1. Earthquake seems too cheap for its devastating effect. Perhaps every building should have 50% or more not to be destroyed. Complex buildings should rather be downgraded than destroyed.

2. Starting trait Wealty of 500 guildar at start I'd suggest to replace with +2 guildar per season.

3. Starting trait Adventurer should give only 50% of cost of hiring heroes. With all heroes for free human player is able to recruit all high level heroes, leaving AI with none.

4. I'd also suggest to remove population cost for pioneers. There is no need to slow down the game and when AI occasionally loses its pioneers at start it completely kills the chalenge of the game.

5. I don't know, but something should be done with influence. For henchmen it's valuable, but for other situations it's useless (or perhaps I didn't find the secret of its usefulness)

Here are 5 things that don't seem to work the way I would expect/want them to:

1.  Path of the Governor.  The irritating thing about this is that to be effective, the governor needs to be in a city.  But to level up and gain more powerful governing skills, they have to go out into the woods and kill wolves.  I like the idea of the PotG, but I wish the experience mechanics would change by allowing them to gain experience staying in cities doing what they do best.  I would like to see traits in PotG that lower costs at the shop and hiring champions (and I will second the call for Adventurer to halve the cost of hiring them, instead of making it free.  Adventurer with Betrayers lets you spam scouts and run around the map recruiting all of the champions on the map for free...)

2.  Pathfinding - Logic issues are already pretty thoroughly documented in this thread, but I'll echo the following:  Letting us see the intended path before we click would help.  Units that arrive at their pre-selected destination and still have movement points left should gain focus so the player can continue to move them, not end their turn.

3.  UI - Level Up windows for units and cities don't display all of the attributes that are affected (Spell resist, mastery, etc) making it frustrating to weigh perk options.  Please make "empty" essence slots more visible on the map than the little indentation in the city banner.  I think someone's mod put a little circle outline around the space.  I haven't seen it, but something like that would be appreciated.

4.  Autoturn - Still broken--ending the turn with cities still idle and units left to move.

As soon as all of the units have moved, the game should start cycling through idle cities--allowing me to hit the spacebar to let the city remain idle that turn.  Additionally, when you come to the last idle city, the game shouldn't end the turn as soon as you select something to build, it should wait until you close the build/train window with "Done" (so you can queue things).

5.  Faction Colors - Some of the color selections in the faction setup screen aren't explained very well--when/where are they used?  Also, it seems like most of the clothing/armor options ignore the primary/secondary color selections (I'm looking at you, Monk Robes!).  It would be nice to see those colors represented--so that spearmen from two factions all wearing the same armor are still distinctly different.  It would be even nicer if I could adjust a unit's color scheme when it's designed, so that my normal spearmen and royal guard spearmen (with different traits) are visually different.

If I were able to offer MORE than 5, I would include:

Train Henchmen available as a faction perk, and female henchmen enabled.  (I know a mod has enabled them and I've done so, but I think it should be in the core game.)

Units that move onto stacks or cities should not automatically be "joined" into a stack or set to "guarding" in the city.

Fix the health bars not updating in combat after damage/healing done until it is that unit's turn again.  As soon as a unit is the recipient of some effect, the health bar should update and redraw itself.

***EDIT:  Also, I would exchange the defense values of Leather Armor and Monk Robes, so that Monk Robes are def 2 but have a dodge bonus, whereas Leather is def 3.  When I set the unit designer to use the best available, I end up with a world full of "troops" wearing monk robes.  (That don't match my faction colors.  GRRRR!)

***EDIT 2:  I'd like Champion/Sov armor color schemes to be changeable, too.  I hate having a Dark Lord sovereign running around in a lily white magic robe because that's the only armor he's found so far....

***EDIT 3:  The XP awards for killing units of other factions seems to be MUCH less than killing monsters of comparable difficulty.  I'd like to see larger experience gains for defeating faction units.

gs

I. Pathfinding - As many others have mentioned, stacks occasionally take the scenic route for no reason. I get the impression this mostly or only happens when they're traversing a tile that has changed in some way, and there's definitely tiles that all stacks consistently won't recognise as ones they can walk on. In my last match, an outpost in what became the heart of my empire was razed early in the game. Afterwards all stacks, roaming AI stacks, rival faction stacks & my own, would take a significant detour around that tile (which happened to be located between two impassable tiles, so it really was a major detour).

II. Tile Selection - Occasionally the game thinks when you're clicking at a tile next to the one you're pointing at with the mouse. This generally only happens when the tile is at a steep angle to the camera... So... It happens fairly often when moving stacks around mountains.

It would be very nice if the various "stack do X" was turned into a 2-click process, instead of the current 1-click process; the first click to designate the action with visual feedback, the second click to make the stack carry out the designated action. Nicer still if we could chain actions (for example, waypoints) by holding shift while giving multiple "stack do X" orders.

III. Selecting Stationed Units & Exiting Cities - Right now everything about it is wrong. The mouse goes wonky when selecting multiple units to simultaneously exit a city. When exiting multiple units, they sometimes end up as multiple stacks for no reason. And of course, the GUI bits involved in the process are utterly, utterly horrible.

IV. High Tower Outposts - When capturing or recapturing an outpost with the SoZ upgrade, the upgrade persists but stops working. Which means it's typically better to raze outposts with that upgrade, even though it doesn't seem like it should be. I guess it could be a feature, but I doubt it.

V. AI - Across the board, really. The tactical AI has trouble evaluating group multipliers and differences between weapons, and it many different kinds of problems using spells. The Diplomatic AI isn't transparent enough, often seems to act completely randomly, and uses tech trading in a way that comes across as hugely exploitive and unsatisfying. The Strategic AI basically has next to no concept of SoZ's, and has an incredibly hard time making decisions based on the resources it actually has available, rather than the resources we'd all like to imagine we had available.

4. If you settle a new city within your zone of control, it says "Insufficient Space" next to every improvement, even if there's plenty of space.  I've run into this issue four times now.  This last city was settled at the border of my zone of control, with no other ZoC's nearby, so I should at least be able to build in the newly acquired space.

It only seems to occur if I settle on what seems to be new yields.  I'm pretty sure none of the yields were there when I started the game, and in two cases I know they weren't.  I'm not creating the yields with one of those spells that does that, they just randomly appear, so I settle them.  Obviously not a good idea.  

5. I guess I need to pick a 5th.  I'll go with this:  Sometimes tiles that look very much like Plains aren't.  It might be a forest tile, even though there are clearly no trees in it.  It might be a river tile, even though it's just next to a river tile, and there's no water in it.  It might be a swamp.... honestly sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a plains and the actual swamp graphics.  I haven't had any trouble with the hills as far as I know, but I might not have been paying enough attention.

How far away does the city need to be?  And it only occurs if the city is built within the ZoC.  Otherwise, if the city is the same distance away, I can build improvements just fine.  I have run into an issue where you can't continue snaking a city towards another one, but I've gotten them about 2-3 tiles away from each other.  I think it's being caused by whatever bug is causing the new tile yields to appear.  I should note, they're not reappearing, but rather there were never yields there to begin with.  It's as if someone came in and cast one of those spells that creates yields.

I wrote it so you would take a look at the distance in particular, remember also you cannot build improvements upon swamp tiles, if neither of these are the case I implore you to grab the save, debug.err, and screenshots and go make a bug report since not being able to build improvements is certainly more "BUG" than "Gameplay glitch"...
And moreso important to fix.
For the numbers, I don't really remember, I think it changes per map size. its around 4 tiles or so.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

1) Influence. Too good if you're Altar, worthless if you're anyone else. Scale back the cost of the Sion tech a bit, give Kingdom some unit to spend influence on and maybe make wonders cost influence?

2) Buildings that are cancelled don't refund resources. It's kinda annoying when I'm building the Spell of Mastery towers.

3) The Spell of Mastery victory is a bit too easy compared to the others. It should probably cost more itself and/or be later in the tech tree and maybe up the cost of the towers a bit.

4) Units really need separate tracking for how much movement they have left.

5) General combat AI problems. Abilities being used on ophidians, beguiling ranged units, never disengaging once a unit is inside a zone of control except to run away, that sorta thing.

6) Not really needed super soon since it's not gameplay but what would be nice eventually would be a better pool of sovereign/nation names. And if you're randomly generating them to stop that and use a pool of names.

1> Poison Damage to stack.  If you stab a guy twice with the same poisoned blade, he'll die twice as fast with twice as much poison in his system.  Oh and you should be able to stab the guy twice with the same blade even if it's a poisoned blade.

2> A way to restrict armor, weapons and other equipment from being used or equipped by an ability and/or by race.  And for that way to actually work the way restriction by level works.  A sovereign or champion should be able to have any item in their inventory but not be able to equip it if ineligible (Like restriction by level works). 

3> For ranged (Bow/Thrown) damage to be able to Proc like melee damage.  Currently when striking an opponent with a club, sword or other melee weapon, a secondary spell can be triggered.  This does not work with ranged damage.  It should.  I can understand with the current vanilla game this isn't balanced properly, but please open it up for modders.  We can find our own way to balance things.  Because Poison is a Proc (spell) an arrow can't do poison damage.

4> Random Encounter Generation.  It would be great for Goodie Huts and Quests to be able to randomly determine an Encounter.  I have in mind to either have multiple encounters and randomly choose between the encounters or to have a random chance for each Unit to be included in the encounter.  I prefer the former though the latter would be an improvement.

5> Calculate (Calc) to to have Rand and If/Then/Else logic.  To be able to randomly generate a value between a low and high number.  To have an If condition in which any race or ability can be checked for and calculation determined by the results.  I recommend the Rand to return a percent (0 to .99).  That way any range of numbers can be returned by multiplication.  For example, <![CDATA[[Rand] * 8]]> would return a number between 0 and 7.  The If could be like: <![CDATA[[Unit_Get_BloodAmarian] * 4]]> with Unit_Get_BloodAmarian returning either a 0 or 1 with 1 meaning unit has that ability.  The result would add (or subtract) 4 based on race.

I know there could be some question as to what I've written is a feature or a glitch.  You said "something that doesn't work as you expected" as the criteria.  With that being said, 4 and 5 are probably features.  5 definitely.  But I do think 1, 2 and 3 are glitches.

I want to see something done about outposts, using 30 pop pioneers really seems to slow down the game to much.

Not that I'm not excited about LH, I am, but any ETA on 1.3?

I'm not well versed enough in this game to say what really needs fixing or adding inside of the game itself, but one [I think] small thing I would like to see added would be a high score board. Any game with score should have a log of high scores.

Didn't I just read this in another post?
While I agree with you... its... Arh whatever

~ K