Changelog

A new puzzle every day. Each daily challenge drops you into a pre-built scenario with a specific objective, a tick budget, and an AI opponent. Solve it fast enough and you earn gold, silver, or bronze.

• New /daily page with intro card, countdown timer, and result screen.
• Par-based scoring: gold, silver, and bronze tiers based on how fast you complete the objective.
• Today's global leaderboard — top 100 solves ranked by time. Also available as a tab on the main leaderboard page.
• Streak tracking with freeze tokens: play every day to build your streak. Every 10 days earns a freeze token (up to 3) that protects your streak if you miss a day.
• Difficulty scales through the week: Monday is a warm-up, Saturday is an expert-level puzzle, Sunday is a longer special format.
• Server-verified results: every solve is replayed on the server to prevent leaderboard manipulation.
• Home page shows your daily status — whether you've completed today's challenge and what tier you earned.

Quick Match now pairs you with another real human. Click Quick Match, wait for an opponent, and the moment a second player queues the server drops both of you into the same match on opposite sides of the map.

• Proper role assignment: one player spawns blue, the other spawns red, each on their own edge of the hex map.
• Orders propagate between tabs within about a second. Move a unit on your side and your opponent sees it move on theirs.
• If nobody queues within 30 seconds, you fall back to an instant AI match so you're never stuck staring at a spinner.
• Ranked (Elo-rated) matchmaking is still off — it needs its own balance pass and server-side validation before it ships.

The profile page now lets you set and change your username, and splits stats into a Matchmaking tab and an AI-practice tab. AI stomps were polluting win rate and lifetime counters in a way that made the leaderboard stats feel meaningless. Those two tabs are now independent, and only Matchmaking feeds the leaderboards.

Three things landed in the same week:

• Post-match insight generator: a short human-readable summary of what decided the match.
• AI opponent got smarter — better expansion heuristics, actual counter-building, less obvious rushes.
• Building and unit rendering moved to a texture atlas for noticeably snappier repainting.

Added a fifth terrain type — peaks — that are impassable and create natural chokepoints. Tuned the simplex-noise map generator so iron and crystal clusters feel more like ridgelines and veins and less like scattered dots.

First playable: the hex grid, terrain, resource production, unit movement, combat resolution, and the ring advancement endgame all wired together. The shape of the game has been stable since this commit; everything after has been polish, balance, and surrounding systems.