Here are some other ideas that I would love to be added to the game:
Very welcome changes outside of combat
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Curved / diagonal walls, but you already know that one. Having more than 90° and 45° angles would be nice though. [70%]
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Bridges and rivers, would be nice [40%]
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Custom transport routes: This is a big one for me especially for the late game. I would open up a whole new possibility: villages outside of and far away from your city. Right now it is possible but it sucks because of travel time. It is just totally impractical to build smaller villages, but the map is huge (the potential! ). [100%]
The Idea: Upgraded wagon shop & transport depot.
The nessecary tool already exists: The wagons! How about an upgrade for the wagon shop: After upgrading, there is an option to select a second building like a transport warehouse. The upgraded wagon (with a bit more capacity) only delivers wares to and from that selected building.
This trade depot functions like the marketplace. You place it in your far away village and employ a worker. The worker fills it up with the wares you select within a certain area (to avoid wandering across the map). You can mark wares for import and export.
Import wares will be delivered by the upgraded wagon from the nearest possible source (in the city) to the warehouse. The wagon will try to fill itself to capacity several times before leaving the city (efficiency).
It then traveles to the warehouse in the village to unload its cargo. Wares marked for export are then in turn loaded onto the wagon. The wagon then returns to the city unloading its cargo at the nearest possible storage building in the area. And so the cycle continues.
I think this or a similar option would really open up the map. You could build small villages around resources like willow or fish. The villagers don’t need much to sustain themselves and the excess is transported to the city in exchange for clothes and tools for example. This would allow for other playthroughs than just building one super large city.
But you could also use it for efficiently transporting resources to your industry for example. I think some mechanic like this would really improve this already great game!