Yeah, I've been waiting for these kinds of things to get fixed before I start playing again.  Particularly 2 and 5.  I made a list a long time ago of things that needed to be fixed, but I've kind of given up on it, and this game because of them.  I really like the game, but the bugs can be too frustrating.  I've lost games to bugs.

For pathing, I don't think the game takes into account if you have the scout trait, it will still take you around hills, swamps and forests if that would otherwise be the fastest route. But yes, sadly it seems you have to move your units, that's rarely an issue for me as I mostly just have 2-3 armies running around.

Oh yes, there's TONS of other bugs, just like any game.  Don't get me wrong, I love this game.  The stuff I mentioned is the stuff that makes me crazy during a game - watching my army start marching around an ocean rather than cross one square of not-mine territory, loading a saved game (especially early) and not getting a pioneer, answering the phone and coming back to a DirectX error.

As an aside, I absolutely hate the Night of Haunted Dreams quest.  Killing all those skeletons is a PITA.  Could someone lay out a for-dummies on how to make that event _NEVER_ happen?  I know almost nothing about modding.  All I want to do is basically comment it out of existence.

While it is annoying that the pathing will avoid AI territory at all costs (except when building roads), I find it more annoying when it paths 5-10 tiles more than it has to through neutral/my territory.  Like, I'm next to a lake, and I've got a straight path with nothing in the way to a tile 3 spaces away, and the pathing AI routes my troops all the way around the lake instead.  I am not exaggerating.  I had to get in the habbit of never utilizing the pathfinding, which is annoying because the UI was designed exclusively for it.  Why can't we at least have the numpad move units 1 tile at a time?  If I have to circumvent bad pathing, at least make it less annoying.

Also, I don't think it matters whether you have Master Scouts or not, because it often doesn't choose the best terrain to path through.  I've had it choose hills over plains when neither was the quicker route and I didn't have Master Scouts.  You really can't trust it to move you 2 tiles away properly.

There are other problems with loading autosaves besides units/buildings being canceled for no reason.  They said they fixed the autosave problems a while ago, but I don't know what autosave problems they thought they were fixing because all of the ones I've ever encountered are still there.  I got in the habit of quicksaving at the beginning of every turn because autosave was so unreliable.  You don't know what's going to change if you load an autosave.  The only reason I even leave them on is in case I forget to quicksave.

And that's why I never automate scout my units unless I want them to go away, they will get eaten.

I'm still holding off playing due to the wandering bosses leaving their territory bug that was supposed to be fixed already but I've seen some more bug reports that are saying it isn't fixed.   Maybe 1.6 will do it I guess...

Deleting the quest never did work.  Don't know where it was drawing the information; still hate Night of Haunted Dreams Quest!

1) None

2) multiple times + reinstall

3) yes, many times

Yes, of course it would.  Accounted for it and re-edited each time.

Yet another developer that doesn't finish their games.  It's becoming the norm these days.

Hmm, I will give that a try.  It may have been auto "repairing" my adjustments.  I did try at one point changing the triggertype to 10000 but that didn't help either.

By the way, despite my impatient tone, I really appreciate your efforts.