Thanks for taking the time and asking the opinion of us players & beta testers. I believe I speak for all of us when I say 'that we really appriciate being included in this process'.

That comment surprised me.

As is, AI cities receive full militia defense (and catapults) every battle. The player can't attack the city several times in the same round because the city defense is replenished for each battle. This forces the player to build the death stack of heros in order to one shot these impenetrable cities.

Compounding the issue is the fact that players player cities don't even follow the same rules. In those cases, miltia defense only exists for the first battle, even if no miltia is lost. Subsequent battles result is no additional help from those would-be defenders...

I see  miltia defense to operate as follows:

At the start of each round, the militia in a city is replenished to it's capacity. During the turn, if the city is attacked once, whatever militia units are lost or wounded should be remembered so that if a subsequent battle occurs, the defending status continues from where it left off...ie....has the same killed and wounded units. By this reasoning, a city could hold up against multiple assaults, yet it's forces deminish and will eventually cave to a superior foe.

As for my 5:

#1:

Roads. I really like the concept of auto-roads between two points. It removes the tedious, mundane, road building one tile at a time. But the process still feels lacking. Imo, an element of control should still exist as to where you want the roads to be built.....not on a tile by tile basis....but on a location to location basis. There could be cases where I don't want two cities connected with a road....perhaps it gives too much benefit to a nearby opponent.

 I still think roads should be buildable items from a city's build queue.....enchantable too if it can be programed. Though....more essence may be required if another dimension of enchantments are produced.

#2:

The Path of the Govenor just does not work. You need to keep him in the city to gain bonuses....but you need him out of the city to gain experiance. Something needs to be done to fix this. I would think that any unit in a city should be able to gain experiance over time.....just at a much slower rate than those seeing combat.

#3:

UI for loot items. This frustrates me. The only options given are to equip the item (without knowing what it does), or to 'ok' the item (and have to search for your hero again to see what the item does). Please please change the UI popup to be a three-pronged menu: 'Ok' to stay the same. 'Use' to equip/consume the item without detail. Lastly 'Equip' to open up the equip screen so that you can explore the item and decide what you want to do with it.

#4:

Influence. There needs to be more active and apparent generic uses for the stuff. I've previously mentioned in another thread that heroes should cost influence (with incremental cost increases) instead of gildar and I still think that's a really good idea. It actively gives purpose to influence, giving the player a strategic choice: Have another hero OR have more influence against your opponents. Also, actually knowing what the influence is doing for you in terms of diplomacy would be a really good addition too. Maybe in the trade screen have a color coded parenthesis showing the discount that you are receiving in account of the influence you have.

#5:

Razing. Only thing I'd like to mention here is that everyone should be playing by the same rules. Either AI and player can insta-raze OR AI and player must wait 5 turns. Just have it consistent please.

Suggestion on a Path of the Governor Fix.

Heroes should unlock a Governor's Mansion that can be built in each city- that gives an XP amount per turn for units Governing (maybe limited to path of the Governor).  That XP bonus ups with Ereog/Breon techs, or a better building unlocks with each of those techs.  It should be a significant building to build (equivalent to a butchery), but not limited to one per faction.

As for roads, I'm fine with roads being auto-built.  That said, roads shouldn't be constructed all at once, it should be gradual.  That said, Path of Governor hero in town should increase the rate, and Road Building increase it even more.  Also, add an "Enchanted Roads" enchant for Earth Masters that makes it instant as a global faction enchant.

It would be neat in the expansion if a monster could destroy roads (new mid-game bandit monster perhaps)

Top 5 Playability Glitches?

#1:  I would like movement paths that show the number of turns to get to that location before you move https://forums.elementalgame.com/434017

#2:  I would like an improved empire tree which includes highlighting the currently selected unit/town. https://forums.elementalgame.com/434355

#3:  I would like an undo (or buyback) button in the shop https://forums.elementalgame.com/437655

#4:  I would like the AI to be more intelligent about buying stuff for its sovereign.  Stop buying greaves!  https://forums.elementalgame.com/435604

#5:  I would like governors to earn XP/turn by being in a city

Bonus #6:  I know I was only supposed to list 5, but another thing that really bugs me is caravans getting in the way.  For example, if you try to click on a tile with a caravan in it, 1) you are unable to move there and 2) it initiates a diplomacy dialogue.  Argh.

There are some great posts here. Thank you very much!

I am very surprised at how many are feature requests.  There are threads in which people state, as if it's a fact, that FE is "gane breakingly buggy" and so I was kind of hoping this thread would list some of these bugs since we don't find FE to be buggy.

Remember, this isn't a feature request thread, it's a glitch fix thread. Things that you find frustrating (like path finding that takes a unit through the woods rather than taking the road).

For what it's worth, I think it would be good to see a bunch of the small things fixed also.  We're not listed them here because you've asked for the top 5... but there's a lot of little things that could (presumably) be easily fixed.  For example someone pointed out recently that the Lumber Camp line of improvements have an "old" AITag so the AI never builds them.  That's like a 5 min job for someone to fix up.  Cheers.

Forgot about that one.....mouse pointer not lining up to the proper tile drives me nuts sometimes.

I have seen this happen a few times. It typically happens in tactical combat on the outer most tiles of the map when the terrain is hilly.

Hmm you are right, that said I am not really good at distinguishing between feature requests and bugs , its a bug the game doesn't behave as I want when I right click.... *idiot mode off*

Am I supposed to edit my old post then? . I can't go re-test the bugs now though, since I can't open FE... (I can't now, and for the next MONTH).
I did pick the top 5 things close to my heart I want to see, but well... *feels stupid*

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

1.) AI more likely to fill all available army slots in a stack before sending it out

2.) AI more likely to mix army stacks with melee units, ranged units like archers/mages, and champions for combined arms effectiveness

3.) AI much more likely to build mages (or the empire equivalent) whenever tech and crystal make it possible. This will instantly make the AI's armies a lot more effective, and necessitate spying on the enemy to counter elemental staffs with the appropriate resistance.

4.) AI sets a higher priority for keeping at least 1-2 units in a city for defense, decreasing likelihood of only militias defending city (particularly when the AI has high gildar income to afford it) 

5.) AI less likely to declare war simply based on faction power ratios. It declares war based on pre-set ratio, AND when it has stacks near the enemy borders (defined by presence in friendly city closest to enemy territory?), AND has some kind of city defense quota met first.

Comment on #5: Barring desperation or overriding strategic factors , before the AI declares war it is ready to make some kind of imminent offensive on its target, without over-extending its domestic offense.

Thanks for your work on the game after release. 

I dont get it all that often.  It's just every once in a while when im really enjoying the game, and you have to restart get get it to reset.  Im on a 27" monitor at whatever the full rez is for that.  I've never changed anything in the settings for resolution.  Full screen.

I've heard others mention it. Kongdej could explain it better than me.  He's kinda mad at the moment though

I really just appreciate the game.  whatever anyone says.  I got it for free and even if you dont care, you let us think that you do.  I've gotten my moneys worth 5 fold.  Thanks guys.

This is what I was talking about in my number 3. It usually happens these days in very hilly areas or the edges of the maps, in both tactical and strategic. The rest of the map will be fine, but certain areas are just bonkers and extremely difficult to click on accurately (it might just be certain "map stamps" or whatever you call them). This has been a commonly complained about issue since WoM beta, I think it's a map problem and it keeps popping back up.

Regarding the militia design choice:

Militia is not a trained, paid and standing military resource. They are people grabbing the best weapons out of the blacksmith to save their kids. That's why they have great weaponry and no armor. It isn't entirely crazy that they are only around for 1 battle - no one is leading them to respond to the threat at the other end of town.

Maybe the presence of trained units could organize militia so they'd be around all turn?

So sure, it still doesn't entirely make sense to me, but isn't this a great reason to leave dedicated full-time military units as defenders in your city?