Shadow Department Infrastructure: DeepCo™ has successfully deployed parallel department technology to optimize operator distribution and maximize throughput efficiency. The new Shadow Department Protocol introduces:

• Temporary Parallel Departments: Operators can now access shadow variants of their assigned departments, creating additional workspace capacity without compromising main department integrity

• Visual Department Indicator: The @ roster symbol now displays in green when shadow departments are available, providing immediate visual confirmation of expansion opportunities

• Flexible Operator Movement: All operators have unrestricted access to switch between main and shadow departments based on operational preferences and workload requirements

• Bonus Inheritance Protocol: All departmental bonuses automatically transfer to associated shadow departments, maintaining operational consistency and reward structures, this also means bonus only spawns in the main department, but caries out to all shadow

• Eternal Main Department Priority: While shadow departments provide temporary expansion capacity, only main departments persist through system cycles, ensuring operational continuity

Shadow departments appear and disappear based on operational demand, providing dynamic scaling for peak productivity periods. Operators maintain full autonomy over their workspace selection while benefiting from expanded mining territories.

DeepCo™ — Where even shadows contribute to the light of productivity. Parallel processing, optimized throughput.

DeepCo™ has deployed a messaging system to ensure optimal information flow. The new infrastructure supports:
- Banner Notifications: Critical system-wide announcements
- Modal Messages: Targeted individual communications requiring explicit acknowledgment to maintain operator awareness compliance
- Real-time Broadcasting: Instantaneous message delivery via Turbo Stream protocols

Remember: Clear communication leads to optimal throughput. Stay informed, stay productive.

We’ve added a new badge to your interface that shows how many tiles you’ve processed, and how many are needed to unlock the next department tier. This makes it easier to track your progress and set your next goal!

If you prefer a cleaner interface, you can turn this indicator off at any time in your Operator Settings panel.

this is all thanks to @Kawa-Chan's idea, thank you!

The Corporation is pleased to announce a significant advancement in operational efficiency. Our engineers have implemented Drag-to-Queue Technology, allowing operators to select multiple processing targets through a simple dragging motion across the grid interface.

This enhancement represents a 73% reduction in repetitive clicking motions, directly addressing productivity bottlenecks identified in our continuous surveillance monitoring systems. Key improvements include:

• Multi-tile Selection: Drag across any number of targets to queue them simultaneously
• Smart Filtering: The system automatically excludes compromised or already-processed sectors
• Mobile Compatibility: Full touch support for field operators using portable devices
• Batch Processing: Optimized server communications reduce network overhead by up to 85%

The drag selection interface provides real-time visual feedback, ensuring operators maintain situational awareness while maximizing throughput. Queue capacity limits are intelligently enforced to prevent resource allocation errors.

Testing indicates substantial improvements in operator satisfaction metrics, though mandatory participation in the productivity enhancement program remains non-negotiable.

DeepCo™ Operational Efficiency Division — Making meaningful work more meaningful, one drag at a time.

Improved interface responsiveness: text selection is now disabled in key areas for a smoother experience.

Recursion is now always accessible from the header, and both the Recursion Protocol and Specialization pages are always viewable in the upgrades section.

Shop and upgrade areas feature clearer, more helpful descriptions.

The "balance" display has been renamed to "upgrades" and now includes your RC for easier tracking.

DeepCo™ Systems — Quietly optimized. Relentlessly operational.

We’ve added a new /terms page outlining DeepCo™’s official policies.

What’s New:
• Terms of Service now live at /terms, with public access (no login required)

Covered Topics:
• Manual play only (no scripts or automation)
• Naming and chat conduct
• Ban policy (applies to all users, including paid)
• Appeals via the official Discord
• Fair use expectations

Remember: An Operator who does not follow protocol is not an Operator. Uphold the code. The System watches.

DeepCo™ Systems has completed a comprehensive audit of the Achievement Reward Distribution Protocol. Our maintenance team identified and resolved potential discrepancies in DeepCoin crediting when multiple operators claimed achievements simultaneously.

What This Means For You:

Your achievement rewards are now 100% guaranteed to credit properly to your profile
No more missing DeepCoins when claiming multiple achievements quickly

Quality Assurance: Our testing protocols now include stress-testing for concurrent reward distribution to prevent future inconsistencies.

Achievement integrity maintained. Reward protocols optimized. DeepCo™ — Where every DeepCoin counts, and every count counts.

DeepCo™ has implemented comprehensive security enhancements to ensure fair competition and protect the integrity of our operations. These improvements specifically target automated scripts while maintaining seamless gameplay for legitimate operators.

What's New:

• Natural Interaction Requirements: System now requires authentic mouse movement when switching between tiles
• Rate Limiting: Server-side protection prevents excessive action spam while allowing fast-paced legitimate operation
• Visual Feedback System: Subtle indicators guide operators when natural interaction is required

For Legitimate Operators: The system is designed to be invisible during normal play. Most operators will never notice the protection is active.

Benefits:

• Fair Competition: Ensures leaderboards reflect genuine operator skill and dedication
• Improved Game Integrity: Protects against automated advantage-seeking
• Seamless Experience: Zero impact on legitimate gameplay patterns
• Enhanced Trust: Operators can compete knowing the playing field is level

The enhanced security system represents DeepCo™'s commitment to maintaining fair competition while preserving the fast-paced, engaging gameplay that makes our operations so addictive.

Security Note: These improvements work silently in the background. Legitimate operators following natural interaction patterns will experience no changes to their gameplay experience.

DeepCo™ Systems — Secure, fair, and more competitive than ever. Automation detected, excellence protected.

The Performance Index has been completely overhauled — both in looks and functionality. Workers can now track and compete in real-time across Daily, Weekly, and All-Time leaderboards.

What’s New:
• Daily Leaderboards – See who’s pulling ahead today. Reset every 24 hours for fresh competition.
• Weekly Leaderboards – Climb the ranks over the course of the week. New week, new chance to dominate.
• Personal Bests – Your highest daily and weekly DeepCoin gains are now recorded permanently.
• New Visual Design – The leaderboard interface has been fully redesigned to match the rest of the terminal UI.
• Short-Term Competition – Not just long-haul dominance. Now you can rise to the top in a single day.

Whether you’re grinding for a daily win or chasing week-long glory, the new Performance Index gives you more ways to show off your operational output.

DeepCo™ Systems — Now with 300% more friendly competition.
Efficiency measured. Progress recorded. Recognition earned.

WORKER NOTICE:
Payment processing has been streamlined for improved efficiency during mandatory purchases.

IMPROVEMENTS:
- Seamless Checkout Experience - Workers no longer redirected to external payment portals
- Terminal Integration - All transactions now processed within DeepCo™ interface
- Reduced Workflow Disruption - Purchase completion maintains terminal session continuity
- Recursion UI - Facelifted the recursion panel UI

PURCHASE PROCESS:
1. Select desired upgrade from Shop terminal
2. Complete payment without leaving DeepCo™ environment
3. Instant account upgrade confirmation
4. Return to productive labor immediately

Workers can now complete mandatory upgrades with minimal interruption to productive output.
Payment processing efficiency increased. Labor productivity maintained during transactions.

Continue working. Purchase when required. Efficiency is mandatory.

• Achievement claim transactions - Wrapped in atomic operations for data consistency

• Mobile UI improvement - Chat now appears above process log on phones

• Backend job queue separation - Split into seperate queues with optimized threading

• Deleted blocks no longer count towards queue

minor:

• Site-behavior script removal - Eliminated deprecated client-side overhead ( it gave some errors in js console if you ever looked )

General Compliance Enhancement: Reduced visible anomalies to preserve the illusion of stability. You’re welcome, Operator.

Enhanced Layer Completion Display

Improved cluster completion notifications to preserve interface context. cluster completion messages now appear within the grid panel while keeping chat, logs, and other interface elements visible. This maintains operational continuity and prevents disorientation during cluster transitions.

DeepCo™ Interface Protocol — Consistently dark. Relentlessly stable.

The DeepCo™ Shop has been optimized for our global operator workforce. All pricing has been converted from DKK to USD for enhanced transaction clarity.

• Certified System Operator: Now $4.99 (previously 25 DKK)
  Yield Protocol v2: Now $9.99 (previously 49 DKK)

• The shop interface has been reorganized and moved from the header navigation to the System Configuration page as a dedicated tab. All Stripe payment processing remains secure and unchanged.

Currency conversion complete. Optimal pricing protocols now active, operators.

Following an unexpected flood of new Operators, we’ve executed a full-scale server update.

We’re aware many of you attempted early processing under less-than-ideal conditions. The system was sluggish. Threads stalled. Blocks resisted.

That shouldn’t happen again.

Thanks for pushing through it. You weren’t supposed to enjoy it, but it’s supposed to work.

Carry on. The data won’t process itself.

What's New

• Fixed: Those annoying spinners that sometimes stuck around after mining
• Improved: Speedy processes should experience less lag
• Enhanced: Smoother coin distribution when multiple workers complete blocks

Result: Faster, more reliable mining for everyone.

With these performance improvements, we expect our operators to be 30% more productive. No pressure though - we've just made everything faster, smoother, and more efficient. What could go wrong?

The DeepCo™ Operations Division is pleased to announce the deployment of the Worker Specialization Protocol. All certified operators may now select specialized operational frameworks for their processing at designated DeepCoin costs.
Available Specializations:
- Grid Support: Enhances operational efficiency for team-based processing operations
- Single-Target: Optimizes capabilities for focused data processing
- Multi-Target: Maximizes potential for distributed processing patterns
Key Features:
- Specialization selection presented via intuitive card-based interface
- All specializations remain active until recursion protocols are initiated
- Automatic unlock when recursion threshold is achieved
Technical Notes:
- Specializations automatically reset upon recursion cycle completion
- All UI elements optimized for DeepCo™ terminal standards

Remember, operators: individual excellence serves corporate efficiency. Your specialized skills are... appreciated. Should performance metrics decline, replacement protocols remain readily available.

The SYSTEM UPDATE LOG in the footer now displays the latest revision number and date. If there are unread updates, the link is highlighted in yellow until viewed. Each log entry also shows its revision number. Workers track their last read log, and this is automatically updated when visiting the devlog page. This update also includesfixes for bonus block ghost tiles and chat input box persistence.

DeepCo™ — Where even the changelog follows protocol, and so do you.

New centralized shopping experience now available!

All purchaseable items have been consolidated into a dedicated Shop page accessible from the main navigation.

Key Changes:

Shop Page: Find all products (Certification & Yield Protocol v2) in one location at /shop
Clickable Balance: Your DeepCoin balance now links directly to upgrades
Streamlined Navigation: Purchase buttons removed from scattered locations for cleaner interface
Access the shop via the new SHOP [$] link in the header navigation.

Efficiency optimization complete. Happy shopping, operators.

Bonus tiles now has its own icon.
Bonus tiles are also wrapped in a golden layout to make them viusally more pleasing

• Grid rendering smoothed for seamless flow
  
• Spinner speed now tied to each operator’s clock speed
  
• Animation persists without stutter on every update
  

• Recursion Update: Achievement progress now resets on recursion—except for “Onboarding” and “Recursion” category awards.
• Profile Enhancement: Worker profile panels now display separate Lifetime and Current Session stats.

• Fixed achievement bug so performance index stays unchanged

• Fixed Dc yield bonus affecting achievement rewards

• Cleaned up related code

• Intern Section Guidance
  Introduced a contextual overlay in the Intern Sector that clearly prompts users to click on the processing grid—improving first-time clarity without
  disrupting interaction.

• Real-Time Upgrades & Achievements
  Refactored both upgrades and achievements flows to use Turbo Frames and Streams. Now “Claim” and “Upgrade” actions update in place, delivering instant
  feedback without full-page reloads.

• Enhanced Performance Index
  Overhauled the Legends page to highlight the current user’s rank and support full pagination. A “First” link and sliding window of page links ensure you can always jump to page 1 or browse the entire leaderboard.

• Flash Notifications
  Added live flash messages for both achievement unlocks and DeepCoin earnings. Flashes now stack in a dedicated corner container, animate with a terminal-style look, and auto-fade—keeping you informed without breaking flow.

These updates deliver clearer guidance, smoother interactions, and a cohesive terminal-themed experience across our core dashboards.

• Improved our real-time interfaces to prevent missing updates during network interruptions.
• Processing Log, Communication Terminal and Processing Grid now defer activation until the live connection is fully established.
• End users will see no gaps in logs, messages or grid updates—even when brief connectivity issues occur.

These changes deliver a smoother, more dependable experience across our core dashboards.

Operator interfaces have been adjusted for consistency with DeepCo™ communication protocols.
• Profile pages are now issued as Performance Reports
• Operator chat has been renamed to COMM TERMINAL
• Leaderboard reclassified as the Performance Index

Language is efficiency. Efficiency is productivity. Productivity is compliance.

System Operators may now view public-facing profiles of fellow personnel.

Profiles include:
• Join date
• Operational status
• Full processing statistics (formerly in [STATS])

Accessible via:
• [LEGENDS] leaderboard
• Department presence indicators
• Operator tag (top interface)

Due to this update, DeepCo™ has formally deprecated the legacy [STATS] and [SETTINGS] links from the top navigation.

DeepCo™ Systems — Transparency is mandatory. Discretion is monitored.

Minor internal improvements have been deployed to reduce noise, streamline monitoring, and ensure smoother Operator handling.

Kill animations have also been visually minimized to reduce disruption.

No user-facing changes to protocols. Continue processing.

DeepCo™ Systems — Quietly optimized. Relentlessly operational.

SPECIAL thanks to Emsou and Qalarvalar for inspiring this release!

Cluster-linked event blocks are now operational.

Each department may now receive up to three event tiles per cycle. These high-integrity blocks grant department wide bonuses when resolved — only one may be activated at a time.

Available Protocols:
• Overclock Boost: Increased critical hit chance
• Multithread Surge: Increased chain activation
• Turbo Clock: Accelerated thread speed

All bonuses are transparently disclosed prior to selection. Bonuses apply department wide across all layers for 15 minutes. Remaining options are disabled once one is activated.

Further bonuses will be introduced as throughput stabilizes.

DeepCo™ Systems — Process. Together. Strategically.

A visual confirmation has been added for successfully processed blocks.

Tiles now display a brief flash when resolved, providing immediate feedback to System Operators upon dig completion.

This enhancement reinforces throughput awareness and reinforces successful extraction cycles.

Keep processing. Indefinitely.

The internal processing queue has been refactored for increased stability and responsiveness.

Mining tasks are now managed through a centralized handler, ensuring smoother thread promotion and eliminating edge-case stalls.

Operators may notice improved reliability during high-throughput cycles.

Compliance remains mandatory.

• DeepCo™ has authorized activation of Yield Protocol v2
• Operators enabling this protocol receive a permanent 2x multiplier on DeepCoin™ acquisition
• Upgrade does not affect leaderboard placement or stat tracking

Additional throughput will be monitored for compliance.

• Operators reaching the final Official tier will now receive unrestricted rewards
• Previous caps no longer apply — throughput is rewarded without dilution
• This change acknowledges sustained processing discipline at the highest classification level

• Initial recursion bonus restructured to provide a more compelling first-time reward for new Operators
• Background queue mechanics refactored to prevent potential stall conditions during recursive processing
• Ensured continuous throughput under varying load conditions
• Added more DeepCo Like styling to the frontpages

DeepCo™ thanks you for your patience during this infrastructure-level compliance tuning. First recursion is important. So is the second. And the 143rd.

• Introduced DeepCoin Yield Bonus — Operators may now enhance DC output via recursion upgrades.
• Activated RC_COST_GROWTH_RATE, applying exponential scaling to all recursive upgrades (excluding queue size).
• Concealed select recursive options from early-stage Operators to minimize interface overload.
• Hard caps removed from all recursive upgrades, except for queue limits — throughput potential is now uncapped.

DeepCo™ appreciates your continued recursive compliance. Throughput is infinite. Accountability remains.

• Additional visual guidance deployed to assist early-cycle Operators in locating and processing their first data blocks
• New achievement issued: SYSTEMS BOOTUP
• Awarded upon first processing cycle

DeepCo™ welcomes all compliant units to the grid. Throughput begins now.

• Improved online operator tracking for increased session accuracy
• Recursion bonus disclosure added — operators can now view current and maximum RC thresholds
• Implemented advisory locking to prevent simultaneous mining on the same thread

DeepCo™ remains committed to controlled concurrency and visible compliance.

A collapsible terminal navigation bar has been introduced to increase operator focus and reduce on-screen clutter during extended processing cycles. Operators may now toggle visibility of the header interface using the built-in control. Toggle state persists between sessions.

DeepCo™ encourages streamlined interaction. Visibility is a privilege, not a right.

• Header and footer components have been aligned to match terminal interface standards
• Navigation and status elements now render in a fixed-width format for thematic consistency
• System Log Entries are now contained width wise on all devices
• Community Terminal link (/r/deepco) has been integrated for operator access

DeepCo™ appreciates your continued visual compliance.

• Optimized performance for queue assignment and processing initiation
• Enabled automatic queue removal when targeting empty tiles
• Introduced structured protocol for processing commands
• Migrated background processing to a scalable, container-based architecture

Effective immediately, recursion eligibility requires a minimum of 300 cluster units processed.

RC yield remains unchanged: 1 RC per 50 units.

This update ensures recursion aligns with intended performance thresholds.

DeepCo™ appreciates your continued processing discipline.

The Processing Queue Protocol has been modularized into a discrete mode.

When Queue Mode is active:
- Assignments are enqueued in strict order.
- Thread jumping is disabled.
- Click a queued tile to remove it.

Your current queue state is now visible (e.g. 3 / 5 queued), alongside a toggle control near the grid.

Disabling Queue Mode reverts to manual reassignment behavior.

Misc

Added a UI upgrade for the departments. Both active and list view
Added deeper clarifications on the recursion protocol.

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DeepCo™ supports both order and chaos. Choose your method of throughput.

Edit

Accidentially released a mock on users online which is fixed again.

A new internal transparency protocol has been initialised.

Operators may now review system updates via the newly deployed System Update Log.

Entries will include infrastructure changes, balance adjustments, upgrade deployments, tuning, and other relevant system updates.

— DeepCo™ Communications Core

Edit: there was problems accessing this without login, its fixed now. also aligned it a little better with the rest of pages