Game History
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Just like any other long-running online game, HoboWars has an extensive game history.
Unless otherwise noted, all dates are according to HoboTime (GMT +10).
Updates that are struck out were either changed, overwritten, or removed by another update later on.
HoboWars
The one that started it all.
2003
Updates
Events
- August 2003
- 18/8/03: Andrew Hogan created the first hobo in Hobowars: Andy.
2004
Updates
Events
2005
Updates
Events
- August 2005
- 8/10/05: Albert Nguyen (a.k.a. meek) created the first piece of in-game artwork for HoboWars, which was the old header image for the Battle! page. It was added to the game on the same day it was created.
2006
Updates
- March 2006
- Major
- 3/??/06: The option to create a new gang for 500 points at Gangs Alley was removed.
- Minor
- None
- Major
Events
- December 2006
- 12/4/06: The HoboWars servers crashed and went down for three days, preventing anyone from accessing the game. When the servers were fixed and brought back online on December 7, 2006, everyone started from a restore point made 24 hours prior to the crash. Anything acquired during the 24 hour period after the backup was made (such as money, tokens, points, stats, SGHM purchases) vanished, and the Message Boards were wiped clean and the contents of the Help Wiki were erased. Additionally, any new players who signed up during that 24 hour period lost their accounts and had to create new ones in order to play. This event became known as Black Wednesday.
- ????? 2006
- The 2006 Bummys ended.
2007
Updates
- September 2007
- Major
- 9/07/07: Stat graphs were added, allowing players to track the rate of growth of their stats over a period of, at most, 30 days.
- Minor
- None
- Major
Events
- January 2007
- 1/??/07: Ed and Oli hit the game with a phishing scam that compromised many HoboWars accounts, especially those of newer players. They spread around a rumor that there was there was a new HoboWars server, and provided links to a website that mirrored the HoboWars login page. Whenever someone attempted to login through that fake page, they would get a notice that the new server wasn't up yet, and their username and password got stored in a database that Ed and Oli used to gain access into other players' accounts.
- February 2007
- 2/24/07: Ed and Oli used malicious Javascript seeded into HoboMail messages to snatch the address bar off of any player who viewed their jumbled mail messages, and used that information to compromise various players' accounts. Although the message boards were protected from Javascript attacks, the HoboMail message system was not, and, therefore, even the accounts of older players and staff members became compromised. Fortunately, the HoboMail message system is now protected against such Javascript attacks.
- August 2007
- 8/06/07: The HoboWars staff began to crackdown on abusers of the Mass Money Creation glitch (a.k.a. the "mmkk" glitch). Around 25+ players were jailed for exploiting Piggy Bank withdrawal abbreviations such as "k" for thousand and "m" for million. Whenever a player withdrew, for example, "10kkmm" dollars from their Piggy Bank, they would withdraw 2.1 billion dollars, even if they did not actually have that much money in their Piggy Bank. To make matters worse, the fabricated money was randomly sent around to players, making it a nightmare for game staff to track down the sources of the fabricated money.
- December 2007
- The 2007 Bummys ended.
2008
Updates
- June 2008
- Major
- 6/30/08: The Hospital page became protected by the anti-refresh feature, which prevented players from F5 healing.
- Minor
- 6/28/08: A new profile system was added.
- 6/29/08: The "Gang Blacklist" feature was added to gangs, allowing gangs to prohibit certain players from joining them.
- 6/30/08: The ability for gangs to set a minimum attack/defense requirement for donated weapons/armor was added.
- Major
- July 2008
- Major
- None
- Minor
- 7/01/08: The "Gang Hitlist" feature was added to gangs, allowing gangs to hitlist certain players or even entire gangs.
- 7/02/08: The "Gang History" feature was added to individual players' profiles, allowing gang owners and players with the "Invite" permission to see an individual player's personal gang history.
- 7/04/08: The "Gang Poll" feature was added to gangs, allowing gangs to create polls for its members to vote on.
- 7/05/08: The ability to delete gangs polls was added.
- 7/06/08: The ability to view old gang polls was added, and gang news item notifications for newly created polls were also added.
- 7/06/08: A dropdown menu for the "Country" field for the new profile system was added, and a bug in the DOB field was fixed.
- 7/25/08: Player's Hobo IDs were added to gangs' Hall of Fames, and the ability to leave a reason for declining an application to a gang was added.
- 7/25/08: An "Age" column was added to gangs' member lists, and gang news item notifications for altering gang hitlist entries were added.
- 7/25/08: The ability to save/archive HoboMail messages was added.
- 7/25/08: The gang hitlist feature was updated to automatically save players' search preferences.
- 7/26/08: Friend request news item notifications were updated to show the name of the player, and if they accepted or denied the friend request.
- 7/26/08: The ability to edit journal entries was added.
- 7/27/08: Gangs' member lists were made cleaner-looking and sortable.
- 7/27/08: The ability to search through your own SGHM listings and recent market activity was added, along with the ability to search the SGHM itself.
- Major
- August 2008
- Major
- 8/02/08: The Arena Elite were added to the Old Man's Arena at the Corner 7/11.
- 8/06/08: Lotto Land was released.
- 8/07/08: A few Lotto Land updates were released: the minimum lotto duration was changed from 1 day to 2 days, the ability to view the lottos you created was added, the max price of a lotto ticket was increased to $100,000, the cost of creating a lotto was made dependent on the current number of active lottos, and some columns were made sortable.
- 8/07/08: More Lotto Land updates were released: the ability to view the lottos you have participated in was added, the ability to view lottos exclusive to your current gang was added, new tax rules were added, lotto names were updated so that they could include dollar signs ($) and commas (,) in them, and the back room was added.
- 8/12/08: The City Planning page was released.
- 8/29/08: The hobo ranking system was added.
- Minor
- 8/02/08: The ability to edit your gang poll vote with 5 minutes of casting it was added.
- 8/02/08: The "Gang Hitlist" feature was updated to cost 50,000 gang experience and 50 points, just like the "Gang Armory" feature.
- 8/02/08: The ability to create a default role for gang members was added.
- 8/03/08: Archived HoboMail messages were made exempt from the "Delete Last 10" and "Delete All" mass deletion methods.
- 8/07/08: Gang news items were updated to contain links to players' profiles, gang profiles, etc., when needed, and gang donation limits were raised from 10,000,000 to 50,000,000.
- 8/07/08: The ability to explore the City with the arrow keys was added.
- 8/08/08: A Lotto Land bug where winners were not getting the appropriate amount of winnings was fixed.
- 8/08/08: The ability to view all of a player's journals was added.
- 8/08/08: The ability to compare gang members side-by-side from the Hall of Fame and Member List pages was added.
- 8/08/08: The option to ignore rat and food encounters while exploring the City was added under the "Explore Settings" preference.
- 8/08/08: A typo on the Docks page concerning the awake gain of Naans was fixed, and watched threads on gang boards of gangs you are no longer in were updated to no longer give you notifications.
- 8/09/08: Players' mailboxes were tuned up to provide better and faster performance, and a search feature for players' mailboxes was added.
- 8/09/08: The ability to assign a colored gang board name to a gang title was added.
- 8/11/08: The ability to reject multiple friend requests was fixed, and the whole friend request system was optimized.
- 8/11/08: The "Gang Mass Mail" feature for gangs was released, and class-sitting in Cart Racing was no longer allowed.
- 8/11/08:
Begging multipliers were updated to also affect begging stat gains. - 8/11/08: The ability to see the last 10 things you bought on the SGHM was added.
- 8/13/08: The ability to leave a reason for kicking someone out of a gang was added.
- 8/13/08: A link to your Piggy Bank was added to the begging result page.
- 8/13/08: The "Invite" link on the Gang Applications page was updated to directly invite that player to the gang.
- 8/13/08: Gang history values were updated to show up as red when they are negative.
- 8/13/08: Gang member titles (and the gang members who hold them) were updated to show up on the gang information page.
- 8/13/08: Players' mailboxes were updated to also include the HB-TML quick buttons.
- 8/13/08: The gang title "MB-Edit" was added to the list of gang titles, allowing gang members with the title to edit gang board threads and posts.
- 8/13/08: The "ordering by total pot" bug in Lotto Land was fixed.
- 8/13/08: The ability to donate to lotto pots was added.
- 8/13/08: News entries were added to lottos.
- 8/13/08: An age and level restriction on creating new lottos was added to Lotto Land, preventing players under level 25 and less than 100 days old from creating new lottos.
- 8/13/08: The lotto system was update to provide you with a notification when you don't win a specified lotto.
- 8/13/08: The "check all" button was added to the Trolly page.
- 8/14/08: Introduction messages were added to Lotto Land.
- 8/14/08: The ability to end your lottos was added.
- 8/14/08: The ability to assign a gang board player name color to the default gang member title was added.
- 8/15/08: The gang mass mail feature was updated so that recipients of mass mails no longer receive Living Area news items notifying them that they got a message from their gang.
- 8/16/08: The ability to receive notifications through the network was added.
- 8/17/08: The linking bug in friends' notifications was fixed.
- 8/17/08: A problem with Lotto Land was fixed.
- 8/17/08: Search capabilities were added to Lotto Land.
- 8/17/08: Gang lottos were updated to receive 5% of the pot.
- 8/17/08: Gangs were given the ability to have multiple vaults.
- 8/17/08: A new HB-TML tag that links to a specified lotto was added.
- 8/18/08: A small glitch with the lotto-linking HB-TML tag was fixed.
- Major
- September 2008
- Major
- None
- Minor
- 9/07/08: A journal entry/news link bug was fixed.
- 9/07/08: Donations made to custom gang vaults were updated to have their gang news items archived and to affect gang members' Hall of Fame stats.
- 9/11/08: The ability to view more transfer logs for your money, token, and point transfers was added.
- 9/11/08:
The Living Area notification system was updated to not give players a Living Area news item when they gain a level from begging. - 9/11/08: The ability to toggle Living Area notifications on of off was added under the "Living Area Notifications" preference.
- 9/11/08: A new HB-TML tag that links to a specified journal entry was added.
- 9/11/08: The ability to view more SGHM logs was added.
- 9/15/08: Gangs were given the ability to create staff-only threads on their gang board.
- 9/23/08: A gang vault bug that caused players to receive a Living Area notification was patched.
- 9/23/08: A Piggy Bank transfer log problem was fixed.
- 9/28/08: A lottery problem was fixed.
- 9/28/08: Personal information in player's networking profiles was updated to show on their Living Area page.
- Major
- October 2008
- Major
- 10/03/08: Northern Fence was added to Suicide Hill.
- 10/21/08: The Slut Tax was increased 10%-20%, and the Experience Bonus for defeating players with a win percentage of 70% was increased.
- 10/21/08: The cost of healing at the Hospital was increased.
- 10/21/08: The cost of healing at the Hospital was updated to increase based on the amount of times a player healed that day.
- 10/21/08: An RSS feed was added for Living Area news items.
- 10/23/08: Players' Trolly contents were updated to be ordered by Awake gain amount, from least to greatest.
- 10/23/08: The amount of money earned from begging while dead was decreased by up to 50%.
- Minor
- 10/03/08: The ability to send the same mail to multiple players (up to 10 players at once) was added.
- 10/03/08: The "Gang Lottos" feature was added to gangs, allowing them to view all of their lottos.
- 10/03/08: Detailed battle statistics were added to battle reports.
- 10/07/08: Some Lotto Land issues were fixed.
- 10/07/08: A small Northern Fence race log glitch was fixed.
- 10/08/08: More super cart bugs were fixed, and the lockout time was changed.
- 10/08/08: A link to the Gang Hitlist was added to players' Personal Hitlists.
- 10/08/08: The ability to remove multiple friends at once was added under the "Remove Multiple Friends" Friends Network preference.
- 10/08/08:
An 8% tax on sellers' profits was added to the SGHM (profits from DP and point sales were not taxed). - 10/08/08:
The SGHM tax was lowered from 8% to 5%. - 10/09/08: Some more minor updates were added to the Northern Fence.
- 10/16/08: The ability to transfer money between gang vaults was added.
- 10/16/08: The "Gang Loan" feature was added to gangs, allowing gangs to loan out funds to its members.
- 10/16/08: The "Last edited by:" line was updated to contain the name and ID of the player who edited the post.
- 10/16/08: The "Highest Beg" record was added to players' Living Areas, under the "More Info" tab.
- 10/16/08: The quick transfer drop boxes that list the last five players that you transferred to was added to the Piggy Bank page.
- 10/16/08: The ability to search through Piggy Bank transfers was added.
- 10/16/08: The "Gang Loan" feature was fixed.
- 10/17/08: A countdown clock for Suicide Hill races was added.
- 10/17/08: The ability to view SGHM listings by player ID was added.
- 10/19/08: The detailed battle statistics present in battle reports were changed a bit.
- 10/21/08: The ability to "hide" the News, Mail, and Ranks sections in your Living Area was added.
- 10/21/08:
The player attack ranges were changed, and were updated to appear in players' Living Areas. - 10/28/08: A Personal Hitlist problem was fixed.
- Major
- November 2008
- Major
- None
- Minor
- 11/10/08: Logs were added to the gang mass mail feature for gangs to view.
- 11/10/08: The "Active List" feature of gangs was updated to divide gang staff members and regular gang members into two separate lists.
- 11/10/08: Players' "Total" combat stats amount was added to their Living Areas.
- 11/10/08: A new HB-TML tag that fixes the width of surrounded text was added.
- 11/10/08: The option to get notified of any events within a lotto you created was added.
- 11/10/08: The levels of players' listed on the "Who's Online?" page were added next to their names.
- 11/10/08: A gang active list bug was fixed.
- 11/11/08: Suicide Hill was updated so that if you advance to the next racing class, you get autobumped to the next sponsor if a new one becomes available to you.
- 11/11/08: The ability to make journal entries private was added.
- 11/11/08: The "quick quote" button was added to message board posts.
- 11/14/08: The ability to edit a journal entry's privacy settings was added.
- 11/15/08: Message Board posts, gang news archives, journal entries, and Piggy Bank transfers were all updated to include the year in their displayed dates.
- 11/15/08: The ability to archive multiple HoboMail messages was added, and the speed of deleting multiple HoboMail messages was improved.
- 11/15/08: Gang polls were updated to show which poll option you voted on by having it underlined.
- 11/15/08: Northern Fence was updated to show your cart's durability and a link to repair it when you go to sign up for a race.
- 11/15/08: The ability to reset multiple gang members' hospital coverage amounts was added.
- 11/15/08: The ability to toggle AWG and TWG notifications on and off was added under the "Living Area Notifications" preference.
- 11/15/08: The ability to search through multiple pages of gang rankings on the Top Gangs page was added.
- 11/15/08: A bunch of typos were fixed.
- 11/16/08: Non-public journal entries were updated so that they no longer display on the public Community pages.
- 11/16/08: SGHM was updated so that players could not sell anything for less than $1; this update also fixed the Macro Check bug there.
- 11/16/08: A tiny glitch that occurred when gang members updated the gang announcement was patched.
- 11/16/08: A small date glitch in journals was fixed.
- 11/18/08: Some more typos were fixed.
- 11/20/08: A gang member list issue with sorting by the "speed" column was fixed.
- 11/27/08: Battle ladder rankings were added to gang information pages.
- 11/27/08: The gang member kicking feature was updated to have any kicked gang member's branded equipment automatically returned to the gang.
- 11/27/08: The ability to send money to multiple gang members was added.
- 11/27/08: The ability to send tokens, points, and DPs to multiple gang members was added.
- 11/27/08: The process of kicking a player from a gang was optimized.
- 11/30/08: A confirmation page that appears when a player goes to mailblock another player was added.
- 11/30/08: "Combat Stat/Total Stats" percentages were added next to the three combat stats in players' Living Areas.
- 11/30/08: Date and time information was added to SGHM transactions.
- 11/30/08: The number of pending gang applications was added next the "Applications" link.
- 11/30/08: A small glitch with the pending applications number update was fixed.
- Major
- December 2008
- Major
- 12/31/08: More NPCs were added to Northern Fence, Northern Fence races were fixed up a bit, and the rules were changed, allowing players to race 2 NPCs per reset.
- Minor
- 12/13/08: The HB-TML tag that quotes the surrounding text was updated to automatically show the name of and link to the profile of a player when their ID is specified.
- 12/18/08: A small lotto glitch was fixed.
- 12/19/08: The privacy settings of journal entries were updated to keep their settings when a journal entry is edited.
- 12/19/08: The gang member kicking feature was updated so that if a gang member has an unpaid loan, they cannot be kicked from the gang.
- 12/19/08: The HoboMail system was updated to automatically trim the title of a message being replied to if the title is too long.
- 12/20/08: The "Gang Hitlist" feature was updated to show the online status of hitlisted players.
- 12/20/08: Several updates and patched were applied to gang vaults.
- 12/20/08: The thread creator color bug on gang boards was fixed.
- 12/20/08: A gang permission error that prevented gang members with the "MB-Edit" role from editing posts was fixed.
- 12/20/08: The ability to delete mails by clicking the trash icon on the message page was added.
- 12/20/08: The "Buy" link next to SGHM listing searches was fixed.
- 12/20/08: A bug in transferring money from the main gang vault was patched.
- 12/20/08: A dating glitch within journals was fixed.
- 12/21/08: A player's DP debt to a gang was updated to no longer carry over from gang to gang.
- 12/21/08: A Fixed a date format issue in one of the layouts was fixed.
- 12/21/08: The ability to view a player's total stats when hovering over their name in the gang member list was added for gang members who can see gang members' stats.
- 12/21/08: The "Back" link on the page that appears when you can't access a journal entry was updated to take you to the player's list of journal entries.
- 12/22/08: The ability for gang owners to setup automatic member acceptance for their gang under "Preferences" was added.
- 12/31/08: The ability to explore the Beeramid with the arrow keys was added.
- 12/31/08: The ability to explore the Sewers with the arrow keys was added.
- Major
Events
- April 2008
- 4/01/08: Minister Ruiner stepped down from his role as Minister and quit HoboWars. What was initially thought of as an April Fools' joke turned out to be the exact opposite.
- June 2008
- 6/??/08: Daniel Durante (a.k.a. Daniel D) became a Governor and programmer for HoboWars.
- ???? 2008
- The 2008 Bummys ended.
2009
Updates
- January 2009
- Major
- None
- Minor
- 1/19/09: A small lotto glitch was fixed.
- 1/19/09: Players' Living Areas were updated to include their hobo age under the "More Info" tab.
- 1/20/09: The "Gang Loan" feature was overhauled and completed, allowing gangs to loan out tokens and points, in addition to money, to their gang members.
- 1/20/09: A link to your Trolly was added to the page that appears when you go to rummage for food in the Corner 7/11 Industrial Bin and your Trolly is full.
- 1/20/09: The "Attack" link next to players listed on the Battle page search results was removed from players in the same gang as you.
- 1/20/09: The "I think I will beg for another 30 minutes" link on the Corner 7/11 page was moved to a place where it would be more consistent in placement.
- 1/20/09: Journal entries' privacy levels were updated to display on the journal entry itself so that they could be easily identified as public or private.
- 1/20/09:
The maximum amount of gang invitations players could have was updated from 10 to 30. - 1/20/09: The "Kick" link on the gang members list was updated to not show next to gang members who have the "Kick-Protect" role.
- 1/20/09: The Living Area news items notification players get when another player has commented in one of their journal entries or pictures was updated to link directly to that player's comment.
- 1/20/09: A new Living Area news item notification was added to notify players if a thread of theirs under 7 days old was deleted.
- 1/20/09: The ability to delete multiple Living Area news items at once was added.
- 1/20/09: The ability to donate multiple DPs to a gang was added.
- 1/20/09: A timestamp glitch that occurred when viewing journal entry comments was fixed.
- 1/22/09: A small glitch that occurred when donating DPs to gangs was fixed.
- 1/23/09: Players' Living Areas were updated to show them how much food they have in their Trolly.
- 1/23/09: Sorting options were added to the SGHM.
- 1/23/09: A confirmation screen for deleting threads, removing friends, or deleting journal entries was added.
- 1/24/09: The "Your Journal" link in players' Living Areas was fixed.
- 1/24/09: The ordering of SGHM listings was fixed to not change when navigating through the pages of listings.
- Major
- February 2009
- Major
- None
- Minor
- 2/08/09: The ability to delete multiple journal entry comments was added.
- 2/08/09: The War Chamber page was changed around so that all of the information was on one page with additional links.
- 2/08/09: A criminal record reporting problem was fixed.
- 2/08/09: More confirmation screens were added to various places.
- 2/23/09:
Token lotto ticket prices were updated to go up to 50,000 tokens max.
- Major
- March 2009
- Major
- 3/26/09: New Suicide Hill carts and parts were added.
- Minor
- 3/27/09: Transfers going out from a gang vault to a gang member were updated to deduct from the receiving player's Hall of Fame records.
- 3/27/09: A glitch that showed gang members with blank titles as being gang staff was fixed.
- 3/27/09: The sell back rates for carts and parts within Northern Fence were increased to 70% and 60%, respectively.
- 3/27/09: A display issue within gang polls was fixed.
- Major
- April 2009
- Major
- None
- Minor
- None
- Major
- May 2009
- Major
- 5/03/09: The Pikies were fixed but they were designed to be a bit harder: If you race a Pikie when your stats dominate your opponents', you don't win a place prize.
- Minor
- None
- Major
- June 2009
- Major
- 6/18/09: New Loompa Land wishes were released.
- 6/18/09: The City Planning message board was added.
- 6/26/09: The Intro Adventures were released.
- Minor
- 6/18/09: The cron script that replenishes rat energy every 20 minutes was updated to max out a rat's energy if it is 4 or less energy from its max amount.
- 6/18/09: The duration of a status effect (in minutes) was added next to its image in players' Living Areas.
- 6/18/09: Invalid gang titles were updated to not show on the gang information page.
- 6/18/09: The size of the Mixer window was increased to accommodate more booze.
- 6/18/09: The hobo age value displayed on players' Living Areas was updated to be accurate.
- 6/18/09: A delete option was added to Personal Hitlist notes.
- 6/18/09: The ability to add quotes in profile comments was added.
- 6/18/09: The gang news archive page for gangs with long archives was cleaned up.
- 6/18/09: A "See All" link was added under HoboMail messages, allowing players to quickly see all of the messages they have received from that specific player.
- 6/18/09:
The "Back" link on the Lotto Land Backroom page was fixed. - 6/18/09: The Utility Belt "20%" bug was fixed.
- 6/18/09: Vault and loan updates were updated to show up in the gang news archive.
- 6/23/09: The "Drinking" stat graph was added, and an issue with the "Intelligence" stat graph was fixed.
- 6/23/09: The round length limit of War Chamber battles was increased from 5,000 to 10,000.
- 6/24/09: The bug that allowed you to have the same exact name as another player was fixed.
- 6/30/09: The ability to add Candy Cigarettes to an Empty Cigarette Pack one at a time was added, and the Awake gain from consuming a Pack of Candy Cigarettes was reduced to 50T.
- Major
- July 2009
- Major
- 7/07/09: A new battle script utilized by all in-game battles was introduced, and a few changes were made to the Uranium Enriched status effect.
- Minor
- 7/07/09: Drinking stat was added to gangs' member lists.
- Major
- August 2009
- Major
- 8/04/09: The Skill Shop and its related side-adventure were released.
- 8/20/09: A few changes to various skills were made, and the price of all skills was greatly increased.
- 8/26/09: A few changes to skill mechanics (such as firing rate and Can Cannon interaction) were made, and the overall power of skills was reduced.
- Minor
- None
- Major
- September 2009
- Major
- 9/08/09: The experience wall beggars previously hit at level 615 was reduced significantly.
- 9/17/09: A darkened version of the Stripped layout was added for donators under the Layout Selection preference.
- Minor
- 9/15/09: The experience gain from begging at City Hall was changed to no longer be half the normal gain (100%).
- 9/19/09: The "Back" link on Battle Reports was updated to take you back to your Personal Hitlist if that battle was initiated from your Personal Hitlist.
- 9/19/09: A "Back" link was added to the Northern Fence's 20 recent fights list.
- 9/19/09: The gang income for begs was adjusted to reflect the bonuses obtained from status effects and begging multipliers.
- 9/19/09: Battle mechanics were updated so that the loser of a battle will always have their health set to 0, even if they lost because of the Tiebreaker skill or the Sorrowful status effect.
- 9/19/09: A bug preventing players from navigating past page one of their archived mails was fixed.
- 9/22/09: A bug preventing players from being able to properly search for point transfers in their transfer history was fixed.
- 9/22/09: An issue with the Donator Logs not displaying transfers over $5 was fixed.
- 9/22/09: Token and point loans were updated to not be displayed as cash loans on the "Manage Loans" gang page.
- 9/22/09: Gang members with certain powers were given the ability to kick out other members even if those members currently have a loan from the gang.
- 9/22/09: The gang history information for individual players was fixed up.
- 9/29/09: The ability to toggle signature visibility on the Message Boards on and off was added.
- 9/30/09: The "T Used per Day" stat graph was added.
- Major
- October 2009
- Major
- 10/21/09: Two new Loompa Land wishes (#23 and #24) were released.
- Minor
- 10/02/09: The round length limit of War Chamber battles was reduced from 10,000 to 6,000, the damage done in WC battles was redesigned to ramp up a bit more quickly, and the WC lineup screen was set up to be drag-and-droppable.
- 10/04/09: The "Most Awake Used in a Day" leaderboard was added to the Top Hobos page.
- 10/06/09: The Wellness Clinic was updated so that players cannot visit it if they still have all five of their meals left.
- 10/06/09: The War Chamber battle script was updated to account for only the Attack and Defense boosts of Levelable Gear.
- 10/08/09: Battle logs were updated to be viewable for at least 24 hours after they've been created.
- 10/08/09: The link in Living Area news items for lottos was fixed.
- 10/09/09: The link in Living Area news items for new profile picture comments was fixed.
- 10/09/09: The "Online!" notifier in profiles and mail were both updated to appear when a player has been active in the last 5 minutes.
- 10/13/09: The player attack ranges were changed to ±200 your current level.
- 10/13/09: The restriction on attacking players in the same gang as you was removed, and a 20% experience tax on and the inability to gain gang points from such fights was added.
- 10/16/09: A bug with the quick quote feature not recognizing line breaks was fixed.
- 10/21/09: The [NAME] bug in the Fight Club was fixed.
- 10/21/09: Begging reports were updated to display both the base amount and multiplied amount after the money gain section whenever any kind of money multiplier is applied.
- 10/21/09: A whole lot of locations were added to the list of possible Sidebar links under the Layout Selection option.
- 10/22/09: The displayed stats of War Chamber fighters in gangs' WC lineup tables were lined up.
- 10/23/09: Life stat was removed from gangs' WC lineup tables.
- 10/23/09: The "Highest Beg" record in players' Living Areas was updated to be accurate, although previous records had to be reset in the process; additionally, a new "Highest Base Beg" record was added, which does not include multipliers or other bonuses, whereas the "Highest Beg" record does. It was also made so that whenever a previous record has been beaten, a notification appears in the begging report.
- Major
- November 2009
- Major
- 11/05/09: The "Junior War Chamber" feature was added to gangs, giving them another, different War Chamber to manage and use to attack other JWCs; at this point gangs could only set up their JWCs, as the ability to attack other JWCs was to be added in a subsequent update.
- 11/07/09: The ability to initiate Junior War Chamber battles was added, thus finalizing the JWC update.
- Minor
- 11/03/09: Gangs' War Chambers were updated to prevent jailed gang members and players who have left the gang from participating in WC fights.
- 11/03/09: A new War Chamber Battle Field page was created, which combined the features of the old Battle Ladder and Battle Field pages.
- 11/03/09: The ability for gangs to increase their beg level past 15 at the cost of War Points and the other original costs was added, and the monetary cost for gangs to increase their level was increased for any gang above level 50.
- 11/11/09: Various JWC bugs and issues were fixed, and some war chamber-related improvements were added.
- 11/14/09: A new HB-TML tag that embeds YouTube videos in message board posts and a few other places was added, along with the option to toggle YouTube video visibility under MB Settings.
- 11/18/09: The outgoing friend requests page (where players can view and cancel their sent friend requests) was added, with a link to it added near the bottom of the friend requests page and another one added under the More Info tab on the Living Area page.
- 11/18/09: A "/help" command was added to Chat.
- Major
- December 2009
- Major
- 12/05/09: Ultimate Fisty Cuffs (a.k.a. UFC) was released.
- Minor
- 12/05/09: The maximum price that weapons and armor can be listed at on the SGHM was increased to $999,999,999.
- 12/09/09: A bug preventing behaviors from working properly in UFC matches was fixed.
- 12/12/09: "Backpack" was added to the list of possible Sidebar links under the Layout Selection option.
- Major
Events
2010
Updates
- January 2010
- Major
- 1/10/10: The SGHM was updated with immediate deliveries, relaxed pricing limits, improved sorting options, and other new features.
- 1/27/10: The Unusually Large Backpack was cleaned up a little bit, with some backpack items sorted into new categories, backpack items in general being sorted by quantity, and two new viewing options added: Condensed and List.
- Minor
- 1/09/10: The limit on Piggy Bank withdrawals and deposits was increased to $999,999,999.
- 1/14/10: War Chamber ties were updated to appear on gangs' news feeds as a news item.
- 1/14/10: The "thread" HB-TML tag was updated so that a specific page of a specified thread could be specified.
- 1/14/10: Point refills were updated to increase your Awake by 100 (instead of setting it to 100 Awake) and to only be usable when a player has less than 25 Awake.
- 1/20/10: The Xmas Presents were updated so that they could be opened up from December 25th to December 1st.
- 1/26/10: WC and JWC fights were updated to be viewable for 48 hours. Any fights that occurred prior to this update became unviewable.
- 1/27/10: The Liquor Store was updated to display the amount of an item you already have next to the item.
- 1/29/10: The SGHM's Market Watcher was updated to display price-per-item information for token, point, and DP listings.
- Major
- February 2010
- Major
- 2/10/10: A mobile layout (http://www.hobowars.com/m) was added, allowing players to view their stats, train, visit their Piggy Bank, beg, and send and receive mail on the go!
- 2/27/10: Lotto Land was entirely redesigned and revamped, with several new features added. Also, "Lotto Land" was added to the list of possible Sidebar links under the Layout Selection option.
- Minor
- 2/01/10: War Chamber ties were updated to become viewable after they've been run and to show up on the list of gang fights of that day.
- 2/07/10: The JWC War Point formula was changed so that ladder position no longer factors into war point gains.
- 2/27/10: Lotto-related Living Area news items were updated to contain a link to that lotto.
- 2/28/10: Various Lotto Land and Lotto Land-related issues were fixed.
- Major
- March 2010
- Major
- Minor
- 3/04/10: The ability for gangs to transfer funds from the gang bank to gang vaults and vice versa was added.
- 3/07/10: Gang bank-to-gang vault transfers were updated so that only gang members with the "Transfer Funds" and "Bank Manager" roles can transfer from and to the gang bank.
- April 2010
- Major
- 4/01/11: The First April Fools' Mini-Adventure was released, and several days later, a glitch that allowed trying to drink the un-sweetened lemonade in the Kings Cup count as if it actually was consumed from the Cup. Anyone who returned to drink the un-sweetened lemonade 50 times was given the Boozaholic Tattoo, although this was patched fairly quickly.
- 4/07/10: Three new backpack items were added to the Pawn Shop for players to purchase: the Hobot, the Locker, and the King's Kiddie Cup.
- 4/23/10: Several new emoticons, most of them from UniverseWars, were added.
- 4/24/10: A whole lot of new, player-suggested emoticons were added.
- Minor
- 4/07/10: The act of unbranding an item from the Armory was updated to show up in gangs' news feeds.
- 4/07/10: Gang payouts from vaults were updated to properly deduct from the gang's Hall of Fame.
- 4/07/10: The act of drinking from your Backpack was streamlined, and the King's Kiddie Cup was updated to show your current drinking stat and BAL when used from your Backpack.
- 4/07/10: A "Super Hide" option for the Locker was added to the Backpack.
- 4/16/10: The act of eating stuff from your Trolly was streamlined.
- 4/16/10: The Improved Dumpster was updated to never give "nothing" finds.
- 4/16/10: Staff-only threads were updated to become marked with a little staff icon and to not display text when moused-over.
- 4/17/10: Gang members with certain privileges were given the ability to make a gang thread staff-only or not when editing the original post of that thread.
- 4/20/10: The act of buying food from WalMart and feeding rats was streamlined.
- 4/20/10: Gang loan repayments were updated to be sent back to the vault they came from (if no vault is specified, or the vault has since been erased, the repayment is sent back to main gang vault by default).
- Major
- May 2010
- Major
- 5/05/10: The points-for-tokens exchange at the Token Exchange over on Suicide Hill was increased from 100 tokens for 1 point to 1,000 tokens for 1 point; additionally, a tokens-for-awake exchange was added to the Token Exchange (50,000 tokens for 50 Awake).
- 5/19/10: The ability for players to chose which rat they would like to use in Hobo Fights was added, and the rat damage formula was changed so that rat damage is based on a player's level, not their life stat.
- 5/21/10: The changes made to the rat damage formula were revised, making rat damage closer to what is was before, with only players over level 500 experiencing a dip in rat damage.
- 5/22/10: The respect gain formula was tweaked in order to overall decrease respect gains,
and players' respect stats were updated to decrease by 1% every minor reset. - 5/24/10: The respect stat requirements for each respect rank were lowered to one-fifth of their previous amounts.
- Minor
- 5/05/10: The new emoticons were added to Chat.
- 5/05/10: The cost to view fights was changed to not exceed $1,000, and paying to view a fight was updated so that the money is taken straight from your Piggy Bank instead of from your on-hand amount.
- 5/05/10: A link to the Token Exchange was added to Northern Fence.
- 5/06/10: The Side Wars intelligence bonus was updated to affect begging gains (it didn't before this update).
- 5/06/10: Living Area stats were updated to include totals from both status effects and levelable gear, changing to red or green to indicate whether a stat is boosted or cut; to get the base stat value, mouse-over the colored total.
- 5/10/10: Players' public profiles were updated to contain a link to a player's lotto if that player is currently hosting one.
- 5/10/10: The ability to toggle the appearance of the Token Exchange refill link in your Living Area was added.
- 5/10/10: "Capture the flag" was added to the list of possible Sidebar links under the Layout Selection option.
- 5/21/10: A rat-related NPC bug was fixed.
- 5/29/10: The ordering of the list of food on the "Feed rat" page was updated to be by Awake amount, from lowest to highest, descending.
- Major
- June 2010
- Major
- 6/15/10: The new-and-improved Bernard's Mansion was released.
- Minor
- 6/02/10: The On Fire status effect was changed to increase both power and strength by 300.
- 6/02/10: Candy effects that give you a random stat boost were updated to display the boost range in your Living Area instead of randomly shifting between values.
- 6/02/10: The act of mousing-over your stats in your Living Area was updated to show your total stats with bonuses.
- 6/27/10: Behaviors were fixed.
- 6/27/10: Skill mechanics were changed so that when one player uses skills/stumbles drunkenly, it will no longer cancel out another player's skills/drunken stumbles.
- 6/28/10: The Uranium Encriched status effect was updated to not trigger after skills fire.
- 6/29/10: Behaviors were fixed again.
- Major
- July 2010
- Major
- 7/17/10: The first part of the ring update was released, which included a new equipment inventory page, the ability to own more than one ring, and the ability to equip and unequip rings.
- 7/25/10: The In-N-Out was rebuilt and revamped, and now features various items that can be purchased with Food Stamps (which are mainly obtained through referring players).
- Minor
- 7/18/10: The respect gains formula was adjusted to give out more respect.
- 7/18/10: The equipment inventory was updated so that clicking on a weapon or armor's name will equip it.
- Major
- August 2010
- Major
- 8/03/10: A whole lot of new custom hobo character parts were added.
- 8/17/10: The ability for donators to create and use up to five skill sets was added, and an "Unequip All" link was add to the Skills page.
- Minor
- 8/18/10: Some of the male character creator parts were appropriated to give female players more options for their custom hobo. The "new" pieces are parts for the torso, background, and hair.
- 8/21/10: The number of Side Wars votes it takes to ban a participant was reduced from 100 to 50.
- 8/21/10: The experience formula for level 700+ was adjusted to give out more experience.
- 8/30/10: Lotto Land sorting was updated so that players can sort by both house cut and current pot. (Current pot only looks at cash. Token and points aren't factored in at all.)
- 8/30/10: The Paralyze skill was changed to prevent the other player from firing skills or getting in drunken stumbles, in addition to blocking normal hits.
- Major
- September 2010
- Major
- 9/19/10: Four new Loompa Land wishes (#25, #26, #27, #28) were released.
- Minor
- 9/05/10: The previous changes made to the Paralyze skill were adjusted, making it no longer possible to block someone's skills for the entire battle. Also, it no longer skips a skill if you were paralyzed when you tried to use it (it just delays its launch).
- 9/13/10: The Hattori-Hanzo Sword and Full Body Trap were updated to be both sellable on the SGHM and donatable to gangs; however, they lose any levels gained the moment they're listed or donated.
- 9/15/10: The option to toggle the appearance of links to Second City/Hoburbia/Canbodia locations under their respective maps was added under the "Layout Selection" preference.
- Major
- October 2010
- Major
- 10/17/10: The second part of the ring update was released, which included new locations in Canbodia, Hobosaurus Rex, a few new Backpack items, and five new rings!
- 10/27/10: The ability to purchase Scratch-Offs tickets at the Corner 7/11 was added, along with the ability to toss unwanted Backpack items into the Improved Dumpster in Canbodia, allowing someone else to find them while rummaging in either the Corner 7/11 Industrial Bin or the Improved Dumpster.
- 10/29/10: The begging formula was changed to fix a steep drop off in begging gains over level 600, and all candy and drinking effects relating to begging were updated to also boost experience gains while begging.
- Minor
- 10/23/10: The Ring Pop was updated to work in the JWC.
- 10/23/10: The Onion Ring was updated to fire less frequently in battles where player(s) are wearing it.
- Major
- November 2010
- Major
- 11/05/10: The third part of the ring update was released, which included new UFC prizes, an adjustment to the "Gear" UFC rule, a revision of the daily respect stat reduction, and two new rings!
- Minor
- 11/02/10: The combat stat gains from Corner 7/11 scratch-off tickets were doubled; getting 4 of the same veggie will double the gain again.
- Major
- December 2010
- Major
- None
- Minor
- 12/09/10: Gang raids were updated to no longer run over resets.
- 12/27/10: The ability to toggle the appearance of or switch between any special titles obtained from winning a Bummy or a UFC tournament was added under the "Change Name or Gender" preference.
- 12/27/10: Players' public profiles were updated to display a notice if you've won a UFC tournament or a Bummy category.
- 12/27/10: A roughly week-long hiatus on the daily respect stat reduction was implemented.
- Major
Events
2011
Updates
- January 2011
- Major
- 1/12/11: The fourth part of the ring update was released, which included an adjustment to the ring sell back rate at the Playground,
the addition of a 10% boost to respect gains while signed up for Side Wars, a reduction in the number of votes required to ban a Side Wars participant, a final revision to the daily respect stat reduction, and two new rings!
- 1/12/11: The fourth part of the ring update was released, which included an adjustment to the ring sell back rate at the Playground,
- Minor
- 1/03/11: The auto-join gang feature and a bug with gang default titles were both fixed.
- 1/03/11: The UFC was updated to lock-in BAL tolerance upon sign-up.
- 1/03/11: Thread link IDs were updated to show up at the top of each page of a thread.
- 1/06/11: The Technicolor Jungle was updated to no longer let players find any cans or cash when they're inside there exploring while not alive. Berry finds were unaffected by this update.
- 1/07/11: The Zombified status effect was updated to work in the Technicolor Jungle.
- 1/10/11: Three new HB-TML tags were added: "gangname", "journalname", and "lottoname".
- 1/19/11: Gang WC life bonuses were updated to only apply to a player's "base" life (i.e. the amount of life a player would have at a certain level without any bonus gains from begging bonuses, berries, etc); players still get their extra life, just without the gang's WC life bonus applied to it.
- 1/19/11: The Livestrong Ring was updated to work correctly with UFC equalization tournaments.
- Major
- February 2011
- Major
- None
- Minor
- 2/01/11: Lotto drawings were pushed back an hour to help ease up on server activity around reset.
- Major
- March 2011
- Major
- 3/23/11: The Canbodian Mines were released.
- Minor
- 3/07/11: Seven different ways to sort the contents of your Unusually Large Backpack were added to the Backpack page.
- 3/19/11: The ability to explore explorable areas like the Sewers, the Beeramid, and the Jungles with the arrow keys was added.
- 3/24/11: The ability to toggle mining rescue news item notifications in your Living Area was added under the "Living Area Notifications" preference.
- Major
- April 2011
- Major
- 4/01/11: The Second April Fools' Mini-Adventure was released, and a few changes to various mining-related features, such as ore-for-stats exchange amounts and stat reduction limits, were added.
- 4/04/11: The Side Wars respect bonus was increased to 25%, and Side Wars was updated so that participants will not lose respect from fights. Also, the Respect Ring was updated to give out a much better respect bonus.
- 4/11/11: The Fight Club Ring was updated to have a respect-dependent chance of disabling skills, effects, rats, and equipment for the entire duration of a one-on-one fight.
- 4/13/11: The ability to customize the ordering of your Sidebar links was added, the Sidebar-related option was moved from the Layout Selection preference to its own preference and was revamped, and "Dirty Gregs" and "Dirt Road" were added to the list of possible Sidebar links.
- 4/14/11: Two changes were made to the lockout page: the clock on that page now automatically counts up, and the link on the that page now automatically redirects you to your Living Area.
- 4/24/11: The Top Hobos page was revamped so that it wouldn't load so slowly, and a few other aspects of it (such as category descriptions) were updated.
- Minor
- 4/04/11: The ore-for-stats exchange amounts were boosted slightly and their reductions were tiered so that they decrease after every tenth exchange made in a day.
- 4/11/11: The bug that let blacklisted players join a gang through the auto-join feature was fixed.
- 4/13/11: The HB-TML tag that embeds a specified HellBored video was disabled.
- 4/14/11: The respect stat in players' Living Areas was updated so that when moused-over, their actual numerical respect rank value is displayed. (The possible values range from 0 to 15.)
- Major
- May 2011
- Major
- None
- Minor
- 5/24/11: The University puzzle was updated so that players are no longer required to have $50 on hand and 10T to solve the University puzzle.
- Major
- June 2011
- Major
- 6/07/11: Drunken stumbles were removed and replaced with a small chance of dodging attacks (when attacked) or landing critical hits (when attacking), based upon your current BAL.
- 6/19/11: The ability to use the numeric abbreviations "k" (thousand: 1,000), "m" (million: 1,000,000), and "b" (billion: 1,000,000,000) in text boxes related to fund movement on the Piggy Bank page, the Texas Hold'em page, and other pages was added.
- Minor
- 6/15/11: The Tiebreaker skill was updated so that when both players fire Tiebreaker in a fight, the player who fired it last will have a shot at getting the tiebreak if it fails for the player who fired it first.
- Major
Events
HoboWars2
2004
Updates
Events
- October 2004
- 5/10/04: Andrew Hogan created the first hobo in HoboWars2: Andy.
2005
Updates
Events
2006
Updates
Events
2007
Updates
Events
2008
Updates
Events
2009
Updates
Events
2010
Updates
- July 2010
- Major
- 7/11/10: The Big Dumpster was implemented over at the 7/11, bring with it Drinking.
- 7/16/10: The first part of the ring update was released, which included a new equipment inventory page, the ability to own more than one ring, and the ability to equip and unequip rings.
- Major
- August 2010
- Major
- 8/13/10: Custom hobo characters were fixed, bring with it a new range of parts.
- Major
- November 2010
- Major
- 11/07/10: The third installment adventures were added along with everything else HoboWars1 had at the time, minus the The Northen Fence.
- 11/07/10: Removal of the Big Dumpster.
- Major
Events
2011
Updates
Events
- August 2011
- 8/11/11: Andy's account hacked, and persons who posted on the thread later created by hacker were given staff powers. Andy rolled back the server later that day 24-27 hours and anything acquired within the 24-27 hour rollback prior to the chaos was lost.
Facebook HoboWars
Started out as a lightweight application on facebook. It was a completely stripped down version of the current offering. No Gangs. No Rats. No races.
After a reset, and a few governors, it finally started catching up to the original on updates. The game did not function the same as the original, and the game was reset yet again.
It now has most of the benefits of the original, but there are no daily adventures. Most benefits of the adventures, did happen to make it to the current version.
2007
Updates
Events
- Fall 2007 - Andy Hogan creates a Facebook application called Hobowars. It is loosely based on the original, but missing a lot of options. Due to Andy using Facebook ID's and real names in this application, the boards become a battleground. Personal information is easily accessible with Facebook lacking the privacy options it has today, and most people not blocking what they can. This lays the foundation for what would come, with alliances being drawn before gangs even existed.
2008
Updates
Events
- February 21st, 2008 - Andy resets the game, and a few additions are added to the 'lite' version. With this, many hobos are stripped of their stats. Regardless of whether it is "proven" that they cheated, many are treated just the same. This event is commonly termed
"The hobocalypse"
After a short while, a few gangs are formed, shaping the environment for what is to come.
The new version now allows gangs, has a new look, and most regular features start appearing.
2009
Updates
Events
2010
Updates
- 3/27/10
- Game is fully reset, but gangs are kept intact. All levels and stats are removed. Adventures have been completely removed. T 9awake) has been adjusted to be +10T/5 minutes for Donators.
- 4/20/10 11:28.10 AM - Voting on City Planning threads was added
- 4/23/10 10:39.43 AM - New smilies were added
- 5/05/10 07:36.03 AM - Amount to view fights were set to $100
- 5/19/10 11:45.03 AM - You can now choose which rat will fight for you
- 6/20/10 05:06.03 AM - New items in the pawn shop were added (mini hobot) and changes in the Gums
-Roast Beef Gum now gives +$50 when begging and 10T (not available at pawn shop)
-Apple Gum now gives +$100 when begging and 10T
-Cinnamon Gum now gives +$150 when begging and 10T
- 7/16/10 08:54.35 AM - Rings were added to the game
- 8/13/10 06:56.30 AM - New character parts were added
- 8/18/10 01:18.47 AM - BM was added
- 9/08/10 05:04.21 AM - As from today you can find a guide in the arena which shows what you will open up with each level
-At level 20 The University opens up and the samurai in high school can be accessed
-At level 30 You can get a dog to help you with begging. Every hobo level (for another 20 lvls) adds something extra to the initial dog gain
-At level 40 you can find the candy forge in the primary school
-At level 60 Dre & Silent Rob appear in the 7/11
-At level 80 You can get a shears from the pawning shop to access the jungle, also purchase a magnet
-At level 100 BM opens up
- 10/25/10 05:24.34 AM - As from now Cart races are available
Events
3/26, 2010 - The game was reset for a 2nd time. Gangs remained intact, but all hobos were reset to level 1, with no stats or equipment. A lot of features were pulled as well. Many prominent hobos quit during this time, or shortly before. Previously, all prominent hobos were at level 7211, with some with stats in the multiple millions.
Awake was reduced (to 10T every 5 minutes - Donator), and max trainable Intel was reduced (to 100 ) to prevent problems of the past from re-occurring.
2011
Updates
1/23/11 05:52.51 AM - New ufc Prices added and the in-n-out new items where added
