You deserve alot of ****ing kudos Laszlo for taking MB precisely in the right direction. Your making a huge difference in helping MB reach its full potencial!
For the next version I really hope to see more kinds of resources (hides, wood, crops...) and varying ways to attain them like growing crops, chopping wood and hunting. And also to make it possible to trade resources/items. Maybe even have some kind of AI craftsmen that can turn resources into items?
Also I think that communication is one of the foremost obstacles for good gameplay. Speaking on TS with your team really increases the quality of the gameplay immensly, and I think that if ever an integrated voice system was developed, that would do soooooo much.
Im talking about a voice system that would limit the reach of your voice so that only ppl near you could hear what you said, and leaders such as kings or commanders would be granted a further reach. So even if you dont have a mic, you still will hear everyting your superiors tell you.
The way it is now, ppl with no mic dont even join the TS server, so it gets real hard to communicate to a larger group!
Once you fix the communication difficulties and add a little more variety to the ways you can earn wealth, then you have reached a whoooole other platform of wonderful gameplay, and much of it will form by itself when ppl are given alot of freedom: Kingdoms will form, systems on how to best claim land and sustain power will emerge on its own !
(and also it would be awesome if someone made a huge map with vast landscapes and distant towns, with LOD so that it would run smoothly

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Love you