Player Profiles, Envoy Profiles, Map Performance Improvements & Balance Changes

22 October 2026

This is the biggest update since the game launched and includes a whole bunch of different things I've been working on concurrently.

Firstly, there are now profile pages for players and envoys! These profile pages give all sorts of info that wasn't previously available (or was scattered all around the game) and shows you the chronicle of that player's successes, discoveries, and progress. On the envoy side it gives you an overview of an envoy's skill build, equipped cosmetics, and various statistics. You can dive into a player's progress in different areas of the game such as Wonders, Delving, Lore, and Exploration and if you link any of these pages to someone (for example in the Nandonia Discord) then it will render a nice preview image for that content also.

On the map performance side I've made very significant improvements to loading and rendering speeds so you should see quick map loads with smooth panning at a good framerate now (double the framerate!). Some players were previously having game freezes and crashes on the map which these changes have now resolved.

On the balance side, I've taken aim at a lot of outliers that were overperforming, most notably the speed and effectiveness of Auto-Explore which was functioning more like power than convenience, and the Socialite skill branch which was significantly overperforming due to its large stacking bonuses. At the same time I've improved a bunch of skills that were underperforming to bring them more in line with others and make them look more enticing to learn, most notably the Financier skill branch now pays significantly more Cultural Influence where before it paid barely any and hence it was hard for those envoys to progress by performing the actions the branch was encouraging them to take.

The Merchant's Hall

Auto-Explore

  • Empire Auto-Explore (new art)Empire Auto-Explore (new art)
  • Envoy Auto-ExploreEnvoy Auto-Explore

Player and envoy pages

  • The Chronicle of Shamwizard: empire score, culture, cities and envoys, the best city and most impressive envoy, achievements 79 of 97, eleven leaderboard standings, and Wonders, Delving, Lore and Exploration cards
    After: Shamwizard's Chronicle, their standings, best city, leading envoy and records at a glance
  • The envoy page for Uncle Bramble: a large portrait with level, range and Cultural Influence, the Envoy of Shamwizard header with Envoy 7 of 24 and Previous and Next, Appearance cards for skin, title and nameplate, skill tree points, the Academic role, standing effects and lifetime totals
    After: Uncle Bramble's own page, with appearance, skill trees, role, effects and lifetime record
  • improved: The player's name in a profile header now opens their profile, from their Cities, Envoys and other profile pages and from their city and envoy pages
  • improved: Your own city page now has Previous beside Next, and your envoy's page has the same Previous / Next buttons
  • new: City page: a city's coordinates now open it on the map with its menu open

Map

  • A Faster, Smoother Map: draw calls per frame down 93%, images sent while the map opens down 76%, script time per pan frame down 80%, average map load down 49%, slowest load down 71%, and no frames stalling mid-drag
    Measured on a fixed copy of the live world, before and after
  • improved: A map left open for hours no longer slowly takes up more of your device's memory
  • improved: Cultural Landmark card: "Guests" now says it counts each different envoy who has visited, and the host's bonuses are a bulleted list under "Bonuses for visitors"

Gameplay & Balance

Interface

  • The Seed Investment card now: a strip reading Matures 29 Oct, 6:33 pm and 7 days, then You collect 6,140 to 6,966 wood with your 2,424 back plus 3,716 to 4,542, 351 Cultural Influence earned by your envoy, and Mount Unpleasant receiving 371 to 454 wood and 87 City Influence
    After: what you collect, your envoy's Cultural Influence, and the city's share
  • The Invest screen at Rochebrume now: Hotel Patron shows ACTIVE over its Tier 1 stake card with its effect, what was paid, and its start and end times, then a gold Check In button and a greyed Fully invested button; School Donor and City Sponsor show the new Lasts 3 days ledger boxes
    After: the active stake in full, the Hotel's own Check In in gold, and Fully invested
  • improved: Added the city's name to the storage-full toast for a single extractor
  • improved: Foundry, Sawmill, Quarry and Clay Pit: a land with no natural diamonds left now shows the depleted warning, with its merge link, in place of a diamond chance
  • improved: City Mastery: on a phone, picking your first choice now scrolls the Choose button into view
  • reworked: The envoy Customise window's "Map Frame" is now called "Envoy Nameplate", as in the Merchant's Hall
  • reworked: Legendary rarity now reads orange everywhere, including the wonder results screen and rarity chips, in place of brown

New art

Effects

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Banners

The Monke Banner is exclusive to MonkeDAO members, as part of a collaboration between MonkeDAO and Nandonia.

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    Fixes

    • A cosmetic unlock message kept its claim button and "waiting for you" line after its rewards were claimed; it now says they are claimed, and claiming marks it read
    • Envoy nameplates that had to be scaled to fit (the Royal Frame on a desktop, every nameplate on a 320px phone) shrank to a thin strip in the nameplate Change window and on the envoy page's nameplate card; the whole plate now shows
    • Cards opened inside the Steward's Report and the Recap appeared behind them and could not be read; they now open on top
    • The envoy menu's "Travelling to" linked the city the envoy had left; it now links the city they are travelling to
    • After an exploration finished while you were off the map, Explore was still offered on that tile and refused when pressed
    • The exploration results screen left out the bonus from your choice in a return event, counted Seasoned Trekker twice and hid Verdant Blessing and Keen Expedition; each bonus is now its own line, with a total
    • Buff and debuff rarity pills were all drawn in Common grey; they now take their rarity's colour
    • The Invest screen kept the home city's stored resources from when it opened; it now follows them live
    • Collecting a Venture Fund or a sponsorship left the resource bar showing the old amounts until a reload
    • The header's diamonds did not update after starting a Venture Fund, a building upgrade, a merge or a diamond transfer
    • Opening a Hotel or School from a link to one envoy's row scrolled back to the top of the page; it now scrolls to that row
    • The skill tree tutorial said "Your School teaches" at another player's School; it now says "Every School teaches"
    • On iPhones a mastery choice needed two taps to select; one is enough
    • Leaving the map on an iPhone while art was still loading could raise an error