A better way into the news. • Tapping the news card now opens the news screen — the latest story up top, everything older underneath — instead of dropping you straight into one story. • The card lost the arrow that was squeezing its right edge, so the photo runs the full width. • A story published without a photo no longer leaves an empty grey space above the headline.

Tapping a town on the map is quicker now. • Tap any town and its details come up right there — mayor, residents, chunks, bank, when it was founded. The map stays visible behind it, so you can keep looking around. • From that summary, one tap opens the town's full page. • The map now tells you both how much of Acadia it's showing and how fresh the claims are. • Fixed: towns whose chunk limit isn't reported no longer show a confusing "12 of 0", and the chunk bar no longer fills past full for them.

Acadia now has a newspaper. • News on Pulse: stories from around the nation, written up by The Montreal Morning — starting with Acadia's first wedding at Burlington. New stories arrive on their own; you won't need to update the app to read them. • Read one story, and the next one is waiting at the bottom of it. Links in articles are tappable. • Pulse is now the first tab, so you land on who's online. • Vote parties: Pulse tells you when one is close, with a live count of the votes still needed. Dismiss it and it stays gone — until the next party. • Tap any town on the map, not just Acadian ones, and see it live. • The government roster now updates on its own, so an election no longer needs an app update.

A big update for tracking Acadia and the wider server: • Economy — see each town's wealth, treasury, and GDP per capita, plus Acadia's nation-wide totals. • Leaderboards — rank every nation and town on the server by population, land, and wealth. Search to jump straight to a nation, town, or player, and tap any row to open its details. • Server Standings — a monthly snapshot ranking all ~180 nations and ~5,000 towns server-wide by citizen wealth and GDP, plus the richest residents. • Government — the President, Prime Minister, and the full ministerial cabinet, kept current each term. • Rank explainers — tap any Towny rank (Chancellor, Councillor, and more) to see exactly what it can do. • New themes & app icons — dress the app in Cascadia, Grouse, Vinland, and more, each with a matching home-screen icon. • Town character — every Acadia town now carries its own emoji throughout the app. • Plus reliability and polish fixes throughout.