I'm posting this again because I'm about to post the poll, and I have one addition to the list to make - a suggestion I made much earlier, which pretty much got shot down. It's a suggestion to rework the way province defense is done. Check out the thread
here. Not all original ideas - some discussion on usenet about this. Anyways, read about it if you're interested. Then go take the poll.
1. Tweaks/Easy changes to implement
� Darker colours/textures in unit displays [to make sprites easier to see/look better]
� Alignment of stats in unit info screens [i.e. in a column]
� Pre-made pretenders for new players
� New player 'get started' guide
� Quick start game for new players
� End/quit/save/host button remake [so that 'end turn' takes you directly to next turn]
� Bless effects displayed when creating a pretender's magic
� Actual effects of scales explained when creating a pretender's scales
� Line between commanders and regular units in recruitment screen
� Titles in recruitment screen for
unit section and
commander section
� More details on exactly what different effects mean (e.g. exact benefits of mountain/forest/swamp survival, etc.)
� Able to quit battles using ESC
� When selecting commander from F1 screen, have the commander be highlighted when it jumps to him
� X axis labeled in score overview graph
� Message in top left when Commander is killed in battle
� When you win/lose a game, instead of exiting the program, get brought back to main menu
� Show undead and magic leadership in unit info screen (e.g. 25/0/10)
� Soldiers with "guard commander" orders fire missiles if a target is within range
� Link from nation overview (F1) to recruitment screen in each province
� Show resource usage in nation overview [so that you can see at a glance which provinces aren't being used to their full potential]
� Warning colours in nation overview (e.g. red for supply usage when higher than supply availability, etc.)
2. Additions of relatively minor features
� Battle results (i.e. list of casualties) when storming a Castle
� '?' accessible on main menu (i.e. as a button)
� Research point 'lock' for schools of magic
� Random nation AI opponents
� Map and Scenario triggers [not sure where this was mentioned]
� Ability to rename commanders, or at least add epithets
� Enhanced start (starting with more than one province)
� Ability to close screens without having to scroll down or press ESC (e.g. Windows-style [x] or 'Exit' button
below instead of
at the end of scroll-lists)
� Names of units in addition to icons in recruitment/deployment screens
� Detailed breakdown of mixed squads in deployment screen
� Detailed lists of losses (most importantly commanders)
� Right-clicking commander in main screen gives you list of troops under his command
� Build queue for commanders (even though there is only one recruitable per month)
� Shift-click to add higher multiples of units [e.g. 5 at a time] in recruitment screen
� Build queue doesn't charge you for units which won't be built that turn
� Ability to turn off pre-battle zoom animation
� Number of local defense force killed show up on battle report (even though they're automatically replaced)
� Ability to enter new subscreen (F1, recruitment, etc.) without ESCaping out of the current one
� Hostile borders different colour than province borders within your nations [don't know if this is possible]
� Prevent redundant site searching [or have a message like the "preaching cannot be used to raise the dominion of this province any higher" message]
� When game ends prompt for deletion of game file
or
� When game ends, automatically delete game file
� Ability to toggle on/off battle grid in squad positioning screen
� New Command for missile units: Hold or Fire
� Keyboard selection (hotkeys or something else) for every command available with mouse
also including:
� Keyboard command to select next commander within province, even if he already has orders.
� Ability to scroll lists with arrow keys instead of mouse
� Keyboard interface for research screen
� Keyboard command to cycle through friendly provinces
� Expanded gem-transfer screen, showing more than 2 commanders
� Label in nation overview identifying province types [feudal, amazons, etc.], and therefore the troops recruitable there
� Ability to cycle through recruitment screens without exiting to main map
3. Additions of relatively major features
� SP diplomacy
� Increased battle replay functionality (various speeds, etc.)
� Ability to store more than one god for each nation
� Modability
� Search function for items on commanders
� Battle Sim
� Enabling/disabling spells [being able to indicate which spells your mage should pick from]
� Translucent filters for map instead of icons (for dominion strength, production, province defense, etc.)
� Rework of province defense
4. Balance considerations
� Improve Strategic AI
� Bug fixes
� Less focus on supercombatants
� More regrowth possibilities / less emphasis on population death
� Greater 'bless' effects [e.g. starting at an earlier level (lvl 3?), increasing exponentially rather than by addition (1,2,4,8 vs. 2,3,4,5), magic cheaper in general, etc.]
� Reduce effectiveness of artillery-like spells (esp. in hostile dominion), or provide counters
Re: Impartial MASTER LIST of issues/problems
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