• Larger inventory icons and quantities on the main page
• Higher contrast on tactical map outlines for squares to visit
• Consistent use of the Escape key for quitting out of menu options
• The end of modal dialog boxes, like town upgrades that don't provide you with enough detail but force you to make a decision. Something like Endless Space's notification system that allows you to see the option and go in or out of it is very handy. Easily my highest request for improvements.

This gets my highest endorsement as well.

Can the skill/spell school icons in the display when choosing which champion to pick be made a bit larger?  Especially for higher level champions that have a number of picks, it can be maddening getting the right mouseover.  Literally spent multiple minutes mousing over teeny-tiny icons to try to get the right one to select.

This may interest only me, but I'd like to be able to see coordinates of the square the pointer is on. It can be relative to a fixed point, like the first square of my first city - so that there's no hint to the size or shape of the map, or where I started on it. But when I'm sending a scout around, it would be nice to remember exactly where that Arena was when I'm later trying to look through the fog of war. I understand that I can't see what's there now, and I'm with that, but the location of something I've already seen close up isn't a secret.

First of all, I'm loving the Legendary Heroes!  Thanks so much for all your great work on what has been a long, hard road.  I've been on board since the original WoM beta and its been great to watch the game evolve and grow into its own.  Keep up the good work!

Now a few twitchy UI things:

1)  The pointer misalignment issue in the tactical screen is a big one in my book.  It doesn't seem as prevalent in FE as in WoM but still there occasionally. Really frustrating when it rears its ugly head and sends my troops to the useless square next to the one I really wanted to navigate to.

2)  Navigation through the mini-map doesn't seem to function very well, or again there is some kind of pointer misalignment that causes the map to center on a point offset from where I clicked on the mini-map.  Also the rectangle "view outline" on the mini-map doesn't seem to track my view very consistently either.

3)  Brighter movement square highlights (both possible selection highlights and hover highlight) in the tactical maps, again frustrating when troops head to the wrong location because I can't see exactly what tile I'm highlighting.

4)  It would be nice to be able to see troop statistics on city defenders.  Currently the city screen just shows the token for the type and number of each unit but doesn't provide any detail on the attack, defence, etc.

5)  The UI should mask the background.  Specifically, I have noticed that when there is an enemy unit, resource, or city under the mini-map and I mouse over to try to select a given location on the mini-map the cursor changes to the "attack" swords icon and makes selection of a position more difficult.  I believe the same is true of the mini-city screen and some of the pop-up notifications too.

6)  When my research selection screen pops up at the beginning of the turn the cursor pretty consistently changes to the "attack" icon and again makes button selection awkward.  This seems to be more of a problem in the later game so may be a resource issue.

7)  And most importantly, BRING BACK THE BABY MAKING!!!! Hahaha, I loved this feature in WoM, I thought it was so novel and added an interesting tangent to the game.  Plus it was always a surprise to see how ugly your children were when they grew up!

Thanks again for your hard work guys, I'm looking forward to the next iteration!

I HATE THAT I CAN SEE WHAT ENEMY CITIES ARE BUILDING.

That's definitely a unique UI issue. TAKE IT AWAY! Or at least give me the option to hide it!

I'd like to be able to edit a player created faction or sov without having to do so by recreating it or editting xml. For instance my faction is a bit more red skinned then I wanted. Being able to make a slight tweak and test changes on the fly would be nice. 

^ This.  This should be at the very top of this list to fully address in this patch.  The infamous cursor bug is hands-down the biggest UI-related problem with the game.  While it may not impact everybody, it impacts more than enough of us to be worth addressing.  It's been 3 years... the same ol' bug since WoM all the way up to Legendary Heroes 1.3.  It's been reported so many times on this forum and all over the internet. 

Please fix this.

PLEASE! This is why I made my own editor to fix rivers!

Is moving to Michigan a requirement?

I've suggested this before.  Formation options:

As I mentioned before, when units are placed, the game will try to overlay the formation onto the map as best it can, shifting individual units that would otherwise be placed in impassable squares to the nearest 'legal' square, which would of course disrupt the formation a bit, as it should.

This way, each side/player does not manually place each individual unit onto the battlefield before combat (preplacement), something that Brad doesn't like.  Instead, this would happen in the background, based on your formation choice, with the game AI shoehorning your formation into your starting location as best it can.

This would be a significant change, hence it might be good for an expansion of some sort.

Even without the formation options, it'd still be nice to be able to manually shuffle units in your stack, to influence their placement on the map. My suggestion is that oval 1 should be towards the back/furthest from the enemy, and oval 9 towards the front/nearest the enemy of the available placement squares on any given map, although the opposite order might also work (1 closest/9 furthest).

Now that I have a better understanding of how map placement is determined (thanks to the map builder utility), essentially, you would designate 15 placement squares on the map, with each formation choosing 9 of those 15 squares for placement.  Example:

 1   2   3   4   5

 6   7   8   9  10

 11 12 13 14 15

These are all of the available placement squares. 

The Wedge places units 1-9 as follows: 13 - 8 - 12 - 14 - 7 - 9 - 3 - 11 - 15

Reverse Wedge places units 1-9 as follows:  13 - 8 - 7 - 9 - 3 - 2 - 4 - 1 - 5.

And so forth... any sides that exceed 9 starting units for whatever reason (i.e. cities) would fill out the remaining 6 squares, or perhaps designate different squares for the city defenders.

So map makers would choose the 15 starting squares for each side, and the formation picker would place the formations into the designated 9 (or less) squares.  Each map could have several variants with different starting locations, so as to keep players on their toes a bit.

BTW, I decided after I made graphic # 1 that the Line Abreast formation wasn't practical, hence my not including it in the second graphic above.

Do tell?

One more:

At the moment unused Essence slots are grey, which is quite hard to spot unless you're really looking for it. It's easy to forget you have unused city Essence slots, especially just after you've conquered an enemy city, and 95% of the time it's a mistake if there's an unused slot; some sort of prompt or hint or way to easily find them would be nice. There may be legitimate reasons why they're unused, most obviously if you don't have enough mana, so nothing too intrusive. But one or more from: a: highlight empty essence slots above a city in red on the strategic map; and/or b: have an easy way to select cities with empty Essence slots, e.g hotkey "E" or whatever; and/or c: highlight empty essence slots in red in the city info screen; and/ or d: highlight empty essence slots in the list of cities in your kingdom; and/ or e: the first time you build or capture a city, take you to the city info screen (would work best with the red highlighted essence slots). Maybe only for capturing; I think most players would be interested in seeing what buildings there are in a captured city, and as I say it tends to be captured cities where I forget. On the other hand the city info screen is going to be pretty boring for a newly built city.

I use the Logitech Marble Mouse.  While I picked it primarily because I'm left handed (many trackballs are designed for right handers), and it has a symmetric layout, I've been using iterations of it for well over a decade now.

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble

Once you get used to not dragging the mouse back and forth across the table/mousepad, it's quite nice IMHO.  It has mixed reviews r.e. use in first person shooters (some like it, others don't), but for things like painting in Photoshop and such, I like it a lot, and there isn't another mouse on the market that I'd rather have. 

There have been a few reports of the more recent versions of the Trackman-Marble Mouse not lasting as long as the older ones (button contacts wearing out over time), but my most recently purchased one has been doing quite well so far (it's about 3-4 years old now).  I probably have a half dozen of them floating around, for different computers.    I always pack one with my laptop.

Of course, it still has a USB cord, so for those of you that like your rechargeable wireless mice, that may be a consideration.

I SO do not miss dragging mice across the table!