The Timeline of Downfall

## About This Page

This page depicts a short timeline of the downfall of Nitro Type. As we know, Nitro Type was the BEST typing game on earth, and maybe even the universe, but that was only in the good old days. Now NT has changed ( and there is some debate that NT is no longer the #1 typing game on earth) and have opted to other options. This page describes how NT went awry.

Please note: Most of them are after 2019, and only the ones from August 2019 ( or later) are shown. For further information, see The Nitro Type Ages.

## 2019

### August

* August 8: The cooldown between posting news comments gets changed from 20 minutes to 8 hours.
* August 12: The ability to post comments on News posts is removed
* August 13: All news comments are removed, making it impossible to view comments from past posts.

* August 17: asssa123 is fired from Teaching.com and all his admin rights are stripped from him.

### November

* November 4:

	+ Display names are changed to no longer allow most symbols, non-language characters, or emojis.
	+ Team MotDs are changed to only allow 150 characters instead of the original 400.

* Nitro Type goes down for maintenance.

* November 14: The feature where one would be able to see racers close to them on the leaderboards even if they were not in the top 100 is removed.
	+ November 27:
		- On the team page, the team tag doesn't appear next to the team members' names; although, this was re-added the following day. Team join dates were also removed.
		- Team tags were made smaller on player profiles.
		- The requirements for creating a team were changed from having to pay $5,000,000 to $50,000 and having to be at Level 20 to Level 5, making teams almost worthless.
		- Kicked members can't reapply for 2 weeks without an invite.

November 30:

* The amount of nitros that are allowed to be used per race is decreased to one, rather than the former 3. However, all racers now have unlimited nitros, but all the previous nitros that they had collected are removed.

## 2020

### January

January 6 :

* Travis confirms that events will not be run anymore.
* All nitro and session season achievements are made unobtainable.

### February

February 1:

* Nitro Type receives a large appearance update to most of the main pages and functions on the site, featuring much more animation.
* The option to choose your country is removed.

February 14:

* The 7 Day and 30 Day options are removed from the leaderboards and the stats page.

### April

April 7:

* Gold members are now only able to change their display names once every 8 hours, unlike before when they were able to change it at any time with no cooldown.
* The Under Achiever and Under Over Achiever achievements are disabled, making The Gator unobtainable.
* The ability to view points for the top 100 teams on the 24-hour leaderboard is removed.
* The ability to see a player's graph of their most recent races in their profile is removed.
* The ability to see speed and accuracy in both the "last days" and "by month" section of a player's race logs is removed.

April 10:

* The most "Nitros Used" section of the Hall of Fame is removed.

April 16:

* + All King of the Race achievements past the Mini Sherman are turned to hidden achievements.
	+ All of the consecutive win achievements are deactivated.
	+ Travis leaks the upcoming types of season loot including: "trails, sound effects, track effects, animated cars, reactive cars, skins (in some form), etc" in a discord DM to PenguinTyper . The full message can be found in the second half of this video.

### May

* May 7:
	+ The "Biggest Spender", "Longest Session", and "Most Money" categories of the Hall of Fame are removed.
	+ A minimum account age (14 days) is added in order to send cash to other players.
	+ The ability to use nitros is removed from races in the 1-9 and 10-15 WPM zones.
* May 11: The "Oldest Active Player" category of the Hall of Fame is removed because it was both broken and many "stolen" accounts made their way onto the Hall of Fame. **Travis said, "The whole thing got pretty pointless, so we're happy to be rid of it."**

* June 16: Sending cash is now restricted to Gold Members only. However, non gold members can still receive cash.

### June

* July 4:

* Levels are removed and replaced with seasonal levels, which reset every season. Along with this, the minimum level requirement for teams is changed to a minimum races completed requirement, level requirements are removed from the dealership, and XP is removed from the mystery box.

* A minimum of 50 completed races is added to the requirements to create a team.
* Display names are no longer required to be unique, meaning that multiple display names can be the same.
* The search feature on the Friends page is removed. It would be added back later in October.

### October

October 18: It is announced that the leaderboards will be removed on December 3.

* October 28: The "Team Status" feature (where users could communicate with the rest of their team about anything) is removed.

### November

* November 1:
	+ The ability to see another user's amount of money is removed.
	+ The ability to see another user's advanced stats is removed.

* November 11:
	+ The option to race with the classic track is removed.

## 2021

### January

* January 10:
	+ Except for the top 100 teams, the leaderboards are removed entirely, along with the hall of fame