@Fabrice / Muad Dib
OK, Fabrice that is nice explanation...
What bothers me that you didn't mentioned SPOILED CITY INTERFACE screen for buying BUILDINGS.
MY CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTION:
As it is late to change it in initial release then change it in add on. We don't need a MAGNIFYING GLASS to look what needs to be built and what is built. And all is blured and that suck a lot!
Now, please load Heroes 3 or Heroes IV, can't you see that when you enter the town you see on the first GLANCE what is built and what needs to be built. Why you put CITY BUILDING SCREEN on HALF SCREEN is beyond understanding for me...
Essence of Heroes game is SPEED of game. Imagine late game when you have 8 cities what problems will this cause!
Why you made GHOST mode when you spoiled fundamental Heroes design??? Yes, GHOST mode is nice when we wait and we can grab resources and that is a nice twist...
This is not only thing that is done that is lousier than H3 or H4 and that slow donw the game or is plain ugly or just worse design than H3 and H4!
For Christ Sake why you spoiled some good Jon Van Caneghem designs?
You could leave to be on par with H3 or H4 if designers didn't had talent to make it better but not this way... Look at Civ 2-4 and how Sid Meier and his team had showed a RESPECT toward old games and old design! They moved to 3D but they didn't throwed elegance of design out of the window.
Heroes screen as well, in the past games we had nice DOLL and we could put sword where hand is now there are only cardboards...
And there are many more things... Nice, when you move army to another hero you must put it in the middle of the screen in previous games you didn't had to be so precise
ok I figured this out, not big thing but...
H3 and H4 simply had made some logical and predictable choice, you could see in what town you had built something and in what now. Now as well but it's different etc...
And other little things...
Combat is OK - I like initiative system.
Now, my complaints doesn't tell you all. I must congratulate you on however good game and with a little more effort it could be almost a classic like the rest. Also, well done that Nival didn't screwed this like Silent Storm (good engine but some stupid feature like when you want to aim a shot and it says 92% and you miss the bad guy for five time, good job on that Nival, Sir Tech is still way above your amateurish try outs... Jagged Alliance 2 is one of best game, Silent Storm is just mediocre title).
So, bring back WHOLE SCREEN FOR TOWN BUILDING INTERFACE, make it more intuitive..!!!
Yes, Nival watched Lords of the Rings and that's nice animation and breathtaking!!! But for God sake - this great things are then spoiled by such amateurish city building things....
No flame here, my suggestions are put in good faith Fabrice, and other fanboys
All best to you, and my greeting to Ubi Soft - I know many of them since my game journalist times - some top execs there, I still have their business cards from E3 and MILIA (ahhh, Cannes is great city!!!)
Mario