Problems in demo exist in regular game?

[TruePurple]

Would cause some to quit because they couldn't resist the temptation to reload when things to wrong.

You mean quit playing the game? Seems the traditional saving is intentionally not there. Putting it in might not be much work, suppose putting in a ironman option could be a bit of work. But the ironman option is best of both worlds. If it reflects in scoring, someone could easily choose it for extra challenge rather then quit the game.

You can mimic it by backing up your save directory.

I know that but..

Not easily, since I have issues with the game where when it loads and I click it minimizes, I have to refocus to the game twice and then switch resolutions over and back and do this every time I alt tab and all that takes plenty of time. To do this ever so often.. So your solution is a hell of alot of work and waiting.

Then when you want to load the save you got to remember which one you hadn't used. Which is hard since copying the save requires either different names or different directories.

for 'heavy infantry' it shows one of the many heavy infantry, randome one every time.

Because you figure it would be easier to program that way? Well that would definitely be better then nothing, its about the less generic units anyways. But really its confusing and silly to have so many units with the same name. Like the better druids (the ones that cost 380, not 120 or so) should be called "master druids" or something. These units should have more specialized names in my opinion, least some of them.

Not a real big thing for me but it would be nice and in some examples its just plain absurd for them to have same name IMO.

I like having stuff in the manual.

Sure, but if it was a choice between having the information in the manual where you flip around and find it and having the information at a click in the game. I'd much prefer the latter. Especially since it makes the game notably more mod friendly. And in my experience players can make some real nice mods sometimes. And as a bit of an environmentalist.. anything that saves resources. Plus savings in manual costs might be extra incentive for the developer to put it in the game.

Speaking of, how often do they (the developer/programmer pair) read the forum? Might I ever hear from them on these issues?

What are their names anyways? Is it Mindi & Annette? (both girls right?)