0.29.0

• The realm hears when someone takes the lead. Reaching a level nobody
  else has reached yet is announced, naming whoever was left behind, and the
  channel topic is updated then rather than waiting up to ten hours for its
  next refresh. Swaps within a level don't count: a single fight can change
  who is nearer the next level, which would make for an announcement every
  few hours. A player who is already alone at the top and levels up again
  isn't announced either.

0.28.1

• The bot keeps its nick when services come back after it. If the bot
  connected while services were off the network, it never identified: its
  IDENTIFY went nowhere, and when services returned they moved it to a guest
  nick a minute later and left it there, so /msg idlerpg reached nobody. It
  now identifies when services ask, and if it is moved anyway it asks for its
  nick back, and asks again every five minutes until it has it.
• Operators: reclaiming the nick from a stale connection sent GHOST, which
  Anope 2.0 ships commented out; it sends RECOVER now. All of this needs
  IRC_NICKSERV_PASSWORD.

0.28.0

• Your page says what happened to you. Every player's page now carries
  their own history - the calamities, godsends, hands of god, finds, fights,
  level-ups and quests the realm put them through, newest first. Asked for by
  antiroach, who remembered the old version having one.
• The events that happen to one person - the Hand of God, calamities,
  godsends, chaos, the scales of the realm, and Hallowtide's knock at the
  door - now record whose they were, as level-ups and finds already did. Older
  entries, and the ones with two people in them, are found by name instead, so
  a history reaches back past this release.

0.27.0

• Logins follow your services account, not just your address. The bot now
  negotiates IRC capabilities, and where the network says who is identified to
  services it remembers that alongside the connection. A login is resumed by
  account first, which holds across a new address, a reconnect from anywhere,
  and a cloak applied a moment after joining. Nobody has to be registered:
  without an account the connection's nick!user@host works exactly as before.
• A vhost landing late no longer strands you. Services often apply a vhost
  after you have joined, which silently invalidated the address the bot had
  remembered - and nothing ever re-checked, so you stayed logged out until you
  logged in by hand. CHGHOST is now followed, and identifying after joining
  logs you straight in.
• When somebody the bot has seen play is not logged back in, it now says so
  in the log, with where they are and what it remembered. The miss used to be
  silent, which is indistinguishable from the bot being broken.
• Operators: capabilities are taken only if offered - account-notify,
  extended-join, chghost and multi-prefix - and a server that speaks no
  CAP at all registers exactly as it did before. One added column,
  platform_identity.login_account, applied on start like the others.

0.26.0

• The eight uniques do something now. Each grants what its story suggests
  on top of being worth a great deal: the Lantern of Small Mercies softens
  calamities, the Kumquat of Ages quickens levels, the Last Honest Ledger and
  the Bell That Must Not Ring shrink penalties, the Moon-Rake strengthens
  godsends, the Crown of Minor Kings and the Door That Was a Mimic add battle
  strength, and the Seven-League Courser carries a quest party as it always
  has. The find announcement and your page on the site say what each one does.
• Grants are written as ranks of the prestige perks and added by the single
  function every rule already reads, so an item and a bought rank compose, and
  nothing that applies a modifier had to learn that items exist. Each unique
  now carries its own tag to key that on; nobody held one yet, so nothing was
  lost.
• Judgement, not measurement: these are 2-5% modifiers on items that turn up
  about once in a climb from 1 to 80, well below what the simulator can
  resolve - it cannot separate 2% from its own noise without far more seeds
  than the effect is worth. They are set by eye, and said so rather than
  blessed by a measurement that could not have failed. The one to watch is
  battle strength, where the Crown and the Door alongside five bought ranks
  reach +16%.

0.25.0

• Items left lying on the map. The item you replace is no longer thrown
  away if it was worth keeping: a unique always, or gear better than your own
  average, is left where you stood. Anyone who drifts within fifty squares
  takes it if it beats what they carry, leaving theirs in its place. Nothing
  is created - a dropped item was already in play - so this is never a second
  source of loot on top of level-ups. About seven items a week are worth
  leaving, 46% of them are found, and the map carries nought to three at a
  time; everything else is discarded exactly as before.
• The world map updates as you watch it. It swaps in a fresh map every
  fifteen seconds without reloading the page, and draws what is lying about,
  each marker naming the item's level, what it is and who left it.
• The realm is told what a new version brought, once, when it comes up on
  one: the headlines from this file and a link to the rest. A restart says
  nothing, and neither does a version it has already announced, so a crash
  loop cannot spam the channel.
• Measurement: no measurable cost to the realm's pace. Over eight seeds the
  difference against a control with pickups switched off is -0.6% +/- 1.6%,
  which does not clear zero. An earlier four-seed run suggested a 1.4% drag
  and did not survive four more seeds, one of which swung 4.3% the other way.
  Alignment spread sits inside the harness's noise at this sample size, and
  nothing in the rule looks at alignment.

0.24.0

• A weekly recap, posted to both platforms on Sunday evening (18:00 UTC):
  levels gained, fights fought, quests finished and items found over the week,
  who climbed hardest, who won most, who is new, and who leads the realm.
  RECAP, or /recap on Discord, shows the week so far and when the next one
  lands.
• Duels, battles, finds and arrivals now record who they were about, the way
  level-ups already did, so a week can be attributed to whoever earned it. The
  site's per-player charts are unchanged: they read level-ups alone.
• Operators: nothing to do. The recap's window is a range of event ids
  rather than a span of clock time, so a restart can neither lose a week nor
  report one twice, and the first run after upgrading only starts the clock -
  the first recap covers the week that follows, not all of recorded history.

0.23.0

• A battle on levelling, as the original does, from level 25 - where
  challenges stop being declined. In simulation it lifts battles from 21 to
  30 a week each and the realm's pace from 0.900 to 0.917, and narrows the
  gap between alignments (4.9% to 3.1%). At the level-60 wall, where
  level-ups are rare, it changes almost nothing.
• The eight named uniques, each in its own slot behind its own level,
  worth far more than the curve can roll: the Lantern of Small Mercies, the
  Kumquat of Ages, the Seven-League Courser, the Last Honest Ledger, the
  Bell That Must Not Ring, the Moon-Rake, the Crown of Minor Kings and the
  Door That Was a Mimic. A climb from 1 to 80 turns up about one. The
  Courser is a mount: it carries a whole quest party, two ranks of Stride
  faster. Nameless uniques are gone - they out-numbered the eight and made
  their worth meaningless. Ones already found keep their value.
• Rivals and trophies. Whoever beats you most is named in WHOAMI, on
  the /whoami card and on your page; beating someone ten or more levels
  above you leaves a trophy to keep.
• Not shipped: the original's ±10% good-and-evil battle modifier. Good
  gains too much: the gap between alignments doubles (3.1% to 7.7%), with
  chaotic good +4.7% and neutral evil -3.0% beyond luck. At ±5% it is still
  +3.4% for lawful good and a 5.7% spread. The switch (MORAL_BATTLE)
  stays at 1.0 for everyone.

0.22.0

• Slash commands on Discord. Every command is also a slash command -
  /register, /login, /whoami, /fight, /achievements, /align with
  its choices, /prestige, /perk, and /admin for admins - answered so
  only you see it. A slash command's options reach only the bot, so a
  password no longer needs a DM.
• A Play button on the pinned note opens a form to make a character, and
  I play on IRC one to log in as yours; a player who has one is seated at
  once. The buttons keep working across restarts.
• /whoami is a card: level, next level, alignment, items, prestige,
  achievements and keepsakes at a glance.
• The level charts go back to the beginning. Level-ups have been
  announced since the first day, and the old ones are read back out of the
  event log and linked to their characters, once, at startup - so a chart
  shows the whole climb rather than starting at 0.21.0.
• Operators: slash commands need the bot invited with the
  applications.commands scope. Without it they are skipped with a warning,
  and the ! commands work as before.

0.21.0

• Achievements. Earned once and announced: reaching levels 10, 25, 40
  and 60, a first and third prestige, taking a side in ALIGN, a first and
  a tenth fight won, beating someone five levels above you, completing one
  quest and five, a week without a single penalty, a unique item - and
  Loose Lips, for breaking a quest's silence. ACHIEVEMENTS lists yours;
  your page on the site lists them all, and how to earn each.
• Seasonal achievements and keepsakes, after the holiday achievements of
  long-running online games. Hallowtide: knock on doors, gather treats,
  collect every mask and costume, find the Horseman's lantern. Midwinter:
  gifts for everyone about on Midwinter Day, the longest night, a snowball
  fight, a full stocking. Springtide: an egg hunt, the golden egg, a full
  basket, five levels in the season. Keeping a season counts, and earning
  all of one grants its title - the Lantern-Bearer, Keeper of the Long
  Night, the Blossoming - worn beside the name. None of it touches a clock,
  an item or a fight.
• Level history. Level-ups now record who and which level, and each
  player's page charts it as it fills in.