New features suggestions thread

[coobe]

i would love to have the mouse wheel zoom in the battle replays !!

[MarcinM]

When a scout leaves a province and moves 2 away, the province troop presence vanishes. I'd like a "ghost" display of "last seen troop presence in this province" along with a timestamp. So you'd get a "2 months (turns) ago, this province had 50 troops" etc.

[Nerfix]

I'll gather suggestions and their makers to my first post.

[FrankTrollman]

I second that. I'd especially like that information for Magic Sites, which don't ever go away. "3 turns ago, this province had the fountain of rubies" would be great information because on this turn it still has the fountain of rubies.

-Frank

[Agrajag]

coobe said:
I would love to have the mouse wheel zoom in the battle replays !!

I agree, its often dificult to see exactly what is going on in the battle, because you can't get a good angle, sometimes it is even impossible to select a certain unit to view its stats because of a bad angle (especially in underwater battles).
I understand that it is impossible to make a completely free camera (because than we'd have problem with 2d sprites on a 3d battlefield), but just a zoom option shouldn't be too troublesome.

Although obviously, this isn't a top priority.

[Nerfix]

You can already zoom in and out with Page Down/Page Up and you can pause the combat by pressing Spacebar...

[Manuk]

Filter and sort lists of provinces & commanders.
Now seem randomly ordered like in dom2
(now spells can be filtered by path, good.)

[Agrajag]

Nerfix said:
You can already zoom in and out with Page Down/Page Up and you can pause the combat by pressing Spacebar...

W00T!
I knew you could use spacebar, never though about Page Up/Page Down. Especially since the mouse wheel didn't work >_<

[FrankTrollman]

I'd like a gamma and volume control for the game. The picture is really dark and the music is really loud. A simple scroll bar should more than suffice for both aspects.

-Frank

[B0rsuk]

'?' key should also work in combat. As far as I can tell, battle screen has its own hotkeys. I'm pretty sure many players were forced to watch entire battles because they couldn't figure out 'q' key.

More visible province borders on manually made maps. It takes too much time to recognize province borders and be able to plan next moves properly. It probably can't be changed painlessly, because it's hardcoded into map image, but still something to remember about. Unfortunately, it will probably require replacing all .tga files, and they're pretty big to put into patch.

I'd like an alternate way to enter army setup screen: right click on commander icon (that one on the left). I know there are hotkeys for this, but it's a bit unintuitive. And, if I remember correctly, I still have to scroll through all available commanders to change battle orders of specific commander.

more to come.