I think (hope) that inventory will eventually be movable to other units- at least champions and your kids....

Make the Rings stack like Potions and remove the ability for the powers to stack. That way I can horde Rings and Potions but only activate one of each kind.

The "glug glug" on the Manuals gets a pass for now due to the Beta stage we are at.

I would like to see some kind of "paper doll" system. In my opinion this would add a lot to the RPG-feel - plus isn't it just more satisfying to drag that newly aquired flaming sword to your right hand instead of clicking on it in a row of items?

I like John's idea to stack rings, but it would still allow you to probably have more rings than fingers+toes.  Paper dolls though?  I don't know if I want that for Sovereigns.  I think it's fine for unit design but I don't want to wait in multiplayer for some guy messing too much with his sovereign's inventory.

Yes I guess. Which proves my point in a way

I think I remember that this change from "simple item row" to "paper doll" was made from Heroes of Might and Magic 2 to HoMM 3, and in my opinion it added a lot of RPG-feel to it. Also, it helps with the logic (no equipping a dozen rings and two helmets on a paper doll - for humanoids, that is!).

Maybe it is just me, but I always found it fun in games to drag nice shiny equipment (fancy icons help a lot in this regard) to their appropriate slots - even in MoM where there were only three with symbols telling you what can fit there.

If they stack by Type, and you can only wear one of each type, then the others collected could be given to your Hero's and or your children when they grow up and need the POWER!

Perhaps we could use them for Diplomatic use as well. A spare Ring of Move +2 has got to be worth something to someone who didn't find their own yet...

The current, non-rag doll, setup works well. One gets instant feed back about the look, as well as cost and turns needed to build, on the fly. Makes tweaking them easier, depending on how much time you have before the unit is required in the field.

The Sov is currently the only unit who even has an "Inventory" anyways right?

You could always allow players to fiddle with their paper dolls between turns if your worried about players spending too much time switching around epic loot.

Grab your paper doll inspiration from the Heroes of Might and Magic series...

It also has backpacks scrolls, spell books, misc items

Check out the inventory system on "heroes of Annihilated Empires" It uses both the "Paper Doll" system and the "double click" system.

when the appropriate item is double clicked it automatically goes to one of the empty inventory slots. Also if it included the abilty to mouse over the items and give the difference in stats, it would speed up the equiping of items.

Example:  I pick up "Super Cool Sword of Badassness"  I mouse over it in my general inventory,  it says it gives +2 to attack and +1 to defense. My currently equipped weapon is listed next to it for comparison "Wet Noodle of Despair" (5% chance to hit your self instead of your target)

From this I can instantly tell the SCSB is much better than the WND so I double click on the SCSB and it equips replacing the WND.

Not asking for a full "Diablo" type inventory .. but just something that is a little more on the RPG side and less on the RTS.

Any thought on monster items? 

Collars for war dogs,  charms for flying things... 

armor for horses?

Armor for the Bear Cavalry I hear everyone asking for?

Also will there be armor sizes?  Will my 700lb troll fit into the same armor as an 85lb scout? 

A possible reason it seems less immersive is that after equipping the Uber stuff, we get to go back to a guy standing on a floating pedestal in a night gown.

How immersive can that ever be.

Perhaps, with time, when you finish equipping that same Uber stuff we will get to go back to a Knight like figure, encased in in gleaming suit of armor, waving around a flaming sword, the immersion levels will go up.

If Building Houses is so 2000ish, then Rag Dolls are so 2005ish. LOL

  The inventory management will be good to change .  Think all the heros/champions should have the paper doll inventory.  I would like to see that once we equipe an item on a hero that it shows up on the figurine.  With the equipement and figurines being painted.  The bases should have camoflouge ability to blend in with whatever tile they are currently on.  I'm sure they will change the sound for books at some point.  Having multiple cities under our Soverigns control, we probably have some storage available(in our Tower, Fortress, etc) beyond just what we can carry.

  Maybe have some sort of paint miniature editor.

(smiles) Yes indeed. The truly rough part of that is once you get more than 2 figures on the go at once, it becomes really difficult to keep the 3rd one on the monitor. on which you have certainly drawn, with liquid eraser, the games map grid. LOL