Some of the team are currently working on adding more jungle into the game - take a look at this screenshot of the starting location in the tropics.
We have realised that the continents on the current world map are too small for intensive player-player interactions such as alliances or trade. We do however feel that it is big enough to fit the new alpha 3 testers successfully as long as we provide more space. We have therefore decided that we are going to unlock another climate zone for players to start in.
The team has decided that the tropics seem like the best choice as it will move both the Northern and Southern inhabited zones closer together, which is why we have started work on the tropical maps. You can see some of our progress in the picture above. We have also redesigned the tutorial location and hopefully the rest wont be long coming together.
Sorry for the lack of updates and news lately. For the past few months I have been really swamped with boring tech stuff while the rest of the team have been making good progress towards the Classical Age as well as putting together other features that we have planned for alpha 3. Our update rate will slow down for now as it is hard to add new features while also fixing any outstanding bugs, so for the moment some bug fixes have been postponed.
