2006-02-11

Version 2.5

Fixed a major bug in minimissions where players would sometimes end up in the void if they were in cloned ships when the mission expired.
Smith will now announce when a player quits.
Numerous minor fixes and improvements.

2005-01-13

Version 2.4.1

You can now sell large objects that are in your quarters. See the new furniture removal tags available from the quartermaster.

2004-12-07

Version 2.4

Boards are now much funkier. You can read any of the public boards from anywhere using the commands 'scan all' and 'message any' (which can be usually abbreviated to 'scan' and 'message'). See info boards.
Passwords can now be reset by admins for players who are not logged in.
The Canister mission is now more puzzling.
As a follow-up to the last release's unification of commlines, you can now use 'smilies' and targetted says on commlines just as you can in says.
You can now use minfo on minis as well as full missions to find out basic info about any mission before you accept it. e.g. 'minfo cargo'
Your character will now be auto-saved every hour.
If you're not sure which mission to try next, let the mud suggest one for you...
The newspaper is now under new management. Buy a copy of the new issue from the Newsagent on the Cryosphere while stocks last!
There have also been countless bug and typo fixes, as well as lots of work behind the scenes which although is not visible within the game, it is crucial for future progress and new features. So a big thanks to all who have contributed over the last few months.

2004-04-05

Version 2.3

New mission: Hijack
New minimission: Cargo
New simulator game: Zoo
Most of the training simulator programs have been updated
Many fixes and changes to the actions system. Being drunk, or mogged affects the actions output better
Mobiles have many more tell responses
Lots of bugs fixed behind the scenes and various new/updated features
Picayune has been promoted to Captain

Thanks to Charli, Daz, Ellyll, Gareth, Mariusz, Picayune, plett, Serriadh, Twiglet

2003-09-29

We've moved

And you've found us. We have updated cryosphere.net to point to this new host, but in the meantime you can use its real address - ellyll.net (port 6666 as ever).

Version 2.2

In addition to moving, we also upgraded to a new version.

There is now a personal actions system, called MyAct. It allows all players to create their own actions, assuming you can follow the instructions in info myact.
Alpha Centauri now has a wilderness and the Old Town has been linked into it, as has the new Hangar mission. This is the first mission offered by a government other than the British.
There is a new type of minimission - Bulb.
More mortal ranks have been added. This means Commander is now grade 23, not grade 18. This stops the gaps between ranks being quite so ridicously large as they were getting.
Client updates: The Connect 4 and Othello games will now appear in a subwindow in ZMUD. MXP clients like mushclient and ZMUD now operate in 256-colour mode.
With mushclient, unnecessary prompts will no longer be displayed on screen.
Who/users etc are much nicer, and there's a new multiwho command that lets you pick and choose what columns you want.
Emergency tickets off Eden and New Lyon are now available from the British Embassy and the Canadian Consulate.
'Sit chair' will now sit upon the first vacant chair it finds, if there are any.
We can turn you into a pumpkin.

Thanks to Boyde, Charli, Daz, Gaz, Magnus, Mariusz, Orange, plett, Secret, and Serriadh.

2003-04-08

MusicMUD release

You can now download MusicMUD 2.1. This is the codebase we are currently running (with a few improvements) but with Cryosphere-specific stuff cut out, and a small demonstration world. At the moment comes with very patchy docs indeed (so will only be of use to people who have previously built for Cryo), but this will be fixed at some point.

2003-03-24

IPv6

We are pleased to announce the mud now has live support for IPv6 (the next version of the Internet Protocol). The address is ipv6.cryosphere.net 6666.

2003-03-23

Version 2.1

We have a new bug tracker written by Plett.
The Wilderness code has been generalised, so we will be able to offer in future wildernesses on other planets than Livingstone.
You can smuggle! But we won't tell you how!
Experimental support for telnet MULTIPLEX option (currently only supported by crystal), to allow game boards to be overlaid on the output and update in-place.
All scripting has been converted to Lua. Mudcode is dead.
There's an 'ignore' command.
The mailer and boards now remember what you've read.
Tip of the day system!
Left luggage offices.
Timezone support.
Qinv (quick inventory) command.
Durians!

2003-02-20

Server Upgrade

The server, Fluffy has been upgraded to 384MB of ram. This should result in a snappier mud. The development site is back up, too.

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