One Year of Humankind and the Future

Most of this is fairly generic, but I am happy to see Maritime Gameplay on the list! As it is listed under Improvements I won't expect too much, but I do hope it adds to exploring the oceans, introduces independent fleets (pirates), and that the common frustration of naval battles will be addressed, where an enemy can wipe out most of your fleet with outdated ships because of the fire first and no retaliation mechanic (and vice versa btw, destroying enemy fleets can be extremely easy because of this).

As for stealth overhaul, I assume this was meant to be a more fleshed out feature to begin with, but personally I never understood stealth units and stealth aerial strikes. I hope I will be able to scout enemy lands and gain vision when this is improved.

Independent Peoples: curious what you will improve, but anything that adds to more nuanced and varied gameplay yes.

Third party reinforcements: I can help my ally in battles? My ally can help me? 

Looks good, I'm still very much enjoying playing the game as is, the improvements list looks good and I'm very excited for what the future will bring in terms of new cultures, narrative events, and just about everything else. Absolutely loving the new loading screens, by the way, some fantastic art with the 'What If' series, I especially love St. Basil's in Edo!

I'm appreciative of our first persona customisation options that feature a variety of hats, too. I'm still eagerly awaiting glasses, but I'm happy to be patient given how much I'm enjoying the content that is getting added.

Would love to see Melayu or Majapahit inspired cultures, I've a friend in Malaysia that is getting really into the game and it'd be nice to see some other varieties of cultures centred around that area of the world make it into the game as DLC, or in an update. Would be happy to see some other Eurocentric options, too!

Edit: I just realised I read 'third-party reinforcements' and didn't really process what that means for the game. It was one of the focal points of my disappointments with the game lacking and I'm super happy to see it coming to the game now, should make multiplayer games more interesting too.

Third party reinforcements is not a can of worms I expected you to tackle, very interesting.

For Maritime, I hope it becomes possible to reset the "lost at sea" status in somebody else's territory. That first push to the other continent is often a suicide mission because nobody's going to open their borders the turn you meet them, and it's a weird benefit to Expansionists in Classical.

For IPs, hopefully you can groom them to be vassals instead of being forced to assimilate. ES2 had the same issue, if things go well they all straight up vanish.

Probably a longshot, but a district planner as a UI improvement maybe??? 

docktorkain wrote:

hmm... that roadmap is for the next 8-9 months or so. Given amplitude's rate of work so far, I would bet on it being split on 3 or 4 different updates. So lets play a game: Which parts of the roadmap would you guess for each update? what'll come first and what'll come last?

i guess new "Game Systems" will come last. If they are changing the way you can enjoy and play the game, it takes a lot of work.

But it can play out a other way out too.

For example: religion needs a lot more game mechanics. This "Game Systems" could come together with new religious/spirit fame stars up to the early modern time. Together with a new class of religious cultures.

And from the industrial age on with new atheistic cultures able to counter balance the religious cultures witch had already gained a lot of religious fame stars.
A fundamentalist cultures against atheistic cultures endgame.

Or they can ad a future era. With future cultures. New techs. And a new win condition. I can smell the dust. Settling on a different star systems brings up so much fame, that you can win by tech and production even if you startet the future era third place in fame...

What i would love to see, is when they ad new "Game Systems" to also see cultures to make the best out of this. This will also need fine balancing for existing cultures.

Thank you for this updated roadmap, looking forward to the changes and new contents.

I'm also very interested to hear about the other plans for improvements and additions to the game ! I'll stay stune for more infos.