Zorbane’s Impressions, Bugs, Nitpicks and Miscellanea

• When hovering mouse over a goodie hut or quest tile the detail pop up at the bottom right doesn’t appear until you’re on the “top” half of the tile.
• Viewing enemy stack details and hovering over the units in the stack doesn’t always show right unit card.
• Opened a goodie hut, got a potion twice (repeated the same message twice as well).  
• Combining stack causes the stack to have the amount of moves as the stack being moved into.  
• When looking at units equipment the detail shows the previous equipment that was being viewed.
• Can equip a quest key.
• Entered a hut which did nothing.  
• Inconsistent scrolling in the action bar.
• Can make the unit stack in city “disappear” in UI only.
• Update to previous unit does not take optimal path bug.
• Enemy archer only fired on the first turn.
• Yellow border does not disappear when building improvement for city.
• Lost all sound, noticed when I went into a tactical battle.  
• Unit description for designed unit says “A peasant with a stick.”  
• Air shard with shrine on it looks black on the map.
• Disabled Treaties and declare war options in negotiation re-enable when clicking dynasties when unable to create a dynasty.  
• Cannot select Trade Treaty.  
• Casting brilliance on city does not update the “City HUD”.
• Controlling 2 shards causes the 2nd shard type to spill out of the resource UI (the thing at the top).  
• Cannot reach notable level 5 with Empire.

• User settings are reset to default after a patch.
• No start turn notification.  
• Show move when holding right mouse button.
• Esc key in the options window doesn’t close the options window.  
• Hard to tell when something is a forest on the edges of the forest area.
• Can wear multiple rings.
• Units in battle who get wounded lose their units which never come back.
• Hard to see the wild horses resource unless zoomed in really close or using cloth map.  
• Trading item selects first item again after a trade.
• No grid in cloth map.
• Pass turn button makes unit lose all moves.
• When foundin a city other units in the stack move away.   
• Right click when selecting a city does not de-select it.
• Population of a town can be zero.
• City card when hovering over a city could show what is currently being built.
• Name of terrain during battle “Green Tactical Forest” sounds awkard, why not just Forest?
• Not accepting a quest removes it from the map.
• Don’t know why I can’t build a building in a city.
• Some of the “new” units that the game tells me I can make are the same.
• Can’t re-zoom to a quest objective.
• Polapel Mystics and Yoren negotiation guy looks the same.
• No encyclopedia info on unit actions.
• The unit card quotes of the minor faction family members are all same by gender.
• Perceived value seems to have decimal places.
• Last remaining AI archer unit keeps running.
• Between turn progress report for better user experience.
• Not many good card poses for units armed with bows.
• Moving a unit out of a city causes you to lose focus on the unit.
• There’s no quit confirmation when pressing alt +F4 to close.

• How do I get to make more Trade Caravans rather than just trading with myself?
• Namad7 also mentioned he could buy champions from other factions.  Is this correct?

• When hovering mouse over a goodie hut or quest tile the detail pop up at the bottom right doesn’t appear until you’re on the “top” half of the tile.

• Viewing enemy stack details and hovering over the units in the stack doesn’t always show right unit card.  Click on a unit stack that contains multiple units.  I hover my mouse over one of the units in the stack and it displays that unit’s unit card.  When I move to another unit though the card doesn’t always refresh.

• Opened a goodie hut, got a potion twice (repeated the same message twice as well).  Maybe this is supposed to happen but having the same message appear twice is annoying.  Maybe have the message say you got two.

• Combining stack causes the stack to have the amount of moves as the stack being moved into.  Example you have Stack 1 and Stack 2.  Stack 2 has already moved so it has 0 now.  When Stack 1 moves into stack 2 regardless of how many moves the units in Stack 1 have, they will have 0 moves.  Same thing if Stack 2 had moves left and Stack 1 expended all of its moves to combine into Stack 2.  Stack 2 will have lots of moves including the units from Stack 1.

• When looking at units equipment the detail shows the previous equipment that was being looked at.  Simple to reproduce, look at a unit’s inventory and click on a piece of equipment.  Close the equipment window and open it up again, it will still show the previously selected item.

• Can equip a quest key.  I forgot what the quest name is but you have to fight some monsters for the key then you take the key to a chest and get a ring.  When you get the key you keep it even after you open the chest and you can click on it to equip it even though it does nothing.

• Entered a hut which did nothing.  I am level 3 in questing while a hut is level 2.  Update I am still level 3 in questing and I entered another hut which did nothing, and then an ancient ruins which also did nothing.  I have two active quests right now, perhaps I only can have 2?  If so it should tell me that I cannot accept anymore quests.

• Inconsistent scrolling in the action bar.  In a stack with a pioneer and pressed the next button in the action bar and then pressed the back button.  What actually happens is when I hit next only the last two options are shown (guard and pass turn) when I hit back it goes back to the previous items but has guard and pass turn as the last two actions so the first two actions (build settlement and trade) don’t get shown.  Confusing and maybe should be more of a nitpicks.

• Can make the unit stack in city “disappear” in UI only.  Select a city with units (mine specifically had 2 a peasant and a pioneer).  Click on the construct improvement button.  Click again the units are now gone.  When you click out and click back on the city they come back.

• Update to previous unit does not take optimal path bug. It doesn’t take road roads in consideration either.  I reported this yesterday as well but didn’t notice they ignore roads.

• Enemy archer only fired on the first turn.  It didn’t even move after it fired, I walked up and beat it to death.  Update:  In another battle he didn’t attack once.  However in others they fight normally.

• Yellow border does not disappear when building improvement for city.  I assume yellow means the city is not building anything, if you click on a city with that border and start building a building it remains yellow for that turn.

• Lost all sound, noticed when I went into a tactical battle.  Here is the copypaste of debug.err if it helps. http://pastebin.ca/1925648.  Sorry I cannot be more precise.  

• Unit description for designed unit says “A peasant with a stick.”  You can’t edit this in the unit designer unless I missed and if so then maybe it is not evident to the user. 

• Air shard with shrine on it looks black on the map.  It looks like the shadows or bottom level is there but nothing else

• Disabled Treaties and declare war options in negotiation re-enable when clicking dynasties when unable to create a dynasty.  I had all the treaties I could have with a minor faction.  Non-Aggression Pact, Trade and research agreement.  The main menu has I declare war! and Treaties disabled.  When I click on Dynasties the guy says “Come talk to me when you have some children that can be married off”.  I declare war! and Treaties are now enabled again.

• Cannot select Trade Treaty.  I’m talking to Polapel Mystics and I can’t negotiate a Trade Treaty.  I can click it but it won’t get added to the negotiation list.  Later I tried again and it worked.  I don’t know what changed.

• Casting brilliance on city does not update the “City HUD”.  By City HUD I mean the info about a city you can see from the map.  The city initially searched 1 Tech point a turn.  Then I cast Brilliance on it and the HUD did not change.  However when I went to look at the details it said it was producing 2 points.

• Controlling 2 shards causes the 2nd shard type to spill out of the resource UI (the thing at the top).   I control 1 air shard and 1 earth shard.  The earth shard is the right most in the UI and it is not inside the container box thing.  Update.  When I trained some units that required crystals it fixed itself.  The crystals went from 72 to 56.

• Cannot reach notable level 5 with Empire.  namad7 mentioned this on IRC when someone was having issues getting quests to open up.  He says that the 2nd last notable bonus isn’t given when the appropriate tech is researched.  He says it is the destiny’s scrolls tech and maybe Kingdom has it too.

• Nada

• User settings are reset to default after a patch.  Is it possible for the settings to remain the same?  More of a user experience thing, I hate having to going back to change the settings every time.

• No start turn notification.  I know there is a sound but there’s no visual feedback.  This adds to the fact there is no sign to the user that there is work going on between turns.  It ends up being like the turn suddenly starts out of nowhere.  The way I’ve been keeping track of whether or not a turn has started or not is when the progress bars move for research.

• Show move when holding right mouse button.  Holding mouse down when making move doesn’t move but it would be cool if it showed the destination and number of turns to reach there, like Civ 4

• Esc key in the options window doesn’t close the options window.  Nothing else to add to this.

• Hard to tell when something is a forest on the edges of the forest area.  It just looks like the terrain the trees are on and I have to watch the terrain hud to know.

• Can wear multiple rings.  Most games only allow someone to wear 2 (one for each hand). Design decision?  Same thing with amulets apparently.

• Units in battle who get wounded lose their units which never come back.  Now instead of healing units after battle you just disband them and build new ones to replace them.  Would have liked units to either replenish when healing or have some sort of retraining ability in a city.

• Hard to see the wild horses resource unless zoomed in really close or using cloth map.  It looks like a normal forest tile because you don’t see the horsies until you zoom in close.

• Trading item selects first item again after a trade.  When trading an item between champions, when one item is tradedthe next highlighted item is the first item in the list, not the next item in the list which I expected.

• No grid in cloth map.  Would have liked that when playing on the cloth map.

• Pass turn button makes unit lose all moves. What if I wanted to change my mind later, and just wanted it not to show up as needing orders.

• When foundin a city other units in the stack move away.   Why not have the units be in the city defending it by default?  Same with building an improvement on a tile with a unit although this one is questionable.  Maybe say the unit has to move first or give query asking if they want the stack to enter the city (otherwise cancel).

• Right click when selecting a city does not de-select it.  Just minor annoyance to me I don’t know if it is even an issue.

• Population of a town can be zero.  I plopped down a city and immediately built a caravan and the population dropped to 0.  Could be fine either way.

• City card when hovering over a city could show what is currently being built.  Would be helpful when trying to make decisions.

• Name of terrain during battle “Green Tactical Forest” sounds awkard, why not just Forest?

• Not accepting a quest removes it from the map.  Design decision?  I would have rather had it stay there so that I can accept it later.  This is an issue with one of the quest where you have to fight right away, I went in there with Janusk and declined to fight and it disappeared.

• Don’t know why I can’t build a building in a city.  I have all the requirements but it does not tell me why.  I can click on the box to select the building to build but the ground doesn’t highlight anywhere for me to place it.

• Some of the “new” units that the game tells me I can make are the same.  Noticed so far : Guard and Royal Guard.  The two archers might be as well but I can’t remember.

• Can’t re-zoom to a quest objective.  I had an old quest and I wasn’t sure where to go.  I know I can go to the cloth map and look for the yellow icons but it would be nice if there was a zoom button that will take you to the objective just like when you first take the quest.

• Polapel Mystics and Yoren negotiation guy looks the same.  When I went to negotiate with both Yoren and Polapel Mystics the guy I talk to when the negotiation starts look the same.  Maybe they are all the same I haven’t met any others.

• No encyclopedia info on unit actions.  I wanted to click on “seige” but it didn’t do anything.  In fact there are a lot of things that don’t have encyclopedia entries.

• The unit card quotes of the minor faction family members are all same by gender.  Male says “United, the magic users of the world fear no one”.  The female says “I desire a family, my lord!”.  Note this doesn’t include the leader of the faction I am just looking at them from the cloth map so maybe those are fine.

• Perceived value seems to have decimal places.  When negotiating with factions and matching the perceived value, even though it seems like the values are equal (73 v 73) the faction will still reject the trade and you need to add 1 more.

• Last remaining AI archer unit keeps running. Even though it can’t shoot (due to required moves on a tile) so I have to chase it all the way across the battle map before I can engage it. When it finally reached the end it just sat there.

• Between turn progress report for better user experience. Was chatting on IRC when someone mentioned that there is a slight delay between turns.  After a small discussion we determined it was probably the AI “thinking”.  One user did not find the wait to be acceptable.  In my opinion if there is some sort of notification that the AI is taking it’s turn users will be less unhappy because they realize something is going on.  Right now it just hangs for a few seconds and then continues.

• Not many good card poses for units armed with bows.  When designing an archer unit a lot of the poses had multiple issues like clipping into the body and since the bow is held in the left hand the pose has the soldier holding thin air in some cases.

• Moving a unit out of a city causes you to lose focus on the unit.  I would have prefered if the unit remained selected if it still has moves left.

• There’s no quit confirmation when pressing alt +F4 to close.  I don’t know if this is a big deal or not I just noticed it when I quit to polish this up.

Note as I was posting this in IRC it was brought up that you could give a  Sovereign infinite moves (if you just keep leveling him and giving him appropriate gear).  This makes the organized trait ultra overpowered as you can move huge armies all around the world at ease.  These need to be addressed.

Edit1:  Oops I just realized maybe this thread should be in ideas or support.  If mods think so please move it!  I'm gonna keep updating this as I go.

• Cancelling construction of a building does not return it to construction window.  
•  Highlighted tile does not go away.
• Notable location unavailable text does not fit in the pop up.

• Zip

• Can build regular city improvements outside influence.
• Battles do not use movement points
• Cannot add negative value to a negotiation offer.
• Zero doesn’t disappear when typing in numbers during negotiation.
• Building a city with a stack with no moves zooms to next unit even after “Improve City” is clicked.

• Cancelling construction of a building does not return it to construction window.  I built a building in the wrong place and I went into the build bar and cancelled it but it didn’t go back to the improvements window, I had to click on the build button again for it to come back.

• Highlighted tile does not go away.  Strange issue not sure how it happened, it is also on the cloth map.  The highlight is a brown highlight.

• Notable location unavailable text does not fit in the pop up.  Walked into a ruined house which required level 2 and the text was cut off when it told me I couldn’t open it yet.

• Can build regular city improvements outside influence.  For fun I made a really long line of buildings that stretched out of my influence area.  Could be a design decision to allow it.

• Battles do not use movement points.  Could be a design decision as well, just seemed strange to me.  Theoretically you could have a unit surrounded and have it battle all of those units (as long as it survives)

• Cannot add negative value to a negotiation offer.  I wanted to offer 1 less Gildar than i was initially offering and I had to cancel the offer and redo it.  If I want to add I can just click on Gildar again.

• Zero doesn’t disappear when typing in numbers during negotiation.  When choosing a value during a negotiation it starts at 0.  When you start typing the 0 doesn’t go away.  Super nitpick.

• Building a city with a stack with no moves zooms to next unit even after “Improve City” is clicked. Kind of annoying because I expected to stay there.