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Map type picker in the lobby: Random, Classic, Peninsulas, Archipelago, Pangaea, Highlands, Great Lakes
SUDDEN DEATH lobby rule: capture an empire's capital and it surrenders all its land instantly
New building: COASTAL BATTERY: sinks the nearest enemy ship, transports first
New building: STATION: trains favor it and deliver double gold there
Building upgrades: City, Port and Bunker up to level 3 (right-click your own building)
Ally gifts: send gold or a troop convoy by sea (it can be intercepted!)
Trains now draw their rail lines on the map

Coastal Battery and Station icons are placeholders
Balance of the new buildings and sudden death is still being tuned, feedback welcome

News feed on the main menu, latest updates at a glance, with a link to the new website
Rivers and lakes: real waterways that flow with the terrain, ships can sail them, and nobody can claim them
Live online counter on the website (see who's playing before you launch)

World generation rebuilt from the ground up: coherent continents, real mountain ranges with valleys and passes, regional deserts, forests, cliffs and fjords, every seed is a place now, not noise
Coastlines and shores are smoother than ever
Buildings can no longer spawn on riverbeds or absurd slopes
Multiplayer stability hardening under the hood

Pre-game options: number of AI, map size (Small / Medium / Large), and lobby countdown
Promotion / demotion screen when your rank changes
Pause in singleplayer
Hover the Population and Gold counters to see what's driving them
Research queue + a notification when a research finishes
Building shortcuts (keys 3–8) and Shift+click to attack, even by sea, without opening a menu

Ranked rating reworked to be much stricter: climbing is earned, losing actually costs, and the very top is reserved for multiplayer
Everyone now starts at 500 and climbs from there (existing ratings adjusted to match)
Research cost is always shown now, even when you can't afford it yet
The AI now builds factories
Smoother map coastlines

A multiplayer game needs a second player to start, for a bots-only game, use Solo

Nukes rebalanced: cheaper, bigger blast radius, longer fallout, and far deadlier to enemy armies
Directional Breakthroughs capped at 2 at once per player, holding a front matters again