Wishlist: Suggestions for the next patch

[Sandman]

The spells which summon roving indy monsters (ghost ship armada, wild hunt, that one with the three sisters) should be stripped of their global status, so they can only be stopped by beating them or recasting them yourself. They're expensive, and there aren't enough global slots to make them worthwhile.

This may not apply to the three sisters, since the spell description seems to imply that it causes insanity in blood mages worldwide. Never cast it myself, so I don't know.

[Nick_K]

There was a thread a while back about extra information in messages which was quite good. In particular the 'storming a fortress' message is blatantly inadequate. I'd also like it if as well as units/magic/undead/commanders fielded/killed the battle reports provided a detailed breakdown. For example;


Friendly Combatants
commanders 2, killed 1
regular units 35, killed 10

Enemy Combatants
commanders 2, killed 2
regular units 20, killed 18

Detail:
Friendly Combatants
Commanders killed: 1
John the Priest

Regular units killed: 10
Archer 10

Enemy Combatants
Commanders killed: 2
Dick the Prophet
Harry the Knight

Regular units killed: 18
Heavy Cavalry 6
Militia 12



This would mean I wouldn't have to watch the less exciting 'sure thing' battles to see which of my commanders got hit by an arrow, or to check whether I'd taken out a key enemy commander.

[Szumo]

I would like if multiple ritual site search spells (Auspex, Haruspex, Dark Knowledge etc.) were automatically cast on different unsearched provinces.

[lch]

While we're at that, auto-forging of items every month would be nice, just like auto-casting of a specific spell is currently handled.

[Actuarian]

There are still a lot of bugs. I would prefer to see most of them fixed before implementing any new features. I'd like to see some resolution of the problem where too many trrops on a battlefield causes a CTD. It pretty much ruined a play by email game for me recently.

[Edi]

Actuarian, that particular bug is going to be fixed in the next patch. You're going to see a fairly large amount of the more serious stuff posted into the shortlist thread as soon as I get it organized and formatted to a shortlist friendly format, but like the devs, I also suffer from the condition known as Real Life which entails things like work, girlfriend, friends and a couple of cats. So it'll take a few days now, but then we should have all of the things reported to date shortlisted and Johan and Kristoffer can take a look at them.

Edi

[Hellboy]

Edi said:
Actuarian, that particular bug is going to be fixed in the next patch. You're going to see a fairly large amount of the more serious stuff posted into the shortlist thread as soon as I get it organized and formatted to a shortlist friendly format, but like the devs, I also suffer from the condition known as Real Life which entails things like work, girlfriend, friends and a couple of cats. So it'll take a few days now, but then we should have all of the things reported to date shortlisted and Johan and Kristoffer can take a look at them.

Edi

BTW, I've been meaning to mention that the bug list is excellent work, Edi! Between that and the DB work you've don I'm sure IW must be paying you top dollar!

[Actuarian]

Edi said:
Actuarian, that particular bug is going to be fixed in the next patch. You're going to see a fairly large amount of the more serious stuff posted into the shortlist thread as soon as I get it organized and formatted to a shortlist friendly format, but like the devs, I also suffer from the condition known as Real Life which entails things like work, girlfriend, friends and a couple of cats. So it'll take a few days now, but then we should have all of the things reported to date shortlisted and Johan and Kristoffer can take a look at them.

Edi

Thaks for the heads up, Edi! I'm looking forward to the update. If you are suffering from real life, you can always ignore your friends and girlfriend, but not your cats. Actually, I've been married for 20 years and I can't remember if you can ignore your girlfriend or not. However, I speak with authority to say that you can ignore your wife and resume gaming after three minutes of intense listening.

[Rick L]

I would like to see the AI recruit more expensive units after, say year three. In the mid to late game the AI is a pushover because it recruits lots of low cost troops. The AI obviously never read the manual section entitled "God is not on the side of big battalions."

[Gandalf Parker]

Szumo said:
I would like if multiple ritual site search spells (Auspex, Haruspex, Dark Knowledge etc.) were automatically cast on different unsearched provinces.

If I understand your request, thats already in the game. You select the appropriate mages, then use shift-M to tell them to cast the search spells automatically every month. They will select the next unsearched province.