05-27-26

• Fixed some issues with the NPC who constantly loses friends in space that caused her to believe that she was still talking to someone and not wander off like she should.

05-25-26

• To match raw materials marketplace nodes, private upgrade sales facilities and bardenium sheds no longer take tithes into account when withdrawing profits.

05-18-26

• At long last, architectural design simulators finally support the importing of lifts.

05-14-26

• Quantum vacuum accelerators should hopefully no longer leave ships stranded in the void.

05-06-26

• Simulated avatars are now cleared from the owner lists of simulated vanities when disconnecting from the simulation.

04-28-26

• Pool lockers now properly remove things like pants and jackets. No more getting clothing wet when you're not actually wearing it.

04-27-26

• Corrected an issue where directional archaeology scanners were mistakenly in debug mode for players, causing them to report the exact coordinates of an artifact instead of, you know, the direction.

04-23-26

• Guarding security drones will now pluralize and group themselves correctly in the event that there are multiples of the same drone. For example, "A gray security drone, a gray security drone, and a gray security drone simultaneously aim their stun turret attachments at Albori and fire!" now only says "Three gray security drones."

04-22-26

• Fixed a few bugs in trading centers. They no longer consume components needed to build more complex things, and they now prioritize building things based on how many components are needed.
• Arresting people for smuggling at a security center no longer breaks when they have mining materials in their ship's cargo.

04-02-26

• Welcome back an old friend, the IGNORE command! Unfortunately when it was traveling the world, it saw some things. It questioned itself. It questioned all of us. It got beaten down, but it got up again. It grew its hair out. It stopped showering. It came back a new command. Which is to say it only works to ignore people on the OOC channel now. Have fun ignoring "people" (namely Oliver)!

03-04-26

• It is now possible to import and clone existing closets in the closet lab on Empanda station. Please note that closets must be empty before being imported for modification, and any clothing placed into an existing closet will be lost when the changes are approved.

03-02-26

• Added support for multiple maintainers of a soundpack. You can add or remove maintainers from within the @UPDATE-SOUNDPACK menu.

03-01-26

• You can no longer flip tables while sitting or lying down.

02-28-26

• Added horses to the list of mounts that can be created in the mount lab on Empanda Station.

02-26-26

• It's no longer possible for players to access funds that were started by their previous characters.

02-13-26

• Fixed a bug that would make a ship report its destination each time a pilot would move to the same destination in the sector while GATE is active. As a consequence, attempting to restart GATE without stopping the ship while it has a course is no longer possible.

02-10-26

• Swinging punching bags will no longer knock people to the ground if they're riding a mount.

02-03-26

• Added two new gag options for pets wandering and pet actions (emotes and repeater spam).

01-29-26

• As an experiment, removed Muzatini from the potential Praelor classes encountered out of local space. We'll continue to watch numbers as they roll in, and it may be worthwhile for your sanity to expect this to change or be completely reversed.

01-27-26

• Fixed a bug where leading and trailing percent signs would get stripped in various places, like SAY and menu imports.

01-06-26

• Soda fountain cups such as the ones purchased at Plump Paul's will now maintain their container type after being emptied or poured.
• It's no longer possible to auction tradesman items that are being worn.

01-05-26

• You will now get a letter in the mail when modifications to vanities requested via the Vanity Workshop on Empanda Station have been completed.

01-02-26

• STOMPing on drinks will now cause them to explode.

12-24-25

• Children and pets that are sitting on furniture when retrieved by the NPC that retrieves tradesman items should no longer be sitting on said furniture after retrieval.

12-21-25

• Food and other robots now have a CHECK command for quickly showing how many supplies they have.

12-14-25

• It's no longer possible to double install ablative armor on bardenium cannons by renaming them with a Santa box.

12-13-25

• POLICY 7 has been updated, both in text and examples. In short, using tradesman certificates to purchase in game goods is not ok.

12-10-25

• It's now possible to wrap huge things such as vanities and furniture if you have two matching sheets of wrapping paper.

12-02-25

• Fixed a rather nasty exploit in bardenium sheds that was giving the player the full amount of the till while withdrawing the amount that the player actually wanted.

11-26-25

• It's no longer possible to use a Santa request to submit changes to an existing item in the tradesman labs on Empanda Station.

11-22-25

• Prompts received when moving to a destination, such as a planet or a wormhole, while NAVI or GATE is active, will go to the player who initiated the move rather than the player who initiated NAVI or GATE.

11-14-25

• It's now possible to knock on asteroid rovers.

11-13-25

• We have finally after nearly two decades gotten with the times and added the BRIEF command. This acts as a toggle for ROOM-O 2.

11-11-25

• Exit messages now override the success message of biometric exits.

11-04-25

• The Handheld Device Storage Technologies R&D Lab on Empanda now allows follow and unfollow messages to be edited so long as the gadget bot isn't wearable.
• Escalators in houses that are in communications range no longer create rooms that are out of communications range.

10-30-25

• The LIST (or TOGGLE) command in salvager control rooms will now influence the ATSM command as well as the regular starmap.

10-27-25

• Dumping planetary survey scans from a normal container into an artifact storage container no longer causes horrific errors.
• HELP SPATIAL ANOMALY SCANNER has been updated to reflect that there are certain risks that come with performing the activity.

10-22-25

• Have unwanted wooden figures lying around? You may now LIGHT them on fire to rid yourself of them.

10-16-25

• It's no longer possible to demolish a room if it has go exits.

10-15-25

• To prevent abuse, the @STORE-POC command can no longer be used while stunned or while in a ship owned by someone else.

10-11-25

• Bardenium sheds now tell you when you've successfully withdrawn credits from the till instead of remaining silent and leaving you wondering if anything actually happened.

10-08-25

• Avatars may no longer enter the proof of concept store builder.

10-07-25

• Transferring ships now takes industrial dispensation for upgrades that require combat points into account.

10-04-25

• While landed, trying to start a cargo transfer when there's already a cargo transfer in progress no longer generates an error.

10-02-25

• Hitting enter at a rover TRANSFER prompt now transfers all instead of aborting.

09-26-25

• Because newborn babies don't come out walking and talking, the genetic sequencing lab on empanda no longer allows baby requests to be delivered through pregnancy if they're set to wander, can repeat words they hear, or say random phrases.

09-23-25

• The RESTORE command on flight control scanners now has a 'Default Configuration' option to restore defaults.

09-22-25

• The native SMC command no longer shows cloaked ships so as to match the output of the starmap.

09-20-25

• The long-range broadcast upgrade now functions (at slightly diminished range) on asteroid surfaces.
• The TRANSFER command in asteroid rovers now condenses the equipment list for a more compact menu.

09-18-25

• Transferring cargo to docked ships now shows an ETA.

09-15-25

• Made ESCAPE ALL require the ship's authorization code to ABORT.

09-14-25

• FLIPping tables will now destroy empty dishes in spectacular fashion.

09-12-25

• The TRANSFER <one container> TO <other container> command now has an option to match arbitrary objects by name instead of making all objects share the same name.

09-06-25

• Optimized charge boosters no longer count towards the purchasing limit placed on standard charge boosters.
• Added a new @TOPS list. @SHATTERED-ARTIFACTS for your viewing pleasure.

09-05-25

• INFO ACHIEVEMENTS will now display the number of archaeological artifacts that you have destroyed. The counter starts from today, sorry, no backlogs.

09-02-25

• The CHARGE command will now indicate if the ship is being charged by a solar-powered recharging platform.

08-31-25

• Private organization members may now enter an owner's office if they've been authorized.

08-27-25

• Changed the messages sent when players give each other keys to ships they don't meet the total point requirements to use slightly so they're a bit more clear about what's going on.

08-22-25

• POLICY 3 has been updated, both in the text and example portions.

08-19-25

• Published books, videos, canvases and sculptures now have their places of purchase set properly and will no longer show where the original copy was purchased. All copies of published objects that are currently available for purchase have been updated.
• Fixed a bug in showers. Now everyone gets cleaned when the water is turned on, not just the player who turned the water on. Also, players will now be cleaned when they enter a shower while the water is on.

08-09-25

• Strollers now properly unfollow when picked up.

07-24-25

• Droids will now respond to direct addresses. (e.g. -droid shoot victor)

07-21-25

• When removing a door on a private structure that you own, you will now be told the price prior to completing the transaction.
• Destroying a private property will now tell you how much you will receive prior to destruction, rather than wiping the property off the map first and telling you later.
• By request, sinks now have the chance to fill with water and subsequently overflow, making a mess for everybody.

07-17-25

• There are now transport pods on both Acrylon and Angelus that go between the cities. ENTER will take you between them.

07-03-25

• Fixed an oversight when requesting to relocate a private space station that displayed the room title of the security center, rather than the station name itself.

07-02-25

• It is now possible to FLUSH a clogged toilet to slightly amusing results.
• Added mops to facilitate cleanups caused by matters best left to the imagination.
• You will now be asked to confirm when giving a key to someone who doesn't meet the point requirements for a ship. You will also now be notified when you're given a key to a ship you don't meet the point requirements for.

06-24-25

• Tracking drones that are in the mail will now show that they're in the mail instead of displaying the name of the mail storage room.

06-22-25

• Architectural design simulators will no longer traceback if you attempt to import a design that has rooms using multiple inheritance (for example, a pool that also acts as a store, or a security center that happens to be a thrilling burrito stand).

06-06-25

• Made some changes to the tradesman transfer station. When transferring a blade that has a sheath or a sheath that has a blade that isn't in its sheath, you'll be told to put the blade inside its sheath first so they can both be transferred. Also, checking to make sure things are empty before transferring them should work properly now.

06-02-25

• Trying to put a charm on a piece of charm jewelry now says that the charm jewelry is full rather than the charm.
• The COUNT command will now count charms on charm jewelry instead of checking it for pockets like other types of clothing.
• Droids will now respond to being slugged.

06-01-25

• Added the SLUG social. Use it on your friends. Use it on yourself. Or don't use it at all.

05-31-25

• The @where command should no longer include people who are aboard ships and in other things such as tents inside houses.

05-30-25

• Gunning NPCs in cannon rooms should now always use cannons if they're loaded and a target isn't moving. This should make things more realistic when fighting against simulated combat drones and taking the battlecruiser test. Previously they chose randomly between lasers and cannons.

05-25-25

• You now have the ability to throw tissues into toilets.
• You shouldn't be able to TOSS things into or PLUNGE a closed toilet anymore.

05-24-25

• The text of POLICY 8 has been updated to fall in line with modern times. No more Skype for us. No sir.

05-23-25

• Drawing pens up for auction now show their messages, drawings, and ink colors, as well as places they can draw on.

05-22-25

• It should no longer be possible to bid on an auction while that auction is in the process of ending. Hopefully.

05-17-25

• Showing information about a communicator on auction will now show its transmit message.

05-16-25

• Clothing stored in compartmentalized closets will now be purged when a player rerolls unless the clothing is flagged as a tradesman item.

05-14-25

• Private properties that have been abandoned for five months by their original owner will now be put up for auction after another six months if the next-in-line owner doesn't claim it within that time period.
• It is no longer necessary to ASSIST in order to claim a private structure. Simply look up the structure in the Shared Offices of Interalliance Real Estate and Interalliance Cooperative Ballroom Dancing Competition Judging Administration on Pax and, if you are eligible to claim it, you will be asked if you wish to do so.

05-12-25

• Found and fixed an oversight that allowed courier ships to be upgraded.

05-11-25

• Gumdrop launchers should no longer show in the list of damaged laser turrets when a ship has that Santa box installed.

05-05-25

• It is now possible to CHECK planetary mining drones to see their status. This works the same as LOOKing at them, only without displaying their description.

05-03-25

• Transferring charge to a Praelor dampening device should work properly now.

04-22-25

• The NIRP command now supports searching for destinations by name or coordinates. A shortcut is also available through the cleverly named NIRPS [search term] command.

04-17-25

• Fixed an issue with closets that caused a locket's open status to be added to its description every time it was uncompressed.
• custom compartmentalized closets now save where clothing was bought from. This works only for clothing bought after the change. Sorry.

04-16-25

• It's now possible to search surfaces, tables, and refrigerators without needing to hold them.

04-09-25

• Closed a loophole that allowed people to put anything in a container that restricts what items can be put in it by dumping items from one container into another.

03-29-25

• added food robots to the list of things that will be moved to drone storage if they're left on certain landing pads.

03-24-25

• The pale-faced man will no longer travel to places that can't be landed on.

03-23-25

• Added more toilet innovation.
• Droids will now react with violence when SUCKERPUNCHed.
• Want to give someone a swirly but the toilet seat is down? Ha ha. You can't do it.

03-14-25

• The people command now accepts the 'active' or 'unidle' argument ('people a' for short), which will cause it to only show players that are connected and idle for less than an hour.

02-27-25

• Hopefully tracked down and fixed an issue that was causing mission sectors for the disrupt Praelor fleet training operations mission to recycle before the assigned ship was able to start the mission.

02-20-25

• Secondary owners can now load, as well as modify prices in a bardenium rearm shed

02-07-25

• Droid remotes now allow you access to the droid's storage compartment.
• The SORT command now works with droids.

02-01-25

• Fixed a bug that caused bardenium rearm sheds to add the price of a single unit of bardenium to the till instead of multiplying the price by the number of units purchased.

01-19-25

• In order to reduce frustration with matching, toilet plungers now attempt to match to the first available clogged toilet if they match to themselves when players type plunge toilet with plunger.

01-14-25

• Squashed a rather embarrassing bug that caused babies to have their surnames changed if a secondary owner renamed themselves.

12-27-24

• Added the LAG DELETE (or LAG DEL) command to remove existing network lag meter tokens.

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.