Feature request thread

You mean like the Founder Well that was promised to some backers?

" an exclusive Godus Wishing Well, inspired by the Temple in Dungeon Keeper, for your Homeworld. Sacrificing the right items will gain you bonuses!" From the Kickstarter page.

Short version: Less abode building. More reliance on an advanced food/material economy. More organic settlements. Reworked god powers.

Long version: We shouldn't get free shelter as soon as we complete the tutorial. That requires knocking down trees or squatting in a cave. Additionally, our followers need to eat. Wheat and farmers settlements are the building blocks, but they're not fleshed out. Instead of sculpting, I propose we have leashing as our initial god power. It's less "powerful" in my opinion, and it fits better into a long-term game scenario. Start with your least powerful tool, use it until you have a more powerful tool. If we start with animals as our early-game food income, we could leash wild animals into our followers reach, which they manage to dispatch. We leash predators away from our followers, they continue to not die. Eventually, their belief in us grows strong enough that we advance along the fire > cooking > concept of building > tools / shelter tech tree.

Building shelter requires materials. Our followers build tools to fend against predators, but also to secure lumber for building a cave away from cave. Instead of an arbitrary timer, we now have a visual indication of our followers chopping down trees and carrying wood to a central location. If followers can't find wood within their range, we may have to intervene with a new crop of trees thanks to a god power of "sow harvest".

Now our followers can fend against predators, but still require a hint of luck / divine intervention to continue finding food, and we have our first abode. Eventually, we breed more humans, and they need a place to live too.There's no reason we should have to inspire this, let them build a second hut automatically. Settlements can then arise organically, as the population grows, so does the settlement. But animals are not an infinite source of food. There are other sources of food, but not near our starting settlement. We leash a group of our favourite followers to a wealthy source of fruits and vegetables, they gather, they take back to the initial settlement. Through divine inspiration, we advance to agriculture.

Our followers now start planting food, and harvesting. Population booms. But now we have too many followers, and not enough food. There's even more food, but it is too far to travel frequently. So we spend our harvested belief to light a Beacon of Expansion, inspiring a group of followers to make a pilgrammage, and eventually make a new settlement. Our smartest followers invent the wheel, and eventually learn to start making basic paths and roads. Now our settlements can share or trade their goods (depending how we, the player, feel) with each other. Different locations have different resources, and thus we have the start of our basic resource economy.

Instead of just sculpting, our god powers can advance to basic / advanced terraforming. We sculpt out and beautify a location for our followers to settle, they become infatuated with us. We don't even have to leash or sculpt, our followers follow our beacons and advance as we see fit.

That's all I got for now. I could probably scope out the whole game if I wanted / had the time / was getting paid by Molyneux.

The pit of doom isn't exactly overpowered, its just that the alternative grind is so tedious that people would rather spend hours sacking people into it to progress.
If and when the game offered something interesting to do and the waiting times weren't so poorly set - the need for using the Pit of Doom as much would go away.

i don't even need settlements, i get all my belief through constant sacrifice

I've no sacrifices thus far nor any settlements aside from mining to unlock the ore beacons. If ore had not been needed for the beacons I'd have a gazillion individual abodes.
Seems to me their frozen lumps linked to farms contain too many future feature related items - having stagnated at 300+ pop on the first run through I know rain of purify, builder settlements are all uncovered in the frozen farm area - gee guess what farms are not currently mandatory so hey not unlocked. The ore mining levelling up unlocks a load of farming and building related capabilities and not much else for someone has their thinking wound on back to front. If I do A a lot what is the point of increasing B and C, surely doing more A makes me more effective on A.
I'd like the new settlement feature just to be able to group houses with no special farm/mine/building side-effect, if only for less boring housing graphics.

I've got all sizes across the board. I build as big as I can for the layer and positioning. Thus far 2600/3000 pop, 118/150 mines and 0/2 farm, I've not FoG any aside from those waste of space initial beach huts.

Beards of multi-color?

Here's a request I just came up with when making a type.

We already have the leash.
Lets introduce the lash!

Much like the Dungeon Keeper slapping, it could be used to give our followers incentive to work harder at the cost of happiness or their health/endurance for a time.
An evil god using this method often will find that his followers become more durable and eventually the lash will have diminishing returns on its effect when overused, but your followers become much more durable.

Potential side-effects not officially acknowledged are: rioting, uprisings/revolts, cult worship of different deities and other similar behaviour.