All of these would be great fixes. I tend to not mind a terrible UI problem, but other players will definitely care. Just think how much of an advantage I will have in tactical battles when only I know how to calculate the chance of a resist. I would be unstoppable. Wait, maybe keep this issue until the expansion. I might need the advantage. 

The track for pathing needs to have markers at the end of each turn's move; we should be able to look at the move track for each unit and see how many turns it will take to get there, and where they'll be at the end of each turn.

Also, a second bar underneath units that shows whether there's movement left to that unit or army (ie, a 3/5 full bar if the unit has 3 moves left out of 5) would be welcome, so you can see at a glance what units can still be moved on the current turn.  It would be great to look at the left bar and know what you have left to do that turn; who needs to move, any cities without build queues, and any quest actions that need to happen.

spot on.

I agree with much of the above, but would make one change to the suggestion of organizing the skills and traits of champions.

• First, there should be a larger medallion on the left side of the skills bar that houses the "Class" medallion. It should be blank or non-existent when below level 4.
• After that, the next should be bloodline trait (most fundamental)
• Then Spells
• Then other abilities, grouped by type; Defensive, Offensive, Active

Show both, one above one under.

I want all of the above suggestions, as in my opinion they could help to push fe to 'addictive  can not stop playing to go to work in-spite of no sleep for three days' that the first civ was for me back in the eighties.

harpo

All excellent points.  I'm assuming this is what development teams refer to as the cosmetic stuff, and it typically gets left until last.  I hope none of it gets missed in the final push towards better balance and bug swatting.

Right.  I recall Brad mentioning that in one of the last beta threads.

I did, I asked for what was missing from an un-modded game - to see the traits of the faction while making a custom sov.

This deserves some attention, these are pretty universally teriffic ideas and changes.

Not sold on the lair timer, but everything else is certainly positive.

I'm not convinced those things are things the player needs to know seanw3. I think it is easier to simply note in the tutorial that monsters grow in strength, and that summoning units with higher levels makes them more powerful.

Ideally, there would be no difference at all between spawnrating (milestone) and current level, but that's not the way they decided to go with monster values.

The UI is moddable, but since we can't extend its use with scripts there is very little need to. We can't do calculations or display information that isn't already there. For the Goetia mod, you and I will have to mod it since the new universal unitstats will push some other informatoin out from certain places. What we will do then is simply make a few boxes with dynamic content larger. I did some similar stuff for After the War mod for E:wom where it was necessary.

Edit: An example before and after

I just remembered this in another thread:

"One of the problems that I have assured many a person is the UI for units. In cities and on tiles we have a terrible, eye-burning interface. When I heard the hall of famers from GalCiv2 were coming over to the FE project I was sure we would at the very least get what we had for that game. Still we play with a far inferior system with far more bugs. There is still hope for the unit UI, but I guess I need to start bringing it to light."

This is by far the oldest complaint in the game. It's so old I had forgotten all about it. Remember those wonderful logistic screens from GalCiv2? I summon thee!

<GameModifier>
<ModType>UISummon</ModType>
<Attribute>SummonUIByClass</Attribute>
<Value>1</Value>
<Provides>+1 Superior and Usable User Interface</Provides>
<UnitClass>UI_Galactic_Civilizations_2_TA</UnitClass>
</GameModifier>

that is what the bites out of the top of the city name sigh is for, BUT you do have to zoom in enough to leave he clothmap mode to see it.

harpo