Played Beta3A most of the day and have these game play suggestions:
Save game: Can we have the gameworld name and Turn information saved with the Date/Time stamp? Maybe this isn't a big deal but after the amount of crashes suffered today, this information would be helpful IMO.
Load Game missing from Main Menu durng the game. You can save a game, but there is no visible method to reload a save game without exiting the game.
During the game, quests and goodie huts become upgraded and unavailable to be accessed. It might be better to tell us what we need to do in order to access them rather than to say that you cannot access them.
Is there a method to change the unit exit point from a city? In my last game, a goodie hut generated next to my city right on the exit hex, one that I couldn't access and got the unable to access this goodie hut message every time a unit exited the city. That was a PITA, and caused the game to crash a couple of times.
Is there any plan to create a ongoing battle log? I found a number of times that I had missing units which I suspect I lost in a battle, but didn't immediately notice. It would be nice to be able to go back and review a list of battles and be able to review the battle detail and losses suffered.
In the design units dialog, can we get an option to change the unit's face? We can apparently change everything else, but curiously not the face.
I notice that I can neither drop or sell the clothing objects that the Sovereign starts with, is there a way we can get rid of clothing items that we do not want? Also, in the earlier builds the Sovereign was able to start with a weapon. Am I missing something or can we get a option to have our Sovereign start with some type of Club/Staff or other weapon?
If there is a method to transfer gear from one unit to another, it is NOT obvious. I should be able to transfer unwanted items from one unit to another.
Is there a method to UNsummon a previously summoned creature? If so, again it wasn't obvious. BTW, death didn't seem to unsummon my summoned creatures even when my Sovereign was killed and regenerated back in his capital city. I'm assuming this is a bug or do summoned creatures simply get auto-summoned back after a battle?
It would be nice to have RALLY points in the later stages of the game. I'm thinking ahead here but it might be a micro-managing nightmare if we have to do this manually for each unit that is created.
The spell icons, once you reached a certain level became very small and hard to see. I'm using a 1920x1200 display and the icons were hard to distinguish IMO.
Are there no Warrior heros that wander around for hire? I don't think I've ever seen one. Also, considering the amount of gold that you spend on a hero, they seem fairly fragile. Could they at least start with some basic equipment to protect themselves?
When putting a Pioneer unit over a resource that it might be able to harvest but cannot, can we have a Info Icon that explains what the kingdom/empire needs to research in order to harvest the item?
The whole GUI interface seems to require a lot of clicking to get things done. In the Kingdom report, it might be nice to have a City section that we can view all the city information in one place (like GalCiv) and a section that lists the number of each unit that the kingdom has (i.e 13 peasent, 4 guard, 1 mounted knight) and each hero, location, and level (and stats/bonuses).
I also have some fears about playing a Conquest game on a large map. If I have some 20 cities under my control and perhaps 10 or more heroes, are they ALL going to be listed down the left side of the screen? What if I have 30 cities? I have my doubts that this might be a good system in the end.
Just some thoughts that perhaps you might want to think about.
