Earth got an update. What small features have been improved, added or fixed?
I'll start as off with: Sound speed fix, sound now travels the same speed as light.
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I'll start as off with: Sound speed fix, sound now travels the same speed as light.
Lifespan of dogs and cats increased due to popular demand
Also optionally can be puppies for much longer but without the downsides.
Enabled wealth cap. Several players were holding on to massive amounts of money, artificially inflating the in-game economy and driving prices higher than the average player can realistically afford.
Bowser Revolution
Mosquitoes removed in the latest patch
Literal bug fix.
Fixed a timing bug were 5 hours of work only made the clock advance by 5 minutes, and 5 minutes of spare time randomly made the clock advance by 5 hours.
This breaks Einstein time dilation e2e tests. Please revert.
This change has been reverted as it caused all high explosives to have the effect of nuclear weapons. The developers apologize for the inconvenience. In compensation, DNA has been given resistance to radiation damage: this reduces the speed of evolution, but prevents cancers from all the nuclear waste caused by the previous patch. As a bonus, humans with low melanin no longer develop skin cancer due to perfectly ordinary sunlight. Sunburn is still a hazard; wear sunscreen!
Yeah that one's on me. I'm still an intern and thought it would be handy. ^^
Always try new features in prod
Wouldn't this mean all matter could easily reach light speed?
Yes, sound is carried in waves of matter. If sound moved at light speed, the.matter must also. Interesting thought of the day, your heartbeat would explode your chest.
Sound waves are pressure waves, so it isn't matter that moves in only one direction. It's matter that moves back and forth. Therefore I assume the wave can propagate faster than the matter moves.
Fun fact:
When two objects collide, the maximum internal propagation speed of the shock wave is limited by the local speed of sound in the material itself, which is typically 2000-6000 meters per second (m/s).
In low earth orbit, satellites move faster than that, around 7000-7700 m/s. So when they collide (at up to twice that amount in closing velocity), the structure of the satellites is moving faster than the resulting internal shock wave. In one case, there was still a signal sent from a satellite a split second AFTER it had smashed through another satellite, because the resulting shock wave hadn't finished destroying it yet.
Source: I'm a space systems engineer, and one of my colleagues wrote his PhD thesis on this topic.
Holy shit this makes so much sense!
Dammit, now the lips and words on Netflix don't match.
Rotation now set to "standard" 24 hours exactly. No more wonky 23.99873 hours screwing up automated functions every 12 years.
And a year is exactly 360 days. Or maybe 364 so there are a perfect 52 weeks in the year.
Why not take this opportunity to make time base 10 for all meaningful measures?
100 weeks a year. 10 months wherein the moon orbits once. 10 hours per day.
Or even just base 2. I guess it probably matters most that planetary bodies have evenly divisible periods and we can figure out the rest.
Those weird hairless monkies destroying the planet now reproduce at 10% of the speed.
imagine being pregnant for 90 months
Or only one in ten births were viable, like the Krogan Genophage.
Just realised that in ME:Andromeda they changed it so Krogan lay clutches of eggs.
It was "births" in ME1-3
Or is it just everyone getting 90% less fertile?
For clarity: I mean humans in general
Memory corruption bug is still there and it'd just come back in another form
OP: EARTH get an update.
Also OP: let me rewrite the laws of physics that apply to the entire universe.
Fixed typo resulting in ticks giving lyme disease instead of limes diseases. Ticks now properly feed on fruit juices instead of blood.
Finally I can enjoy nature the way it's intended. Reading a book under a tree, Frodo style, without fucking dying.
Nothing too bad. Wasps and hornets now have knives. Enjoy 😊
"Stack of Dumb"
Orcas > humans!
I wish it was that easy…
The big skin color patch is here!
After hearing many player requests, human skin can now appear in popular colors such as gray, purple, orange, and iridescent turquoise.
Skin color heritability has been reduced, allowing the new colors to be introduced naturally at character creation time. We expect this will also reduce some skin-color-related bad behavior that players have reported.
For players wishing to change to one of the new (or old!) options, we've released a series of colorful plants that can be consumed to change skin color.
Strange bug led to monkeys evolving well past other species and dominating before anyone else can get to late game, because of this we've increased the learning and beneficial evolution speeds across the board.
Speed sound fix introduces some terrible new bugs where everything sounds really weird. Musical instruments need to be a million times bigger. Alas humans wouldn't survive to experience these spectacular changes. Even the soft whistle of a flute would blast anything in its vicinity to smithereens.
If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, does anyone on earth survive?
In this case probably not 😂
Removed herobrine, again
Updated the human immune system to function as intended. This will fix the following issues:
There was a bug which allowed some microscopic entities to negatively impact the performance of human entities. This should no longer occur.
Another bug that caused the immune system to improperly identify friendly or beneficial items as life threatening has been corrected.
The immune system will no longer fail to recognize some cells that have corrupted genetic code. Should result in the elimination of the unintended cancer debuff that was introduced by the evolution process.
Did it also fix that bug where, under certain circumstances, the immune system would attack the eyes?
I think that's covered in #2.
Hotfix: ocular degeneration should no longer be inadvertently applied by immune system. Leaving environmental damage in for balance.
Existence fix: Implemented a streamlined mechanism allowing individuals to gracefully cease existence during their life cycle, eliminating the need for complex workarounds with forceful self-terminations.
Cop improvements: Implemented comprehensive updates to law enforcement algorithms, removing instances of impulsive or biased behavior, ensuring that officers adhere to the law they uphold. Additionally, the "suicide by cop" scenario is now obsolete due to the existence fix, rendering it unnecessary.
Economic System Enhancement: Implemented measures to rebalance wealth distribution by debuffing excessively wealthy individuals, promoting a more equitable economy. Prohibited money hacks to ensure fair play and integrity within the financial system. Disrupted exploits of the economy system to maintain a level playing field for all participants.
All vegetation is now edible and extremely healthy.
You forgot delicious
All vegetation tastes of harse diarrhea
Fixed a balance issue with homo sapiens' spines. Now less humans should suffer from spinal illnesses and back pains.
Having just had an X-ray on my spine to figure out some problems I'm having, I'd welcome this patch.
It would certainly be cheaper than months of physical therapy.
patch earth-00137900.12023.09a
make 1/137 show up more often to mess with scientists
add syntax highlighting to maths
[bugfix] patch earth-00137900.12023.09b
But what about i?
i can't hurt you, it isn't real
The update doesn't worry me....turning it off and on again worries me
I sure hope the world doesn't run on anything resembling Windows.
Animals can now speak to humans
This seems a little buggy. Animals now speak in human languages even when talking to each other.
It might be funny for a moment that bird mating calls are now things like "My tree! My tree! Fuck me! Fuck me! I'm a hot little sparrow so fuck me!" and squirrels now yell "You're a shit! You're a shitty shitty shit!" if you get too close ...
But human children have started to pick up language from the local wildlife and it's really inappropriate.
Please roll back or fix the bird pottymouth problem.
You no longer go blind if you look directly at the sun.
The issue of the octopus lifespan has been fixed. Now instead of a median lifespan of 2 years, they have their normal lifespan of 200.
Many humans reported an issue where their children would cry in the middle of the night. This has been fixed.
Fixed many other issues that were preventing a full night's sleep.
They killed all the kids??? Bad devs, bad!
Banned humans because of griefing
I was going for ‘removed a certain cancerous bipedal species’, but yeah.
For sound to increase to the speed of light, our air would have to increase in density so much it would crush the planet.
Human nature nerfing. 20% less full of shit, evil and greedy.
Implementation details:
Karma now procs 75% of the time.
Invasive species fix, plants are much slower and less likely to establish outside their native habitat range. These plants can still be cultivated as specimens but they will not reproduce themselves to the point of eradicating native species.
Idk, not sure if there are any feature updates I'd like to point to, except maybe a resilience buff for all [Species: Bee] players & guilds, and maybe a slight nerf to the thermal properties of carbon oxides, though the lattermost one could be challenging, since that'd have to interact with
physics.dll, a library over which I'd put a red & white ribbon and a big "do not touch" sign.Fixed an exploit where petroleum products were combustable for net energy gain.
-Tweaked the “brain dead” multiplier because they were getting out of hand.
-Removed religion because it needs more testing and was having way to many knock on affects.
The edgey atheists in every possible thread really gives lemmy that old Reddit feeling.
The clever centrists with their interesting comments haven't changed either.
Fuck, you caught me. Guess it's time to sell all my Marxist literature to some gullible college kid so I can buy the nicest grill at Lowe's and embrace my inner centrist.
Damn who was edgy again?
Well, the last major update involved a huge shift in viability for different classes following the asteroid raid boss. I imagine this next patch will introduce something like rapid genetic mutation and drift to prepare for the next big update which is set to follow the limited-time climate or supervolcano event.
"Corrected a bug in "Human" function that would cause it to replicate itself exponentially, causing an extreme burden on system resources which would lead to overheating and possible permanent damage to the hardware."
Conservatives and religion have been removed. They were causing harm to the simulation.
Due to recent hardware upgrades, the speed of light has been increased to it's originally intended value. Light, and all charged electromagnetic waves should perform at double or triple previous speeds.
Joe also found a faster algorithm for electromagnetic waves which should further double the speeds. Thanks Joe.
Pull request from Thanos: Add snap support @ 50% success rate ☠️
This opcode has been hacked & repurposed by user
waddams.Tweaking salt levels in the oceans to provide more resources for mammals while not breaking existing aquatic life.
Increased atmosphere attenuation of UV bands to make light safer for dominant mammals, still too dangerous to look at directly.
Well that's a new visual.
Yeah not gonna lie I don't think changing gravity is a minor fix...
Same with mitigating extreme weather and ending racism
Matthew Sobol, is that you?
Removed curse.
Removed Herobrine?
Increased knockback distance on Housecat's claw attack, removing Housecat's infinite combo vs several woodland creatures
Removed a bug preventing fungi from colonizing mammals.
This needs to be reverted ASAP; it's killing the bats.
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