my mages cast crap spells?

[MaxWilson]

Playing devil's advocate here, motivated by the phrase "biggest problem": All of those ideas sound nice. At the same time, to a certain extent the art of war is about learning what works and what doesn't within the constraints you have, and as long as I can figure out WHY things work the way they do (Storm of Thorns optimizes for damage) I can still optimize. Stupid mages are one thing. Stupid, random and uncontrollable mages would be something entirely different. (You could still optimize, but it would be along the lines of "don't research the conjuration tree if you want to be able to cast Fire Storm." No fun.) I don't think the UI is a problem as it stands.

But, yeah. #2 and #5 would be especially great, and I could see how #4 would help some people a lot. Maybe we could agree that the combat UI is the area most urgently needing attention? (Well, that and disbanding units.) Although I'm all pumped about automatic site searching working properly in the next patch. Yay for Johan!

-Max