3. Hell. No. Making buildings killable by low level demigods is basically turning it into a completely different game. Powerful buildings is the reason you need armies - if Demigods could push on their own, you might as well get rid of the portals.

5. The opposite - tone down kill-gold, put more gold mines into the middle.

2. There already is timing and skill based Demigod combat - using potions and other items is the most obivous skill/timing based mechanic, with many spells that can be used at all times, but have more profound effects when used at the right time. Deepfreeze to interrupt, Shield to absorb incoming burst damage spells and remove debuffs, bat swarm/cloak of elvenkind to dodge incoming line attacks and move out of range while rooted, etc.

In addition to that, with the introduction of Erebus and Oak, Last Hitting has arrived in an manner that actually makes sense, and is not a contest against your teammates.

1. Agreed 100%

While I don't necessarily agree with all of your points, I definitely agree in that the game needs to reward skilled play and create a larger gap between average players and great players.

If it does not manage to do this, the game will quickly become boring because there will be little incentive for players to work hard in order to improve.

1.  100% agreement.  As it is implemented right now, the interface cannot support any RTS style play at all.  For the time being, it just seems like a Diablo-style interface with some limited RTS commands overlayed on top, and it just isn't doing the job.

2.  I agree that casting animations are definitely needed.  Otherwise, skill interupts are just a guessing game.  As for the spell reflection ability, 1 second is way too short, even for "timing skill-based" mechanic.  Finally, this game really isn't about healing, so if an HoT were introduced, the ability to steal an HoT would be effective against, like, one hero?

3.  I agree that demigods should be slowed down and healing crystals moved back; other players have said the same thing.  I've only played Demigod since yesterday, so I'm not familiar with the game enough to make comments on towers except to say that right now they probably do too much damage.

4.  I agree.

5.  I agree with DatonKallandor on this.  I think there should be many more gold mines that each produce less gold.  It would make the logistics of the game more dependant on capping and defending locations on the map, and would give the game more of an RTS feel.  Alternatively, the relative amount of gold from mines vs. the amount of gold from bounties could be map dependant, so some maps are more Diablo style, and some are more RTS style.

If you want to push it even farther in the RTS direction... make abilities and summoning troops cost gold and be less tied to cooldowns/mana... ?  That, in conjunction with making income more gold mine-dependant, would make it even more RTS like in that your capacity to attack the enemy at all will depend on your ability to cap and hold points on the map.  It would also make the games go much faster, as the power would shift definitely to one side or the other.

Burnmelt, the War Rank Points were actually supposed to be in Beta 2. Maybe it's not in because it didn't make it, or because it did make it and they thought it wasn't fun. In any case, we should get to try it - hopefully in some future patch.

This is actually really brilliant.