Hi, thanks for making this. I'm pretty sure that I manage to catch all of the comments and posts scattered about (even though I don't respond to most of them), but a centralized location could be handy.

Custom Routes

Why do you want to define custom routes for your units? The pathfinding should be finding the fastest route, already, and it will occasionally need to recalculate the route on the fly (if the path is blocked, for example).

Multiplayer

This has come up a few times. It's more feasible in 2.0 than it was in 1.4, but still quite a major undertaking for a one-person operation. I won't rule it out, but it's also not currently planned.

A pottery resource. Required for the smelter and an upgrade for the bakery. Could be made in a pottery kiln on a clay tile that would appear next to rivers.

I would love to have a pause feature activated with the spacebar like Paradox games. 

A 'build multiple roads' option. You could indicate the starting point and the ending point and the game automatically tries to build a road using the fastest route, as long as it is possible to do so.

Also, maybe it should be possible to build roads over mountains at a high cost (either duration or resources or both). I see bridges are already planned.

Some suggestions i have.

Hunger and morale for military units so you can't deploy them forever. Morale always been a key factor in any battle, units with a poor morale fight poorly. The further away you're from one of the zones you control the lower your morale is (Like 5-10% morale loss for zone). This would make units defending they homes stronger, as they normally are. Ways to prevent morale could be adding captain units (Frail units that boost morale for they units). And maybe slow wagons with provisions that can be used to feed your units when they're far away from your base?. Would be awesome to have a raiding system where you can steal most the masklings and other enemies just like they do with you. 

A suggestion I have is a way to send an unit to scout or a scouting unit that has the ability to scout automatically. That is for the unit to go around the world on its own without much player interaction.

Maskling walls. Maybe wooden barricades? I tried out masklings on test mod and died many times. It seems to me like they need some kind of advancements. Perhaps some kind of 800-day building upgrade to barracks? Would also be neat if they could build new totems to expand administration.

An easy to implement feature which would greatly aid in structure diversity would be an adjacent to placement  / operation tag for structures - one which is checked on placement and world update within the adjacent regions only. This would allow for systems such as easy multi tile structures (have a preset of adjacency dependent structures which access the same UI) as well as water dependent resources not necessarily on water tiles (like fishing huts). Additionally, a system for multiple structure layers would be useful for things such as placing road underneath gate houses (versus having road speed and graphics logic tied to the gate house / structure itself) or buildings on raised platforms or fortifications in swamps or military areas. The same logic would be useful later for things such as seige engines, which could then be coded similar to settlers to be able to deploy into a structure and unpack later utilizing layers.

As a less pressing but still easy to implement - with a large payoff - concern, there should be a way to set certain resources to be visible only to certain races in the UI - as right now one can technically custom balance resources for different races in the API - but the visual support lags behind a bit (A nice way to do this might to be only showing the resources for the current races the player has under their control - you seem to already has a race.query function, so that plus some additional lines in r_race would go a long way towards making multiple player friendly races  possible.

And finally, if there is the possibility of adding a quick build bar of some kind to settlements / hold shift to place multiple - it would greatly aid in building up settlements quickly. A priority queuing system would be ideal, but the first statement would be a simple step towards improving player UX. (Though the second could be done through a say: 1-10 array of lists collection with 1-10 being the priority level for each structure. That or a simple linked list ).

I was thinking of a new way to do a tech tree when that comes up.  With most stratagy games we see, the tech tree is static and the same across all factions.  wait x turns until this new thing becomes available to us then we can begin production of this standalone unit/structure.  What i was thinking was a more fluid design where the whole point is to improve existing technology; put enough effort into some topic and you get a "eureka" where some scientist creates some revolutionary improvement.  For instance select improve spears to improve their damage through new modifications like serated tips or poison dipped tips.  Eventually you'll max out on what the tool can output and so as you're progressing with your improvements you'll get an ever increasing percentage chance of achieving that new eureka item as research progresses (with a 100% once the item's abilities are maxed out).  Also i don't think it would be very immersive to show a direct tree branch link between tech x, which progresses to tech y, finally to what you need with tech z.  I think it would be cooler if when you get a eureka the game rolls for a new technology to unlock in that category (it would be stupid to unlock a new food producing technique by putting your research efforts into armor).  This would provide tenser moments where a player has to cross their fingers to hope for the specific tech they want to beat a situation (i.e. better weapons to stave off rapidly encroaching Masklings).  A point i forgot to add would be that in games like civilization, i hate how there is no cultural difference between empires in tech (besides 2 specialized units); throughout history we see different nations investing in different concepts that work with the land their given to end up with drastically different item designs from those across the world (EX: 17th century Europe with advanced ships that could decimate any navel force in the Indian Ocean with breeze, or even the Russians pushing both Germans and French out due to them not paying enough attention to winter clothing nor food supply lines).  Things like this would make every game very unique and not so predictable that experienced players will always know what route to take to maximize their situation.  

Sorry for the long post I hope this sparks some creative ideas among you guys.

it would be great if you hired someone to draw the sprites and a debugger so you could focus on coding more and developement would speed up by a thousandfold!

just a farfetched idea i thought of so it'd be great if you replied!

On a recent game I utterly destroyed the masklings. I mean, I methodically claimed, dismantled, and abandoned their settlements. But now I'm wondering about continuing using that world. I mean, there isn't much more combat I can do. Even if I migrate it into the upcoming morale update and suppress a settlement to create a rival empire, it still won't be the same. Could you throw in some kind of maskling revival? Essentially, they could rebuild a new village, starting from scratch. Unless you have settlements spread across the map, you might not know about it until all your fancy new settlements that don't have walls go up in flames.

Is there a way to restart your world, or be able to see the seed number after you start the world game?

     Maybe as an add-in for the Battles and Boats mod, a range of vision statistic for units. Essentially it would determine how many blocks they could see through the fog of war. Handy for modding and vanilla gameplay.

we need horse archer raiders or nomad people 

YEIY BOATS ARE HERE! my suggestion though is that you need to make a system that makes sure you can produce things without deleting buildings 

A batch upgrade tool. You select this tool and click on buildings to upgrade them. It's just too tedious to upgrade all those 150 walls 3 times. Or even an "auto-upgrade" window that lets you tick boxes of buildings to upgrade as soon as you get resources. 

I think however you should work on gathering a group of people, the number and amount is up to you, to make the game "better". You already are working on a website and many things by yourself i assume, if you look at this game from a financial and/or business standpoint like i am now you can clearly see people would invest in this. 

Things to think about:

• Gathering a team to help enhance the game, create updates, enhance features, website developers, etc.
• Work on gathering sponsors so you have a source of income and a source of help (this is a major factor to take in).
• Dont begin to sell the game (ex: 1$ to play) or else your player base at this point will Drop significantly. 
• I think you should begin to not only think of this game as a fun project, but as a dedicated Job. (fun job) To take it to the "next level" aka an official game. 

please make a browser version

Inside game editor (world editor) i know, this is possible by editing an exist save file but its not very easy and takes long time

Tower ranges overlay same from classic version

Olive trees simply another happiness source, "Olive trees --> Olive grove --> Olive Press" equivalent to "Grapes --> Vineyard --> Winery". olives can be found commonly in mediterranean generation around grasslands or savannas

Taskmaster levels: lvl1: like current but only gives +2 administration and -2 happiness, lvl2: upgrade cost: -10 wood -5 limestone -1 worker (building time is unspecified), result: +4 adm -4 hpy -1 worker, lvl3: upgrade cost: -10 wood  -10 limestone -1 worker (building time is unspecified), result: +6 adm -6 hpy -1 worker

"Northern" world type that feather: no deserts/savannas/swamps/ no grapes/fertilized soil/ rarely mountains/grasslands/forests/oceans commonly new biomes: (snowy/ice/frozen/could) (grassland variant)/(snowy/ice/frozen/could) (pinewood/pinewoods/sprucewood/sprucewoods/spruceforest/spruceland/sprucelands/pineland/pinelands/pineforest/coniferforest/coniferwood/coniferwoods/coniferland/coniferlands/taiga)/(pinewood/pinewoods/sprucewood/sprucewoods/spruceforest/spruceland/sprucelands/pineland/pinelands/pineforest/coniferforest/coniferwood/coniferwoods/coniferland/coniferlands/taiga)/(snowy/ice/frozen/could) (mountain variant)/(snowy/ice/frozen/could) (ocean variant) new hexes: pines hexes that equivalent to trees hexes (slower walking, +1 more wood product then normal trees), snow hex (slower walking, you cant place farms on it, cant place pasture on it), ice hex (slower walking, cant place anything on it), deposit/trees/anything with texture of snow hex instead of grass, trees/peaks with texture of snow on top (like a snowy peak), gravel (cant place farms on it), trees/deposit/anything with texture of gravel (gravel texture is like a brown hex)

Granite a rare type of stone that allow you to go to even higher level then limestone on buildings like walls, housing, bakeries, windmills. granite can commonly found in deserts or savannas next to hill spawns.

Does anyone know how to get more administration? like a console command? or any way you know? im stuck because of it.

how do I get trade routes to work? I have ships but they just go to the other port and sit there and do nothing.

also how do I put resources on a caravan?

New ideas:

1. Roads and bridges will be in decoration menu instead of civil, i think it make more sense to be a decoration after all is not really do anything beside faster transport/enable transportation, also make the civil menu to be less full and easier to find stuff on the menu as well. or, you can merge the decoration menu with the civil one.

2. AI will be able to destroy bridges especially if a trade route is going through the bridge only of course if the AI tribe is hostile. friendly AI should complete roads and bridges as well, for example, let's say you build a bridge from one side of a river the AI should complete the bridge from his side.

3. If you thinking about idea num 2 you may as well like this one, limestone upgrade to the bridges, make them stable and harder to destroy.

4. Sculptures: a decoration, lvl1 three limestone sculptures on a mudbrick stand,  lvl2 three copper sculptures on a limestone stand,  lvl3 three bronze sculptures on a copper stand. this idea is just a bonus.

5. Shorting the process of getting silk, by removing the item 'raw silk' and the structure 'silk weaver' from the game the process will be silkworms -> silk shed -> luxuries instead, make the swamp with the rough terrain to be more reliable to get settled. i almost never start in a swamp also because they bit rare and i don't want to start in a rough terrain such as swamps, don't get me wrong the rough terrain of mountains still worth it because of the more valuable resources. please consider applying this idea.

6. Massive overhaul:

new: sheep (item), donkey (item), riders (military unit), sheeps (resource), riders barracks (structure), shepherd (structure), sheep pasture (structure), donkey pasture (structure) mill (structure).

removed: pigs (item), windmill (structure).

new lvls: grill (1), fishing dock (2), mill (2), butcher (2), riders barracks (2), tradehouse (1), shepherd (2).

explanation: pigs are no longer give up meat, instead sheeps will do, also will give luxuries if used by the shepherd. the trade house will require donkeys, and will be upgradable to level two with wolves, after the wolves upgrade the caravan will move faster like the rats of the muskilings (donkeys consumption is 1, wolves consumption is 3). fishing dock will be upgradable up to level three, copper hooks and bronze hooks, in sense of balancing the fishing dock will yield: meat = level but the wood consumption upgrade by two each level. butcher up to level three, the butcher will receive new tools made out of copper and bronze, but the butcher will work differently, on first level the bucher will consume one sheep for one meat, on the second level the butcher will consume two sheep for two meat, on level three the butcher is more efficient he will consume two sheeps for three pieces of meat. mill will replace the current windmill and there is a good reason behind this, the mill third level is unique, the mill will consume one donkey instead of using up a worker, grill have a limestone level which will work the current grill and the first level will work like the old grill, this leveling supposed to make the grill easier to use. shepherd have three levels copper knife and bronze knife are the upgrades, on the first level consume three sheeps for one luxury, on the second level consume two sheeps for one luxury, on the third level consume one sheep for one luxury. riders and rider barracks, simply a new military building and a melee unit that consume donkeys, the special feature is they move fast as the muskilings rats, the barracks is upgrade able to level three just like normal barracks. if you read everything thank you for reading it's appreciated.

New idea for diplomacy change:

If you have above two settlements, and total population above 450 people, and one of the settlements is not happy with your rule, they will create a new tribe that will be hostile towards you, and swich your unhappy settlement to be owned by this new tribe. This can happen only to humans types and not to muskelings.

I'm sure the unhappy status need to be advanced so only if 65% of the settlement is unhappy they will worn you that they consider leaving you, and above 80% they will automatically leave after one season.

A suggestion about the Bigguns.  Legends of giants and cyclops were often inspired by Mammoth and elephant skulls.  So maybe  having the giants be tusked cyclops would be cool. 

Territories category in diplomacy:

1. Offer: this is where you can offer to tribes your own territories

2. Request: this is where you can request from another tribe annexation for lands

3. Suggest: place where you offer the tribe to settle in a region or to capture a settlement

I was thinking about putting some pre-made maps, like Italy, Spain or the Mesoamerica, if you didn't plan on something like hat. Maybe an editor would be good, I don't know.

I'm also suggesting some victory conditions, for example the classic ones from Age of Empires: Conquest (destroy all opponents), Wonder (build any wonder before anyone else, such as a Pyramid, a Ziqqurat or an Hanging Garden Complex) or Territory (control the most settlements in a certain time limit).

I have a bug  does anyone know how to fix? whenever I try to load my save It says we have encountred an error

My suggestion: Region merging. It would cost some stuff, maybe you would be able to build another settlement tent, but it gives half the administration, while still giving a priest.

I propose (for now) to reduce the number of hexes, approximately cut in half, and increase the hexes size themselves (for biger and detail buildings/teraine and so on, place on hex) and map, even SMALL - are insanely huge, but empty & useless( for now). I think all this will greatly increase FPS and bring more action/intresting gameplay. Also, not bad to reduce the number of hexes per region, thay have too many territories.  

Thx for "listening" ;)

I would like some sort of creative/sandbox mode added to the game.

If you're still taking suggestions, I don't think my defenseless settlers should start in the aggressive stance. ;)

Being able to pause a building (removing its costs until it's unpaused) without destroying it would be nice; also, for worker shortages, I recommend letting the player give certain buildings priority (both for building new buildings and for staffing buildings). 

If a region has a negative amount of resources, I recommend giving then a notification up top to tell the player there's a shortage. I have twelve regions (hopefully more once I clear a path to my hostile neighbor!), and ideally I'd rather not have to cycle through all of them just to see if any are out of bread.

Similarly, if a  unit is not getting its supplies, ideally it'll say which supplies are missing so the player doesn't have to guess whether it's missing bread, copper weapons, money, or something else.

Finally, I recommend doing some work on the help section. Remember, even though you know the game like the back of your hand, us players don't. ;)