I completely agree. This thread is not exactly hard to read and most of the posts are pretty straight forward. That said, I do think that it might be nice if someone took the best ideas and made really good cases for them beyond this thread. The only reason would be to make sure that the devs really know why those particular updates are necessary and to prevent future changes from addressing only one limitation while creating two others.

I realise that but I thought that you could use a quest to generate a particular goodiehut, which would only generate the required quest,  So you have the required result (one quest generating another) with the (possibly unfortunate) side effect of having to generate an intermediate goodie hut.

so quest A on completion generates Goodie hut B.  The only thing that goodie hut B does is generate Quest B so that you can get from quest A to Quest B.

This is a big one for me too!

If I recollect correctly you can change what stats get updated by regular units as they level up. If you created your own "level" stat you could increment it by one each level and use that. Would have to be manually increased for Champions though I think. But yeah, could really do with having the actual Level stat exposed.

As far as i know the only leveling you can affect is with enemy units and this only dictates how higher level units should look compared to low level units. If I could directly change the way regular units level, I would be able to simply add a level unit stat which incremented with each level, thereby making direct access to the level meaningless. Then, again this would also be a nice mod request, to be able to directly affect how units level. Right now, they seem to only level up their health, but it would be nice to say, this unit levels up strength and this one dex.

You know, it would be really cool if the devs put in hooks for us to basicaly redefine parts of the game. As in, say a levelup function:

LevelUp()

if in ModList() there is a LevelUp function run that

else do normal stuff

I have a feeling that might be what they're going to do. In the end I hope they give us hooks all over the place to change most if not everything in the game.

I have been noticing some issues with the cartographer's table. It is very difficult to set a specific place for a faction to spawn as the only definition is player 1-8. It would be nice to be able to set a specific faction, vanilla or custom, to start at a given tile. Also, some major factions spawn in place of a minor faction. It seems to not recognize the difference when it chooses who will start where.

Another thing I'd like to see regarding quests (besides an editor). I'd like to be able to fit more text into more screens. Right now, the only two places which are fairly unlimited are the initial opening quest description (upon accepting quest), and CompletionText (which appears you can't change the image associated with this, it appears to use the Image defined for the quest accept screen). QuestChoice only allows 400 characters. Being a choice though, we can work around this for now.

The other thing I'd like to see is some kind of allegiance tag within a quest condition. This way we can add flavor in quests depending on if you're a kingdom, or empire. I see the <Faction> tag in there, but it only resides in non-active quests right now. And it only ever has Player reside inside of it. Seems kind of redundant, as the player is always the one doing the quest. 

Also, open up gamemodifiers to all parts of quests. This one can get very frustrating at times. I don't recall now, but there have been occasions where I had to move a gamemodifier from one part to the other. I don't remember the order at this time, but I think I had a gamemod in a questconditiondef, which didn't work until I put it inside a QuestChoiceDef. Very confusing, especially if you're just starting out creating quests. Even if there is no change here, providing a list of valid gamemodifiers for each container would be invaluable.

EDIT: I think, from talking to Cari_Elf, that you meant to have PopUpObjectiveMsg take care of long text. It does allow for a lot of text, however, as the name implies, it's a popup. And not a very large one. It only takes up the bottom part of the screen, with a medallion on the left side, shrinking the already small area for text. If you put too many characters here, the text will shrink, fitting it all, but making it nigh impossible to read.

EDIT2: Also, it would be nice if there were a way of having requirements for doing a quest. Or at least maybe not upon being able to accept the quest, but within it. Something like <TechRequired>Armies_Trogs</TechRequired> inside of a QuestConditionDef. I say this particular type of tech in this situation: A quest where you have quite a large battle, and you want to make sure the user can build troops before accepting the fight. This way, we can keep the quest active until the user has the appropriate tech.

Also, I would like to be able see what effects are currently active on a unit or tile (if they are not an enchantment, or even if they are, in tactical combat) and also have (a) GameModifier(s) which removes or otherwise affect enchantments and other spell effects, ie counterspells, dispells, disenchants, etc.

The ability to implement passive special abilities that do calculations per turn.

Pretty please?

Edit: Also, hooking up the AdminCost and AdminCostExponent tags in the ElementalDefs file, as well as the tax rate. Or, if these are already hooked up, feel free to shake your head and call me lazy.

 Thats kind of what Dodge does. Although it doesn't "block", but dodge is rolled vs accuracy before att v def.

Like 'em all.

Dissect <isCaravan> tag into usable parts. For example make the ability to enter neutral territory, produce roads, enter enemy cities without starting combat, and whatever different tags.