I think we forgot something for the december 2012 goals:
BM's birthday! Every year we celebrate the birthday of our game and worship the great master Tom.
His yearly speech to the masses is certainly not be underestimated.
Often he also comes revealing new features to be implemented in the future or stuff he had been 'secretly' working on for some time.
Depending on what Tom is planning this year, it may take quite alot of his time.
From the hints Tom has given this year, we might be in for quite a treat.
This might be something he's working on for a long time.
We did have a rather significant unexpected new feature lately: Sea Travel. And many aspects of the game were considerably revised.
I think we shouldn't get hopes up too high for any surprises, we've had a bunch already.
