agreed

 I've seen some of my units actually move off the road they are traveling on and end the turn 3 squares from where they should be when they dump themselves in a forest... having to move square by square along a road is annoying. LOL. I'm sure they know it's an issue. Just throwing my "voice" with yours in case they are unaware of the issue.

The pathfinding is lacking and there is no preview of the path your unit is taking to the destination. SD *must* be aware of this. Don't understand how this hasn't been a priority, though. It affects every single turn of the game, and for me is a gamebreaker.

I think this is mostly true.  I have hated most games, if not all games, pathfinding abilities and always moved the distance that  I knew the engine could handle.  Especially when coupled with any enemies along the way.  Of course, most of the ones I really hate are RTS and not TBS, but still.

Really, the Myth series (1/2) had the best movement of an RTS.  Admittedly, it moved slow enough that I could correct any problems, but usually I just assumed I picked a spot by mistake instead of where I wanted. (Since occlusion was brand new at that point, and it was tough to click behind a building during battles.)

I watch all my units if I care about the # of turns.   Even in the Civ series.  From playing enough TBS board games where being one turn behind is a loss, just kick the king over type situation, you end up learning pretty quickly, or you just have enough at home to not care if you're a turn or two behind in movement to a defensive position.

Now the moving a ship (or unit) from one end of the world with too much FoW in the way, the UI should plot the multiple move points _and_ display them to us (as has been mentioned before).  I shouldn't have to micromanage across the world movement of my characters.  I almost feel like building a level 1 city ever so often to make this possible, but that seems weak.

So in conclusion, it's not that big an issue for me, excepting for across-the-map movement not working right. If everything else were perfect, I'd ask them to work on pathfinding, if only to sell the damned algorithms to all the other game companies (if such a thing were possible).

Just my two cents.

I have hardly even noticed the effects mentioned so far.

What i have noticed far more in my games with regard to pathfinding (not exactly pathfinding but in that general area) in order of annoyance are as follows;

1) Walking near cliffs. I dread walking near cliffs (north face) due to the high probability of wacky destination selection. I use the keypad for basic up and sideways moves, but angle moves with the keypad are inconsistent.

2) Mouse pointer. Often it will be the case in certain parts of the map where the mouse pointer seems to become misaligned with the tiles. This results in units moving into the tile adjacent to the actual tile you selected! This can be annoying if it takes you off road as a result or if it delays an attack or goodie hut retrieval.

3) Exiting cities. I dread having to exit a city to attack nearby enemy, because most often my units will not attack from the direction of the city. Instead, they will run into the wilderness (you don't see that part) then turn back towards the enemy but typically expend all their movement points then i lose the city because no one is home!

All of these above things annoy me far more than the actual auto unit movement pathfinding.

Edit: Sorry for double post. It got stuck when i clicked 'post' then eventually i got a white page which asked me if i want to retry, hence the double post!

I consider the exiting city bug a pathfinding bug.  you have an enemy right outside one of your cityies, and you select your garrison force and try to attack the enemy but if you do not micromanage the pathfinding the game cannot usually do it correctly. 

Thanks for adding that one to this list.  Seriously, it is very annoying.  it will turn off folks new to the game, so why not just fix it.  It should not be hard to spend a bit of effort on pathfinding.  Improved pathfinding will only improve the user experience. 

hehe maybe an option to turn "off" forests in the map until pathing is fixed ?

I've noticed this, too. It seems to happen only after I rotate the map. You're right, it's super annoying.