BETA V2 — PLAYER EXPERIENCE & SIMULATION CLARITYHŒMË Beta V2
The Nation Comes Alive

Beginning a nation should be an invitation, not a puzzle. The onboarding experience has been improved so that new governors receive clearer explanations of the simulation from their very first decisions — what the core loop is, which systems depend on one another and where the information they need can be found. Crucially, none of this removes the freedom to experiment. HŒMË still lets you learn naturally by making decisions and living with the results; the difference is that you now understand what you are looking at while you do it.

The Governor's Handbook is the official reference guide to HŒMË, and it is now permanently available through Settings. The Handbook explains the major systems of HŒMË: how they work, why they matter and how they interact with one another. Population and housing, food and production, employment and staffing, infrastructure and logistics, treasury and spending — each explained in its own terms and in relation to the rest of the nation. It is a reference manual, not a walkthrough. It will not tell you what to build or when to build it. It tells you how HŒMË works, so the decision remains yours.

Where the Handbook explains the systems, the Governor's Field Guide helps you understand what is happening inside your nation right now. The Field Guide is written for the live state of a nation: reading alerts, interpreting staffing levels, recognising shortages before they spread, following dependencies between systems, tracking construction progress and understanding how recovery unfolds after a setback. It also addresses one of the most important skills in HŒMË — knowing when to act and when to wait. Not every warning demands intervention, and some situations resolve themselves once the underlying cause has been addressed.

Players should not have to guess what has changed between visits. The new What's New feature presents short update summaries inside the game whenever meaningful changes are introduced. From there, each notice links out to Whitepages.life, where the complete article and development notes live. That gives two levels of information: a quick explanation inside HŒMË, and the full story here — what changed, why it changed, how it works and what it means for your nation.

Warnings and notifications have been reworked. Previously a governor might see that something was wrong without being told why. Now, notifications explain the cause, describe the effect it is having on the nation and outline the actions available in response. A shortage is no longer simply a shortage. It is a shortage with an origin, a consequence and a set of decisions attached to it — which is exactly what a governor needs in order to govern.

Every phase of the Beta V2 roadmap is now complete: ✅ Phase 1 — Stability & Foundation ✅ Phase 2 — New Player Experience ✅ Phase 3 — Explain the Simulation ✅ Phase 4 — National Advisers ✅ Phase 5 — Economy Pass ✅ Phase 6 — Population Pass ✅ Phase 7 — Business Lifecycle ✅ Phase 8 — Council 2.0 ✅ Phase 9 — Living World Evolution Together these phases move HŒMË from a set of systems into a nation that behaves like one: population, workforce, housing, businesses, the economy and the world itself now respond to one another over time.

Alongside the roadmap, four companion systems are complete: • Governor's Handbook — the official reference guide to how HŒMË works. • Governor's Field Guide — how to read and respond to your nation's live state. • What's New in HŒMË — concise in-game update notices. • Whitepages — the public record of HŒMË, where every update is explained in full.

HŒMË is still expanding. Additional geography, further nations, deeper societal systems and greater simulation depth are already planned, and each will be introduced as it is completed rather than announced ahead of time. The intention is steady, meaningful growth: every addition should make the world feel larger and the simulation feel more alive, not simply add more to manage.

Beta V2 lays the foundation for the future of HŒMË. Better guidance, a permanent reference, live interpretation of your nation and honest feedback from the simulation are the groundwork everything else will be built on. Every update from here is designed to make HŒMË richer, clearer and more rewarding to govern. This is only the beginning.