I was ready to hate you for reducing map size, and I still do somewhat, but the charter stone thing looks great, thanks. I'm hoping the new resource is experience but I suppose we'll see that soon.
Still hoped to see features that give more incentives to socialization and more options for village management though.
And I also agree with the post above. defensive catapults will be interesting. Maybe they should also lose HP per hour to avoid villages spamming them.