Wish List

[HotNifeThruButr]

Some sort of Earth and Blood nation/mage so that I can field my favorite demon, demon knights!

[Phoenix-D]

Originally posted by PvK:
Some people may accuse me of beating a dead horse, but hey, I have a fresh dead horse to beat - the one that was just shot dead along with my elite heavy cavalry while they were pursuing ONE LIMPING MILITIA MAN, by their own men.
PvK

Not a dead horse. This peeved me so much I gave up on the demo. What's the point of all the fancy stuff if you can't get your units to use it without killing themselves anyway?

[tinkthank]

My Hit List, scaled in order of what-I-think-is-important divided by resources-needed-to-implement-(guessing-only):

1. Rehiring Mercs set to half price by default
2. "Goto Commander" works for reports on finding sneaking commanders and assasins
3. Full battle reports after Storming Castle
4. BugFix: Call of the Wilds forest only
5. "Throw Away" option in "Transfer Item" screen set off somewhat from "put into lab"
6. Icons added ( see this thread)
EDIT: 6a. f12 scrolls through forts; f11 scrolls through hidden/stealthy commanders; f10 switches between prophet and pretender; f9 scrolls through mages with forge bonus
7. Interface: f5-Research lets you define research numbers per number pad (instead of +/- clicking)
8. Strategic AI: Fort-building Algorithm
9. Strategic AI: Troop-building Algorithm
10. Interface: Merc Bids defined per number pad instead of +/- clicking
11. Tactical AI: Communion Master only if Communion Slave not self available
12. Tactical AI: Will let routing Independents flee (will not attack routing Independents to reduce friendly fire casualties and gem consumption)
13. Interface: From the "View Commander" (Inventory) screen, give us (a link to) the button "SET BATTLE ORDERS"!!
14. Interface / Tactical AI: In Spell Queue, all spells can be clicked either "disabled", "low priority", or "high priority"

[ May 17, 2004, 11:14: Message edited by: tinkthank ]

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by tinkthank:
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12. Tactical AI: Will let routing Independents flee (will not attack routing Independents to reduce friendly fire casualties and gem consumption)
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To me it comes across as very gamey, in a bad way, for the Tac AI to behave differently with independents and other enemies. It is not like the supposed commanders have any notion of independents being unable to regroup.

[tinkthank]

Originally posted by johan osterman:

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Originally posted by tinkthank:
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12. Tactical AI: Will let routing Independents flee (will not attack routing Independents to reduce friendly fire casualties and gem consumption)
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To me it comes across as very gamey, in a bad way, for the Tac AI to behave differently with independents and other enemies. It is not like the supposed commanders have any notion of independents being unable to regroup.

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OK, fair enough.

[rabelais]

Don't know if there is one already, but it would be insanely great if there were a group search command (a la "w" for troops with afflictions) to tell me which troops are starving, so I can weed them out if going to somewhere with inadequate supply so as to minimze disease chance.

Think of it as triage for those who don't look like they can make another long march without going to for R+R. You can do it manually of course, but it's micromanagement hell.


Rabe the Recreation Counselor

[rabelais]

Hey, there is one already! Nice. Thanks so much to the devs.

Here's another wacky (i.e. obvious to the point of possibly being implemented already) idea:

I think right now the score graphs only show income from taxes, it might be a useful feature if they showed income from other sources as well, so that lucky folks, and (particularly) aggressive pillagers get outed as well.

Might help locate the castlers early so they can be negatively reinforced.

I don't like score graphs much, but if you're going to use them, they should be accurate and comprehensive in their full disclosure.

Does Clam income show up in the gem graphs, at the moment?


Rabe the Loophole Closer