Current major issues being addressed internally...
- Magic System Numbers (currently rolling 0-x, meaning high level spells missing)
- City management screen
- Cursor/Selection Funkiness in Tactical Battles
- More informative UI across the board
- More Maps
- Overall balance (overpowered late game units, overpowered peasants, etc)

Great! Glad to hear and much appreciated.

The main thing I want changed right now is the way tactical battles are handled, especially with Parties and Attack / Defense. Modders can handle balance and will, but this issue is a fairly major flaw in the core gameplay. This isn't a matter of peasants being overpowered, it is a flaw with the system as it stands. If I could have one thing fixed, right now, this would be it, and I think most people agree, and are already asking for this as well,  so you are hopefully already planning on it:

- Parties that make sense...current combat system is not intuitive and doesn't make any sense. Adding the attack and defense together doesn't work and really breaks tactical combat in my opinion. A 20 / 20 Party of 4 guys should not be 20 / 20 when I have killed 3 guys out of the 4. It should be a 5 / 5 Party, or some other mechanism to make things make more sense.

Since there was some brainstorming about stacks, I'll add my oppinion.

Healing stacks in friendly territory should reduce city population, to replenish lost troops, if any. What is nearest town, should be calculated in same way as with disband code.

Get some well earned rest Devs and then come back with replenished stamina   and continue the bug squasching!

The you probably don't have the same issue as the rest of us. I've had the FPS loss over cities from 1.0 and it hasn't changed by 1.06. Others are reporting the same and some beta testers have also reported that this issue existed in the beta as well.

Seriously, if this was some issue that creeped in during the last beta changes, it should have been fairly easy to see. Simply playing a beta build would show if the FPS situation was better.

I doubt that. Looks like its going to be some kind of quick fix to increase the min damage. I doubt it is an over-haul of the system such that results in more bell-shaped frequencies.

This is EWOM = Galciv in fantasy, so those of you hoping to get anything close to MOM combat mechanics, variety of spells, spell abilities, global enchantments etc stop dreaming...

I can't wait for the future expansion packs, I have no doubt there will give us more spells.. and abilities such as flying... 

Emm..u should stop to sell the game.  U sell a beta game and it needs at least 3more moths of work. This is not a flame, u should really wait christmast and use that selling window. All actual Player base will help to test this game.

What we want?

Fix all crashing bugs (i've played 1 hour the 1.00 then stops to run with all other versions.)

Fix all balance problems

All non working quest/tiles?

Better IA

GIVE US A TRUE CAMPAIGN!!!

I've read that this one is just a tutorial, we want a true single player expirience (with story ecc ecc, not the sandbox). Like 10 Books...

I hope that next chapters will free...

The game is good, but his beta status ruins the experience

At this point it may be a good idea to approach the rest of Elemental's development as a mod project. Acknowledge that the game is a mess and write a design document for a mod using the engine that includes a campaign, fundamental changes to the current systems to make them cohesive and attention to modding tools and multiplayer. You are going to be spend quite a bit of time getting this game to where it should be for a release anyway, might as well abandon the "Fly by the seat of our pants" design method and move to a more conventional design style. 

The current design system generated some brilliant ideas such as the diplomacy capital (I love this), but there reaches a point (That point should have been day 1) where you need to follow an outline towards getting the game completed, with only minor changes to the overall design document. You have months of patches ahead of you and a capable engine in which the bugs are getting squashed every day. Spend a few days (Maybe weeks) on planning how you want the various components of this game to mesh together and then FOLLOW that plan with little to no variation to completion and Elemental WILL live up to all the promises and be a game to remember for years to come thanks to the niche genre it is designed for.

I have tried to ignore the Warfare and Magic tech trees and i choosed the Civilization and Diplomacy tech trees with a bit of the Adventuring tech tree.

The game was not fun, because Diplomacy has not enough options (espionage, sabotage) and the diplomacy capital has not enough value to prevent the AI from attacking the player or persuade the AI to attack another AI.

The magical creatrures should be moved from the Diplomacy tree to the Magic tree, because instead of waiting for the ability to drive the AI against each other i have waited only to get magical creatures and that feels wrong at the Diplomacy tree.

Thank you. I look forward to this fix.

You all get on with fixing the crashes, and absurd page file use, and I'll be happy.  It's as simple as that.  ALL ELSE IS SECONDARY.  Nothing else matters.  You can't go around throwing balance changes when the wretched thing can't do a complete game without shutting down or becoming hideously unresponsive.

This is all I care about.  It's what you should be only caring about, too.  Afterwards can wait.

I hate to be a hater but really not feeling the love here.  I have become almost as interested in the forums as the game.  Some very interesting dynamics here.  A plumber comes to your house that you pay $100 to fix something.  When they leave the house floods.  The plumber starts telling you how over worked they are, never rest, need to take a week vacation, we really love you but, etc.  BUT MY HOUSE IS FLOODING, and it is directly related to something you did.  You are using the money I paid you to fix my house on your vacation, while my house is flooding. 

From my perspective the patches can never fix the frustration each player has independently gone through at home trying to play this game.  They paid to have fun and instead received a lot of frustration.  How can you patch that?  The game was released too soon, you knew it was too soon, and you did it anyways.  If this was an intentional strategy to control piracy just say so.  That is something most of the users would understand and agree with.  That means you did it to protect their interest. 

But to continue with this sheepish, look at us we are working everyday to help you, I need a week vacation, my wife is upset with me, there are so many different types of computes, etc., is wearing thin, at least for me.  You can't possibly compare that to the 1000's of combined hours players have sat frustrated and disappointed trying to play this game pre patch.

It should pass off through dynasties. If the Sovereign (AI or player) dies and has no heirs -- game over. If the Sovereign dies and has heirs, the Heir becomes the sovereign. I don't know if it does this, but it seems like it doesn't as I kill a sovereign that has 6 kids of age and they implode.

The logic should be there for it, especially since it says "X in line for the throne" down below. Maybe it's there but not working?

Oh please, what a drama queen. Why don't you sit back and relax and take things into perspective. Comparing a video game to a plumber who floods your house is not relative okay? This was not an intentional strategy to control piracy, what a ridiculous statement. The pirates have pirated EVERY version to come out so far. Show a little compassion as well, your comments are childish. I agree the game needs more work but don't dismiss the fact that the devs know that and have expressed concern and feel bad about it. They want to make things right so give em a chance or just move on to another game. Is there really a reason for a post like this?

- More Maps

Duh.

You cannot  provide enough map seeds to give variability and replayability. Even with 100 seeds for 1 map size (and land/water configuration ideally), a player will play the same map again within 12 games, which is too little.

You must provide a good random map generator, and the easiest and cheapest way to do this would be to expose map scripting to python (or any other language), so we could port map scripts from Civ IV or write them ourselves.