A bell, and everything you missed
Here is a thing that has quietly been wrong for a while. You fly out over the North Sea, you frame a bulk carrier you have never caught before, you take the shot — and the game pays you. XP lands, maybe an achievement tier flips over, maybe a Trident drops into your balance because that hull turned out to be over 300 metres long. All of it announced itself in a toast at the bottom of the screen, and all of it was gone about two seconds later.
If you happened to be looking somewhere else, that was the whole event. There was no history. You could open your career page and see that you had an achievement, but not when you got it or what you were doing at the time. Tridents were worse: the balance is a number, and a number does not tell you what you did to earn it. The most common question we got about progression was, almost word for word, "what did I get this Trident for?" There was genuinely no way to find out.
The bell
There is now a bell in the header, next to your avatar, with an unread count on it. It is on the public pages, on the city and country landings, and in both in-game HUDs — top-right, under the career button. Open it and you get your own history, newest first, grouped by day.
Every achievement you have unlocked, with its tier. Every rank you have climbed to. Every Trident, with the reason attached — first catch of a legend, world first, a new 300-metre giant, an outright track record. New followers. And when somebody takes one of your world records off you, the bell tells you which track, who did it, and what time they set, with a link straight to the leaderboard so you can go take it back. (That last one is capped at one notification per track per day. Losing a record five times in an evening is one message, not five.)
Moderation decisions land there too. If your radio station clears review, or gets taken down with a note, or your claim on a flying spot is approved — you now find out, instead of having to go and re-check the page yourself.
Your past is already in there
The important part: this is not empty on day one. Every award ever paid is in an append-only ledger, which means your history could be reconstructed, and it was. Open the bell and your achievements, rank-ups and Tridents from months back are already sitting there with their original dates.
One honest caveat about the old rows. The ledger recorded how much prestige was paid but never which feat paid it — that detail simply was not stored back then. So historic Trident entries say what activity earned them ("earned spotting ships") rather than naming a specific reason. We could have guessed the reason from the amount. We decided a confidently wrong history is worse than an honest vague one. Everything from today forward carries the real reason.
Your backfilled history also arrives marked as already read, so nobody logs in to a red badge claiming 200 unread notifications about things they lived through last spring. The badge is for what you missed, not for what you already know.
The toasts are staying exactly as they are — they are the moment, and the moment is good. The bell is for afterwards.