People
I think that the infantry right now is fine, but it would be interesting to see someone rise up occasionally, they could have better stats than everyone else, or more men, or the ability to build certain buildings more efficiently, whichever would seem the most balance-able. Another thing i think would be pretty damn cool is if somewhat rarely you had foreign squads/clans/armies go into the world with different everything, and they could possibly set up a town and be hostile or friendly, they may go for world domination or just be interested in trading with other people.
World
Could you imagine walking around and seeing an eerie, abandoned fortress with corpses laying around, smoke from craters from god knows what, destroyed buildings as if there was an epic battle between two great factions? Now what if when you went in the fortress there looked like there was just an ungodly large battle inside, blood everywhere, more corpses, and a ransacked interior? Now as you go down exploring the castle with your squad you find bandits, traps, monsters, but at the end of the exploration, at the last room there's a few chests, each one filled with riches, weapons, money, armor, whatever could have been valuable that wasn't taken would be there. These can be randomly generated too, so that every castle could be different. It could also be cool to see an actual functioning fortress too, with its own barracks, watch tower, and army.
Having a few caves or mountain entrances would be pretty cool to explore too, there could be a cave on one of the tallest mountains which is utterly huge, tons of fork-roads, a few bandit clans, and maybe some prisoners you could rescue to join you. The cave could be a lot like the castle, except with possible better items to grab from.
Buildings
Having barracks where you could see your troops being trained by instructors would add some life to the buildings rather than seeing a bar go across the screen. The instructors, the longer they trained soldiers the more experience the instructor gets, therefor the better your troops will be. Ex: Your instructor is at teaching 20 ( Replace that with whatever you please) and from that 20 from teaching your troops dish out a 40+ chance to attack 40+ block speed (Or whatever would make this balanced, I'm just providing an example.) It would also be very cool to see buildings be able to crumble from physX, say you have a catapult and it hits a tower, part of the tower falls and collapses onto another building which makes that building collapse, it would put strategy in placing your buildings because i don't think that you want your capital building to be smashed by a tower, right?
General game play ideas not directly related to those above.
I think that being able to modify how many guys you can have in your squad would be nice, because it seems i have reached my max on mine, so having the ability to toggle it from 0-infinity(Or whatever you want as long as its do-able
)Battles
The battles right now are really, really, good but having the ability to have the armor deflect some hits rather than just take them would be pretty cool too. This of which brings up another thing because it would be interesting to see if archers would be to some extent possible, now i can see these being horribly broken because they do ranged damage and can probably incapacitate someone without much stress, If these can be implemented somehow that would be pretty cool.
I think for now, that's all i have, I'll do edits for sure if i have anymore ideas, if you read this far and you didn't troll with tl;dr then thanks for taking your time to read me rambling on about this!
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