Yes, urgent ones, as in "I think Illwinter is actively losing customers based on the demo because of this."
The one I have noticed: It is too complex and confusing to start a single player game (no, not for me, for newbies)
In summary:
I would
STRONGLY suggest adding a "Start Single Player Game" button to the main game menu, so that you can go through the whole process without getting lost, or ever returning to the main menu.
In other words, you click the "Start SP Game" button, then you choose a nation, design a god, choose a map, pick opponents, choose a game name, and start the game, in a streamlined manner without ever returning to the main menu, with no risk of getting lost, and no risk of screwing up and forgetting which race you can set to "human"***, or whatever. Once the game starts, like in Shogun, clicking on "Next Turn" it will advance the game, and return you to the strategic map (or message list, actually), so you don't have to screw around with clicking "host". Putting a "host" button in single-player mode confuses people, especially when the meaning is not very clear.
Already, before the game is out, a couple AOW2 forumers have rejected it because it seems too complex to just start or progress through an SP game. So, I think this is urgent.
-Cherry
P.S. ***By this I mean: When you start a singleplayer game, you choose a nation and design a god, then get sent to the "Choose Nations" screen. But it is now called the "Choose AI Opponents" screen, instead. Your nation is already greyed out and set to human. The other nations can be set to computer AIs, but cannot be set to human. See? Idiot proof! You will always have exactly 1 human nation in the game, and it will always be the one for which you designed a god... which is what people want when playing an SP game, and what sometimes screws up newbies.
[ October 28, 2003, 17:20: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]
Urgent Interface Problems
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