Proposed changes

[Iamgoofball]

Since I can't get a dev enviroment set up for this, here's some changes you should make:

• Only show health bars on units with less than 100% HP
• Heal 25% of total HP inbetween rounds on damaged units
• Add a way to buy back dead soldiers. Maybe it should be inital cost of soldier + kills * 100 + level * 100?
• Visible indicators of new turns and whose turn it is currently.

Bigger things:

• Some kind of way to save progress and come back at a later date.
• Visible pathfinding when moving units.
• Have the AI "show" what it is doing (Think Final Fantasy Tactics AI view)
• One use items you can buy with gold such as potions or ability resets.
• Smaller UI in general on tablets. You're using up way too much space with some of the UI elements.
• Unified art style
• Equipment for soldiers to buff stats, makes you care more about losing a character.
• Optimize AI, it takes too long for what it's trying to accomplish.
• Bigger maps. Solve size problems by allowing us to drag around the map with touch controls and zoom in/out

Big thing that'd be nice for longer games:

• Have a 6 unit active duty party like normal but have a barracks you can store other troops in as a bench. If your priest gets banged up in battle, bench him and hire a replacement, then pull him back in a few battles later when he's fully healed and bench the replacement for the time being.
• Option to sell off party and barracks members for gold individually, Or add option to sell off entire adventuring group for money equal to their worth for extra gold in the next game you start.

[bunzosteele]

Going to run down your list with my initial reactions to each thing.

• Inconsistency may be wierd? I would have to make the change and see how it feels, the aesthetic improvement may be worth while. Or, this just came to mind, what if full health was the regular sprite, and as they got damaged they had an increasingly opaque red overlay, where upon dying they are completely red, this could eliminate the bar all together.
• I'd rather not auto heal units, it trivializes some damage, or lets you keep units in the back for a few rounds to top them off, I like the dynamic of needing to guard priests. Getting a priest up to like level 3 so it has ~9 attack is really satisfying, and adds more drama when you fail and they die on accident. That said, I am planning on adding an alternative form of healing this weekend.
• When people are dead, they're dead, gotta break the hearts of our players! Plus, that sorta tarnishes the idea of the hero unit. I've considered the opposite though, wanting to sell units when the party is full.
• Yes, but I need something that doesn't require an action from the user to move past, maybe make the screen sparkle or something... an audio queue would be good too.

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• Yes, but I don't want a manual save/load. There should never be a way to go back and attempt a different approach to the same game.
• This would be a fun programming problem, and is maybe helpful to new players. So I would absolutely like to do it, it needs to be turn-off able via the options tho, don't want it to slow the game down for those that want to play fast.
• Same as above, except less challenging from a programming perspective. Also, a bit less meaningful as long as we have a static camera.
• I was originally going to do items/an inventory system in the game, but I'm not sure I actually like that idea any more beyond the fact that it feels like it SHOULD be there on principle. I'll be working on an alternative this weekend that should accomplish the same goal though.
• Huh, never considered that about tablets. Whoops.
• Need a committed artist for that, I sure as heck can't pull that off
• See previous inventory comment, but yeah maybe.
• Yeah AI needs a rework on open maps
• I originally planned on doing bigger maps with pan/zoom, but the more I think about it, the more I feel like it violates the idea that these are super quick games. Making the maps bigger doesn't do much other than make it look cooler and slow the game down.

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• A good idea for the current state of things, but ideally the game will be balanced such that by the time you have plenty of guys, you really need all of your guys.
• As I said before, I like this idea. Not sure I approve of getting extra gold for the next game though, as that can mess with highscore/leaderboard equality.

[adamraschig]

I added a couple suggetions on reddit. I think we should be able to delete our own units after battle. After like game 6-7 I have some shitty units left over and will just send them off to their death to open up slots. I need morethings to spend my gold on. I am often left with like 10 gold and full slots and upgrades. Also I get to a point where my enemies are level 25ish and mine ar still like 5-6. Thats just flat out impossible to beat without exploiting vulnerabilities. PS. I beat your high score suck it.