The lobby interface as of 2025. The two black boxes in the left panel are replaced by an icon of the player's avatar (top), and the player's username (bottom).
The Lobby is the main menu of Rise of Nations and one of its main components. Upon joining the game, players are sent to one of the multiple lobbies within the game. Its purpose is to navigate through the public servers of the game.
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The lobby interface as it was in 2021.
Lobby[]
Left panel[]
The 'left panel' of the lobby UI displays the player's username, icon, and their XP. It also features a button that allows players to access a list of updates, and a label that goes between different 'game tips'.
Right panel / Servers[]
The server list contains all public game servers which players can join. They are identified by an unique server code comprised of a randomly generated array of 6 letters from 'a' to 'f' and 10 digits. One game server can hold a maximum of 40 players and server's actual slot condition is described next to the ID.
Server description contains their current year and location of the hosting server (e.g. Dallas, Frankfurt am Main). If one of player's friends are in the server at the moment, they are listed as well, indicated by a silver star on the left of the server's ID. If server is new, so their year is between 2019 and early 2020, it is given a yellow text label, 'New'. The last server the player was in is anchored to the top of the list and given the label ''Last Played'.
Lobbies contain a total of 7 buttons, three are filters of the server list which are above. At the top of the scrollable region of the UI are the servers with the highest of each category.
- Count filter sorts the list by a number of players in the server.
- Name filter sorts the list by its ID alphabetical order.
- Year filter sorts the list by current server's year.
Last four buttons are server-related buttons.
- Create New Server: This button triggers the procedure for creating a new server. This initiation can only occur once 30 players have mutually activated the function by pressing 'Create New Server'.
- Join by ID: To join an existing server, players must input the exact server code.
- Quick Join: Selects the most optimized server, taking player count and the current year into consideration. Most optimized servers are marked with a blue vertical bar on the right side of the server's button.
- Play Tutorial: This button is used for players planning to play the tutorial. Newer players who have never played the game before are also automatically sent to the tutorial server.
Soundtracks[]
The lobby incorporated two soundtracks throughout its history. The soundtrack can be muted by clicking the speaker icon on the left side.
World in Conflict - Fall of Liberty[]
This track was removed in March 22, 2022 after Roblox conducted a site-wide purge[1], removing tens of thousands of soundtracks across its platform.
The video link to this soundtrack can be found here.
Greco Casadesus - Into Battle[]
This soundtrack replaced the former and removed track on the 12/22/2023 Minor Update (December 22, 2023).
The video link to this soundtrack can be found here.
Other Elements[]
Leaderboard[]
On the the right side, there is a leaderboard which shows 15 players with most experience, which are playing at the moment.
Complete List of Tips[]
Tips, or hints are short texts which teach techniques, tactics or can be some type of an advice, might be useful for new players. They are located in the left panel of the lobby.
| Hint |
|---|
| You can only train units up to 175%, the remainder only being accessible during combat. |
| Bombers can deal damage to cities, destroying buildings and eventually scorching them. |
| It is more effective to build short pieces of road at a time rather than long single pieces. |
| Watch your stability and war exhaustion, especially during long wars. |
| Be careful when marching through scorched lands; Attrition can break even the largest of militaries |
| Keep an eye on your oil stockpile, especially when fielding large navies, airforces and/or tanks |
| Remember to read the help if you have not played before |
| Careful use of trading and factories can produce great wealth for a country |
| You can go through canals by moving your units on the underwater yellow pads |
| Join our chat server on the game page to get exclusive sneak peeks, detailed update logs, and more |
| Depending on the terrain type, your ground forces will travel at different speeds. |
| Aircraft Carriers also serve as mobile airbases for your aircraft |
| Artillery units also deal damage to naval ships. Use this to your advantage |
| Holding down left shift will let you ignore units. |
| Do not underestimate defensive positions. If used properly, they can deal serious damage to militaries such larger than it |
| Unhappy that you were not fast enough to pick the higher tier countries? Try playing as the other countries. Who knows you may enjoy the experience. |
| Rulers of large countries, do try not to lose autonomy to countries much smaller than yours |
| Training, Technology, Terrain, Doctrines; They can be very powerful |
| You can right click on diplomatic alerts to reject them |
| Country ranking is based on Economic size, Stability, and Population. It is possible to improve your ranking by merely developing your economy and internal affairs |
| Democracies and Liberal states take no stability penalty when declaring liberation wars, and have reduced justification times for them |
| You can right click on technology tabs to mute their notifications |
| You can press enter to dismiss alerts |
| Do not underestimate power of artillery. If left unchecked, they will blow your ground forces to bits |
| Ruling an island nation without a navy is like ruling China without invading anyone. It just sucks |
| You can check what formables you have created, with which country by accessing the formables list in your upper right corner |
| Be careful when transporting land units unescorted across the ocean, they make prime target practice for any naval ships |
| There are several very difficult formables such as the British Empire and the Mongol Empire. Do you have what it takes? |
| Distance between capitals, ideologies, ideological differences all determine the time it takes to justify on a country |
| Be very careful when making event choices and make sure to read the tooltip text |
| Invading Russia during winter is *always* a good idea said no military general ever |
Trivia[]
- The ability to speak in the lobby was removed due to an exploiter group targeting the game. However, the lobby chat was eventually reopened.
- Players who join the lobby are presented falling down through the screen, that is a known bug in the lobby.
- Presumably before the 12/22/2023 Minor Update (December 22, 2023), the requirement to create a new server was formerly 20 players, before it was switched to 30.