New Spells

The Change Appearance spell can no longer change a character's genitalia, and instead, new spells for altering a character's genitalia has been added to the game!

Combat Changes

Ready Check

A ready check has been added for character encounters that happen while travelling. For 90 seconds after an encounter starts, or until both players are ready, players are prevented from fleeing and taking hostile actions. When both players have pressed ready, the timer will drop to 5 seconds, and when the time runs out, both players will be able to flee and attack one another. The ready check has been added to give players time to assess their opponent, read profiles, and chat before combat is introduced.

Lust is converted to Mind damage on orgasm

When a character orgasms, their Lust is reset. To prevent this from ruining any strategy of raising a character's Lust to bypass their Mind health, lost Lust is now converted into Mind damage. This means that if a character somehow orgasms at 50% Lust, their Mind is reduced by 50% of their Max Mind. It's not currently possible for characters to orgasm below 100% Lust, but it will be!

Fewer PvE Scenes In PvP

PvP combat will now feature fewer PvE scenes. Sex acts that previously ended an encounter with a PvE scene for both players have been replaced by the new desire system, spells no longer rely on scenes for confirmation or otherwise, and inanimate player interactions have been reworked into a system that allows for more control and communication between the owner and their item. The intention is to make PvP stronger in its own right, with systems that cultivate and enhance roleplay between players through interaction instead of using prewritten scenes. All of these scenes have been kept and will be worked into the new PvE content in some way, shape, or form.

Inanimate Players

Inanimate players are now given one action per minute and 1 spell per ninth action (9 minutes) for a select few items that can now cast spells on their owner! While an item is worn, it can interact with its owner in different ways, and similar to sexual actions, it can show intent and express its feelings to its owner. Many items cannot be worn, and whenever an owner interacts with an inanimate player, the inanimate player will also be given the opportunity to react to the interaction in a similar manner a worn item might interact with its owner. Being removed counts as an interaction and will allow the inanimate player to react to being removed by their owner, even though they are no longer able to interact with their owner at will. The limitation on inanimate actions is to make sure inanimate items cannot spam their owner, and that a character with a wealth of items doesn't potentially get overwhelmed by their collection: An item is allowed to interact when interacted with, and being worn is considered a continuous interaction.

Inanimate Spells

While worn, inanimate players are also allowed to cast spells on their owner while their owner is offline, which means an owner of a mischievous or defiant piece of clothing might wake up to quite the surprise! At the moment, only a very small selection of items can cast spells on their owner, but in the future, I want to expand the list so all inanimate players have at least one spell they can cast in any form.

Macros & Commands

Added macro support for desire conditions. Added macro support for casting spells and using item actions that normally appear in the choice bar. The /remove command can now target another character and can be used on dazed opponents. Added the /hideui and /hide commands for toggling the user interface. Added the /reload and /rl commands for reloading the game from script. Added the /supine command, which is similar to kneeling but has your character lying on their back. /supine and /kneeling are implicitly invoked by many sexual activities.

See the updated guide for more details: https://battlemageserotica.com/macros.php

Text Styling

Text styling is now supported in local chat! It's a bit experimental, but it should work inside spoken, emote, and out-of-character text! Formatting preview has been updated for the local chat input field so you can see the text styling before sending a message.

Floating Images

Added text formatting support for floating images (left, right), which allows text to wrap around the image.

See the updated guide for more details: https://battlemageserotica.com/formatting.php

Thank you so much for all your support and you can read the entire update notes from the game Discord server at http://battlemag.es/discord

XOXO, Tinon