Suggestions

I'd like to see the removal, or at least a modification of the private trade system. The way I see it is, it would still be possible to trade with persons, simply post your trade in the trade tab, notify the other person that the trade is up, and decline all requests other than the other party you wish to trade with.

As it is, the private trade system is abused by some players, and it doesn't seem to offer any real advantage over open trade. I believe it would also serve to prevent some "pushing", or multi-accounting, by showing what trades are up to everyone. Just my two cents, take it or leave it.

would like to see all the buildings of a type highlited so you can find them on the map, you could add a switch on mayors house to show locations or not when you click on the resource

Partially a tongue in cheek suggestion, but what about adding a Candlestickmaker. We do have the Butcher, and the Baker. The Candlestickmaker could be a buff similar to the Very Strong Light buff currently offered in the Provision House, with production being tripled for four hours.. The required supplies could be Bronze and Tallow(from the Butcher, perhaps 1 Tallow made per hour).

One of my favorite things about The Settlers (the early ones, not the recent RTS-wannabes) was the ability to optimize your chains of production. Like the ore fed the smelter which fed the weaponsmith who fed the barracks.

So, I suggest that each building have a small stockpile (number needed * level) that other settlers can deposit the appropriate goods in. With only a central drop-off point, things just become a tradeoff between using a license to build an extra warehouse or having them walk the extra distance. There isn't much strategy or interest otherwise.

Not to knock a solution to the Global channel fiasco, but the Help channel will quickly degrade into what the Global is now, as new players find that this is the only channel that they can "chat" in. How are new players supposed to add contacts or find buff buddies if they don't have access to the Global community? This is also not the answer when "seasoned" players tend to use the Help channel to chat because the global has turned into a troll circus.

If they were relegated to the "Help" only channel they would, or should anyway, have less questions "lost in the shuffle", receive accurate and helpful responses from those players who wish to be helpful and who have the knowledge and persona's to give more accurate answers without a demeaning or condescending attitude towards "newbs". The help channel is often watched over by some very helpful and competent veteran players on a regular basis. Some of those steady helpers even make it a point of NOT participating in Global chat for various reasons, some of those reasons are so they are not being distracted by non-game related issues or missing questions asked in the help chat or they simply do not care for the global pace or topics. But whatever the reasons, the help and advice and attitude in the Help tab is a much more pleasant and productive experience for the new players as well as the seasoned players. In theory it could even help "freinding" for new players as they would most likely get to know each other a bit faster due to "common ground bonding", etc.

I like it! Candles could be used to enhance pumpkins next year, or to give a temporary boost (like a buff) to production units (burning the candle at both ends).

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Originally Posted by Armin

Partially a tongue in cheek suggestion, but what about adding a Candlestickmaker. We do have the Butcher, and the Baker. The Candlestickmaker could be a buff similar to the Very Strong Light buff currently offered in the Provision House, with production being tripled for four hours.. The required supplies could be Bronze and Tallow(from the Butcher, perhaps 1 Tallow made per hour).

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LadyTerra, I do have to agree with your points about seasoned players abusing the help channel when global is a circus, it is already happening far too much as it is now, and has been happening ever since I started playing this game. Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions at the moment as to what could help alleviate that problem other then Ubisoft putting in another "stationary Global Tab" and label it Global 2. Perhaps then "like minded" people could navigate to whichever tab had more "like minded" people in it. Just a suggestion. * shrugs* Trolls and abusers will go anywhere to gain the attention they desire.
Regarding the contacts and buff buddies, my thoughts were if ALL players of a certain level or below were relegated to the same channel, then finding people really wouldn't be such a problem for them because there would already be more players there, so there would be plenty to choose from, and finding other players of higher levels could and would occur once they graduated to global. Besides a lot of seasoned players to hang out in Help already, so the choices really are not that restrictive. The idea was to avoid the level 3's spam mailing people in global hoping to get a "higher level" friend on their list, which is exactly one of the reasons they do it. Those seasoned players who do not mind friending and buffing with newer players can, and often do, hang out in help as it is now. ( Unfortunately, so do many of the seasoned trolls and attention seekers) Anyway, as it stands now it is a mess, so I thought any idea was better then no idea at all. * chuckles* So if the positive effects outweigh the negative,, it is still better then it was before. :)

Candelstickmaker,, cool :)
Maybe they can use it for Christmas even, in olden days they used candles on their trees anyways.

I also think Snow people and Snowy trees for decorations, and candy canes for buffs would be kinda neat.
And of course a Santa Claus General !!! :)

Ok I am new .....Completely new however I have noticed one thing that is Important in the game yet is Useless. I Suggest we Change that. What is this Item that we all can build that is so useless yet very valuable to all?

ROADS

I Suggest That they remain Semi free or Maybe even 1 Tool for every 10 Roads Built. This In effect would Allow the road to have a use in Decreased Travel times From Say Copper Mine to Storehouse. The time reduction being say 1 Second for say every 10 or 15 Roads they have to travel to get from point A to point B and Back.

I Also Suggest a Natural boost in Productivity.

Basically how this could Work is simple based off of Supply in store House.

Example:
For every 25 Fir Wood Log's The Saw mill would receive a .25% in production of Planks Naturally Because you have a High supply in stock.
Now when you get into Other Buildings that Need said Logs Things can change. Aka With the Coking House.
In That case in order to get a Naturally Bonus you would need say 3x as Much for the Saw Mill while at the same time to receive the Bonus for Both the Saw and Coking house. So Basic terms you would need 75 Logs at all times in the store house for Both Building to receive the natural bonus.

If you read through the forum you will find that it is mentioned a few times that implementing reduced travel times with the roads is an idea that is being worked on. Also roads are free of charge now, so I don't see that changing. The productivity boost would unecessarily complicate the production time calculations.


P.S. Thanks for support for the Candlestickmaker.

Some suggestions for improving the newbie experience.

Why do mines use building licenses? They are perishable like fields and wells. At the very least, it seems like they should return the license when they are used up.

At least through level 20 when people are still figuring out what they are doing, return building licenses for tearing down buildings. Ohh look, you built 10 fir wood cutters and 1 forester. One of the problems is that the beginning tutorial implies that you have to place things right next to each other. So when you build a new quarry, it implies that you have to build a new mason next to the quarry. Suddenly you have 5 mason randomly placed across the map and quarries that have been exhausted and relocated.

Mention building licenses somewhere in the beginning of the tutorial.

Some basic representation of the supply chain in the beginning. Like 1 forester can support 1 cutter can support 2 down-chain. At least some basic idea of what amounts of supply chain management you need. Do it for the basic tab. People can "do the math" or extrapolate the rest of the materials, but some clue at the beginning as to what you realistically need for basic supply chain management.

The ability to move buildings, even if just through level 20 or so. You get a lot of new buildings through the beginning levels. The tutorials imply that buildings need to be near resources etc. You have no territory to spread out. By the time you get a basic clue as to what is really going on, you just have a pile of random buildings or buildings spread out all over the place with no organization.


Overall, the tutorial and the descriptions of a lot of the buildings and things could use a rewrite. There is a lot that is implied. Like a mason has to be right next to quarry, farms have to touch wheat fields, etc.

I would love to have a thief that could stealth into a bandit camp or and adventure camp or even another player's island and steal something. May be not the super duper big price, but just something... that way there would always be something to do while you wait for your army to build up again.

i got alot but 2 main things i thought of.
1.move buildings
2.more island to control

Having just experienced the implosion of a guild, I would like to suggest that Guild Leadership be made transferrable from one person to another. If the guild leader wishes to step down or quit the game, it should be possible to appoint a new guild leader. Because this is not possible, the guild must be destroyed and then re-created, which wastes a lot of resources (building guild house, membership costs, etc). This has left a bad taste in a lot of mouths and imo should be fixed.

A restart option would be nice. Too many new people just dive right in without actually following the tutorial(Yes, their own fault), or they have not yet read the guides. I would say allow someone to restart until they reach 8th Level. When they do restart, make them begin with the tutorial again at 1st Level.

and in fact this doesn't make any sense you can have 5 stone quarries then 3 copper mines then only 1 marble quarry at once and the amount is only 320 can we have another quarry or at least double the context like one copper mine or even have one quarry per sector

ok i have two suggestions:
#1 you can add 1 or two waiting settelers to a work yard to upgrade it tempolarily, this is a good trade off becase it will also use up building linceses becase a person will have to build more houseing. anyways arent the singel workers lonely anyways?

#2 instead of having 10 sowards/bows per soldier have one or two or mabey three. it takes 7+ minutes to produce 1 sword/bow thats 75ish min.ER the lowest recruit with one production house. even with multipal production houses it still takes up a large amt. of time. and with multip producion place it takes up more building lincences. anyways isent 10 sowards a person a litttle excessive?

Thank you for reading this... i hope you add/change something in the game

@FarmerBomb - At higher levels you get access to more marble quarries.

I would like to second the idea of being able to transfer Guild leadership. It seems so wrong that there is nothing in place to handle these situations. In the case that we are talking about, that was about 15,000 gold just gone and quite possibly some gems, too. Please consider allowing a transfer of leadership. Thank you.

I am with Frood and the others with the idea of someone being able to take over leadership.

I would love to see something like Council Buildings added. Guild Leadership under just one person can make things a bit difficult, whether it be to sketchy individuals, schedules, or even something as simple as "the grass is greener". With Council Buildings you would still have a Guild Leader with a guild house but you would also be able to appoint council members.

These CMs would have some power to maintain a functioning active guild (recruit, promote, etc) and could be allowed to build a Parliament building or "lesser guild house". This way if someone wants to step down a council member could "upgrade" his Parliament building into a full Guild House and take over leadership.

I hope you take the time to read this suggestion and I double hope someone finds it an appealing concept.

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Having just experienced the implosion of a guild, I would like to suggest that Guild Leadership be made transferrable from one person to another. If the guild leader wishes to step down or quit the game, it should be possible to appoint a new guild leader. Because this is not possible, the guild must be destroyed and then re-created, which wastes a lot of resources (building guild house, membership costs, etc). This has left a bad taste in a lot of mouths and imo should be fixed.

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I fully agree with this, anything can happen to make a guild leader unable or unwilling to continue, there should be away to let someone else take over the guild, transfer the guild house or place it on an island that several people have access to so if the leader wants to leave another can step in and take over., with out destroying the guild and all the membership cost and resources that have went into making it.

Please, Please, Please....Make a mailing group for guild officers! I love that we have a way to email the entire guild, but sometimes I just need to reach out to my officers. As it stands I have to make an individual email to each officer if I have something that we need to discuss. This would make guild management so much easier for the guild leader.
Thanks!
LadyTerra

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I fully agree with this, anything can happen to make a guild leader unable or unwilling to continue, there should be away to let someone else take over the guild, transfer the guild house or place it on an island that several people have access to so if the leader wants to leave another can step in and take over., with out destroying the guild and all the membership cost and resources that have went into making it.

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There is a way that this can be done, and support should have been contacted prior to just disbanding an established guild. It is not an easy maneuver from my understanding, but CEO support has indicated that they will assist in this if it is not just a cavalier and frivolous coming and going of guild leaders. Had you or your guild leader contacted support, the guild would not have had to have been destroyed.

Am sincerely sorry to hear that your guild dissolved, that is a major loss.

SP

Here's an idea that came to me, what if your added and option that allows you to "move" buildings? So that you can actually plan how your city will look. Right now all we can do is just destroy and then rebuild.

Add a number box to the trade window, like in the combat sim, to manually enter the number to be traded. It would be better than just a slider with arrows on either side.

I was chatting with several players, and one thing we all agreed upon was that it would be great if Generals received experience points for each battle they one, and if they could then level up; it would also be nice if surviving troops recieved experience and could become veteran units like in Civilization.
Diana

over all the game is pretty fun. only thing i see they need to do is give us the option to relocate our buildings. because once u put a building up u can't move it unless u destory it. also u should be able to rotate the building to

My three things that could help in game.
1. Place an indicator on each resource in the Mayor's House, Store House, that shows your production status. A blue arrow up, means that you are trending up in production. A black arrow that makes a circle, means that your production is static or even. A red arrow pointing down, means that you are trending down in production. Please include the indicator with the count, Ie, when you mouse over a resource you see, X/XXX. I would request that a person does not have to mouse over a resource to see the information, one should just have to open the tab and see at a glance all of the resources info for that tab.
2. Allow for more than just four ranks in the Guild window. Four ranks is a great start, however, it would be nice to have a way to buy more rank slots as you grow your guild. Much in the same way as one would buy new member slots.
3. Mail box improvments, allow one to make tabs in your mail box. This would allow a person to organize and store mailings that one could use as reference material. I would also request a "sent" tab. This allows a person to keep a copy of mailings they send out. This would be most helpful for Guild Members / Officers, as in being able to show accurately what was said. As it is now, once you send it, only the recipient has a copy of what was said.
Thanks for your time and a wonderful game. I find myself spending more and more time in game, and less time in other games. For being in Beta you have a very nice game that IMHO is ready for release. 8)

:(It's a little boring to see the same map everytime, maybe we can add the season and weather for fun.

For example, in spring, the efficiency of reforester will be doubled. In summer, the efficiency of worker will be a little lower because of high temperature. Then, worker can drink bear or juice to recover. In that case, we can have new buildings such as fruit cutter, Juice House.
And in fall, the efficiency of farm will be doubled. Or, each fall season, the tree and fish will be re-deposited a little bit.

The weather section can be randomly, like the same as I mentioned in seasons, the efficiency can be adjusted. Besides, certain surprise could happen due to the weather, like damager from flood or work stopped for a while because of tornado.

I think it will be fun if you upgrade those awesome stuff.;)

It would be fun to be able to build bridges. Some of those rivers go on forever and the settlers have to walk all the way around just to get to something almost next door. Also it would allow us to reach some of those islands for resources.

It could be something you get at a mid or high level. It's not needed until you hit 18 at least.
They could only be placed where rivers are narrow.
They would need stone or marble, fir or hard wood and some tools.
No need for upgrading them.

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Just thought of a good way to make sure the workers could walk on the islands but not get to them before bridges were put up.
Make the island part of their walking path and then place invisible buildings on the allowed bridge buildings areas. This will work kind of like an exhausted well where once you decide you want to build a bridge you just build it on top of that area. Building the bridge take away the obstacle on that section of the river and the workers can walk "through" the bridge.

You guys probably thought of all this already but just in case I thought I'd put it out there.

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Originally Posted by Floppy_Octopus

After playing the game for a few days, I am happy to say I like it. However, there is one thing I think should be added.

The first (and only, for now) is that I think a good addition would be something telling you the total production and consumption of resources. So, for example, if you have 3 fir wood cutters, 1 fir wood sawmill, and 1 coking plant, you should be able to see that you're gross production is 3, and the consumption for the sawmill and coking plant, is 3, so your total logs being produced would be 0. If you had another coking plant, it would tell you that you're running a deficit of 2 logs, so you would end up running out. Yes, the player can do this him or herself, but I think it takes too long, and once you get into owning many different areas, it may become too overwhelming.

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Originally Posted by Tbone

It would be nice (and helpful for managing resources) if we could see a summary of all our resources and if we are gaining or losing them.

It could be done in a building summary, where you just show a +/- units per hour... (and could show steady-state and buff adjusted, or could show only one number but change the color of anything buff adjusted._

Also when you go to build or buff, the icon could show you what the results in units/hour would be, so you know if you build a sawmill, you are going from +5 to +10 per hour (or if you are upgrading a building, same thing...)

Thanks!

So if you are loosing

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When you click on the mayors house and the resources pop up there should be an arrow: up,down, or to the side to show witch way your resources are going. Like i'm having problems figuring out if i have enough wood or not. As stupid as it sounds idk if my wood supply is going up or down or just staying the same! that would help me A LOT in the game!

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Please make this happen

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Originally Posted by JanusValerius

Production over time charts for easy use:

Several links in the Forum are available to calculate this. I prefer this one : http://ceo-economy.appspot.com/
It is not mine but I hope it or one like it is more prominently placed in the game for new players to be familiar with.
The reason I like this is the ease of use.

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This is a cool site, thank-you to the builder, but there is no reason the information can not be displayed in game.

I think you should make a 1 time use RESTART Button. As we are not told that tools are limited and space needs to be not wasted, you should allow us to restart the game 1 time with the same email account. Rather than having to make a new email and then restart the game... Some people do not want to make new emails. Thanks

Please stop sending seperate emails for each buff. Seriously, it is ridiculous. Or we can use it to make our friends mad by filling their mailbox with fishplate spam. Im not sure how to take it, i appreciate the buffs, on the other hand i would rather do without the "help". Thanks BB CoE rocks!!!
Go DiT.

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Originally Posted by LadyTerra

Please, Please, Please....Make a mailing group for guild officers! I love that we have a way to email the entire guild, but sometimes I just need to reach out to my officers. As it stands I have to make an individual email to each officer if I have something that we need to discuss. This would make guild management so much easier for the guild leader.
Thanks!
LadyTerra

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I would like to second this, it's a pain to have to send out individual emails to each officer. Would love to see this feature implemented. Thanks for looking

I've been playing for a week now. I like the game so far, I have stopped playing my other games. The one think that I like most is, after a couple days of playing i don't have individuals stealing my resources, distroying my buildings and killing off my people. It allows us individuals that can only play a few minutes during the week and a few hours on the weekend to enjoy a game without having to keep starting over.

thanx for this game

AmRoWils:)

Wait, seriously. There's two suggestion threads (maybe even more)? They both appear to be started by BB officers. Which one am I suppose to use?

I put this in a suggestion form. Please make another tab in the Star menu for Settlers instead of lumping them in with regular resources.

the game is great but only one thing is the fighting simulation video is not entertaining much. Is it possible we can improve the fighting simulation when attacking badits. Example like a side screen show the video of attacking the camp or some kind of entertaining simulation.

Adventure Recycler- Shreds unwanted adventures into map fragments

yo i thik you are right and that they shouldhave it.