remote mode while it innocently tags along in your wake.
• Fixed a tragic bug with docking where one could, given the proper circumstances, request docking entry and then move away but still dock successfully after the request was accepted.
• Fixed a bug where you would get a traceback upon attempting to publish a journal at Raul's Retail.
• Claiming starships on Shadius now transfers atmospheric combat vehicles to the new owner, similarly to atmospheric/gas/aquatic salvagers.
• People who use the auto-confirm landing and jumpgate prompts SHIP-OPTION will no longer confirm anything if they disconnect before reaching the target.
• Starship relay channels will now send soundpack negotiation messages to soundpack users, similarly to all other channels.
• Booting from house rooms, starships and private space stations/moons/planets should now do a sitting check. For real this time.
• Player-owned store rejection letters are now postmarked.
• Lore Computer's will no longer traceback if they encounter a floating-point arithmetic error.

10-30-14

• Fixed a bug in E2 that would cause a traceback if you tried to use %he1 with only one person referenced.
• Fixed an oversight with the PREDICT-command that caused it to give inaccurate predictions when no arguments were provided.
• Most, if not all costumes have been converted to work as normal clothing. If your costume doesn't cover the proper location, please assist to get everything sorted. Keep in mind that this is for costume objects that change one's name during Halloween. Normal items are not affected.
• New costumes(tm) will now preserve their unique name and descriptions if you put them in a closet.
• Buying a single item multiple times in a short span of time will now alert you to the fact that you can buy multiple items at a time with a single command.
• The @FORUM-LOGS command now provides an option to set a custom title for your meetings. You can use several different formatters for sake of ease. The different formatters are detailed in the command.
• Updated the tradesman certificates help file to be more in line with the recent modifications to how they work.

10-29-14

• Owners of rooms equipped with forum mode now have an option to retrieve any relevant logs from past meetings. Type @FORUM-LOGS while standing in the room to begin. Be certain to report any bewildering occurrences, such as being able to see host-only logs or other top secret meetings regarding impending doom.
• You can no longer reroll to get around the tradesman certificate cooldown period. Any new characters will have the old time carried over.

10-28-14

• Introduced a tradesman certificate marketplace for purely OOC trading of tradesman item certificates. To access it, type @CERT-MARKET (shortened down to @cm). Help file coming soon.
• Added a tradesman market channel. You can connect or disconnect using @CM <on | off> respectively. New and closing sales will be announced here, for now. There will be more to come soon!
• Skeeball machines will no longer announce how many points were achieved if you rudely walk out on them in the midst of a throw.

10-27-14

• Tradesman certificates will now properly transfer over to new characters after rerolling.
• The contents of tradesman items that hold things(tm) (mountable lockboxes, gadget bots, etc) will no longer be transferred to new characters after rerolling. Take that, evil and moralless thieves.

10-26-14

• The HELP command will now provide a list of topics it thinks you might be interested in when it fails to find an exact match. Similarly, the @HELP-SEARCH command is available to do the same thing but without the title matching getting in your way.
• Similar to starships, private structure owners can now pick up empty untouchable strollers to destroy them in the most grippingly gruesome method at their disposal.
• You can now hang costumes in closets and other various clothing compression containers.

10-24-14

• Fixed a bug with player-owned store rejection where the store would be removed from the queue, but you could never resubmit a store for that room. EVER. No longer!
• You can no longer leave blank messages for other people using the Intraship Quick Messaging Network.
• You can no longer speak underwater in pools, hot tubs, or other random bodies of water if you lack the proper protective equipment, which is to say a spacesuit forcefield or a spacesuit helmet. Though why anyone would go underwater recreationally with a bulky spacesuit helmet on is beyond reasonable explanation.

10-23-14

• You can now type PILOT-OPTIONS (shortened to pilot-o) in a starship control room to alter various starship settings. Similarly, you can also type WEAPON-OPTIONS (or weapon-o) in a weapon room to change combat related options.

10-22-14

• Skeeball machines now no longer fit in bags, clothing, etc. Thanks to the person who so bluntly pointed out that it made no sense.

10-21-14

• Fixed an outstanding bug with skeeball machines where one could reset the machine mid-throw, causing it to have negative one balls left.

10-20-14

• You can now type TIME format in a control room near you (or time mode for the lazy) to toggle your starship's clock format between 12-hour or 24-hour.
• You can now toggle whether your Lore computer uses 12-hour or 24-hour format on the sundial via the device options menu.

10-19-14

• Have you ever wondered what the highest skeeball score is on all of the machines in Miriani? Now you can find out with the @SKEEBALL command. important stuff. Just remember it's out of character info, just like @TOPS lists.

10-18-14

• You will now receive a letter in the mail if you find yourself suddenly banned from participating in combat missions. Subsequently, if you are able to go on them again, you will receive a snazzy new personalized letter.
• You can now PEER out of ferries while they're docked.
• The PROBE-command in starship control rooms has been altered as to not implicate that you can launch multiple video probes simultaneously.

10-17-14

• The SECURITY command in lifts now has the alias of SEC, or any amount of the command beyond that. Laziness triumphs over all!

10-16-14

• You will now receive a letter immediately upon losing battlecruiser/specialty technology rights. You will also receive one once your rights are reinstated.
• It is no longer possible to place people on furniture if you don't have both hands free.
• Alliance High Guard Command has updated their prison policies: you will now be given a quite fashionable prison jumpsuit upon being detained. Anything you're wearing or carrying, save for a message board reader, will be hospitably put into a container until you are released. You may not access in character boards while detained. Similarly, they now provide you with resplendent pieces of paper to write home on. The one letter per prisoner restriction still applies.

10-13-14

• The specialty starship scanner will now count occupants as unqualified if they lack sufficient points for the vessel in question, regardless of specialty rights.

10-12-14

• Groups now disband in the hustle and bustle of a starship breaking apart around you as it's destroyed.
• Cracking starship door locks on Shadius will no longer give you the miraculous ability to lock your staterooms from the inside.

10-11-14

• @exploration-statistics has been altered to reflect the true number of active natural wormholes, rather than counting each entry and exit point.

10-10-14

• Hopefully fixed the crazy @top-socials bug. The command is now enabled.
• Using the hug social with wacky arguments such as hugmybigfurrycat now counts as a plain old hug in the social tops list.
• You can no longer PITCH tents in an aquatic environment.
• You can now use the MAIL command in your starship's control room to check to see if you have mail. Note that you must be landed and in communications range for this to work.
• You can now use plural arguments with the NOTIFICATIONS-command in starships. E.g. NOTIFICATIONS asteroids.

10-09-14

• Combat suits will now properly recycle any companion pulse emitters if the suit itself is destroyed.
• Hooray! You can now transmit text directly from the scratchpad on your Lore Computer to another Lore(tm) device. Earth-shattering, I know.
• It is now possible for private space station, moon and planet owners to globally disable/enable the PA system from security centers. For the moment, this does not effect individual room toggles, rather, it overrides the PA system altogether.
• The @top-socials command has been disabled due to a bug that shows use of custom socials. It will be enabled again once this issue has been fixed.

10-07-14

• Digging to rooms without providing a name will no longer submit 'New Room' to the rename queue. Who knew it had to do with the probably not-so-recent code to enforce room renaming bans? Not me! Until now.

10-05-14

• Fixed a bug where lying on furniture in a hot tub room would spuriously make you sit instead.

10-04-14

• Similar to organization meeting rooms, alliances now have meeting rooms on Pax. Right now they're not described, but that will probably change.

10-03-14

• Destroyed starship pulses should no longer show up as being 'available' under the WEAPONS-command.
• Planets, stations and moons located in uncharted space will no longer give you a payout for 'defense of known space' if they get invaded. Ahem.

10-02-14

• Starships should no longer indicate that they have a paint job upon landing if their hull is damaged.
• To alleviate confusion, hostile Praelor now show up as Ontanka on both flight control and sector scans.

10-01-14

• Similarly to most if not all other Praelor, out of comms Praelor now utilize much shorter names.

09-30-14

• Changed the output in storage rooms for salvaged aquatic debris. Now everything's not just gas, even on taco night.

09-29-14

• Hot tub rooms on player-owned structures will now check if you're trying to sit on a piece of furniture rather than soak in the hot tub.
• You can now PUSH (or SHOVE) <person> OFF <furniture> to violently remove them from the offending object.
• To prevent excess confusion, you will now automatically be removed from any mailbox located in a donator apartment that is locked down.
• Updated the expiry warning letter issued by apartment complexes to detail mailbox pruning.
• Reading certain letters if they're not addressed to you (namely apartment complex warning letters) should no longer result in an immersion shattering traceback.

09-28-14

• The MENU command in stores now takes @linelength into account more obsessively.
• Fixed a tragic bug with skeeball machines where you could lose your hard-earned score if someone STARTed it the very second before the game ended.
• This is probably the most important change to date: If you shake a tent with people in it, the people inside will feel your thunder.

09-27-14

• Salvager bay ramps now count toward total ship worth. (Retroactively.)

09-26-14

• Have you ever wanted to restrict access to certain levels of your structure from within your lift? Owners can now do so by using the SECURITY command from inside the lift. Start turning away your best friends today.
• Never fear what horrific things may await you. You can now PEER out of lifts while they're not in motion.
• HELP LIFTS has been updated to include the new SECURITY command.

09-25-14

• Do you utterly despise your combat drones? Are they marring your otherwise beautiful ship with their imperfection and utter lack of personality? You can fix this grievous problem! Combat drone bays can now be removed on Varoshna. Don't wait, annihilate your combat drone bay today!

09-24-14

• Alternate navigation commands 'C' and 'X' once again work properly in atmospheric salvage / combat vehicles.
• The game will now warn you when it detects that your soundpack is the reason you got booted for input spamming. (Well. Sometimes.)

09-23-14

• @update-soundpack is now account based for those who maintain a soundpack but love to reroll.

09-22-14

• Overzealous workers should no longer feel the burning desire to break into landed starships and gleefully steal any babies on the ground.
• Sensor profilers now check if you were moved from the room during an upload sequence, rather than blindly assuming that you never moved and failing to abort the upload regardless.

09-21-14

• Most babies are now too terrified to wander around alone on a planet or space station. Additionally, planets and space stations with drone storage rooms will now send helpful, friendly workers out to collect lonely babies and bring them back to the safety of the room containing piles of heavy, inert machines.
• Refinery bonuses now show under the INFO-command.

09-20-14

• You can no longer disable main power if you are suddenly and unexpectedly incapacitated while in the yes/no prompt for jerks lacking a spacesuit.

09-19-14

• Scanning from an observation room on a private structure will no longer show the structure you're scanning from.
• You can now execute the BOOT-command in observation rooms on player-owned structures.

09-18-14

• If you're removed from a private organization without standing in the private organization center, you will now be mailed keys to previously tagged ships rather than having a random package mysteriously appear in your hands.
• At long last, owners of private stations, moons, and planets can now bolt and unbolt on their docking bays and landing pads. Bolt your favorite things to the floor today!
• Other rooms (e.g. atmospheric vehicle control rooms, archaeology sites) now feature a C alias for coordinates, similar to starship rooms.

09-16-14

• Your soundpacks already did it anyway, but for non-soundpack users, C is now an alias for COORDS. Let freedom ring!
• Changing room parents in private space stations no longer prompts you to choose if the room is indoors or outdoors.

09-15-14

• When requesting a tradesman certificate using @REQUEST-CERTIFICATE, you are now informed as to how many certificates you have once the transaction completes.
• Bashing your head into a starship will now give you a head injury.

09-11-14

• You can now transfer ownership of private property without host intervention. See post 76456 for the intricacies of doing so. Jig for joy! I know I am.
• Similar to moving houses, privately-owned space stations now come with a moving fee. See message board post 76455 for all the dirt.
• Empanda has gotten a facelift. Please act as though it has always been that way.

09-10-14

• Joined Team Internet for the September 10th 'Internet Slowdown' with a little reminder message the first time you execute a command after connecting. More information here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/

09-08-14

• Communicator socials are ENHANCED! They can now be used at the beginning or the end of a transmission, you can use asterisks or the number 8 to surround them, you can use singular or plural, and they're a million times easier to add new ones of. Don't delay, communicate today!
• Added COMM-O 15 to ignore communicator socials. (Currently does not apply to metafrequency communicators.)
• COMM-O 15 now also applies to metafrequency communicators.
• @comm-socials now accepts an argument to see details on each social. e.g. '@comm-socials whisper'

09-07-14

• Added @ISITWORTHIT for those times when you just have no idea whether or not something contributes to your worth or not.
• You can now courier to various planets equipped with flight control that reside in sector 31 and further.
• Desolo now has flight control and you can courier there as well.

09-06-14

• The newbie channel now features exciting timestamps. It also works with the HISTORY command, but won't show up on the menu because it's separate from the comm system and could prove distracting for people who loathe everything about it.

09-05-14

• Disappointment abounds. You can no longer quickly rebuckle yourself into a chair as you're standing up, only to be in the awkward position of being restrained by a seatbelt while standing.

09-04-14

• Zander now has an automated service that cleans the planet of old and lonely drones every so often. Go and visit them sometime in the abandoned merchandise room. You know you want to.
• Reclamation sites on Kentos now have their own fabulous and unique digging messages.
• Rejiggered booting from private structures so you won't see yourself being dragged away via security cameras anymore.
• Booting from houses and other various private structures now forces people lying or sitting on you to stand, similarly to ship booting.
• You can no longer transfer an apartment to someone if they already have an apartment at that complex. Similarly, you can no longer transfer an apartment to someone if the apartment is on Empanda and they are not a donator.

09-03-14

• Ammunition storage containers and belts that hold ammo now respect the display container contents as list item-option.
• Pulsing someone now takes containers and belts into account. No more being sneaky jerks and clipping your stun reader(s) to a belt to avoid them being deactivated.
• Made it so archaeology sites have custom ambient messages, usually based on what environment or planet it's located at. It will take a bit for us to go through each dig site to update messages. REPORT if you see any inconsistencies!

09-02-14

• You can no longer USE a toilet multiple times. Incidentally, neither can you swirly 3.14 people at once if you're into that kind of thing. Never worry about bathroom woes again!
• Speaking into a metafrequency communicator now respects the hide communicator names room-option.
• You can no longer install cameras while standing in a private structure's security center.
• If your starship somehow finds itself on top of another player, your systems will no longer be unavailable due to the ship's proximity with that terrible person.
• People who are sitting or lying on someone who gets booted from a ship will now be brutally forced to stand up.

08-27-14

• Fixed a bug that allowed normal atmospheric salvagers to operate on planets with an aquatic environment.
• Hidden things, such as security cameras on private stations, should no longer show up when taking pictures of rooms using normal cameras.

08-26-14

• Water guns no longer soak your clothing and gadgets if you're wearing a full spacesuit.

08-25-14

• Uncontrollable rage issues? Don't turn to violence against your fellow man! FLIP a table instead! (Added a very necessary FLIP command to tables and table-like surfaces.)

08-24-14

• You can no longer download and upload sensor profiles while the ship is powered down.
• If a player reaches 60 policy reminders, they will be sent to a nice, quiet reading room. They will stay there until they accept the policies. Or die of starvation and dehydration. Whichever comes first.

08-23-14

• Sensor profilers are now available! These spectacular gadgets allow one to save SCAN-FILTERS or LRSCAN configurations and move them from ship to ship. You must have a key to load sensor configurations onto another person's starship.

08-22-14

• You should no longer be able to use spacesuit storage bags if you have an active forcefield spacesuit on.
• Added ITEM-OPTION 12. Never again will you have to roll the dice to know if you'll be standing in that store for 13 years choosing between 862,001 different customization options!
• Or, for those who hate menu spam, you can achieve the same result without enabling ITEM-O 12 by typing SUMMARIZE <menu option>. Or SUMM.

08-21-14

• Firing upon a new courier ship that won't reward you for its destruction will now print a warning message similar to a newbie ship warning message.

08-19-14

• Various store menus will no longer show shoes and other feety-type things as having seats.

08-17-14

• Installation of hatch replacement locks will now fail if you're unceremoniously moved from the airlock.
• Water guns now soak all clothing on your target. Have fun!

08-16-14

• Because the other kiss socials are this way, you can no longer cheekkiss people while they are stunned.
• Added a help file for tradesman certificates.

08-15-14

• Pulse emitters can now be DISCHARGEd (or UNLOADed if that's your thing) to get rid of that pesky extra useful charge.

08-14-14

• Fixed punching bags so they no longer get stuck being used if they or the person punching or kicking them changes locations.

08-13-14

• Edited the insurance help file to include a note about self-destructing ships.
• After many, many, many, many years of wondering why such a thing was happening, the infamous chicken bug has been put to rest.

08-12-14

• It is no longer possible to dump ammunition containers into themselves, sending all of the ammunition into a dark and empty place of no return.

08-11-14

• The TURN command on books and such now accepts next and previous as arguments, and previous can be shortened to prev. Relatedly, the OPEN command will now put you on the first page if the book has never been opened instead of forcing you to turn to page 1 like a jerk.
• Choosing to wipe a Lore computer of its data no longer resets its hardware slots and image discs.

08-09-14

• You can no longer put pets in pockets.
• Babies can also no longer be put in pockets.
• The MAP command now works from inside an airlock!

08-08-14

• The force renamer now prompts you to confirm your new name.
• Communicator and Lore tracking timestamps now use the game year rather than the real out of character year.

08-07-14

• POLICY 4 has been updated.

08-06-14

• Policy reminders are now tracked. People who get a certain amount of reminders or more will be booted for about 30 seconds when they're reminded.

08-05-14

• Lore computers now have a track history that can be viewed under the tracking menu.

08-04-14

• The INSULT social is back and better than ever.

08-01-14

• Fixed a bug where the FTL map would display truncated values (often including ANSI sequences) to players with small linelengths.
• Added a new COLOR-OPTION to display dark gray alliance symbols with a white background for users who have a background the same color as ANSI gray.

07-31-14

• Typing IGNORING will now clean dead players out of your comm ignore list.
• Those special drink bottles that have to be poured into glasses now rot like normal drinks. Mostly because there are around 6350 of them as of this change.
• Added a purchase limit for baby food and drink since they don't rot.
• Baby food, baby drinks, and food spreads now rot. However, because baby food and drinks are used often, they should take a week or so to rot outside of a fridge.

07-30-14

• It's now possible to turn off a stun armor battery pack when nothing is connected to it.
• Stun armor battery packs are now smarter about checking for things that shouldn't be connected to them.

07-27-14

• Lowly townspeople (aka not caretakers or owners of the station) can now view a STATUS report in private upgrade sales facilities to view the progress of their particular retrofits.

07-26-14

• Matching once again works with GETting punching bags instead of telling you that 'other punch' (or whatever) isn't on the punching bag.

07-25-14

• Improved handling of shortened versions of airlock and enter (air, ent, etc) when using the PEER command to view objects.
• Fixed a precision error in the CASH command when you have ITEM-O 11 (show commas) disabled.
• ATMs now obey ITEM-O 11. Relatedly, adding to the insurance fund no longer shows one number with commas and one without.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the MAP legend to either display room types that were not on the map or not display room types that were on the map.
• Fixed a bugsploit(tm) that would allow one to hover in a menu for SLIP, FTL, MOVE, or NAVI and then continue to control the ship after they had been removed from the control room.
• Added a TIMER help file due to extraordinarily popular demand.
• You can now fire pulse emitters at players to temporarily disable weaker forms of technology that they're wearing, such as pesky stun detectors. And by 'such as' I mean 'that's all that they disable right now'.
• Speaking of that PEER thing from earlier... the 'objects' part can now be lazied all the way down to 'ob' if you prefer. e.g. 'peer air ob'
• People with grievously injured legs now limp in and out of the airlock.
• The room is now notified when people fall to the ground in their haste to walk 500 rooms per second.

07-24-14

• Because people seem to like to do this for fun, getting 0% on a policy quiz now boots you for 10 minutes unless you're a newbie.

07-23-14

• Added an optional policy quiz. See board post 75704 or the policy-quiz help file for details.
• A policy quiz notification channel now exists. Use POLICY-QUIZ <on> to enable it and POLICY-QUIZ <off> to disable it. Your results will not be announce to those with notifications enabled if you yourself have them disabled.
• Multiple choice answers on the policy quiz now randomly permute.
• Fixed a policy quiz bug that caused the correct answer for a multiple choice question to be incorrect after the answers were randomized.
• Fixed priests a bit to ask each person getting married in turn if they want to change their last name, hopefully to avoid any confusion in future.
• Droid remotes now give you the unparalleled power to examine grouped objects in the room.
• Message board options now appear in the conglomeration that is the OPTIONS command.
• Taking the policy quiz as a simulated avatar now reroutes the quiz to you instead of giving the avatar a reward for passing.
• Simulated avatars can no longer use the ACCEPT-POLICY command, because, well, acceptance would be simulated too.

07-22-14

• Droids no longer stink up the room when they fart, because, you know, they're machines and all.
• Courier ship destructions now check to see if the people who destroyed the ship are eligible for promotions.
• Ships powering up or down in private garages will now be seen doing so.

07-21-14

• Because we've got the maturity level of a three year old, farts now affect room smells.

07-20-14

• POLICY 20 has been updated. Everybody should have a look at it as soon as possible.
• Added a check to prevent multiple transfers of the same starship once the transfer process has begun.
• Updated the Getting Started, FAQ, and Rules help files with information about accepting the policies. Also updated the NPC in the alliance information center where new characters start.
• Accepting policies is now account based instead of character based.

07-19-14

• The landing message on Keyton has been reworked so as not to force roleplay.
• Typing who ooc no longer hints at how many hosts may be connected.
• Asteroid rovers now have a STOP command to abort autopilot, if they have the upgrade.

07-18-14

• Changed the reference to MESSAGES TO THE STAFF to GAMEPLAY CONCERNS in POLICY 16.
• To make the whole policy acception concept less heavy-handed, alliance choosing no longer checks to see if new characters have accepted the policies, and the reminder is now on a one hour interval and doesn't send to newbies. You should still read them all and accept them when you have time, of course.

07-17-14

• A new step has been added to character creation. Please read board post 75555 for the details.

07-15-14

• Droids with keys can now enter apartments in remote mode. Probably.

07-13-14

• New-style food robots are now BOOTable from starships.

07-11-14

• Owners and caretakers of private moons and planets should now be able to take ITPN pods to them if they have been set to deny all landing. This required a small reworking of how landing is checked, so please report any weirdness.

07-10-14

• Those fancy pen things that people like to use on each other now display the current picture and color when LOOKing at them.
• You know those pen things that you people love so very very much? They now require ink supplies to work. Ink can be purchased wherever stamps are sold. Just REFILL <pen name> WITH INK and off you go!

07-09-14

• Fixed a bug that allowed every drone in the room (minus 3) to defend you if you're on their friends list.
• Fixed a bug that wouldn't allow courier ships to navigate out of an interdicted sector.

07-08-14

• Bounty hunters now use interdictors. They follow the same rules for them as players.
• Bounty hunters also now subwarp to their targets if they can. This only happens if they're around 6 units away or more.
• Bounty hunters no longer spawn thousands upon thousands of tasks when they fight. Their firing patterns are now hopefully a bit more natural as well.

07-07-14

• Added an ITEM-OPTION to remove commas from the output of CASH, Lore shop searches, and store menus.

07-03-14

• It is no longer possible to request tradesman certificates while a request is in the tradesman queue.

07-02-14

• Refunds from destroying an apartment that isn't finalized should no longer bleed into organization tithes, private funds, or insurance.

07-01-14

• Removing members from an organization now prompts you to make sure you really wish to remove them.
• Private upgrade sales facilities can now change the prices of portable devices as well as starship upgrades.

06-29-14

• Tradesman certificates have been removed from Empanda's request menu. Now just type @REQUEST-CERT and if eligible, you will receive your certificate.
• You can now REQUESTCHECK from out of communications range again.
• Courier ships that won't give you a reward for destroying them will now have a new courier status in scans. Not to be confused with the new pilot status.
• Courier ships should now be able to fire upon other courier ships, just in case you want to hunt rival couriers in your courier ship.

06-26-14

• It is now possible to load new food robots with freeze-dried foods. But they must still be in their wrapper in order to work.
• Fishing now pays off as well. You can load any newly caught fish into your food robots. Sorry, old manky fish won't work. We only like the fresh ones.

06-25-14

• You will no longer get a reward for destroying a courier ship if said courier ship is less than 4 hours old. Please do try to give people something resembling a chance to recover after destroying them.
• to prevent abuse, the courier destruction reward limitation now only applies if the victim isn't eligible for a courier ship with weapons on it.

06-23-14

• Hopefully fixed mineral scanners so that they display the proper coordinates and other information when used inside of an asteroid rover.

06-22-14

• Improved the archaeology brush! It's now much less reliant on skill and much more likely to produce intact artifacts. (Assuming the artifact was intact in the ground, which is not always the case.)
• It's now possible to DUMP a regular container full of artifacts (which I hope nobody actually has!) into an artifact storage container.
• It is no longer possible to submit unsigned books and paintings to sell, and books and paintings must be signed by the submitter in order to submit.

06-19-14

• Fixed a bug that resulted in planets, moons, and stations getting so upset when they were shot that they gave credits instead of taking them away.
• The REPORT command now displays the contents of your report before sending confirmation.

06-18-14

• Players are now notified when they are banned from using a channel, as well as when the ban expires.
• Keyrings now obey ITEM-O 10 (containers as lists).

06-16-14

• Added ITEM-OPTION 10 to display container contents as vertical lists.

06-14-14

• Bounty hunters will now trace wormhole jumps in an attempt to seek and locate targets. Hopefully.

06-13-14

• You can now track new-style food robots on Pax and Empanda at the pet tracking facilities.

06-12-14

• Vastly decreased the likelihood of a salvage lifeform being a mutant. Over hunting, you know. Just kills those local wildlife populations.
• Droids can now go through GO exits via their remotes. Beware that the exit names will probably look really stupid.
• UPDATE! Mutant salvage lifeforms are now much more common in sector 14 or 15 or more lightyears outside of known space.

06-09-14

• Doors that can't be locked should no longer let you set a code anyway.
• The FIGHTERS-ORDER command now physically reorders BC fighters in the bay rather than only reordering them in menus.
• Added INFO TRADESMAN for a beyond thrilling list of objects flagged as tradesman items.

06-07-14

• It should now be possible for new-style food bots to act the same way as old-style ones in regard to getting.

06-05-14

• New-style food robots now get considerably more supplies when reloaded, however the restock items need to be purchased rather than obtained from the intended restock bot.
• You can now load new-style food robots with multi-packs of food and drinks.

06-03-14

• Interceptors no longer show salvaging-related information in status.

06-01-14

• Added a HISTORY <channel> (or COMM-H for users of That One Soundpack) verb for convenient and mis-communication free history viewing. HISTORY with no arguments gives you a STUNNING menu of historic choices.
• You now have a chance of evading salvage lifeform attacks if you're lucky, standing, awake, and unstunned. Your stance will affect how lucky you are.

05-31-14

• Test changelog entry.

05-30-14

• Powered BC's in private garages will no longer see themselves being transported to landing pads through the external camera.

05-28-14

• Fixed the display of cannon salvo size and optimal cannon damage in the WEAPONS command.

05-26-14

• Fixed a bug where food in refrigerators never rotted. Now it does! (After two months, so significantly more time than food outside of a refrigerator.)

05-25-14

• Video probes destroyed by wavewarp drives now transmit their final report to the mothership instead of just keeling over silently.

05-22-14

• Purged a few thousand uncharted planets to prepare for the clearing of the survey database. Planets that survived are gas giants, marine worlds, and planets containing more than notes and/or pictures. Sorry!

05-18-14

• People who are banned from participating in combat missions should no longer receive combat mission rewards if they manage to sneak around their combat mission ban.

05-17-14

• Quantum vacuum accelerators (should) no longer fling you in completely the wrong direction when colony sectors get reused in atmospheric combat invasions.
• Atmospheric combat vehicles will no longer gleefully fire machine guns at themselves when you move around while firing.
• Atmospheric combat vehicles that return to the vehicle bay with guns flailing will no longer shoot up your vehicle bay or get stuck firing.
• Atmospheric combat vehicles now do proper bounds checking on the z-axis. It's no longer possible to fire into invalid coordinates.
• Firing in an ACV no longer shows you a coordinate list every time. (That was uh, meant for debugging. Awkward.)
• Alternate navigation commands and z-axis combinators(tm) now work in atmospheric combat vehicles.
• Made a small adjustment to POLICY 23 to clarify the restoration process as it applies to new vs old characters.

05-15-14

• You will now occasionally receive notification and a reason for assists being force canceled.
• Disabling a ship's main power in an aquatic environment will now behave as if you disabled it in a hostile environment.

05-11-14

• Added nipple piercinggs and nipple rings to the piercing store. Enjoy!

05-10-14

• Added an 'eventspam' help file since, for some reason, the command is getting a lot of action lately with no arguments. Which makes it do nothing.

05-09-14

• The @AUC-CHECK command for live auctions has received a serious makeover. Now you have the option to check bidding activity or item information all from one command.

05-05-14

• It is now possible to send a letter from IC prison. Only one letter, and it has to be an actual letter. Sorry guys, Lore printouts won't work. So use your letter wisely.

05-04-14

• Hopefully fixed a bug that resulted in people getting roundtime every time NAVI would switch sectors while they were drunk.

04-30-14

• balls of slime and slime launchers now check to see if your target is in cover.

04-29-14

• Added a SHIP-OPTION to remove destroyed components from the DAMAGE report. You can temporarily bypass this option by adding an 'ALL' argument. e.g. DAMAGE TURRETS ALL or DAMAGE ALL.
• Disabling holographic avatars from the SYSTEMS panel (what a stupid place for it...) will now deactivate any active holograms.
• Fixed a bug where the new ship option conflicted with the 'only show damaged components' option and made things randomly disappear.
• Remotes for sabotaging starships are now included in gadget robots.

04-25-14

• You should now be disconnected from starship simulator avatars when they end up in the recycling plant.

04-24-14

• Planets and stations in starship simulators no longer have flight control.

04-23-14

• Vehicle owners can now EMPTY (or EJECT or EXPEL) their vehicles to drag layabouts out.

04-22-14

• Firing on inhabited planets and stations will now result in an automatic fine as well as a prison sentence.

04-21-14

• The planetary defense lasers should now shoot down pieces of expelled debris as if they were blockades.

04-18-14

• Armor and stun armor bags no longer work if closed.

04-17-14

• Long-range scanners no longer function when the ship's sensors have been destroyed.
• Being open is now a prerequisite for all holsters using the HOLSTER, DRAW, PDRAW, and PHOLSTER commands.

04-16-14

• Added DAMAGE AVERAGE for gaining an appreciation for just how much damage your components have taken. You know, on average.
• It's no longer possible to read notes over people or droid's shoulders.
• Signing is now restricted to notes and letters. (No more vandalizing public signs, sorry.)
• Interceptors no longer accept storage upgrades on account of not having storage rooms. Refunds have been issued to those who already did it.

04-14-14

• Future quivers of crossbow bolts should be immune to rotting. Sorry for the oversight.

04-13-14

• It is no longer possible for droids to pick up pitched tents or tents that are in the process of being pitched.
• Installed sabotage devices will now be mercilessly destroyed with the ship.

04-12-14

• You never knew you wanted it, but @TOP-SOCIALS now exists. Now try to imagine life without it. How did you ever survive?
• It is no longer possible to pitch tents in transport pods. Whoever thought doing that was a good idea should have their head examined.

04-11-14

• You can no longer throw balls of slime or those scent ball things at themselves.

04-09-14

• Droids can no longer exit ships via remote if the ship is in an aquatic environment. Sorry, cheaters.
• Drones can no longer be expanded in aquatic environments.
• Stun batons can no longer be used in aquatic environments for obvious reasons.
• Players should no longer be able to follow other players into an aquatic environment without a spacesuit.
• Aquatic rooms now show as aquatic when looking.

04-08-14

• Fixed a bug where transferring all contaminated material out of a storage tower wouldn't remove that tower's contamination status.
• Fixed a bug in archaeology scanners where extremely miniscule depths would report as vastly larger depths.
• Added an experimental new MATCH-OPTION to use contextual clues to refine object matches. (Right now only useful in dig sites and asteroids.) See HELP CONTEXTUAL MATCHING for an example.

04-07-14

• Archaeological artifacts for Mercury and that other place, you know the one, they've had their values increased hopefully enough to balance out.

04-06-14

• Automatic shovels now count toward your overall worth.
• Archaeology scanners now properly count toward overall worth.

04-05-14

• Catch up on the latest OOC comm history for the day: http://toastsoft.net:1111/ooc_history/
• You can no longer beat people with objects that have been bolted down. You'll have to find something else instead.
• Added automatic shovels to archaeology stores.
• Added a level 11 scanner to archaeology stores.
• Added a handheld electronics factory to the mining station. See HELP HANDHELD ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING FACILITY.
• Added a number of new devices for conducting sabotage. See HELP SABOTAGE and HELP SABOTAGE DEVICES.
• Added four new archaeology sites. Best of luck finding them.
• Archaeology scanners now report in feet, not meters. (Sorry soundpacks. But c'mon, meters?)
• Archaeology scanners no longer present you with 900,000 decimal places.

04-04-14

• Fixed a rather embarrassing bug where drones never checked their own power and would happily shoot things with negative power.

04-03-14

• Implemented a new ship option that sorts your ship list shown by the INFO command by worth.
• In theory it is no longer possible to put unrolled sleeping bags in other containers, such as backpacks and belt pouches.

04-02-14

• Announcements of complete retrofits should no longer spam security centers with the same message from every room.
• Ralph once again accepts your hard earned money if you use shortened versions of the give command, such as GI. Give generously.
• Digging tools no longer get stuck if you are forcibly removed from the room mid-dig.
• Fixed an issue where stores were using the OLD pluralization verb and making your innocent purchases sound extra stupid when you buy in bulk. (You buy ten can of wormses, for instance.)

04-01-14

• Courier ships now try their hardest to use four digit numbers instead of a billion digits.
• Droids can now be remotely commanded to move around in dynamic rooms (asteroids, dig sites, etc).

03-31-14

• Not a tops list, but added @EXPLORATION-STATISTICS (@explor) for those quasi-interested in that sort of thing.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in natural wormholes never collapsing.

03-30-14

• You will now be notified over your courier channel when new employees join your courier company.
• You will also be notified over your courier channel when new employees leave your courier company, whether that be quitting or transferring.
• Promotions are now also announced over the courier channel.

03-29-14

• Added a funds help file.

03-23-14

• Trying to withdraw more than 2147483647 credits from a raw materials marketplace will no longer withdraw an error instead.
• @comm-socials will return a programmatically generated list of available comm socials. Never read help files again.

03-21-14

• Ducts now enjoy the same sense of security as a locked door.
• Communication stores now sell helpful literature regarding the rules of the road.

03-19-14

• ETAs of extremely minor repairs no longer claim to take 0 seconds to complete.
• The SYSTEMS command will now fail if you get moved from the room while in the prompt.

03-16-14

• Split the administrative options for private upgrade stores. Caretakers can load/view inventory and view retrofit status, owners can do these things plus change prices and withdraw profits. Please REPORT if this causes any problems.

03-12-14

• Combat suits will now properly remove pulse emitters from your person when you remove them. You need to WEAR then REMOVE or REM the suit for this to work because that's how we roll.

03-09-14

• Fixed a bug where the message board would report the bounty collected per-person rather than the total bounty of the ship. (Bounty hunting, yo.)

03-07-14

• Due to someone feeling that this was important enough to report, punching bags now check to see if you're in the same room just before you punch and kick them.
• The rooc command can now be used with roundtime.

03-02-14

• Ships with a bounty greater than or equal to 50 of their worth will be denied landing on planets and stations with flight control.
• Ships with a bounty equal to 100 of their worth will be automatically targeted by the long-range lasers that defend capital sectors and sector 12.

03-01-14

• Video conference tables are now working like they should. Thank Mitchell.

02-22-14

• The fishing help file now contains information about fishing.

02-21-14

• The help file regarding private stations, moons and planets has been updated slightly.

02-16-14

• You can now EMPTY drinks if you don't feel like drinking them.

02-07-14

• Fixed a minor typo in asteroid mining diagnostic devices. The correction will only affect new devices.

01-26-14

• It should no longer be possible to take medical and security drones out of containers while in a duct, mining site, or when in space.

01-25-14

• Pax is proud to open the Office of Private Property Information Services, which would be happy to list for you all of the private doohickeys you own or are a caretaker of.

01-21-14

• Exciting news. The FLIRT social has been added to.
• Fixed a bug that would allow you to spam vomit if you alternated between vomit and puke. Very rude.
• You can now PAUSE or UNPAUSE from within a simulated starship to pause or unpause the simulation.

01-20-14

• Recoded the way items get added to house menus. It won't mean much playerside, but it makes life easier for the hosts!

01-19-14

• Wine bottles now tell you if they have been opened.
• You can no longer RAGETHROW dishes at themselves.
• Fixed an issue where book signatures used a player's room title, which included their current up to date sitting pose. Things got awkward.

01-17-14

• The tops commands now all (except @tops-all, @alliances, and @mission-time) accept three exciting arguments: me, a number, or a range. See the bottom of HELP TOPS if you're not sure what those arguments might do.
• Also added two BEYOND THRILLING commands: @TOP-TOPS to see the top tops commands (yo dawg) and @TOPS-LIST to get an always up-to-date listing of the commands.
• Added a new GAG-OPTION for vehicle-to-ship transfer messages.
• Walls will now make their best effort to condense similarly named items into one instead of listing them 80,000 times.
• Miscellaneous clothing now also makes a best effort to group things of the same name to avoid unnecessary duplication.
• Added @FUZZIES to the tops list repertoire.

01-16-14

• Added @TOPS-EXCLUDE to semi-permanently exclude yourself from tops lists. No idea why you had to assist about this to begin with.

01-14-14

• At long last, you can have your mutant fuzzy corpses stuffed and mounted.

01-13-14

• Research centers now understand that mutated fuzzy corpses are not artifacts and will allow their research with less than 300 points.

01-12-14

• Couch potato? Exploration got you down? The Lore shopping guide, eager to please, now allows you to search for stores by name to learn where they hail from. Never again will you have to interact with people or visit pesky planets.

01-09-14

• Fixed the times on the web announcements.
• Sanitation drones will no longer eat vanity mirror things.

01-08-14

• Fixed a bug that could affect sector recognition of individuals in Outreach pods.
• You can no longer DUMP cargo from an asteroid rover anywhere other than the surface of an asteroid.
• The DIG command now follows the same naming restrictions as the RENAME command.
• It's no longer possible to establish private links with people whose communicators are not turned on.
• Added the SOUNDPACK HOOKS help file for those users who wish to create slightly more interesting soundpacks. Let me know if I forgot any!
• It is no longer possible to beat an object with itself.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to READ notes in other player's hands. Awkward.
• The starship museum, ever your servants, now ensure that their display models have a hospitable atmosphere every day.
• Fixed a pesky typo on skeeball machines.
• Made the SHIPYARD command actually do what the help file says it's supposed to do.
• The primary owner of a private structure can now reset any door's password from the security center without knowing the existing password.
• Added to HELP TOPS LISTS to show PUFFERFISH and ASTEROID-BONUS.
• Fixed an issue that might cause the manufacture date of newer ships to be several years in the past. The ISC may be cheap and corrupt, but not that much.
• The RECORDS command now removes the gigantic row of periods for users of the SIGHT command. I'm told they were annoying. Sorry!
• The TRASH command now gives you feedback on what it's matching to, as false matches are responsible for many people thinking it superceded the regular TRASH commands on existing objects. woo
• Fixed some issues with the website's announcement viewer, namely horrible ANSI bleed and multi-line announcement weirdocity.
• Buying multiple things from stores will now condense your items rather than repeating the same list. (So 'You buy eight defense handbooks.' instead of listing a defense handbook eight times.)
• If you buy an item in bulk that has no options (and you have the purchase confirmation option enabled), it will no longer spam you with identical 'Your final purchase will be XXX.' lines.
• Added a new GEN-OPTION to display the various @who lists as a single column rather than three.
• Added the BEACONS NEAREST command, which will compare arbitrary galactic coordinates that you supply against the database of known sector beacons to tell you which is closest.
• The MISSION command in the control room will now display the ship's last mission's completion time, if available. (Only applies to missions that occur after the change.)
• You can now rename private funds for profit and pleasure.
• You can now overwrite existing flight control scanner configurations if you SAVE under the same name.
• Alliance information computers now calculate pilot worth by actual worth rather than simply their cash on hand. Enjoy the brief lag as it grinds away at everybody's assets!

01-07-14

• updated POLICY 4, adding that ship relay channels are to remain IC at all times.
• Entertainment centers should in theory no longer fit in bags, droid storage compartments, etc.
• Updated HELP APARTMENTS to reflect the complexes on Acrylon and Venus.
• Drawing pens no longer write on people if they say anything other than NO or YES to the prompt. There's all of three of you who this will make sense to.
• It is no longer possible to fire crossbows in space.
• People with communicators already paired with another ship will now be asked before pairing with another ship's relay channel.

01-05-14

• Fixed a bug that would let you sell a starship that is no longer on a landing pad after you start the selling process.

01-04-14

• Candle holder things now condense their titles and subsequent humongous lists of candles being held.
• Fixed a bug where things hanging on walls would stop matching quite spontaneously.
• Hangable candle holders are now available for purchase. REPORT if there are issues.

01-02-14

• Mutant salvage lifeforms now have a chance of being injured by conventional stun weaponry, making them less invincible to newbies and less-traveled players alike.
• Donators can now change apartment rooms into private garages.
• Private station, moon, and/or planet owners can now build a store that will sell their hard-earned mined minerals at a price of their choosing. Similar to the upgrade store, you can find it in the PARENT menu and any owner (NOT caretaker) can access the MENU to change options and withdraw from the till.

01-01-14

• You can now TRANSFER a specific quantity of a mined mineral to another ship rather than being forced to transfer the entire batch at once.
• The FINGERSHAKE social has been added. I know this makes at least two of you happy.

12-30-13

• The AIRGUITAR social has been added. Use it wisely.
• It is no longer possible to pitch tents in apartments.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the sale of atmospheric salvagers back to the store.
• Fixed a bug that would allow droids to enter ships or vehicles while carrying attached anchors, lines, cables, or tubes.

12-29-13

• Fixed a bug the caused private upgrade stores to become stuck retrofitting if they were on a private moon or planet.
• The social flirt has been vastly improved. You're welcome.
• The social ssmile has been added for your suggestive smiling needs.

12-27-13

• Private station, moon, and/or planet owners can now build a store to sell their homemade asteroid mining upgrades. You can find it in the PARENT command. Any owner (not caretaker) can access the MENU to change options and withdraw from the till, so watch who you trust!

12-24-13

• You can now TRASH most objects if there's a trash can nearby. Merry Christmas, this changes EVERYTHING!
• Courier ships no longer get stuck delivering if there is cargo other than their intended delivery in the ship's storage.
• Couriers can once again deliver to the fine stations of sector 19. The message they receive upon launching will also not be the rude DON'T COME BACK one either!
• The INFO command in the courier starship request center now displays the starter courier ship (the infamous junker) to avoid confusing people.

12-23-13

• You can now use toasters to toast bagels and waffles, not just bread. You're welcome!

12-22-13

• All pets now have the ability to be AACTed with similar to babies. Merry Christmas.

12-21-13

• Salvagers can now be seen launching and docking from the outside of their motherships. Enjoy.

12-19-13

• Debt no longer prevents you from buying an eviscerator.
• Bardenium storage boxes should now be free for eviscerators. Maybe.
• Fixed a bug that caused a traceback during certain message board searches.
• Eviscerators are no longer allowed to be transferrd between players.

12-18-13

• HELP HOUSES has been updated for your viewing pleasure.

12-16-13

• Droids can no longer give things to Santa.
• santa's NUCLEAR snowballs should no longer hit ships that are no longer in the sector. Test at your own risk, and only if you don't mind being marked as a naughty child who deserves nothing for Christmas.
• Santa will now show in the people command, even when asleep.

12-15-13

• A blank entitlement on gift boxes now removes the label instead of making it blank and durpy.
• The firewood from Caranza will now actually look burny when it's burning and not burny when it's not.

12-14-13

• Doubled the speed at which super-refined bardenium is refined. Also increased the speed of enhanced and ultra-refined.
• You can now AUTHORIZE <person> TO <sanitation drone> and DEAUTHORIZE <person> FROM <sanitation drone> to allow them to change and/or not change settings on said drone. Exciting.
• Unpowered ships no longer receive general sector communications or proximity notifications.
• Similarly, unpowered ships no longer receive lock notifications.
• Fixed a bug in the visual mapper that would cause a traceback in certain strange areas. Looking at you, Penske.

12-11-13

• Mail boxes will now reset your total mail notifications when you check your mail. Why they didn't I have no idea. Blame the universe, quantum physics, alternate realities, something. Whatever flies your starship into a star late at night.
• It's probably possible to expel starships on landing pads of private moons and planets now.

12-10-13

• You must now put sleeping bags on the ground before trying to lie on them. No more crawling into sleeping bags you're holding! Probably.
• Loading food robots with nutri paste now displays proper messages.
• Transfer messages have been added to atmospheric salvagers.

12-09-13

• In the name of science, doubled the base damage of proximity mines and turrets.
• Combat drone turrets are now upgraded and hull strength doubled.
• Private space stations, moons, and planets that are in sectors with flight control will no longer announce landings over flight control.
• Standard camera photos now properly include silly things like tattoos and earrings. (For new photos.)

12-08-13

• It is no longer possible for private planet owners to add people with less than the required points as owners.

12-07-13

• As an experiment, interdictors now take five hits to be destroyed instead of one.

12-05-13

• The CONTAINERS command now excitingly takes belts into account.
• Fixed a bug in alternative navigation for salvagers where they would be triggered by unrelated commands, such as furrow.

12-04-13

• The @CERTS command has been added to see how many tradesman certificates you have without having to check through INFO.

12-03-13

• Santa now knows who launches combat drones at him, and the player who launched them will be considered naughty if they shoot his ship. Be warned!

12-02-13

• Added the COMM-DENY command to toggle between automatic acceptance/denial of communication links. The OFF argument will disable it entirely. (Shortcut to COMM-O 11)
• Droids no longer allow non-owners to invalidate their remotes.
• You can now put canvases into holographic photo replicators. You can also enjoy several new color schemes.

12-01-13

• It was previously possible to buy a negative number of rooms in an apartment. This has been fixed.

11-29-13

• The RENAME command will now allow you to re-rename pending renames if you've already submitted a rename for the room you're in. If you catch my drift.

11-28-13

• Droids no longer have the ability to kneal.

11-27-13

• When using an object to draw on your friends, they will now be prompted unless they are sleeping or idle.

11-26-13

• Toilets no longer make you sit on them if you're already sitting on them.

11-24-13

• POLICY 29 has been added.

11-22-13

• The scan time of handheld proximity weapon scanners now matches the roundtime.
• You can no longer drop furniture trolleys while pushing them.

11-21-13

• Added a help file on OOC Warnings.

11-20-13

• Card machines now refuse to work if you can't afford to use them and prompt you telling you the cost and asking if you still want to use them.

11-17-13

• Formerly, if you could not afford the price to lookup starships at the registry you could still look them up. That has been fixed.

11-13-13

• Fixed an E2 bug where piping the SIT command with pose arguments did not work.
• Fixed a MAP error that would cause tracebacks in certain areas, notably Shadius.
• It is now possible to shoot down your fine china dishes with your crossbows. To the three people who will actually use this, enjoy.

11-12-13

• Added the ROOM-POSE command and, relatedly, a new ROOM-OPTION. See message board post 72064 for more information.
• The PEOPLE command will now include you in the list if you pass it any random argument. Now you can see your own beautiful room poses in this manner.
• The SIT command now accepts a new, awkward argument: SIT [FURNITURE] AS [POSE]. The SIT command also now accepts HERE as an argument to facilitate exciting ways of sitting on the ground.

11-10-13

• Multi-line announcements should now display properly in @announcements and on the website.

11-07-13

• New private message board posts are now properly added to your board reader's new messages notifications.
• Fixed some, uh, regressions in the SITTING command.
• Message board option 14 (indicate new messages with text, not asterisk) now works in the message view as well as the category view.
• The WEAPONS command will now make you aware of any secondary weapons available in the room.
• The WEAPONS command now works 100% more often in places that have pulse weapons and no other weapons.
• You can now be a creep and whisper over communicators.
• The cost for linking rooms with the DIG command is now half the cost of building new rooms.

11-06-13

• You can no longer JOIN people during spacewalks.
• Fixed a map/building issue that was causing game-wide lag during execution.
• Added the Office of Interalliance Real Estate on Pax to allow people to LOOKUP private properties to see if they're available for auction. You can also access a MENU to quickly see all properties available.
• The PREDICT and DIG commands have been rewritten to allow you to connect the room you're in to a room that was built above or below it. For more, see message board post 71849.

11-05-13

• F and R now work again with alternate navigation commands. Sorry!

11-04-13

• Alternate navigation commands can now stack z-axis commands with XY commands. (RA to go up and west, for instance.)

11-02-13

• Individual exits can now be demolished (provided that they don't cut off access to anything) with the DEMOLISH-EXIT command. It costs 1 million credits for the effort. Feel free to REPORT when things go wrong! Report in the broken room if at all possible.
• Clothing now dries even if you aren't wearing it. (Who knows why it didn't before.)
• Ellipses no longer make you shout on communicators.
• Alternate navigation commands now quietly disable themselves if the ship you're in is landed to allow you to walk normally.
• Added the ALTNAV command to quickly enable or disable alternate navigation commands.
• Vehicle room titles now have you sitting in a magnificent chair.
• The SITTING command should now fall in line with the LOOK command.

11-01-13

• Added an autopilot upgrade for asteroid rovers. It can be accessed with the MOVE command, which can be shortened to M.

10-29-13

• Shopaholics rejoice! The stores in the newly rebuilt Miriani Spaceport will now show up on the Lore shopping guide.
• It is no longer possible to start a treaty and then skive off to another alliance to cause more mayhem with more treaties.
• Doors leading to OUT exits from GO exits should probably sync up properly now. If not, blame Sophie.

10-22-13

• Door and custom stamp refunds now give you a full refund instead of leaking into insurance, private funds, and organization tithes.

10-17-13

• The PREDICT command with no arguments will now tell you all of the rooms that can be connected (or are connected, I suppose) to the room you're standing in.
• Caretakers of private stations and things can use mailboxes bolted on them now. Bolted in rooms that is, not on the actual station object.

10-16-13

• New keepsake boxes bought from Caranza should fit in bags and on surfaces again... probably.

10-15-13

• The specialty starship scanner now ignores players in a specialty starship if they've been idle for twenty minutes or more. This includes all occupants of a specialty starship who aren't sleeping, so be sure to be alert if you're allowing someone who isn't qualified aboard your specialty starships with your supervision.
• Being caught by the specialty starship scanner now results in the offending specialty starship being locked down instead of every specialty starship. However, all specialty starships are still destroyed if you manage to be caught three times.

10-14-13

• The specialty ship scanner will no longer think empty ships are haunted and being flown by unqualified ghost pilots.
• Shower rooms no longer display two out exits. The people rejoice!
• You can now import pending photos on a Lore that has no existing photos in its album. (Previously it would tell you you have no photos and neglect to give you the import option.)

10-13-13

• The specialty ship scanner now only checks the qualifications of connected players. This means that you can't go flying specialty ships you shouldn't be flying with no consequences jut because you have a sleeping qualified player aboard.

10-07-13

• A new system has just been put in place. Please see board post 71060 for details, and REPORT any weirdness you may find. Enjoy!

10-05-13

• Roborant doors should no longer allow you to lock them from the inside.

10-03-13

• Added moaning to communicator socials. You're welcome.

10-02-13

• Policy 3 has been updated to cover private moons and planets, since they're pretty much the same as private space stations.

10-01-13

• In theory it is no longer possible to pitch tents in space.

09-29-13

• Speaking on channel 500 no longer presents the room with a message indicating that you spoke into your communicator, further sawing a gaping wound into the divide between IC and OOCocities.
• Droids now respond to whispers initiated with the ] command without you having to say their name, much like how the regular WHISPER command works.

09-27-13

• Since it seems droids will forever be falling down, you can now PULL them to their feet. Also, commanding them to fall no longer makes them actually fall. And it's mean to ask them to.
• After years of being typoed to death, weak defense planets have proper messages.

09-25-13

• You can now PRINT thrilling breakdowns of your net worth from a local point center to keep forever and ever.

09-24-13

• Private planets are now fully implemented.
• The help file on private space stations, moons and planets has been updated.
• Rooms that require you to type EXIT to get out now inform you of this fact in the obvious exits line.
• Likewise, rooms with hidden OUT exits should now also make you aware of this in the obvious exits.

09-23-13

• It is no longer possible to use the DESCRIBE command to describe apartment rooms not in a donator complex.

09-19-13

• Fixed a bug in the SIT command that would cause you to re-sit if you were lying on a piece of furniture and tried to SIT <furniture> to sit up rather than typing SIT alone.
• If you're milkin' you a cow and that tharr cow gets mad and kicks you, you'll now have to restart the whole milking process.

09-18-13

• If you are approved for the battlecruiser, you can now retake the battlecruiser test whenever you like without fear of having your application revoked should you fail. Please don't abuse this or it will most likely be removed.

09-17-13

• Lifts are now incorporated into the MAP command and related pathfinding adventures. Including DEMOLISH for real this time.

09-16-13

• You can now request mail for delivery on Narth Polus.

09-12-13

• The colors of the DAMAGE output can now be configured from the COLOR-OPTIONS command.
• You can now customize the colors of (most) starmap symbols in your friendly neighborhood COLOR-OPTIONS.
• You can now configure the starmap symbol color of starships based on alliance in your handy COLOR-OPTIONS.
• You can now configure certain MAP command symbol colors from the COLOR-OPTIONS command.
• The transmission color option now applies to metafrequency communicators and private communications.
• Fixed a bug where you could be subject to somebody elses profanity filter in metafrequency transmissions. Awkward.

09-08-13

• Starship brigs are now able to be removed on Pax.

09-03-13

• Port 5190 works again. Silly typos.

09-02-13

• Freeze dried foods can no longer be reconstituted without the aid of a special gun. Sorry folks.
• The demolish issue in houses/stations/moons with lifts installed has been presumably fixed.

08-29-13

• Popcorn makers have undergone some rejiggering. Have fun.

08-28-13

• The starship relay upgrade's CHANNEL command now allows you to ping for nearby communicators.

08-23-13

• Biggest change of the year. Toothbrushes and toothpaste have been added.

08-22-13

• Reclassified Venus because I forgot to set it properly before.

08-21-13

• Introducing FECHO for echoing text back to you with filters.
• Added the ROOC command and updated POLICY 4 to reflect new changes outlined in message board post 70254.
• Station (and presumably moon) security centers now offer a convenient MENU for people like me who never remember all 900,000 available verbs.
• Added a WHO argument to the ROOC command and updated the help file accordingly.

08-17-13

• Policy 4 has been updated.

08-14-13

• Added a few new appearance options, namely dark honey blonde for hair color, and amber, dark amber, and light amber for complexion.
• Added options for cross, pentagram, and hexagram to the tattoo parlor on Surgyria.
• Added a few shades of golden brown to hair color options.
• @OUTSIDE command added to house rooms. You can use it to see if the room you are in is eligible for a mailbox!
• Removed the TRANSFER command from the tradesman request center on Empanda, since that command is available in the transfer station.
• Added a DISOWN command to the tradesman item transfer station on Empanda that allows players to put pets, mounts, babies, etc, up for adoption in the tradesman request center.

08-12-13

• Made it slightly more difficult to command stack drawing/shooting stun weapons and pulse emitters.

08-10-13

• Fixed a bug where emotes didn't show up on external ship cameras.
• fixed a bug on house lifts that prevented a person boarding the lift from leaving the group.
• That lift thing really is fixed now. For real this time. No lie.

08-03-13

• You can now specify exact amounts of atmospheric debris to transfer to docked ships instead of it forcing you to transfer all 4375 units at once.
• You can now search the changelog by passing arbitrary strings to the @changes command.

08-01-13

• Ship cargo is now much more resilient to manifest errors (such as cargo in the cargo hold but not in the CARGO report). The CARGOFIX command, as a result, is now superfluous and probably will never help you again. This is a good thing.

07-31-13

• Up/down exits on High Guard Command now properly break groups when somebody wanders away.
• Custom socials involving hugs (or, presumably, punching) no longer cause tracebacks when invoked on droids.
• The ever crappy slip drive should no longer be vulnerable to infinite slips while waiting for user input and having somebody else access the controls.
• It is now slightly harder to screw up door submissions in such a way that it would generate a traceback when we try to review them. In the event that someone does manage to do so, the door will be removed automatically upon being reviewed.

07-30-13

• Requesting realtors will now put you in the assist queue.

07-27-13

• Fixed an obscure bug in the OPTIONS command that would cause a traceback if you tried to invoke the previous character option restoration option(tm) as an argument to the options command. You know what I'm talking about, guy who got a traceback.

07-18-13

• Added the miraculous CHANT verb for your protesting needs.

07-17-13

• Non-player followers will now follow players into escape pod when the ESCAPE ALL command is used.

07-15-13

• Trying to transfer mining equipment between ships will no longer result in a horrific traceback.

07-14-13

• Added a help file for information on the installation and usage of lifts. See 'HELP LIFTS' for details.

07-13-13

• Transmitting over short range in the decontamination chamber of Tethys was broken. It has been fixed.
• It is no longer possible to have pets or babies follow you via the USE command when spacewalking.

07-12-13

• Using the BIOLOCK command in a private garage would bring up the garage users menu instead of the biometric lock menu. This has been fixed.
• Under certain circumstances, it was possible to fire a stun gun at someone while the stun gun was not in the player's hand. This has been fixed.
• There was a CANCEL command in the realtor office that didn't work. It was renamed to @CANCEL. Now it works.

07-11-13

• Tradesman certificates have undergone a few changes. Please see board post 69628 for details.
• The INFO command now shows how many tradesman certificates you have.

07-10-13

• You can use short range in private organization meeting rooms now.

07-09-13

• Private organization admins can now bolt things in their organization meeting rooms.
• Private organization administrators can also unbolt things in their meeting rooms, provided they own the object in question.

07-07-13

• Adjusted the rate of planetary finds out of comms. They'll probably be more common now, but not TOO common. (Also uh, it only works if you're flying through space that nobody else has flown through.)
• Ships now have a gloriously exciting TIMER command in the control room.

07-06-13

• Dart pre-upgraded sensors now share the durability boost afforded by the regular sensor upgrade.
• Updated POLICY 4 to remove some superfluity and add a note about working around filters.
• POLICY 28 has been modified to include the use of screenreader crash words.
• Added additional clarification to POLICY 4 regarding ship PA systems. (tldr; The PA follows the same rules as everybody being in the same room.)

07-04-13

• Modified atmospheric debris to be a single object instead of 927,000 different objects. You should see speedups in looking in storage rooms, accessing the CARGO command, not being spammed to death when condensed cargo is turned off, and a significant reduction in your local MOO database size.

07-03-13

• Added the @asteroid-bonus command for ranking players by number of asteroid bonuses claimed.
• Added an asteroid bonus chatter filter to flight control scanners.
• Added a new ITEM-OPTION to display the results of the COMMANDS command one per line rather than a blob of paragraph.

07-01-13

• High Guard ships will no longer attack courier ships.

06-30-13

• The bonus quota will now be reset once a week, starting now.
• Minor changes to the wording of alliance information assistants.
• And, separated pilot worth from territorial worth in the alliance assistants.
• If you have asteroids unfiltered on flight control scanners, you will now be informed when a bonus payment has been claimed by an asteroid hauler.

06-27-13

• It was possible to pay back a loan with a negative amount of credits. This has been fixed.

06-24-13

• The blockade command in starship control rooms, which has block as an alias, will no longer interfere with the block command on air hockey tables.

06-20-13

• For whatever reason, you can now FTL <sector name> instead of using the number.

06-17-13

• In theory, you will no longer be penalized for aborting a courier assignment to a destination that will not allow your ship to land. The message from the clerk will reflect this. Please REPORT any tracebacks or unusual behavior.
• Courier companies have had their relationships updated and should now be allowed to dock with all alliance's space stations and planets, as well.
• If you have permission to enter a house you can now register with the mailbox at said house.
• Fixed a bug where your ship would claim sector 0 was invalid if you tried to go there after viewing the FTL map.

06-16-13

• The SHIP-EXPEL command now requires the ship's authorization code rather than being owner-only. If the ship has no authorization code, the restriction goes back to being owner only.
• Pushing yourself off of dunes on a certain planet will now give appropriate messages.

06-15-13

• Alien transmission receivers should now notify you of a transmission wherever you happen to be in the ship.
• Pulse weapon control locations can now be moved for a modest fee from a certain store.
• Realizing that pulse weapons can inhabit the same room... the pulse weapon control changer now allows you to move multiple pulses into the same room.
• The appropriate items at the Cozy Feet store on Aquatimis now pose as underwear instead of socks. Underwear under tights and stockings is highly over rated!

06-13-13

• Fixed a bug where shower rooms would appear out of communications range if they really aren't.

06-12-13

• Fixed a bug where it was possible to pick up an occupied shower.

06-09-13

• Tidied up a few FTL bugs. Please REPORT if you still encounter weird FTL situations!
• Fixed a bug in the argument parsing of the BLOCKADE command that would result in tracebacks if you used invalid input. Also direction names are now valid (previously only numbers worked).
• Alliance starships should now be able to access ISC stations and planets.

06-08-13

• Precision wormhole drives now prompt for coordinates if you issue the FTL command with no arguments and/or opt to view the FTL map first.

06-07-13

• Those hair and nail painting mirror robot things can now only be picked up by their owners.
• Sector 19 and all its planets and stations have been added to the ISC alliance instead of being neutral, as nature intended!
• When High Guard ships arrive in a sector they will now actually be powered up and be on red alert.

06-06-13

• Requesting a tradesman certificate on Empanda now properly aborts if you hit enter with no arguement at the yes or no prompt.
• High Guard reinforcement ships have been ported over to the new AI code, which should make them much more effective in combat.

06-05-13

• Landing pad contraband drones have been remoed
• Er, that is. Landing pad seeker drones which search for contraband have been removed until changes to the contraband system are made at an unknown point in the future!
• You can now ask the RAVEN 'What do you know?' to get a spammy list of keywords it knows about.

06-02-13

• Fixed a bug where one might get trapped in the same coordinates as a blockade and be unable to fire weapons to escape.
• Fixed a bug where it was theoretically possible to hit your own ship if you were occupying the same coordinates as an AI ship that you were firing on.
• As of 5/30 the rarer Praelor starship classes now pay out bounties and the Potate bounty has been increased to scale with its difficulty.

05-29-13

• Battlecruiser fighters that are docked inside of a battlecruiser will now be destroyed when the battlecruiser is destroyed, thus placing the pilots in an escape pod rather than in the recycling plant.
• Praelor starship profiles in RAVEN have been updated. You may now also receive a list of all currently known Praelor starship classes with the command 'RAVEN Praelor Ships'.

05-23-13

• Added a CREDIT help file to acknowledge the design origins of Miriani when it was first created.

05-22-13

• Pulse weapons now display when somebody uses them.

05-21-13

• It is no longer possible to bolt things in tent rooms.
• You can now unbolt things again in houses. It'll probably break again though.

05-20-13

• There is now a small fee to use a starship registry.

05-19-13

• Somewhat patched over a potential loophole where ships could exploit the ability to occupy the same coordinates simultaneously. Now stacked ships will lose the ability to use weapons and, when firing on a stacked coordinate, damage will occur to a random ship rather than the first to arrive. Keep movin', folks.
• AI ships are now exempt from the duplicate coordinate thing since they'll move away anyway!

05-18-13

• Fixed a bug where those with soundpack social messages disabled would stop sending soundpack messages to others who had the option enabled.
• Fixed a salvo size inconsistency with the WEAPONS command.
• The WORTH command in point centers now includes private funds in much the same way as the INFO WORTH command does.

05-17-13

• Simulated ships in a paused simulator no longer lose charge.

05-16-13

• Trudge and stalk added as new walk styles.
• When planets and the like fire on starships, blockades, proximity weapons, etcetera, the sector now sees it. Also blockades are now considered a threat.

05-15-13

• Fixed a bug in the web board search where it would get confused when encountering old posts in renamed categories.
• The ETA command now accepts an argument that allows an engineer to get an estimated timeframe for repairing any given component based on its damage.
• Checking COORDS now only works in control rooms, engineering rooms, weapon rooms and rooms with a starmap in it.

05-13-13

• Forgive the oversight, but there's now an apartment complex on Acrylon.

05-12-13

• It is no longer possible to send a bc fighter through that thing in sector 32, whatever it's called.

05-11-13

• Added more standard weapon checks to Blazon rockets that should solve popular issues like HELP I'M LANDED AND I'M STILL GETTING ATTACKED and LET'S ALL FIRE ROCKETS TOGETHER! Maybe.

05-09-13

• Lore computers now have the option to alert you when a tracking request is made.
• Combat suits (which are tradesman items) should now protect your head against Praelor and fuzzy creatures, since they do show as a helmet when you check the armor command.

05-08-13

• Sanitation drones now have the ability to filter furniture trolleys and equipment racks.
• Droids can no longer pick up or push furniture trolleys.

05-07-13

• Equipment racks, which are like STARSHIP BELTS GUYS, are now for sale from your local boring equipment rack retailer.
• Furniture trolleys are also available for those wishing to procure mass amounts of furniture. Commands of note are PUSH and PUSH to start and stop, respectively.
• Tables and fountains go on trolley things now.

05-03-13

• Tradesman certificates now come with a spammy yet useful note when handing them to another person.

04-29-13

• That pesky typo you encounter when choosing an alliance after character creation has been fixed. Only the most important fixes here. Yup.

04-27-13

• Digging new rooms in houses now properly prompts you for whether it's an indoor or outdoor room.

04-25-13

• HELP HOUSES has been updated.

04-20-13

• Fixed a bug that allowed you to locate other people's ships.

04-16-13

• You can now (often nonsensically) SLAM doors shut. Enjoy your fits of rage as much as I do!

04-15-13

• Droids can no longer store furniture and other overly large objects.

04-13-13

• Digging rooms on private moons now prompts you asking if the room is in or out of doors.
• The PARENT command in houses, private stations and private moons now prompts you for if the room should be indoors or outdoors.

04-12-13

• Sorry folks, you can no longer do atmospheric salvaging on private moons.

04-11-13

• It is no longer possible to enter a tent while it is being collapsed.
• It is no longer possible to pitch tents in starships.
• Tent rooms now properly go in and out of comms.
• Tent guts are no longer created outside their tent.

04-10-13

• Private stations and moons now have a fabulous flight control log available from their local neighborhood security center.

04-09-13

• You can now reorder the main menu of your message board from within the board reader's options.
• Added an always allow list to the FLIGHT control of private stations.
• Added an option to view current settings in the FLIGHT command of private stations. Also renamed and reordered the menu because, honestly, I had no idea what half of them were talking about when I was testing the other thing.
• New flight control changes now apply to private moons and probably works.

04-07-13

• The goose social has returned, now without annoying goose impressions! FEAR NOT, MIRIANIANS, YOUR GAMES OF DUCK DUCK GOOSE MAY NOW RETURN.
• The ASSIST command has been modified.
• You can possibly transmit on short range from Star Tea Party on Jump Hub Station.

04-06-13

• The fire pits from Patios and Beyond on Rosario should now look and feel more like outdoor fire pits, and not ghetto fireplaces.

04-04-13

• HELP FREQUENTLY REJECTED SUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS has been modified.
• Standard atmospheric salvagers have gained descriptions.
• Gas giant salvagers have descriptions!

04-02-13

• In-character applications are now coded with a response code to make it more clear why the application was denied. For information about the coding system, see HELP APPLICATION RESPONSE CODING.