Frogboy

I'd like to see sieges and dynasties. After that, I'd like to see a DLC with neutral villages or "city states" like Civ5. After that, more global strategic level 5 spells. After that, crafting. After that multiplayer.

Thumbs down for more "content", thumbs up for more "mechanics".

Oh yeah, Steam Workshop plix?

1. At least quarterly.

2. I really, really liked the quest DLC. Even more would be great. Quests, events and new monsters would be my choice. Spells come right after those. I guess that would be f and g then

1. Quarterly seems about right.

2. Honestly, everything but choice d for the next 2 or 3 DLC would be great. I would also like to petition for 'more resources' to be an opportunity to be explored.

I also think quarterly updates would be good. obviously we would all like as often as possible, but I think the best way to go is periodic meaningful updates. I think monthly would end up looking like updates were being churned out to make a quick buck, even if that wasn't the case.

Um...

I'm not able to fully parse that one out. Most I've ever done was make pages from scratch in geocities (anyone even remember those?). Does the above mean only changes within the existing framework? For example, things that could be made from inside the workshop already?

All the DLC released so far could have been made by modders, well modders that could also create super high end art anyway. Although I don't see how spouses could possibly be added this way.

I'm looking forward more to 2.0 then any DLC. None of those options really excite me. Maybe stamps but only if there was something new about these stamps. Maps are random enough.

All these sound good. Earlier and more nuanced alliances sound great. Especially if the AI forms them intelligently to handle powerful factions and can work together. Awhile ago I wrote a bit about the victory conditions in Elemental and how I thought they should be changed to make them more unique and fun.

Uhm - if the quality of the DLC wont suffer, then yes - MONTHLY.

New DLC?

I definitely believe we are very lacking at items. I think the best way to look at this is the following:

(High Level, Mid Level, Low Level) X (Class, item subtype)

You have lets say 4 "Classes": The dual wielder rogue, the sword and shield (two types), the 2 hander, the hybrid/cleric/druid/whathaveyoutype, the wizard type. The item subtypes would be like hammer/axe/sword/spear/staff for weapons. Shields/Plate/Chain/Leather for armor types (magical ofcourse). Then add countless trinkets. You find out that that to have a decent and full complement, you need lets say 3 choices for each of the above subtypes.  You're basically looking at a few hundred items. We're nowhere near that and it is evident in the gameplay:

My wizards are almost always using the starting staff with the bonus spell damage. I think there exists only 1 staff that is a random quest reward that is better.My warriors 90% of the time end up with the same weapon at mid/high level. Either that same Orange sword (not the -100% xp one) or that same axe or that same hammer.Same for archers.

There is middle steps - it is pretty much the basic weapon I can buy from a shop, update once with magic item and in less than 20% of the games, update finally with an uber item.

So my DLC list in order of preference?

e. More loot

c. More magical spells (remove spells from quests as random reward, make Manablast available once you get level 5 in 2 schools of casting for example. Add more relevant single target tactical damage spells so it's not just flame-dart+filler every other turn)

a. Stamps pack (for more random map generation interest)

I've thought of a relatively "cheap" but interesting way to have meaningful siege units.

Specifically, units that do 2X damage when attacking a city.  It would be easy to do and result in a new line of thinking of units (units that are useful in different circumstances).

Actually now that I have thought about it some what I would like to see is a Stamp and Wildland DLC. Maybe throw in some more early game easier wildlands such as a undead graveyard, spider lair, Brood hive, or something else. Also more special stamps lie that life shard one or other unique locations.

That's a nice idea. Would they be special units like ballista and catapults or a new designable unit trait? Catapults definitely are underused and unappreciated. A buff when attacking cities and maybe an earlier tech version would be cool. Or maybe even instead of a direct damage buff, which can be boring, you could use the charge/impulse xml to make it so they get a few free attacks at the start of combat when attacking a city.

First of all, Frogboy,  thank you for the news on LH updates.   The upcoming DLC and 2.0 sound great.

Future DLC desires?

A.  More loot.  In particular armor sets to be collected and very rare, but powerful weapons.   I would prefer some of the latter without the big negatives that some of the existing ones have (negative 100% experience being an example of a big negative).   It would be great if the loot were generated randomly (" Fire sword of life stealing", etc) but I realize this May not work with your current programming.

B. More quests.

C. More factions.

D. More Monster types.

As for changes outside the DLCs:

A.  Experience and loot more appropriate to the difficulty of the monster killed or quest accomplished.

Thanks for keeping this great game growing.

I personally don't like the DLC system, but that's only me.

What I am really interested at after seeing the post: Frogboy, could you elaborate about the reasons a DLC with c++ coding is viewed as an expansion pack? Is it a Stardock decision to view this way, or a general market view?

are those full-blown DWARVES? cause those aren't Ironeers for sure (they're more or less human too, as i figured) 

Dwarves! Excellent. 

Elves, Goblins, and high fantasy tropes should be added.