From the Dev Blog: Crafting

The Amass the Hordes poster and some for other undiscovered discoveries or unreleased technologies have been available at the Illyriad store for months.  (Possibly not as long as since February 2011, but hey.)

GM Luna wrote: Anything else that gets posted that has been data mined out of source code is getting deleted. Most anything you'll find that way is meaningless placeholders. This really only serves to confuse and potentially frustrate people. When we have new things to share, we will do so in this fashion. Anything else is just speculation. Luna

@Faldrin...  I think they learned not to post any dates anymore, and I'm sure they thought at least twice for giving out this kind of information.
Now the poor GMs will be harrassed by "When will it come online...", "But you promised to do it until....", "Why is Thing 1 out before Thing 2, whereas Thing 3 would be faaaar more important...", etc...  until it really is done... 

Thus I'm confident they only do some last refinements before bringing out all at once...

Faldrin wrote: I would just like to see something implemented. Don't really care what just something that actually affects game play. Trade v2 Battle magic Factions Path finding Roads Bridges Water units Crafting Something to use Alliance gold on... Etc.

Actually I beleive that tourneys are a good way of game testing something, so really with a release, there should be a relevant pre-release tourney, just to check how it works.

This is not because I am pressing for a tourney by the way.  I am currently living in Nepal where we have 'load shedding' this means pre-organised power cuts that can last for several hours, so any tourney they do now, I will probably suck at.