First of all, thank you for bringing in this gem of a game. I played through a lot a versions of War of Magic and Fallen Enchantress and I have to say that this version is a keeper. Keep it up guys!

(1) Elemental: Fallen Enchantress for me...

(3) I played a lot of Age of Wonders and domain spells are a necessity (Haste domain, which boosts movement of your units throughout your territory, or Life domain, which heals all your units in your territory by a certain amount). By the way, at least your sov, but any casting heroes too, should have some kind of casting area around them, which would help use strategic spells like pillar of flames more often.

(4) Quests to liberate heroes, quests to reconstitute artifacts of great power... Quests to retrieve "legendary mounts" for your heroes, like the spiders from some high level heroes we can get. Mounts like Pegasus and Nightmare(demon horse from D&D)

(12) Hope to see a campaign that spans multiple chapters.

Magical item crafting in game would be great, if not already implemented (I haven<t constructed every buildings and I saw). Like building an item forge, where we can choose the enchantments to add to items based on what schools of magic the sovereign knows, or how many shards are owned. Teleportation from town to town, via a constructable town portal would be great too. Finally, some stealthy units and/or heroes which could conduct sabotage or assassination missions in enemy towns, based on their accuracy and dodge skills or something similar.

I have one, and only one, truly urgent wish: Less spammy AI armies. At the moment, ESPECIALLY in the early game, these armies seem built to gain the power-meter rather than do any damage. The first time an AI goes to war, they send hordes and hordes of weak spearmen, scouts, and pioneers at one city. I have to fight about 5 battles in one turn, then it's a steamroll. Find some way to give the AI interesting armies, and powerful ones, and the game will be ~1,000x better.

Random event/world quest ideas:

Tectonic Shift: randomly changes a part of the terrain, like water to land, land to mountains, mountains to plains, plains to water, in a not very large area of the map.

Reign of Fire: A bunch of dragons start roaming the land, you'll need to find Christian Bale in order to stop the source of the invasion.

Time of Storms: Units on the map outside any area of control are randomly struck by lightning.

Night of Doom: Any non-undead, non-demonic creature suffers a penalty to it's statistics as long as this event is in effect. You could actually spawn some sort of altar that we need to destroy in order to end it.

 (Would be cool if we had quest treaties, like, temporary alliances in order to stop a world threatening event)

Power of the twelve: Twelve riders spawn on the map and randomly begin to attack cities(not all at the same time, but in smaller groups), if they are successful, the population of that city decreases, as they are being kidnapped for some nefarious purpose. If they get enough people, they summon their king/sovereign, who is very large and nasty and starts tearing stuff up.

Turmoil: Unrest increases in all cities for a several turns.

Death: If the Elemental lore has anything that resembles the Grim Reaper in function or form, it's coming. A devourer of live walks the land and it won't stop until it's killed by several legions. This is a end level event/quest, and whoever gets to murder it, will get a spiffy bonus in the form of.. um, his scythe? or something that's useful at a kingdom level.

The Silence: Spellcasting is impossible for the duration, so are any abilities that can be considered magical in nature. 

Beware the Red: A great red dragon offers you his services in exchange for feeding upon the population of your towns every few turns. Refusing would cause him to go rogue and start attacking you. Sending him to his death would cause him to escape battle when he loses and turn on you. 

Spell ideas:

Shining peace: As long as there are no wars, production and food.. um production, are increased.

Living artifact: At the cost of part of a characters health/exp/attack/defense, you can create an item with powers that are random but in proportion with the amount of stuff the character sacrificed to create that item.

Steal Essence: Unless the owner of the target city pays a certain amount of mana to fizzle it, he loses one point of essence in that city, which is added to another city of the caster's choosing.

Time lock: For as long as you have mana left (huge cost, huge huge cost) take another turn after your current one instead of the enemy or other creatures

 (will add more soon)

I'll be curious to dig into modding.

There are some things like "random events" that does not matter much since players will probably make mod pack with additional event, goodie hot, quests, etc if modding allows to do that. This is just data right, there is little code related to that. So you should focus on finishing adding code based feature than data based feature since those can be easily be added afterward.

Another suggestion would be beefing up diplomacy to make it as meaningful as it is amusing.  A good and simple start was discussed here.

High praise - thank you Orion!

I really like events that encourage you alter your gameplay, either due to obstacle or opportunity. Here's hoping that events of these type won't be difficult to implement.

I would agree, except that the code for random events needs to be fleshed out a little more. There is only so much modders can add when events are limited to population triggers that can't spawn goodie huts. We also probably don't know all of possibilities of the current xml because it has not been revealed to us. I am glad they are spending some time on this feature and hope it adds code as well as content examples of how far we can take this.

Spells:

1. Summon Spider (Tactical)
2. Web (Tactical)
3. Summon Huge Spider (Tactical)
4. Summon Dire Bear (Tactical)
5. Wind Storm (Tactical - Air - Strong Winds reduce range of all archery attacks to 3 tiles)
6. Summon Wolf Pack (Tactical)
7. Summon Wolf Horde (Tactical - summons a company of wolves)
8. Darkness (Tactical - Maximum attack range for all attacks is 1 tile, Maximum Viewing Range for All Units is 1 tile)
9. Rainstorm (Tactical - Maximum attack range for all attacks is 3 tiles due to limited visibility, all units gain resistance vs Fire as long as this spell is in effect)
10. Rock Maze - Tactical - 30% of randomly selected unoccupied tiles are rendered impassible due to appearance of large boulders on them.
11. Burning Land - Tactical - 25% of random selected unoccupired titles are consumed by fire. Units entering those tiles take fire damage unless they resist.

Quests:

1. Complete a quest to free and gain a champion or a unit (a demon for x turns)
2. Complete a quest to unlock a new research branch
3. Complete a quest to see lift the fog of war on one enemy's domain
4. Complete a quest to see a random enemy city (size 1 or 2) revolt and join your side.
5. Complete Quest to vanquish Spider Queen & her minions to gain access to Spider Magic Spells.
6. Complete Quest to gain a champion, fail and the champion joins another fraction - I call on you to rescue my son/daughter and escort her home.
7. Complete Quest and a fraction becomes allied to you, fail and the fraction becomes your enemy - I call on you to rescue the Princess and bring her safely back to me.

Tactical Battle Requests - Greater Variety of tactical maps & city defenders

1. Tactical Map with bridge across a river or moat
2. Tactical Map of Paths through a Swamp
3. Tactical Map covered with forest paths that reduces attack range for ranged attacks and spells to 5 tiles
4. Tactical Map covered with sand that reduces movement of heavily encumbered units by 1
5. Cities with Defending Catapults
6. Cities protected by cavalry units
7. Terrain impassible to lightly armored units, impassible to others
8. Tactical map for a narrow gorge.

New feature: get rid of hp altogether

Size, injuries, resists, dodges, veteran or not, etc. can do a good job of emulating battle without going "iron golem has 32 hp! squad of 12 level 5 peasants has 34 hp!" because really, IRL we all know iron golems pwn 12 peasants. I've seen it.

You avoid the trap of having peasants kill iron golems w/ wooden clubs because, you know, hp. And you'll have to do just as much balancing, because right now apparently things are all whack as far as hp anyway.

But it's probably too late for this "feature." And pples will also be like "but my d&d feature! it is good" when it is clearly not.

Oh, I just assumed we were getting it through Impulse.  Straight from Stardock is even better.

I don't think that is a good idea. Hit points are a fine notation on a unit's ability to continue fighting. The only thing that might be beneficial from this kind of logic is a system where lower Hp reduces a unit's ability to battle. Even this would be hard to do with multiple soldier units. 

Other idea.

 Can we please get a few more unique hero progression options? Most if not all of the perks I keep finding are all statistics related, it would be nice to have some that aren't just tied to numbers, but give some sort of extra ability. Like, when your hit points go below a certain number, you start to randomly teleport across the map every turn. Or, every time you cast a spell that requires X or more amount of mana, there's a chance you'll summon a demon as well, that may or may not play nice. Also, what if you could obtain those through quests as well?  

Random events

Chaos:  The owner of every city on the map is randomly reset.  New kingdoms will have to be forged out of the chaos.

Change of Destiny:  The player switches to control a different faction.  The focus of this tale has shifted to another sovereign.

Master of Orion 4: The Apology

I have to disagree here. I perfer HP over what you purpose. In fact if they got rid of HP out of the game then I would stop playing it due to the fact that your system (oh lets see Iron Golem vs Peasants [Paper vs Rock] - Iron Golem wins every time) not something I would call fun to play. There should always be that chance (yes in D&D I do like my home brewed Critical Hit/miss charts where even a 1st level can get lucky and smash in a 20th level skull killing him instantly. Of course it is very rare.)

Oh and changing topic I have never encounters a Random Event in either WOM or FE. I keep hearing about them however.

I am making one for my Path Mod that gives Assassins a guaranteed critical hit for the next action. That kind of special ability is very welcome in the vanilla game.

FE is on Steam! http://store.steampowered.com/app/216390/  But when we get cdkey for steam key??  ;/ 

This is basically unacceptable for me as a customer and longtime supporter. You are punishing those who supported you and preordered the game early. This will be the last game i preordered from you guys if you dont find a way to give out steam keys to those who allready preordered and want their game on steam.

I will not buy the game again just because you are too lazy to transfer keys, other companies do that for their customers.

That's not being fair to Stardock.  I'm sure it was Steam that's not allowing old keys....not Stardock. Steam wants to make money off purchases.

Be thankful that Stardock is trying to appease the 'steam' crowd, but cutting as good a deal as they did with Steam.

If you don't like it, don't buy it through steam.

Buying through Steam reduces Stardock's profits I believe. I assume making a transfer deal would have required Stardock to pay out for each transfer in some way. It sucks, but I am not going to ask Stardock to take that much of a hit. They are already giving me 2 free games. 

2 free games  for pre order WoM ?

For buying it till October 31 2010. https://forums.elementalgame.com/399482 

I know that( but all who preordered got ONLY FE, because no other game or expansion from elemental world)

The next free game comes out in a year or so. 

still sucks, but you can add the game outside of steam to the steam library.

it's almost like having it in their system, no links to news, no contacts seen playing the game, no shared achievements, no forum, and the overlays are probably conflicting BUT you can launch it from within the steam.

EDIT: overlays coexists fairly well.