People seem to be having issues with Ironclad Online at the moment.
Basically I could log in, pick map to host etc, but then in the lobby the information at the top is missing and the ready button was also gone for my mate who managed to join, as well as being generally laggy.
Nice thing is that it seems to have happened just as we both got ready to play
All the Game Options (I.E Pirates, Culture speed etc) seems to have reverted to "Low" or "Off"