User blog:Ursuul/Merry Thanksgiving :^)

My lads, it has been a real roller-coaster of a year for the this has. Around this time in 2016 we had just emerged from a titanic organizational crisis & were only beginning to put the pieces back together. Now, we have gone from a peaceful slump of a recovery, to the agonizingly slow fervor of merging, & finally to yet another round of expansion with Diep2.io Diiep.io. We have a lot of work ahead of us, & a bright future full of purpose. So, when you get back from your holidays to read the 2017 recap our editors are putting together, remember this; 2018 is going to be our best year yet.


 * -|Changelog News=

Diep.io
Diep.io officially updated for the first time in nearly a year! Although admittedly, it’s fairly sparse:  December 19th, 2017 However, we can hope that this is just the beginning of even more robust updates; a nice Christmas gift that would be!
 * Penta shot nerfed slightly

Diiep.io (Diep2.io)
Unfortunately for the News Team (although fortunately for everyone else!), the Diiep.io Developer has issued so many changes this past week that listing them all would triple the length of this WU, so we’ll list the highlights. That concludes the condensed Diiep.io changelog. See for the full changelog, and don’t hesitate to make corrections!
 * The following Tanks were added:
 * Auto-Tri-Angle
 * Unnamed Auto-3 Class
 * Spread Shot
 * Carrier
 * Single
 * Hexa-Trapper
 * Hewn Double
 * Machine Gunner
 * Boomerang
 * Unnamed Minigun/Gunner upgrade.
 * Falcon
 * Bushwhacker
 * Engineer
 * The following Tanks were removed:
 * Underseer branch
 * Shotgun
 * Unnamed baby Factory
 * Rifle
 * Swarmer
 * Elite Crasher
 * Boomer
 * Nefs and buffs:
 * Minion Speed buffed, minion bullets nerfed, minion reload nerfed.
 * Necromancer penetration buffed, Drone health nerfed.
 * Destroyer buffed.
 * Carrier nerfed.
 * Skimmer bullets heavily nerfed, three times (although one was reverted).
 * Hybrid Drones buffed.
 * Nailgun nerfed, then buffed, then nerfed again.
 * Single nerfed.
 * Predator buffed.
 * Buffed Auto-Smasher turret.
 * Buffed Falcon sniper gun.
 * Nerfed Tri-Angle back guns, overall nerf to Tri-Angle and Booster.
 * Buffed Machine Gunner.
 * Assassin buffed.
 * Streamliner buffed.
 * Other Tank changes:
 * Auto-Smasher removed then readded with modifications.
 * Auto-Mega given a name.
 * Underseer removed then restored.
 * Several minor / unmentioned Tank tweaks.
 * Hexa-Trapper renamed to Hepta-Trapper, lost its turret.
 * Gunner-3 named and then renamed to Auto-4
 * added, then replaced with Overgunner.
 * Gameplay
 * Stats renamed and heavily tweaked.
 * Class Tree reordered twice.
 * 3x as easy to level up.
 * Level up only goes to 20.
 * All Polygons give triple the XP.
 * Map size increased.
 * Graphics enhanced.
 * A notification occurs if the Leader is killed.
 * Twitter module added to home screen.
 * One metric ton of bug fixes.


 * -|Wiki Event News=

Sandbox this Saturday! (23rd of December)
It will be held from 12 PM to 2 PM Eastern Time (UTC 16:00 - 18:00) in as always. Since it’s during Christmas break, we really hope to see lots of people there! We can play regular Diep.io, or ; the choice is yours!  inb4 “why not both?” *Mexican music ensues*

Diiep.io Tank Building Contest
The developer of Diep2.io (or Diiep.io following a naming poll) is holding a contest. People must build quality tanks, then post them on the #suggestions channel on the diiep.io dev Discord server. If you’re a conceptor with an easily summarizable tank with good imagery, join the server & submit your tank! Not only could you potentially get your tank added to the game, but you could also earn some private tokens as a reward!

Diep2.io rename cleanup
Help is needed to properly rename all instances of  to , which is the soon-to-be name of the game. Please make these corrections wherever you can!

.io Games Footer launched!
Check out the Main Page; the Footer has been successfully established on all .io Wikias that meet the requirements. Browser games for life!


 * -|Wiki Policy News=

WikiFeatures revisited followup
Last week we asked the community if we should revote on certain WikiFeatures changes, here are the results: Not a single person asked for the Anonymous Editing or  to be disabled, so they shall be sticking around permanently until the  Administration believes that a community vote is necessary to turn them back off. Article Comments, while it just barely managed to meet the 5-user cutoff for a revote, the three-Moderator-or-above-requirement was not met, which would be necessary to properly keep Comments in check. Therefore, a revote will not be happening for the restoration of Article Comments either, until such a time as the Administration deems that there is both A) still a high demand for their return, and B) sufficient Staff personnel to handle their restoration, at which point a community vote will be initiated.


 * -|Tech News=

(BIG) Unordered lists redesigned
You will likely have noticed in Changelog News the new style of s, or unordered lists. This affects the entire site, and is a purely aesthetic upgrade to help the stand out. If you like or dislike the new design, say so in the comments. Based on your feedback, we may change s (numerically ordered lists) or we may revert the   change entirely. There are many different styles for ordered lists, like Roman numerals, Greek lettering, Latin lettering, and, so leave your thoughts in the comments!

Main Page Blog Module redesigned
You may notice that the Blog lists on the main page are simpler, less boxy, and no longer have avatars. This was done to make it more similar to the, in addition to making it more modern in general. Feedback on this change is welcome as always.

UserTags tweaked slightly
Following the that FANDOM recently released, it is important that links use relative protocols (i.e. they change based on automated factors) to provide the best experience for readers. To keep up with this, we transitioned the URLs for UserTags to use relative links instead of absolute ones. This may be repeated elsewhere throughout our.


 * -|Opinion Polls=