I remember hearing someone say the additional watches were compasses or something similar for artillery, but its been too long for me to remember anything about where I heard it.

What happened to PPB? I haven’t seen it in a while despite a ton of PPB worthy posts

Did anyone else feel like the second Act of threads was a lot weaker than the first?

Java/C# would have types before the variables:

double sum = 0d;
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
	sum += 3 * i;