often the choice to choose another tech is either not showing up, resulting in a default to civilization, or loading and immediately closing. it seems to happen most, but not neccessarily always, when other windows pop up before this one. things like you've built a caravan, spell research complete, battle and level up, etc.

certain cities do not show as building anything despite the fact they are building, it is most often, but not always, the capital, and most often when building things like gold mines or farms, etc. on resources. this is very confusing and frustating.

There is far too much flavor and not enough substance to the game, specificly technology descriptions, resource descriptions. like it might be nice to know this farm gives 6 while this farm only gives 4. and when a rival nations says "you will want to trade your 1st born when you hear about my breakthrough", i'm left scratching my head as to what the heck this has to do with anything or what my responses will do.

maggies key stays in inventory after completing the quest.

no up or down scroll on the unit/settlement list to the left, so when it gets to long you are tuff out of luck. this is made worse by the fact that a settlement will be skipped if it is building either a troop or a building, this is especially odd since there is one on the right for when you recieve too many messages

seriously, somewhere should be a settlement list and unit list, as in the total war series. if its there now i can't find it and as it stands, the user interface is insufficient and cumbersome for even moderately sized empires

there needs to be an indicator that a unit has a destination, and more over, a way to immediately advance to that destination. specificly caravans. trying to move them is a ripe pain, you don't neccessarily know where you are sending them when you first create them, they have to travel long distances, and they don't show up with the other units. and as it stands now, if you gave them a destination, you don't know until you scour likely targets for the  'x'

dungeons which occupy a tile where a resource is, prevent you from upgrading that resource. this can be a problem when the dungeon is way above your skill level, or more likely, when you have completed the dungeon, but it refuses to delete itself. either prevent overlapping of this fashion, or provide a means to scroll through all occupents. or you know, fix the dungeons

since the latest patch, the 1.6 according to impulse, my spells are missing constantly, its ridiculous, i can go 4-5 spells in a row without a hit. this is even against level 1 creatures which occassionaly show up mid game, and even with my character with high intellegence(which i mention because it says intellegence equals effectiveness, i have no idea if that means chance to hit as well)

while the first "quest" tech has never resulted in more than one or two new dungeons, since the patch the next two levels are also incredibly sparce. i mention this because there is nothing in the patch about it and it really seems empty now.my current one i've got 2 level 3s and one level 4 and thats it.

when a city levels, information needs to be provided on that city. what do you want to specialize in? how the heck should i know, i have 8 cities, i don't keep track whats in each one. i don't see any buttons or options to show me the contents or production, or more importantly, resources i haven't tapped into yet that amy also factor into my decision. and i don't see a way to cancel and do it later after i've evaluated the city.

was told i found a patchwork breast plate in a pile of loot, what i actually got was an ordinary robe

the moon stone/forger quest isn't coming up for me anymore, leaving me with quite a few very useless moonstones. is there some other way to use these aside from the pathetic and laughable 25 bucks you get from a merchant.

normally i'd wait till i had a little more to do another update, but this one really, really needs addressing. he destroyed my mine with a caravan! seriously, i went to war with kraxis(?) and after taking several cities, was informed some structures were burning, he destroyed 2... with caravans. i don't even think it was intentional, just them traveling their trade routes and 'poof', destroyed. what the heck? there was nothing there but the caravans, it had to be them.

there are just way, way,way too many mana crystals, the fire, air ,water ,earth ones. getting one of each hasn't been difficult in a single game i have played so far, the challenge would be not getting one of each. currently i have 1 air, 6 earth, 5 fire, and 3 water, and thats not counting the 6 or 7 i haven't bothered to build because they cost 100 a pop and in my current game  gold is ridiculously scarce, and the 2 i can't build on because of the phantom dungeons that prevent me from selecting them, or the two others i could easily get with additional cities i just don't feel like building, or the several i got after conquering kraxis. its just insane.(btw, i have 3 other air, but as i rarely use air magic in my current game, i have focused on the others, even though i know the boost-thing is broken.)

I conquered 3 kraxis cities, one had no food and was building a +25 percent farm booster, one had a potential of 275 population, of which they only had 100 and one 1 prestige, so naturally, they were building another house. most of their mana nodes were upgraded, yet there were little to no gold, or research structures, or material structures. i am at a loss as to how they survived that long agaisnst the roving monsters, ofcourse they were no match for me.

a message log is needed in this game, specificly for the pop ups, i have had turns were i am bombarded with 5 or 6 things, including battles that then spawn level up messages, by the time i get done, sometimes i have forgotten exactly what the first ones said, yet there are a few messages where there is no ability to immediately respond to them, and they don't leave a message icon on the right like others do, so i can get the details later when i am actually in a position to do something about it.

to clarify, you need a settlement/unit list like total war to address the problems of the existing list, which won't be corrected even with the addition of a scroll bar. those are:

there is no way to isolate just the units, speciifly prominent units, and no way to tell at a glance who is in a city, only that some one is, making finding prominent characters, champions, more of a pain than it should be

you should be able to tell, for larger empires, at a glance, what cities are building, not simply that they are building something, and with the way idle cities are reported, you can easily mistake cities which are just begining to construct something, since the only real indicator is the progress bars.

to voqar: its being reported that units which have suffered damage will resize on a reload. so if 2 of your 4 archers died and you crash before they are fully healed, you now have 2 archers, they will never recover to 4. since i constantly crash or am forced to restart from lag, it basically means my formations will die slow deaths, if this is true that is, but regardless, something is causing them to shrink over time.

to voqar: its being reported that units which have suffered damage will resize on a reload. so if 2 of your 4 archers died and you crash before they are fully healed, you now have 2 archers, they will never recover to 4. since i constantly crash or am forced to restart from lag, it basically means my formations will die slow deaths, if this is true that is, but regardless, something is causing them to shrink over time.

I'm getting this as well.  Really annoying when you have something expensive like drath, or sovereign forbid, dragons and you have 6/8 before the crash and the unit is reduced to a single on load.  This is the single most game breaking bug at the moment IMO.

version 1.6, the latest as of 8-29

another small one, because i am unlikely to play again until some really, really annoying things are patched first. my patience, and tolerance are exhausted.

a scenic veiw, within the borders of recently conquered town, shows as still being owned by the nation i took the town from. it may, hard to say, be given me the diplomatic points though

defeated nations still show up. for example in my relations, they still note "war" despite being defeated.

it would be nice instead of giving an arbitrary age of a child, you also gave a number of turns until they mature

it would be nice if information on newly acquired spell books was given, what spells they granted, or will grant at a later level

ice lords regenerate mana in combat... they have neither spells nor powers to draw on this mana.

champions are unable to buy certain items, i.e. it doesn't show up in the shop. buying it with another unit and trading it, it will not even show up in their equipment list, just the trade window. no explanation is given as to why they can't use the item, or who can.

weapons which require two hands don't always report this fact.

it would be nice if champions reported their hiring cost somewhere prior to running them down to hire them, but at the very least, when you have gone to the trouble to run them down, for crying out loud, you should atleast then tell me how much they need, a stupid little conversation bubble with a x through it doesn't help. i know i've sorta brought this up before.

summoning spells need descriptions on the creatures they allow you to summon. its irratating to waste the research to get a spell, then the mana, only to find the creature is absolutely useless. yeah after playing the game awhile i will know whats what anyway, but in the time being its more irritation on an already frustrating game

moving into enemy territory, without war being decalred, negates any tile activity. for example, a monster on a goody hut, there won't be a battle, nore will the goody hut be activated

tactical battles need quick moves.

dungeons are horribly inconsist in their monsters. a level 3 dungeon that spawns blackwidows and what not, slaughters my guys, but a level 5 spawns a handful of jokers who couldn't hit me in a dozen attacks, same gear and abilities for each dungeon. worse was after this spider massacre, i got nervous and built huge dungeon crawling parties only to find most of them had absolutely no monsters, really a let down.