Roadmap

• Terrain of the United Kingdom built.
• Coast, lakes and sea added.
• Ground has four kinds of nodes: farmland, woodland, quarry and ore.
• The four kinds of nodes have a richness value.
• Resource marks drawn on the ground.
• Resource marks have visual indicators like crops, trees, scattered stone cubes and iron cubes, denser where the yield is higher.
• 80 cities added.
• 4,652 towns added.
• Level of detail streaming so the whole map stays loaded while you fly around.
• Fog, grid, block borders, flat map toggles and a vertical scale for the terrain.
• Map labels for cities and towns near the camera.
• Sign in through Steam.
• Steam identity verified with Valve on the server.
• Choose a name and title on first join.
• Settle a first town on free ground.
• Rename for first town.
• New settlements start under the Crown's shield. (7 days)
• Connect screen shows map building and world sync progress.
• Added Town Hall.
• Added House.
• Added Rally Spot.
• Added Stables, Archery Range, Barracks and Workshop.
• Added Wall.
• Added Relief Station.
• Added Hospital and Church.
• Added Academy.
• Added Forge.
• Added Tavern and Inn.
• Added Embassy.
• Added Warehouse.
• Added Watch Tower.
• Added Market.
• Player castles capped at the maximum level (10).
• Cities and towns capped at their own maximum level (11-15).
• Every building has a cost in food, wood, stone and iron and a build time that grows by level.
• Construction queue with a limit on jobs.
• Houses set the population cap, population is spent by training troops.
• Warehouse caps how much of each resource can be saved.
• Embassy for reinforcing friends.
• Gate can be barred or opened, which changes how the castle fights.
• Village view.
• Model editor for building models.
• Claim ground near your castle.
• Claim count shown against the allowance.
• Build a Farm, Sawmill, Quarry or Mine on a claimed node.
• Node yield shown as a percentage of the cell's richness.
• Node list in the map view grouped by resource with Locate buttons.
• Unclaim a node.
• Abandoned node decays stage by stage before it is free.
• Nodes taken by force from you decay rather than vanish.
• Node guards regenerate on unclaimed ground.
• Income of food, wood, stone and iron every minute from nodes and buildings, shown on the top bar with the rate.
• Gold and silver purse, shown separately.
• Market to trade resources
• Every man at home or in the field eats.
• Famine letters when food runs out.
• Research and heroes multiply income.
• Bounty in silver for clearing node guards.
• Added Labourer, Militia, Spearman, Billman and Man-at-Arms.
• Added Archer, Longbowman and Crossbowman.
• Added Hobelar, Mounted Archer, Mounted Sergeant and Knight.
• Added Supply Cart.
• Added Springald, Battering Ram, Mangonel, Siege Tower and Trebuchet.
• Added training options to Barracks, Archery Range, Stables and Workshop.
• Training queues per building with batch sizes by level, sliders capped by what you can afford.
• Population reserved when a training order is placed so queues never stall.
• Research city management.
• Heroes hired at the Tavern and kept at the Inn.
• Heroes lose morale when their side loses and the winner rolls to capture one.
• Hero bonuses applied to battles, income, building and healing.
• Send a column from the Rally Spot, one queue per Rally Spot level, population cap per march.
• March speed from the slowest unit and the road, sea crossings at ship speed with the marker as a cog.
• Scout with Hobelars, a scout report with the lord's name, morale, record, heroes and troops.
• Recall a column from anywhere on the road, it comes home from where it got to.
• Hold ground you took with the column standing on it, then claim it.
• Your own marches drawn on the map as ribbons with walking standards in your colours.
• Marches listed under their own heading, sorted by the soonest to land.
• Every fight resolved on the server, deterministic.
• Wall with hit points and a breach.
• Gate shut or open decides who can be shot.
• Range rules, reach per unit, fall-off at long range, wall archers reach further per wall level.
• Field rules, artillery sets up at reach, rams, towers and carts are baggage that only fights back in melee.
• Battles with alternating exchange, one man a side, so numbers decide.
• Fights run on worker threads, one per castle at a time, in landing order, other castles fight in parallel.
• The garrison is locked while its fight runs, nothing leaves until it is settled.
• Fights waiting in the queue survive a server restart.
• Casualties carried to the Hospital with beds per level, the Church saves a share of the dead.
• Siege castles, a beaten castle is held by a camp.
• Loot carried home by the column rework.
• Watch Tower sees attacks four cells further per level.
• A messenger's letter the moment any attack on your castle or field sets out, with the arrival estimate.
• The tower's own letter when the column comes in sight, with troop count estimates.
• Incoming marches listed above everything in red, sorted soonest first, with locate button.
• Enemy columns drawn on the map inside the watch tower's circle, with walking markers; columns fighting at the gate shown in orange.
• Your own columns shown as arrived while they wait for their fight.
• NPC settlements that build, train, claim nodes, expand and defend.
• Lords hold grudges, attack one and it marches back at the castle you came from.
• Lords take revenge in proportion to their Rally Spot.
• Lords' morale rises and falls with their battles.
• Lords under the Crown's shield cannot march on players.
• A castle whose lord is evicted passes to the Crown, then a new lord is seated.
• Morale for every player, moved by wins and losses, a beaten lord at his own gate with no morale is evicted.
• Guilds, create, join, ranks, guild chat, guild colours on the map.
• Chat, general and guild.
• Records kept per player kills, losses, battles won and lost.
• A chain of missions from the first claim, claim each kind of node, build each building.
• Mission letters with clickable coordinates, re-sent at login while open.
• Morale boost for missions completed.
• Letters for battles, defences, scouting, alerts, heroes, guilds, famine, missions and notices.
• A mailbox that holds read and unread.
• Buttons for delete read, delete battles, delete all but missions, in mailbox.
• Clickable coordinates in letters rework.
• Top bar rework with name, resources with rates and tooltips, claims, army, population, standing.
• Left panel rework with construction, training, marches, research and incoming, all sorted by the shortest timer.
• Right panel rework with settlements, a go-to-coordinates box, node lists with locate.
• Fly camera with speed on the mouse wheel.
• Mail button with a border that says unread, read or nothing.
• Feedback button that opens the website.
• Admin tools, client profiler, server profiler.
• One persistent world, saved every 20 seconds, rolling saves, loads the newest, so no big rollbacks ever.
• Graceful restarts that finish fights in flight and save.
• Steam app id checked so only the real client connects.

• Disband troops.
• Academy research.
• Research march speed.
• Research construction speed.
• Research training speed.
• Research farming.
• Research sawing.
• Research quarrying.
• Research mining.
• Reinforce a friend's castle through their Embassy, up to its cap.
• Every battle writes a letter with a replay, a top-down lane view with unit boxes, counts, reach lines and engagement lines, at any speed from one man a second to a hundred.
• A standing page with friends and grudges, in the colour of your standing.
• Who is online.

• Battles at sea, fought between fleets on the water rather than only on the shore.
• Outlaw castle sieges, a held outlaw stronghold to besiege.
• More missions against the world (PvE).
• A rework of all production building screens.
• More research lines.
• Missions that send you against other players (PvE).
• A three way alliance system for guilds.
• Seasonal events across the map.
• Server optimisation.
• Client optimisation.
• Steam Workshop for player made building models.
• Steam achievements.