1. Beastlord has 2 problems. {A} Beasts can start out very overpowered and take down dragons with ease, especially Cave Bears. If they aren't exploited quickly, they can obsolete fast, so you are forced to "use or lose". {B}. Beasts have no upkeep costs, and don't have any animal armors. They also don't gain useful abilities, and after a while just feel like "tamed units" instead of "Beasts". There aren't Beast abilities that they get over time which make beasts meaningful as succinctly being a beast.

2. Units level up extremely slow. Even with every exp buff in the game, it takes a while to get a good army. Meanwhile, leveling them up feels minimal in improvement versus waiting 3 techs and building a new unit.

3. Mounted Combat is not fun because it is a forced maneuver. The moment I have access to them, its "Pawn to King 4...". The problem is that animal mounts are limited to Horse vs Warg and any nonmounted version of a mounted unit is worthless.

4. Too many abilities, even after patch notes, come in low intensity stages. Vital Strike and Potential are great examples. I propose that potential1, potential2, and potential3 are removed. Also, remove Trainer 1, 2, 3, 4. Instead, place 2 potential skills with 15% and 25%, and 2 trainer skills with 15% and 20%.

5. Too many spells have little to no effect because they have a small base number + x for shards. This looks good until you realize out of 20 abilities on a unit, only 3 of them do above 6 damage when your level 20.

6. Fix the Unit Design Double Equipment Bug. When you design a Henchmen with 4 accessories, you can purchase and equip 4 more artifacts, which by all appearances, are "invisible in the background", and "stack" the new and old ones together.

7. Champions should have a "choose later" feature, and you should get a board of like 20 champions for your race/faction, and spend Fame to get them. You could also have a system of selecting specific upgrades for Champions instead of a new one. That would be fun, to make my heroes legendary instead of always recruiting heroes worse than units just to steal their spirit.

There are a lot of inspiring things in the XML which look like they could be really fun to have used in a specific way, even if not as a feature. For example, units having bonuses or penalties in their own land versus another players land. I would like a faction to make use of this, just not every faction.

I would also like the return of Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence... I suppose the AI doesn't know what to pick...  However, it could be scripted to make good choices based on other factors. A fire mage unit going path of the mage might pick Intelligence by default for example. You could even have +1 point per level up, which would help units become legendary over time, and have meaningful growth upon level up.

I would also like monsters in the sea, the ability to build war ships, and conduct naval invasions.

One more problem:

The AI walks into my border. I tell it to go home or die. It agrees to leave. Next turn, it walks back into my border. I tell it to go home or die. Next turn it walks back into my border. I tell it to go home or die. Then, I wonder why it doesn't "have to obey" for 10 turns.

And another:

We can design units but not armies. As such, I might design 5 specific units to be used in a stack in the form of 2 + 2 + 1 + Sovereign. I might be able to take my units and build a nice force by correctly mixing 2 skirmishers, 2 fire/ice staffers, 1 archer and Champ. The AI will instead take my designs and build 4 skirmishers, 1 fire staffer who upgrades into heavy armor then a melee champ.

Let us design ARMIES.

First of all, i can truly say that i love Fallen Enchantress, or at least the game it will hopefully become. For me, its the game with the greatest potential out there, and i have supported it from the first beta.

Still, after having played LH, in which i have great hopes, a couple of dozen hours, two main problems remain for me, which prevent me from staying at FE:

1) The Interfaces are, in my personal oppinion, a desaster. They are non-informative, non-intuitive, non-attractive.

I like to have all important information in the background or accessable within one click, and i like my interfaces to be well designed. For me, a nice looking game is an important factor for having fun and play at ease.

Its the main reason for me to prefer Civ5 and Warlock right now.

2) I really dislike the missing opportunity to improve my active non-hero-army. I know theres this "upgrade Armor/weapon" button, but seriously:

I want to experiment with- and specify my army in each given situation. I want to buy the stuff i researched for them, i want to upgrade them the way I want, and i want to change their equipment until i'm satisfied.

It annoys me extremely to have to leave my "old", experienced but poor equipped armies in town every time i researched new armory, to be able to design the party i want, and then have to train them again and again!

When casting a buff on an npc, please allow players to select multiple npc's at one time instead of having to cast the same buff over and over again.

Please provide a link to the quoted sources that specificies the percentage you mentioned.

If developers didn't want feedback, they wouldn't have forums, or they would explicitly state in the forum rules that they aren't interested in feedback...

Yea, it's their game, but a players strong opinions about what would make the game better doesn't equate to entitelment.

Entitlement is the belief that you have the right to something.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim that they have the right to one improvement or another...

That term is grossly overused by blind faith fan boys whenever someone has an opinion that they don't like, or is contrary to the direction the developer is going.

this forum is nice, but at current stage, there is no evidence about devs actually reading forum and adressing reported issues.

AI message spam was here from very first versions of original elemental and still here two years later...

If game position itself as sandbox, it MUST provide freedom. (get champion i want when i want)

If game position itself as comptitive, it MUST be balanced, atleast it shoud provide some illusion of balance, also it shoud be MP but just leave MP part alone for now.

Spell system currently is joke, only few spells actually usefull (grow, shrink) all others usefull only in narrow conditions and cannot be used constantly.

Cull the weak nice sample of bad design, it provide constant 20 mana\hp per unit, no matter what unit, no matter what level of hero, it makes this spell very imba at early stages (basically it allow to generate 20 mana per turn) and useless later on.

Current implementation does not provide anything, there is no balance and no freedom.

I'd like to add that I too don't intend to sound entitled to more, just really would love to have this game take the same place in my gaming tops along with the Civ series and the likes. "painful" is a good description too how I feel These are complaints a few friends have had too, and they aren't the type to come report. I am though.

On movement: I will note that just tonight I finally sat down and began to understand what "auto next unit" actually does. It works, just a bit awkward to understand at first. Combined with the move-o-meter line it really did help me enjoy things significantly more. Most of my problems now would just lie in management of buffs and embedded info in general.

Example: Buffs. Just an idea: Put the spell icon above the unit's name bar somehow similar to what you have going on with the icon above the city focus bar. I know it shows on the mouseover popup, but read on. To dispel a buff you could add alt/ctrl + right click functionality on that buff's icon instead of having to do it in another menu and it stops accidental clicking to debuff. Let me buff from the army selection circles when I click on it. The extra pop up to select a target just seems needless. 

I could make a grocery list of things like this, and I'm sure to some that have played 100's of hours it just sounds like laziness but really its more or less polish and that's important to a game. Me personally? I still play it, but I can't get friends (that are big Civ fans and the likes of) to understand the magic of this game because it's a bit hard to steer.

Not true!  There is one that becomes very valuable as it levels up.

I like the idea of having the option.  Many times, I have needed a road but it is not provided by the auto-build.  The existence of the Road Building trait is evidence that this need is valid.

Roads: There are a couple issues I've observed with roads:

* building through wildlands, this shouldn't happen, even if it is a long way around.

* building through monster lairs, again roads should go around monster lairs, at least 1 space away. I've seen roads build through dragon lairs, which makes using them incredibly dangerous.

In both these cases, one wonders how those poor road builders managed to live through the road building experience. Manual road specification, in ways mentioned above seem like a nice to have not a need to have imo.

Diplomacy: I like mangadrive's 10 turn stay out of lands timer to the option.

UI this thread has made some good suggestions for streamlining it. Other threads have additional suggestions but this thread includes some of the ones that still annoy me the most after having spent many hours playing the game.

Having been in the FE beta I can assure you the devs are not ignoring the forum feedback, many changes interacted with forum input, though their time is limited, and thus even easy fix issues often go unimproved.

As I recall hero leveling varied quite a lot in the FE beta both too fast and too slow, I'm sure they will continue to play with xp rates in LH.

1. Juggernauts and Garrotes are exclusive to a race, unlock in the tech tree and require support, they aren't expendable.

Bears and wolves are easy to do, dependent only on luck of strong bears/cave bears near you and give you a powerful edge right away. Storm Dragons come at the end of a tree, while Bears come right away. Also, you don't need a bear. You need 3-4 Cave Bears, 1 archer, 1 mage, 1 champ (who can be your mage or archer). You can also lose a bear if you have a Spider. The spider will tank enemies, and web them, the bears will maul + swarm anything and the rest of the army will hit hard any enemy who can survive the bears. Life magic is good for this end, to keep the bears alive. Bears have less efficiency against some enemies, which is where frost staff users come in handy .

2. Bears and Wolves start out very powerful if you get a "good copy", and over the course of leveling, don't get much better.

I believe the system should allow any recruited monster to be de-leveled to that of the casting unit. The monster should gain "better levels" over time, to symbolize training and improving. The Beastlord Trait should give +2 Levels of All Tamed Beasts, and the Collar should give -1 Level of All Tamed Beasts. This makes Beastlord "special". This makes "weak nearby beasts" as good as "strong nearby beasts" and give "all cave bears" the same potential. Animal Units are also missing flying beasts in my opinion, which would add a whole new fun, but I digress.

And for your criticism of my criticism; sometimes us critics need to be kept in "check" regarding specifics. I might think I am giving good feedback but don't know I am not. Thus, people like you help people like me communicate, something I admit I am bad at. Thank you and keep criticizing. Those of us who actually want our feedback to be listened to, will also want to present listenable and workable feedback. Therefore, I hold with appreciation anyone who makes me change angles and try to define things better.

I tend to find myself holding off on building units until fortress upgrades like Armourer are complete, because I can get an extra couple of points of defence on trained units that way.

More to the point, any old units that I have kicking around do not benefit from those upgrades.  Ever.

And yes I know, this has been around since FE, well I think it's silly and it encourages turtling instead of seizing opportunities to win the game.  Or training cheap throwaway units (which oddly enough, seem to go on to gain a few levels and not die, damn it).

Give me the ability to re-train and re-equip these veterans.  Heroes get to choose new abilities when they level up, so wouldn't it be nice if regular units could change their ability or equipment loadout at certain level milestones?

Another idea that I had just now was, if a unit is reduced to one man (or woman) during a battle, a random event could turn the sole survivor into a new hero.  Well, I don't know if that would even work, but I suppose it would be cool the first time it happened.  What I'm getting at is, the fame system is nice and all, but heroes aren't just attracted by that, sometimes they're forged in battle.