I would love to see protecting my claimed area from being entered by the computer ( via diplomacy - auto war for example )

I think we need more tech options , even maybe some choices should have results like not being able to select other techs.

upkeep for buildings ( money - space - city type - max number of buildings etc. ) to force selecting what can be build

more trade options. I always liked the "civilization" concept that you can only built a unit or building if the resource was available to your city.

spell trees are no way balanced. Arcane monolith vs any spell in game is unfair to even discuss.

A magical solution for invul to damage like dispel ( generic spell to all )  is a must.

Thought of another thing that drives me up a hillside...

As you may know from my previous posts, I really enjoy the aesetics within this game: The art style, the ability to detail your city design, customize your armies, etc. However, when it comes to expanding my cities, expanding them towards hills and mountains just drives me batty! Having the hill/mountain flatten for the sake of the city completely destroys the emersion of the game. It's especially painful when the tiles that flatten are not even part of the city...but are adjacent...and now I have hillside tiles that looks like plains...but have the movement penalty of a hill. At the VERY least, the these tiles should just become plains and lose the movement penalty. At the VERY most, we should have the ability to build cities up a hillside...or into a mountain side. That would be, imo, awesome. I'll underline awesome.

The lack of loot/items from defeated heroes.  Could be just one item at random.  AND if my sov/hero has a "pickpocket" skill, I get to choose which item I steal.

The lack of positive/negative fame for winning/losing battles/cities/outposts.  If I win a surprise victory against a superior force, i should get a boost in fame.  

Fame/infamy could also be used in a GalCiv type alignment system.  The "quest" screen where the cruel dog killing men come to see you and you have three choices could reflect this.  Different heroes could desert you if you become too good or evil.  

The lack of consistency in spell effects, certain spells can only be cast once, etc.  (Look at Demons and Wizards mod for a solution to summoning.)

You briefly had spells that were hybrids of two schools, these were great.

Spell books should be big boss or wildland quest rewards, not for sale in a Pariden shop.

All spell schools should have a damage type and it should be consistent with weapon effects/resistances. Totally agree with going with a Diablo-type of prefix\suffix item crafting randomizer.

Life\Holy\Resists Death.

Death\Unholy\Resists Life.

Earth\Poison\Resist Air.

Fire\Flaming\Resist Water.

Water\Icy\Resist Fire.

Air\Lightning\Resist Earth.

Creatures and interactions with items/spells should be consistent.  The Holy Hammer did not kill Banshees last time I played for example.  And one of the Venomous bows doesn't do poison damage every turn.

Tactical battles/city building/boring unit traits have already been covered by others above.

Weird/shifting outpost/city ZOC that makes me waste time rebuilding structures in my precious city queue.  

Bribe\hire modders to incorporate their mods into the vanilla game.  Hold forum contests for new quests/monsters/items/heroes etc.

Why do I have to go to a third-party site to get mods?!?  Where is the Hosten's Library on the FE:LH site?

Where is a mod manager, monster/creature editor, loot editor, etc.

Thanks for creating this thread... I feel much better. 

I don't think the lack of depth in tactical is tied to it being too short or the lack of flanking, LOS, and moral. Mostly it's due to bad AI, bad balance, and lack of unit roles. It seems designed around generic melee units smashing together, and that's all the AI knows how to do. They really need to ask themselves what they want to happen in tactical and rebalance units around that. A stronger negative relationship between attack and defense would force you to design and use different types of units. Right now you just build the strongest unit possible and throw them in waves. Defenders are only real specialized melee unit and the AI has no idea how to use them. You're supposed to lead with your high armor units so they absorb the first blows, not charge in with all your low armor units first. I would also like to see more teleportation skills and AI support for it, this is a serious flaw right now.

True, but watching some of the recent GalcivIII videos, it becomes quite clear that gameplay sacrifices have to be made in order to accommodate the multiplayer aspects.

In prefering singleplayer, I would rather they maximize gameplay.

• The name gerenator.  It's unbelievable that you have that crap random name generator so long after release.  I'll write you a list of nice sounding names for each faction, for free. 
• And why do the new sovereigns from the DLC enter the game using those random names? That's unpolished; seriously.
• The game is way too abstract for my tastes.  I like to imagine a semi plausible world, even though it has magic and dragons.  Why does a mace do double damage and then stun the unit the next activation?  The weapons and armour are just too unrealistic and it breaks my imagination. A better implementation of the mace idea is a double damage strike as a form of berserk attack that leaves you almost defenseless for a time.  That would match reality somehow, e.g. bare sark viking warriors.  Maces should simply be high attack value and slow weapons. Anyway, this is a topic for a whole thread.
• I'd like to see differentiation between mages and fighters.  My mage can cast spells better by wielding a dagger to get +3 initiative. Huh?  My magi often end up wielding shields.  No, that should be a skill for the other paths.  Magi should be the best spell casters and they need more equipment that is unique to them.  They should be the ones with special amulets, etc to protect themselves instead of armour and shields.
• Shrills. I just don't like these insectoid creatures as somehow connected with the four elements. It's just a clash of themes to me.  I'd rather these are strange insect hive mind colonies and leave elementals as a separate type of being who draw power from their element and magic.
• The religion of the game world.  I don't get how there is a great religion around four nasty elemental lords.  I mush prefer something more traditional to a fantasy genre.  There is a Blood God.  There are powerful beings from other realms.  Let there be a fantasy pantheon with it's own unique style and creativity of more traditional gods.
• Road building.  This should never be connected with a sovereign. Allow it just for an engineer style unit.  Call such a unit something medieval like guildsmen.  Let me every faction have such a unit.
• Commander sovereigns just don't do it for me.  I would move some of their command abilities to the general area and make a multiclassed path that can wield magic while fighting with heavy armour and weapons.
• An outpost should be like a smaller settlement than can harvest resources and do sensible things according to that scale of settlement.  Not have things like consulates.  Its should have things like a healing station, stables where cavalry get extra move as they can change horses, maybe an abbey for mana increase for a nearby shard.  Not armories that add +25% armour rating. How is that supposed to work.  Troops nearby suddenly get thicker armour until they step out of range?  Again, it add strategic choice but is so abstract that it makes absolutely no sense.
• Let me construct outposts using those craftsmen units but take some time and not use up a pioneer.  It just makes better sense. 
• When enemy sovereigns submit to me, I see that they are not using their equipment with any kind of sense.  If that's how they enter battle then this should be a high priority to fix.
• Gilden. This is a faction that is skirting with dwarves as presented by Tolkien.  I understand that the world of Elemental is trying to be unique and fresh but to my tastes, it only partly succeeds in the images and themes that have been chosen.  I really hate that +50% mana penalty to tactical magic in exchange for higher magic resistance.  What is it supposed to simulate?  It means you would be mad to ever to make a mage with that race.

I like the game and play it a lot.  Sadly, I don't have time to mod it to address some of the above.  I would make a mod to bring the game to my vision if I had spare time.

Stardock is an awesome company which I have immense respect for.  There are so few companies that are run with that strong sense of integrity and honesty.  And it's still commercially viable as proven by how long it has lasted.

I still rate Fallen Enchantress and FE:LH as top fantasy games that are worthy successors to Master of Magic.  I give LH a 9 out of 10 for the fun factor.  I write the above as someone who loves the game as it is.

Cheers,

Sword

1. most of the faces/heads on the humanoid models.

2. the lack of character throughout, mainly in the user interface and faction designs.*

3. that the rng seed isnt saved.

addition:*just because everything is made of "squares" doesnt mean it has to look and feel like it.

still, great game.

My list:

- Buildings built on map with no other gameplay purpose then "cheesy" city snaking for ressource grab or fast influence steering in one direction only(I'd prefer 1 tile per city, or a maximum of 4 tiles a city, then building real influence buildings would really mather too, and connecting Your empire could potentially be a long and painfull process).

- No penalties for obstacles or range on bows in tactical combat.

- No ships, naval hero traits, sea quests, ports, ship yard buildings or sea monsters.

- No city siege game mechanics.

- No Multiplayer.

- Automatically built roads. This is a lost opportunity making pioneers more vital, and the trade system more of an investment. A system With roads built by pioneers, upkeep cost per tile with a road and trade revenue increasing if cities are connected (and also based on the gildars they are making, if they are towns or citadels etc.) would greatly improve the depth of empire building strategy. The same would the need to protect the trade routes, the pioneers working and the road tiles themselves from roaming monsters and faction enemy raiding parties..

I wish to expand on this thought a bit, as others have expressed dislike towards multi-tile cities; though I for one do not understand why as I find multi-tile cities to be one of my favorite aspects about the game and this is a run-on sentence and I am sad to see the mechanic leave in the initial discussions for the release of E15.

1. First, to snake, you need to have manual building placement enabled. For any player who does not like to snake, why not just turn manual building placement off?? Or, to rephrase the question, what is driving players to play with manual placement on and yet still complain when they are able to abuse this feature?
2. Second, without Parrotmath's snaking mod, I wholehearted agree that snaking becomes exceedingly cheesy, with it's only purpose being to strategically cut of the AI at bottleneck locations. For any player who does not play with Parrotmath's snaking mod, refer to point 1.
3. With manual placement on and Parrotmath's snaking mod active, snaking becomes an emersive experience if not abused. Build out to rivers and forests for additional benefits. With Parrotmath's swamp mod, build out towards swamps for additional benefits. With Parrotmath's Bridge mod, build out across rivers for additional benefits. You see a recurring theme. In addition, this is no advantage to the player as the AI does expand and build these structures too.
4. Why wouldn't SD simply hardcode Parrotmath's snaking mod into the manual placement option?? (I suppose this question would be asked with respect to the answers from point 1)
5. If SD did hardecode Parrotmath's snaking mod, it opens up a DLC oppertunity, there could be other resources, or structures, or landmarks introduced into the game where players would want to creatively design towards. For example:
1. The FE resource that granted influence could be reintroduced to grant fame, but only if built within a city.
2. Forests could be harvested. Yes, there is a logging camp chain, but what if you could set a temporary 'camp' instead? You receive bonus production and after 10 turns the forest is consumed.
6. There is a 'cheesy' aspect when players use snaking cities as travelling conduits and passage doorways. This was partially mitigated back when LH beta 0.4 (i think), but could be further restricted. I am intrigued by NorsemanViking's 'maximum tile' idea however 4 tiles is far too small. 9 Tiles may even be too small considering the available buildings BUT this could be a soltion towards increasing mid-late game difficultly.
1. Having to choose your buildings and not being able to build all your buildings forces the player (and AI) to make smart decisions.
2. There could be an 'expansion' chain of buildings that unlocks with different techs. The first tech gives a building that allows you to expand from your base 4 tiles to 6 tiles. Another tech could unlock the second building upgrade that allows you to expand from 6 tiles to 9 tiles. The third late game tech would allow you to expand from 9 tiles to 12 tiles. (numbers are dependant on ensuring a decent restriction of buildings, while still allowing for a wonder...)
3. Sure it's artificial. But so is simply restricting city expansion altogether.
4. Would this make the game too complex? I don't think so. A light blue box could sillohette the city when build is selected showing all possible build tiles. If you've reached your limit, you need to build within the confines because your city cannot support the 'urban sprawl' yet. It's 'realistic' in a certain sort of way...

Thoughts?

Music sucks more than any game I have ever played.  A 3 minute tune repeated for one hours is total fail.

800 turn game design.  What were they thinking?  My games are over in 250 turns.  I never get to a level five city because the game is over before they can grow that far.  Redesign the game to go 400 turns.

No mid game units.  My first stack of militia go all the way through what would be the mid game, because the economic model can not support more than one stack.  Then my research and unrest suppression reach full speed, and I can afford to build end game units.  

Tax options are fail.   They jump 20% per change.   This should be replaced with 10% change options.  It's simple math.  Would you want the IRS to operate this way?

I dislike not being able to heal your champions unless you find the odd potion. I would like to be able to build a hospital, just one per faction, where you can send your injured champions to heal and recuperate. The length of recuperation would depend on the severity of the injury. While they are away from the front line recuperating you should not have access to their strategic or tactical spells.

I do not like the fact that you can just stroll into an enemy settlement irrespective of the size and level of that settlement and fight the units stationed there. The larger the settlement the more difficult it should be to get into and this should definitely apply to level 4 or 5 fortresses with castles etc. and I think this would make the later game more challenging. Battles outside the walls and then  fighting inside are a possibility. Another option would be to lay seige to a settlement for a number of turns dependent of the level of that settlement before you can attack. Top level fortresses could be bombarded with trebuchets and catapults to destroy fortifications before you get inside the castle.

Research needs spicing up as it is too easy to get all the techs. Make research more expensive so the gamer does not have access to all the techs until later in the game. Each of the factions should have more faction specific techs. How about adding powerful spells that need to be researched with each faction having spells the others will not have access to.

The option to sometimes (randomly) capture an enemy champion after winning a tactical battle would add another element to the game. I could then ransom the champion for gilders, crystal, metal etc. or offer him a wad of cash to fight for me (he/she is a mercenary !!). Of course I would also lose a champion from time to time but hey, that's all part of the game.

But PLEASE no more bunny slippers or lollipops. GRRRRRRRRRR.

The new DLC. I't crashes every game I try. Would be great if it all worked but it does not.