Admitting that I didn't read any of the full list, I have to disagree. I would like to see all five of these in the game. I went with Hidden Assassin. The fact that that it even made the final five seems to indicate that it's possible to code in, in theory... and this makes me pretty excited.

Of course, I forsee some major balancing problems with this one when used against sovereigns. But, since Stardock doesn't pay me anything, I'll let the developers deal with that one, if necessary.

True. But say you have a full stack of well equipped troops led by your sovereign. You're fighting me, whose sovereign and one other random champion has this trait. I go in with the champion first to take a little "off the top" of your sovereign, but my champion is killed, as you suggested and rightly so. Then I go in with my sovereign who also has this trait, and make short work of yours, who has just taken part in a battle.

Meanwhile, your gigantic army is just standing there not able to do anything. Would this be a horribly frustrating loss? I think so. Would it be a satisfying win? Maybe, but probably not. Now, neither of us can really tell without actually playing the game, but it's something to think about, huh?

Edit: I do think that having the code in the game that would allow for target selection when entering tactical combat would be very cool. I would LOVE to make a mini-mod that gave sovereigns the ability to have Highlander-style, risk-it-all duels with an enemy sovereign. Even if it turned out not to be a very fun game mechanic in the end.

That assassin trait looked cool so i picked it. Outlaw Connections wasn't too bad either... and Black Market Merchant was interesting concept though, IMO, it's pretty boring in the actual gameplay, just more money.

Perhaps they've already implemented the others into E:FE & these where the only 5 they hadn't already thought of

Oh...it's supposed to be a tactical ability?  I didn't catch that from the description.

I don't see how my trait was complicated. It boiled down to: +strength, +dex, -charisma, reduced effects from healing, chance to poison enemies in melee combat.

If that is considered to be too complicated then

I'm very disapointed too [e digicons]:'([/e]

Is that the most imaginative the players could come with ? What about skills like Lycanthropy ? or Wolf Tamer ? What about Flaws ? Like Lost Love, the hero could get married only once or not at all... I mean come on ! Open a role playing book and look at the trait, there's plenty far better than this !

Oh well, I guess Ill go with Hidden Assassin...

In all honesty though, I think these contests give ideas to the devs as to what we want & if alot of the submissions were faulty for some reason or another then I have no doubt the ideas behind them will be at the least considered.

Kinda hard to know what "too powerful" is for a game that doesn't even exist.

Not saying you're wrong because I'm sure that's part of it for some of the traits that didn't make the cut, but it's hard for us trying to just be creative and come up with ideas to know if +2 would be too powerful or +1 or if 15% would be better than 30%, etc.

I wonder why the beast dominator trait was chosen over my trait that was basically the same, and submitted first. Either way I am not too thrilled with either of the choices. But I voted for the beast dominator trait that was submitted simply because their is currently no real way to get the wild animals into your armies.

I think most of these were picked because they are easy to implement. Take mine for example, the Dominate spell already exist and is working fine. It only takes a slight modification of the current spell to make it only usable on Beast and your done. Polistes, as Dsraider pointed out my suggestion does not control best it's just prevents them from counter attacking.

I think they should all be put into the game.