Mostly the general idea that Fallen Enchantress will be taking that many ideas from War of Magic. I couldn't copy the initial quote however without making it look as if you said it. So sorry for the confusion.

Thinking of E:wom as a testing ground for ideas, I suppose I wouldn't mind if they continue development after v1.3. One feature I'd like to see is dynasties. I believe Derek does not think dynasties belong in the game , so I would like to see what Brad had in mind and see if it works out or not.

I also wouldn't mind seeing more AI work and some added polish. In particular, it is an eyesore when the game lets the player research spell levels after all spells are researched.

lol yeah, we can only hope before FE makes it out that those versions see the light of day after 1.3.

a side note, reading Elemental Destiny's Embers and I'm quite enjoying it. Been far too long since I read a book... guess it came a good time for me to start picking up reading books again, just might get me back into finishing my own novel before I have to go back and edit and change things in the story lol. If there are two things I like to read it's science fiction and fantasy, just been too wrapped up with RL/work and playing games to take the time to actually pick a book back up and begin reading again. gets the creative wheel rolling again in my head.

first person... perceptive.. meh... I'd prefer a 3rd person lol that way I can see what the heck my character looks like... but yeah... definitely would love to see a RPG from the world of Elemental, I'm gonna eat a sock if they actually come out with a RTS game as well... rofl... long ways off of course since Elemental is only in the beginning of it's birth

My modding ability is limited at best lol... coding/scripting in general escapes me and all that jazz. Best I'd manage is changing around things in XML files which is what I've had to do when doing some modding changes for mods in X3 Terran Conflict.

One more vote for the unit upgrade option.

Minor faction love.  Ive given numerous ways these could be made interesting and fun. 

Different armor tracks, light armor and heavy armor, not just one track with padded at the bottom and super heavy plate at the top.

More weapons, more balanced weapons and armor.  Balance Sword & Shield to be equal to two-handed weapon.  Now, there is no good reason to use a shield over a big weapon.

Meaningful stats.  The bonues from stats are miniscule compared to gear.

Fallen heroes.

Far more quest, with meaningful rewards.

More resources.  Make horses and worgs available for everyone. 

More magic from the start of game.

More gear from the start of the game and make clubs mroe useful.  If we could start the game with the ability to make Patchwork armor (armor that use to exist) and have clubs that could hit people and do some damage, then the early game wouldn't be so boring or rush to get leather armors and spears.

 Tactical battle changes.  Improved AI, and limited range on spells and bows would go a long way.  Also, balancing of powers.  The Scions one hit kills are silly.

They use to have scale and chain mail options, but it was buggy and unbalanced.  THe armor didn't look good on Women, and they didn't set it up to be usable for all races, so they just got rid of it instead of making some adjustments.  just sad. 

I love Stardock, but they cut a lot of corners on many of the features in this game when it was made.  From a distance, the game looks awesome, wow, you can do this and that, amazing.  But when you see the details, you think, Jesus, they did that half ass, didn't they?  The women's boobs poked through the chain-mail and scale mail and padded shirt.  Also, they didn't enable scale mail for any race other than the human race of "Men", so not even capitar or Tarth could use it, lol. 

I liked chainmail because you could put clothes over it so that everybodies units didn't look like clone troopers. There are a lot of armor models in this game that simply didn't get used. Undoubtedly this is because of balance. More armor would be pointless because they would be so high on the tech tree that they wouldn't get used and would require new weapons to balance them. There is no space between existing levels because all existing armor pieces already only scale up a single defense point. The problem is that Stardock really painted themselves into a corner with the combat mechanics. I have a mod where I tried to show how they could get around this. Everything from easy AI to lack of armor diversity can be blamed on the combat mechanics.

It's a unlikely hope now but I would like to see female armor(there is female clothing), and the ability to decorate troops so that all troops don't look the same. The ability to decorate armor with tabards, spikes, shoulder pads, fins, feathers, masks, or whatever would be really nice. Give every faction some unique ones, ie only Capitar could add roman style crests to their helmets. I would mod it in but models aren't my strong suit.

this is something my step father nailed deeply into my head. THIS is what drives me to be such a great worker at work and this is what my bosses love best about me is that attention to detail makes me work harder, make sure my work is supreme above all else.

Honestly - I'm of the opinion they should nuke harbors and ships completely until it can get some love (like minor factions). I haven't used a boat since Sep '10 (about a week after I bought the game and realized they were useless).

It's easier to teleport or just raise land to an island anyway.