The Worldboard Weekly

• Worldboard is now free to play. Game Credits are now Membership Credits (1 credit = 1 week of membership); your existing balance is preserved, and memberships can be bought or redeemed in the Shop.
• Steadier connections. Brief network hiccups no longer interrupt your game — a short drop reconnects silently instead of flashing a "reconnecting" overlay or pausing the clock.
• Change your destination mid-trip. While riding transit you can now shorten or extend your trip to any upcoming stop.
• Faster route planning. The in-game route finder returns results more quickly.
• Expanded ferry coverage in Italy. Added more Italian ferry routes — the Bay of Naples, the Sicilian and Sardinian island connections, and the Italian lakes.

Tag Gameplay

• Clearer photo submissions. Submitted photos now appear as compact thumbnails that expand to a full-size view when tapped.
• Sharper place labels. Target categories read as natural-language lines (e.g. "A bakery in Ixelles"), and category names now pluralize correctly across the map, POI Explorer, and seeker preview.
• Freeze reliably freezes you. Being frozen now fully stops movement — fixed cases where a frozen player could still walk or kept moving after resting.

• Fixed a bug where automatic walking could teleport you to a remote station

• Route finder: Fixed cases where it wrongly reported "no route" for trips that are actually reachable. It now also surfaces daytime itineraries and clearly labels departures that leave the next day.
• General Gameplay: A speed-up forced on a frozen player no longer runs longer than it should — it now ends when that player thaws.
• Clearer clue photos: Street View clue images are no longer enlarged beyond their native resolution in the expanded viewer, so they stay sharp.
• Waiting room: Fixed a misleading "waiting for N more players" message that could appear even after enough players had joined.

Route finder & timetable

• Schedule-aware route finder: journeys validated against real timetables with actual departure/arrival times — now the default, with per-leg operator names, a departure date/time picker, and a map preview.
• Cleaner station timetable: near-duplicate line variants merged; lines with no service today hidden.
• Station search loads more results as you scroll.
• More reliable route-finder loading on certain devices and networks.

Clock speed-ups

• Hands-free "Auto" mode requests and approves speed-ups while you wait on a train or for a ticketed departure; speed-ups never run past your own arrival/departure.
• Dial a requested speed-up down to a lower speed or shorter duration before approving.
• Frozen players can now initiate a speed-up vote.
• A vote auto-declines after 60 seconds if co-players don't respond.

Quality of life & fixes

• Chat no longer auto-hides while you type, and stays usable during a reconnect pause.
• The event log records every event; only drawer-only events pop it open.
• Fixed a Geo-Guessing hang when losing below the win threshold.
• Short taxi rides now cost at least 10 coins.
• Faster dashboard load.

Tag gameplay

• Steeper high-speed-train premium for evaders — fast trains cost progressively more.
• Tagger challenge rewards are slightly discounted so cheap transit and full rewards don't stack.
• You can now tag a co-located evader at a station even when one of you is at the entrance and the other in the lobby (within 25 m).
• You can no longer veto a challenge while riding a train or car.

New & revamped challenges

• Find & Recreate — solve clues to track down a mystery landmark, then photograph it to recreate a reference shot; capture more distinct angles for a higher rank and reward.
• Regional Tour — a push-your-luck challenge: hop across neighboring regions collecting a different kind of point-of-interest in each, then bank once you've covered them all.
• Local Trivia — a fast multiple-choice stream mixing local-culture facts, spot-the-local, name-the-place, and order-the-stops; answer accurately, then Stop & bank for a bigger multiplier.
• Geo-Guessing is now multi-round, with a per-round reveal of how close you were, and is offered in regular play.
• Take Photo revamped — you're given a set of subject categories and win by covering enough of them; keep shooting distinct subjects to push your score, then bank.

Challenge experience & rewards

• Smarter picker: the three offered challenges always span easy/medium/hard, it warns when a completed type won't be offered again nearby, and it shows an exact base reward for fixed-difficulty types.
• Live performance-rank coaching in the HUD explains how each type is graded and what it takes to reach the next rank.
• Rewards reveal step by step like a receipt (difficulty → base pay → rank → multiplier → bonus → total), and even a loss shows your tier and grade; per-answer dots fill faster.