General Parking Spots - how to easily improve the game

[Innit]

When generals return to home island make them land in the same place they took off from.


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My original wish and intent was to create a thread with one "Innits how to easily improve the game" suggestion a day. I think I have enough to last a lifetime. Having read this subforums guidelines I reluctantly will not (for now). I would be less reluctant if I thought anyone from BB actually read and listened to these suggestions - if they did we would have had a way to mass send explorers years ago.

Both the lack of feedback and the feedback I have received has been quite disheartening. I still have a lot of suggestions, most of them still require very little effort to implement (edumacated guess [sic]). I still hope to share them but frequency will depend on my energy levels (and how frustrated I get).
This is the seventh, here is the previous post (https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/39540-Summarise-enemy-losses-in-Battle-Reports-how-to-easily-improve-the-game?p=374684#post374684).

[Sai-Babba]

the way of playing is dead!!! sadly though

[DorotheusII]

Where the generals land are safe spots, if they did as you suggested your generals landing could lock your island.

[Innit]

Where the generals land are safe spots, if they did as you suggested your generals landing could lock your island.

That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. Not you, what ever tech causes that. If that is the case then they should look on it as a golden opportunity to fix whatever messed up beyond belief "solution" causes that.

[Qualan]

you are looking at the game from a beta perspective, we are really at the omega stage here and the biggest question is how long will they keep it running and how much development time will they assign to the game

Both will be less than we would want i expect

The sad thing is, most of your suggestions have been made multiple times over the years and the programming situation has not gotten better. I expect most people would agree that your suggestions are valid and somewhere on out lists but we have little faith it will actively be pursued by BB and changes for the better on most old requests are more a happy side effect of some other programming activity

In the case of the generals (and no doubt you will get to it eventually) we already have the dancing generals on adventures that swap places after attacks have launched (or show wrong actual placing on adventures) which cost people tons of troops and dead generals at the wrong time- this was an unhappy side effect of the unity transformation and this has not been fixed either

[MaelstromJ]

The easiest way of dealing with 'parking space' to make room for troops would be to create 'pontoons' floating platforms for generals to camp on...been asking for ages now via this forum as usual no reply. Of course the best solution would be to open up more land to settle . I shouldn't have to point out the name of the game is settlers - I havent had anywhere new to colonise for ages !