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Congratulations to Akisen for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Subscriptions used to live on new.subeta.net. They're back home now at subeta.net/cs/subscribe.php, and I added a lot while I was moving them.

Pay yearly or with PayPal. Every plan now has a yearly option, priced at 10 months. Yearly plans still pay out your rewards once a month. You can also pay with PayPal now, monthly or yearly.

Give a subscription. You can buy someone 1, 3 or 12 months of any plan. You pay once and nothing renews. Pick a friend from your list, add a message, and leave your name off if you'd like. If they already subscribe, the gift starts when their subscription ends.

Changing plans. You can switch tiers on the subscribe page without canceling first. The new plan starts at your next renewal, and nothing extra is charged that day.

If you subscribed through the old system, your subscription keeps working as it always has. When you're ready, the subscribe page can move it to a card or PayPal. Your first charge on the new plan lands on the day you would have renewed anyway, and from then on you can change tiers or pay yearly.

Renewal messages. Every renewal now sends you a message listing what came with it and when you renew next. If you cancel, you keep your perks through the end of the time you paid for. If you pay by card, you can change your mind and keep the plan any time before then.

More for Goddess. Goddess now earns 2 Subscription Points a month instead of 1.

More in the Subscription Shop. Your points still buy the monthly items from every past month, like these:

And now they buy more than items:

• A pet slot, for 6 points
• An Experiment Pick, for 2 points. You choose which experiment your pet becomes at the Pet Zapper, and you still pay the zap.
• A Custom Overlay Voucher, for 2 points
• A color swap or a species swap, for 1 point each, spent on the new Pet Swap page. These work with the regular species and colors.

Fewer daily chores. Subscribers get free autotraining days every month: 5 for Quester, 10 for Councilor and 20 for Goddess. You also get extra free autopricer runs: 1 more per shop each day for Quester, 3 for Councilor, and as many as you like for Goddess. Gold Accounts get a Train all button at the Training Center, too.

I'm collecting ideas for more perks in this thread, so tell me what you'd want.

Tests and polls. New features now go to a small group of players first, with a short poll attached, and the tests page shows what's running right now. More than a thousand of you have answered those polls so far. Your answers decide what changes before a feature reaches everyone, and I really appreciate every one of them.

I know money is tight for almost everyone right now. Prices keep going up, and a subscription is an easy thing to cut. Subscriptions are the one part of our income we can plan around. When I know what's coming in each month, I know how much art I can commission and how much work I can ask of the team. Every subscriber stretches that budget further, and if it takes adding more to the plans to get there, I'm happy to.

If a subscription fits in your month, it goes straight into art and new things on the site, and the support page shows where. If it doesn't fit right now, that's okay. Thank you for being here either way.

Pick a plan here.

Design a stage costume for a sold-out show, with something in hand: a mic, a fan, a guitar.

50,000,000 sP split between the top 5, free to enter, open until Sunday, October 25.

Build your look

The Library is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Congratulations to Trash Cat for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

There is something unsettling in the air. Grab the Wild Potion from the Cash Shop to match that spooky energy with a wild harvester.

Curious about when Morostide will start? We are aiming to release around* the same time as we did last year, October 24. Like last year, we will run into November and have evenly paced waves of challengers**.

*It will likely start earlier in the week, but October 24 is the latest we want to start!
**Yes, I promised challengers for the last few holidays. They will come in November and December!

Congratulations to Korella for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Battle Spheres are back for another "season"! Every battle pet has a sphere of passive talents that fire on their own in battle. Your pet earns points from its stats, you spend them on a board, and reset is free.

Season 5 runs from today through November 11. The board has reset, so every pet starts fresh, and Season 4 builds are archived.

The big new system is called marks. With an affinity in your choices, your Hex leaves its element on the opponent, and hitting it with the right second element sets off a reaction. This should be fun to play around with! There are new achievements too, with three new name plates among the prizes.

Reischen's Battle Quests now offer Normal or Hard every day. On Hard, the opponent gets an edge: an archetype, which is its own sphere build plus a signature move. Archetypes rotate daily and are picked per opponent, so everyone fighting that opponent sees the same one, and the quest page shows you the build before you fight. A Hard win pays double quest EXP and a scroll reagent roll, and a loss doesn't use up the quest.

Every number, every new tile, and the Season 4 fixes are in the full patch notes on the forums. Thanks to whyrl, Wesker, ColdDragon, Jigglypuff, and METROID for the ideas behind a lot of this season. That thread is still where I'm collecting feedback, so tell me what breaks (even if it means I have to nerf your favorite build)!

I promise if this seems too complicated, at the core it's just a set of bonuses that make your pet stronger, without you needing to do anything. There are other players in the forums who will tell you what build to make your pet to get the most free extra damage for your pets 💖

Congratulations to Gearworks for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Every page on Subeta loads a stack of code libraries before it shows you anything. A library is a chunk of someone else's code you load so you don't have to write it yourself, and a lot of ours are more than ten years old. Some of them are only used on one or two pages, but they load on every page you visit, phone and data plan included.

I'm clearing them out. Before compression, every page still loads about 1.1 MB of this old code. This week about 200 KB of it came off every page:

• Handlebars, twice. Version 4.0.6 (2016) and version 2.0.0-alpha.4 (2014) both loaded, the older one second, so it overwrote the newer one. Nothing on the site used either of them.
• lodash 4.17.2 (2016) and jquery.touch, also unused.

qTip came off the 26 explore map pages too, where it never drew a single... qTip?

Modalbox, a popup window library from 2007, is gone as well. Popups now use the browser's own dialog element. If you saw an empty popup box sitting on every page recently, that was this work (sorry!)

Icons changed too. The site was drawing them from three different sets: Font Awesome 4, Semantic UI's icon font, and Bootstrap 2's glyphicons. Now every icon comes from one set, Font Awesome's Sharp Duotone, so they finally match each other. A few of the old glyphicon spots were drawing nothing at all and show their icons now. Expect some icons to look a little different while we adjust sizes and colors around the site.

Still loading on every page:

• Prototype 1.7.0 (2010) and script.aculo.us 1.8.1 (2008). They're in the oldest code history we have, from 2010. Prototype is the biggest script on the page at 205 KB. It's honestly impressive that we are still including these.
• Tipped (2014), which draws the hover cards on items and users, and can be replaced by browser defaults now.
• jQuery 3.2.1 and Bootstrap 4.0.0-beta.2, both from 2017. Yes, a beta. We never moved to the final release.
• Semantic UI 0.19.3 (2014). Its stylesheet is 340 KB, bigger than any script on the page.
• Font Awesome 4.6.3 (2016). The site's own icons don't use it anymore, but pet profiles and some custom CSS do, so it stays for now 😭

Most of what these libraries do is built into browsers now. Finding things on the page, fades and slides, and loading data without a refresh have been built in for years, over ten for some of it. Popups only made it into every browser in 2022, and hover popovers in 2023. Every library I swap for the built-in version is code you don't have to download, and your browser doesn't have to run it before the page works. That should make the site feel faster, especially on a phone. And don't worry, I'm going to build in graceful fallback for these, if your browser doesn't have them, but fallback that still use best practices and weren't made in 2010.

The catch is that every page has to be moved over by hand, so for a while some things might look a little off, like a button that's the wrong size or a popup with odd spacing. If something looks broken, post the page link in the forums and I'll take a look.

You might have noticed some other players around the site have fun effects on their usernames, and you can too! Update your nameplate here and change how your username is displayed around the site.

You'll notice there are some 🎃 locked ones 🎃 that you might be able to earn soon.

Tubular Tiles has been dead since 2018. The database that held its layouts lived on an old server that went away, and with no layouts there was no game. It's been sitting on the games page with a "temporarily unavailable" sign for seven years, which is a very generous definition of temporarily. (The classic Subeta 🔜)

I rebuilt it. Same tiles, same music 😴, all nine layouts, and it's live right now at /games/tubular_tiles/.

Classic is the mode you remember, with a better deal: your first 15 wins a day pay 15,000 sP each, up from 10 wins at 10,000. Hints add 30 seconds and shuffles add a minute to your time, so use them when you're stuck, not as a strategy.

Free Play has no timer and no payout. Hints, shuffles, and undo are free. Just the tiles and the music.

Daily Turtle is new. Everyone gets the same board each day, your first run is ranked and pays 15,000 sP, and just after midnight the three fastest clears win 50,000, 30,000, and 20,000 sP. If your run is suspiciously fast, it gets a quick look from staff before it pays, so don't panic if yours says it's waiting.

Every board can be cleared now. The old game dealt tiles at random, so sometimes the board was unwinnable from the first move and the shuffle button was the only way out. You can also play the whole thing on the keyboard: H for hint, S for shuffle, U for undo, P for pause.

Gimme Some Fin still counts your Classic wins, and there are five new achievements on the page. Go clear some turtles. 🐢

Congratulations to Ferity for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

👋 Reminder!! I'm testing new user profiles ("V3") (check out mine for an example) that are easier to edit and customize. If you've got a custom profile it might take a little longer to translate to the new system, but there is a helpful guide here that walks through the new CSS techniques.

You can provide feedback in the survey on the preferences page, and this thread.

Even if you haven't edited your profile in years, the default is a lot more modern (or, 2022 at least) and you might even _want_ to give it a little tweak!

Manwar is focusing hard on becoming a tabletop influencer, and needs a few things for his next podcast! Bring him podcast gear, video games, or a wig, and he'll pay you in sP and a trading card.

We've added 47 NPC trading cards, which you can only earn through Manwar's quest and trading card booster packs.

Manwar gives you one rarity 1-99 trading card per quest. There's a 20% chance he'll pick from the cards you haven't collected; the other 80% draws from the full pool, with less rare cards coming up more often. If you've already collected the older cards, the missing-card picks will be new ones. Once you've collected every rarity 1-99 card, every draw uses the full pool.

Cards in your inventory or vault don't count as collected, so remember to add them to your trading card collection. There are three new achievements, and every fifth completed quest earns you a QuestPoint.

Congratulations to Ruby Kirin for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Have you ever thought about what grow from a sprouting strawberry that... isn't just a strawberry? Try growing this special seed in your garden for a Milnesium Fragarius, the newest garden exclusive pet!

If you are not interested in waiting to get the seed from Emma's rainbow packet of the day, you can buy it from the Cash Shop.

You will need to have a garden level of at least 4 to plant the Sprouting Strawberry. Level 4 requires at least 6,000XP.

Not interested in a new creepy crawly garden friend? No worries. Try growing one of these four Ikumoradeekanox fruit for some adorable (and possibly dangerous) flowers in your garden!

Wear a hat and keep the whole look to four items.

10,000,000 sP split between the top 3, free to enter, open until Tuesday, October 13.

Build your look

Quentin is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Congratulations to Mirrors for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Congratulations to Okami for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Congratulations to Renown for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Protect yourself this coming Morostide from negative forces, like late news posts, with this month's collection from the Cash Shop.

You can also get items from previous October collections!

There is a new subscription item in the Subscription Shop.

Congratulations to Hangman Devil for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Congratulations to Skreev for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Every item has to be from 2014.

50,000,000 sP split between the top 5, free to enter, open until Sunday, October 11.

Build your look

The autumn scents of pumpkin, cinnamon, and rain are here to stay. You may have noticed the Millionaire Center and Seasonal Quest Shop changed over to autumn on October 1. Well, now there are new autumn items in the Millionaire Shop!

If you remember, there were a few issues with the Millionaire Center at the start of summer, so we never added summer themed items to it. While the shop has already moved on to autumn, we did add two new summer themed items to the summer tab. We're sorry these are late, but how comfy does that resort pillow look?

With it being the weekend, we will not release the new October monthly collection until Monday. You may have noticed in previous months when the 3rd lands over a weekend we tend to push it. We will also have the new subscription item added on Monday as well!

We're testing a new feature in shops where the shopkeeper will Set Aside rare and sought after items for you, that'll appear at the top of particular shops.

While we're testing this, every six hours you'll have a new choice between three items in the Freyalise, and just five minutes to choose! These might change for other shops in the future.

These items are shown to only you, and other shopkeepers will even give you a reminder if you've got items set aside for you somewhere else.

Dig out Subeta's own retro. Every item has to be from 2011 or earlier.
This week is a test of contest rules the wardrobe checks for you.

50,000,000 sP split between the top 5, free to enter, open until Saturday, October 10.

Build your look

The site has all three of these filed under food, along with about 11,000 other items, and it has never known which ones you'd drink.

So there's a new page in Help: Food or Drink?. It shows you one item at a time and you click what it is: food, dessert, drink, wearable (there are boleros in the foods, of course), or other. For a drink you also say whether it looks like it has alcohol in it. One click sorts it and brings up the next one.

Each item pays 1,000 sP, up to 100 a day, and each item pops up once per person. When a couple of people agree on an item it's settled, and the settled drinks are the list that we'll pull from around the site.

Pete is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Congratulations to Ioane for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Congratulations to Tantomile for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!