[May '21] Improvements & Bug Fixes
Stuffs definitely getting better, better all the time

Non-retroactive change, but moving forward the date someone is hired into a NON PLAYER BIZ terminal, will now be captured and visible to the employee and HR. Also to admin.

TurboZoom is very proud to announce the general availability of their latest must have product, Critterdex Attax Trading Card Game. Available wherever Critterdexes are sold in both full size decks of cards and booster packs!* Get yours today!

* - may not be available in all stores where critterdexes can be found

Player written rules are now included in the help on attax decks. Thanks for your contribution, Joshua!

Two new cyberware have been added to the game. The Belter exoskeleton which is older and has been around for a while, and the newer Enforcer exoskeleton.

Neither of them are particularly pretty, as metal bolted to skin tends to be a bit offputting. But the downsides are a wonderful tradeoff for the abilities afforded by either exoskeleton.

Enjoy this cyberpunk staple!

When you type 'help [topic]' and there is no help on [topic], admin are notified and when enough people have attempted to looking for [topic] that it reaches a threshold, a report starts notifying the staff periodically that [topic] is missing help. From now on, the same thing will happen when you type @slang [term] and there is no definition for that [term]. Staff will be notified that you're looking for it and once enough folks look for it too, the staff will be notified that a bunch of you have looked for it.

Staff: @show-slang has been reformatted to sort the terms alphabetically and to fit more on the screen at a time. Also, @delete-missing-slang exists to delete missing slang entries once processed.

Maverick was the OG person who would accidentally say something in the wrong window / channel. In honor of the original individual, xkev is now xmav. Mav away!

Those of you with color cyber eyes are now benefiting from two new effects. First, the color of your cyber eye is now showing up, in color, in your short description if its a noticeable element. (more so than other things). Second, each color now has their own notability score for short description calculation. This means that the brighter colors will now be more noticeable in your short descriptions than the darker or more normal colors.

I have updated your state so that your short descriptions might now reflect it. If not, strip down and look at yourself. :-D

No more @slang all.

You can no longer use Progia-7s or Progia-3s to craft radios.

Robots will no longer report crimes as if they are bystander witnesses. They aren't that smart. Usually.

We needed MOAR POWAH. The battox gelcell has been given more power to justify its high cost.

Additionally, a new microfusion battery has been added to the game. This item has 'always existed', but it is now accessible. Few things use it at the moment, but more consumers will be added than the couple that exist now

Apologies for letting your fatigue state leak, this bug has been fixed. When checking the health of another character, you will no longer see their fatigue description.

As a partner to the cyberware debugging kits, robotic debugging kits have been added to the game.

In my testing I realized there was a huge thing missing while strolling around with my robot. .. I couldn't roleplay. How sad. So I added the ability to pose with robots, even if they can't talk.

This required some finagling to make sure it all works okay and it wasn't possible to sneak in some speech through clever posing, but it all works now and you can roleplay through your robots now.

Enjoy folks.

Now takes into account a rigger's skills when they are piloting a robot. This means a robot will perform better or significantly worse depending on the rigger's ability.

Additionally, code has been added to robots that now enforces a robot may only have one active pilot. Controllers may request the ability to assume direct control over a robot in cases where they may be multiple connections.

You can no longer hide robots that are offline, as it results in them being in an unretrievable state. Also makes no sense.

THROWING ROBOTS

Throwing robots that are offline has been disabled, which prevents them from getting into a bad state where they can never be picked up again.

ROBOT EMOTES

No longer fire if the robot is offline. No more petting felibots and having them purr even while turned off.

I discovered a pretty significant security hole. Robots while running could just be scanned by anyone. Stealing an expensive robot is so easy when you can just walk up to it mid rampage and scan it in.

So I put a stop to that. All robots just received a firmware update adding a /lock and /unlock command. Set a password with /lock and use that passcode to unlock your robot.

Robots while locked cannot be scanned to.

Robot evaluate has been added back in. It is now possible to see visible parts on a robot. Assuming it is turned off.

A help file for robots has been added as 'help robot'.

I've expanded the prototype robot eval from yesterday, filling in all the little gaps and providing some additional information and user friendliness. Enjoy!

Have always existed in some form in game, though their general use has been discouraged.

This is because the base coded systems for missing limbs needed some love and testing. They've had that and we've completed a satisfactory amount of testing. So cyberlimb sales at clinics have been enabled.

It is now possible to buy cyberlimbs for your average joe, rather than something that requires staff oversight.

And now you can feed people drugs.

You monsters.

Craftable robot parts have been added to the game as a test of the system. To figure out the recipe, find out in game.

Your Progia purchases from PacWest now come with 800 minutes of call time included. When your available minutes drops to 5 or less, you won't be able to start a new call. It costs you minutes to send or receive calls. You can buy more minutes from the purchase kiosk in a variety of sizes and costs.

Note: This is NOT a new IC thing where PacWest is suddenly being more greedy. They've always been this greedy. We simply were not simulating the re-occuring cost of a phone before.