- All faction outgame screens. (Although purely cosmetic, it would be great to see these finished off)

- Renaming Heroes (in a similar way you can currently rename cities).

- Now that the faction count is up to 11 (12 with Mezari) I would love to be able to have 12 player games.

- Speaking of Mezari I would love too see them made into a truly unique faction with their own intro, faction bonus, units, story and off course out game screen :P

I would love to see each hero have their own unique portrait and model.  This reusing of portraits and models makes the game feel cheap.  Even Endless Space had a different portrait for each Hero.

I second the Hero rework.  I feel the next expansion should explore more options with heroes.  Some personal things i think should be considered in no particular order or relevance are:

More unique artwork for heroes...everyone seems to want this.

More unique skill trees and abilities for heroes...specifically in combat abilities, and city governor abilities that can be activated but have cool downs (think special actions maybe similar to Ardent mage's spells) . 

More ways to recruit heroes...specifically quests found in temples...and unique events where upon completing certain tasks 1st in game you will get a limited opportunity to recruit a hero using something like influence or other means (maybe sacrificing something valuable like units or boosters).  This basically works off the idea that people have heard your empire is great and want to join it...for a price. 

Have an option that limits heroes of only your race be recruited by each faction in the options menu. Another common feature that i think many players would appreciate having the option to tinker with.

Expanding the idea of this big universal academy more.  Maybe make it an actual location on the map that can be interacted with.

Szemis wrote:

- All faction outgame screens. (Although purely cosmetic, it would be great to see these finished off)

+1, might see this happen someday ^^

- Renaming Heroes (in a similar way you can currently rename cities).

+111one

- Now that the faction count is up to 11 (12 with Mezari) I would love to be able to have 12 player games.

+1, although expect performance ... hiccups ... to scale accordingly

- Speaking of Mezari I would love too see them made into a truly unique faction with their own intro, faction bonus, units, story and off course out game screen :P

Not gonna happen, IMO.

Tymorius wrote:

I agree! Heroes need some more work.

+1

- Unique settlement model for each minor faction. 

Can you be more specific? Any ideas which do not involve a re-write of the core game could become reality ... one only dares to dream ^^

- The animation of trade routes on land and sea. It is not much but I think it would make the map look more vibrant, like the weather effects in Tempest.

Cool ^^

- The soundtrack is FANTASTIC! I would love to hear more :)

Again, +111one

Above all things: Shared allied Vision as a default to start the game with. It would make the MP experience so much better!

Additionally, maybe make the arrow animations a bit better, for boats especially. The animations look quite silly.

Heroes IMO could use some improvements, both visual/esthetic (portraits and story) and gameplay-wise (different abilities for each individual hero, handling the choice offered by the marketplace better, slightly different leveling system).

I think allowing you to rename them would be the very least, since I'm quite tired of having a few Wayra Sigos or Ozeks in most of my games!

more different Heroes would be great, also the combination of class and faction.

I would say Drakken. Ardent Mages, Nercophages, Forgotten, and the Allayi should get like at least 2 flying heroes, we really need more than 1 flying Hero.

Also Vaulters, Broken Lords, Roving Clans, and Cultists should be get Cavalry heroes, because we don't even have one Cavalry hero!

I am not sure what class of heroes the Wild Walkers should get,  since they don't have a flying nor a cavalry unit and the other classes are common enough already.

And for the Morgawr I have nothing, maybe navel heroes, but how should that work?

Some (not all) of the wished for hero ideas can be implemented in mods. There are already one or two hero mods on the workshop now.

My pipe dream wishlist for features that would streamline the game experience (all probably require more game engine work than the devs would do at this point):

1) I would love to be able to retrofit units to different designs of the same model. So, for example, if I have two necrodrone designs named Necrodrone High Initiative and Necrodrone High Defense I would like to pick any Necrodrone unit I have built and retrofit it to whichever design I find appropriate. It would give the added flexibilty of not having to change a Necrodrone design every time I want to change the equipment of a certain unit built off that design. 

2) Allow us to keep building units in a city when it's garrison is full rather than blocking unit production. Additional units would be placed in an army at the city center. 

3) When a city has more than 100 approval, display the actual approval sum when you mouse over the approval display. So if the city's approval sources add up to 115, display 115 (rather than 100) as the aproval on the cities list and  the city info. Then you can tell at a glance that you can build one more city or district and still keep the city at fervent.

Otherwise, to me the game seems pretty complete. Maybe sea combat could be fleshed out a little more. All else I would ask for is more bugfixes. Some quests are still a little buggy (including some quests in the Lost Tales dlc). And the AI still has this tendency to retreat when you attack their army, even if their odds of victory are very fair, then attack your army then next turn with their half-health army.

I know it'd be a little hard and maybe would frustrate people who've been playing it for years already but, 

-> NEW VICTORY ART FOR ALL FACTIONS & EACH DIFFERENT VICTORY CONDITIONS. I'd suggest even that they had short videos with voice overs but that's not always cheap and never easy. The fan base / community could be drafted/involved in creating new victory art. I think it'd be another great excuse to log in and vote or contribute.

-> New cosmetic detail: Wooden Arrow Signposts get created at every crossroad that has a trade route. More trade routes? More arrows. 

-> Add in a few more security options please. One or two unique items or modify a few of the older military buildings to add a little?

I 2nd, eruanion's suggestion - 1) I would love to be able to retrofit units to different designs of the same model. So, for example, if I have two necrodrone designs named Necrodrone High Initiative and Necrodrone High Defense I would like to pick any Necrodrone unit I have built and retrofit it to whichever design I find appropriate. It would give the added flexibilty of not having to change a Necrodrone design every time I want to change the equipment of a certain unit built off that design. 

Request: Diplomatic contact with races as a Diplomatic option. Maybe I just missed the option, but in my most recent game I just opted not to get the raft/ship technology in Era 2. I figured I could trade for it later but didn't, and only made contact with about 1/2 of the races that were in play because of it.

With the Inferno being teased I’m so excited that Endless Legend, my favourite 4x of all time, will get some more content!! >_<

Here’s hoping that some of this stuff mentioned will make the cut. Come on outgame screens!!!!