The Worldboard Weekly

• Improvements to internal reporting tools so we can respond faster to player-submitted entry-point reports.

• Tag: you can now tag an opponent when you are both at the same station spot.
• Hide & Seek: matching-question feasibility now considers the seeker's hiding-zone guess, leading to more meaningful matching questions.
• Challenge difficulty has been rebalanced to favor taggers
• Improved transit routing accuracy for journeys that cross time zones.

General

• New IMPORTANT event popup that stays on screen until you dismiss it
• Street View visuals cleaned up: isolated photo spheres filtered out, past scenes re-probed instead of dropped
• Platform photo discovery is faster — work is shared across players in the same game and cached when nothing is found
• Cut scene contributions: save per-row drafts, preview, and finalize before submitting
• Station photo contributions: tighter rules and clearer admin visibility; CC / public-domain option removed
• Cut scene contribution nudges only appear for stations in the catalog

Hide and Seek Fixes

• Region questions resolve against an ordered list of admin levels for more accurate answers
• Each question type now shows plain-language help text
• Matching-question area warnings are written for players, not engineers
• Hide & Seek: Voronoi cells render more precisely near boundary lines
• Clearer wording for the Bonus Draws curse

Tag (closed alpha testing only)

• Tagger will get a cash bonus based on the distance of the stray tagger from the tag.
• Stray tagger will get extended freeze period based on the distance between them and the tag
• Tagging now works between players on the same train, and frozen train riders auto-exit
• When every player is frozen, anyone can speed up the clock to get unstuck

• Timetable explorer now draws the actual route polyline on the map so you can see the path each line takes.
• Route finder UI improvements: cleaner layout, deduplicated results, and consistent polyline rendering.
• Seeker hiding-zone checkbox now snaps to the closest station and persists when the map is closed and reopened.
• AI hider no longer gets stuck when a question can't be randomized to a replacement.
• Fixed a bug in tentacle-zone generation that produced duplicated points of interest in the same category.

• New timetable explorer on the fullscreen map: browse departures, see all stops along each route, and view per-leg pricing
• Tap any leg in the route finder to open a detailed transit-route popup
• Fixed transit pricing so longer trips are never cheaper than shorter ones
• Crowdsourcing: Wikimedia photos now appear during station-photo uploads, with clearer Creative Commons licensing options