I'd like to second this. I was playing the game and submitting bug reports a while back, around the time of versions 0.87 - 0.89. What ultimately turned me off the Beta process was the huge number of serious bugs.

I've seen them all: weapons and spells that don't work like they're supposed to, quests that simply don't work, crashes when loading saved games (repeatable), weird stuff like cities changing names (this is more serious than it looks; could be memory corruption inside the engine?).

I know what they say. It's a Beta, it's supposed to have bugs. The thing is, I've been around the forum since the War of Magic post-release betas . I bought War of Magic on release day. I've seen the attempts to turn it into a good game (in this respect Fallen Enchantress is much better). Unfortunately, the general bugginess of releases hasn't improved much since then, and I think this will be what ultimately breaks the game if things don't improve.

The worst part is having to constantly kill champions who you've just defeated, in a never-ending loop.  In my last game, I finally lost a city to an onslaught of enemies, and when I tried to retake it I found all the champions that I'd killed untold times, stacked up there defending it.  End of game for me, I can't compete with that.  If the devs won't change this crazy mechanic, at least give us an option to make champions mortal.  Please.

champions do accumulate injuries every time they are defeated so they do get weaker in some ways, even if they still level.

This.

I like.

I feel your pain -- I think this is a rather annoying issue in the current state of the game.  I know that this issue has been raised in more than one Discussion Thread on this site.  For example, there is a pretty vigorous discussion of this issue in Derek Paxton's "Fallen Enchantress: Beta 4" Discussion thread.  ( https://forums.elementalgame.com/427621 )  A number of respondents have suggested some possible solutions; including one which I outlined in my Reply #174 in that thread.  (It is too long to repeat here.)  You might want to view or join the discussion there.  Unfortunately, IMHO, there are also some Beta Testers who consider this a Non-Issue ... or at least one that need not (or can not) be meaningfully addressed by the game developers.  As I say, you may want to glance at that other discussion thread ...  

Don't worry about it.  Being true to oneself is its own reward.

What is your computer and OS configuration?

Win 7 64-bit

Intel Core2 Quad Q6700 @ 2.66GHz 2,67 GHZ

4GB Memory

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

My experiences so far with .915 are mostly good. I even managed to do a number of pretty long continuous sessions (Large Map - Challenging) without the game doing a CTD at all (stability is very good), although it becomes a bit slow at times, specifically in tactical combat (laptop with 8 GB of RAM helps obviously).

Compared to some earlier versions, the aggressiveness of the wandering monsters seems to have decreased somewhat. That's fine, but if you have a creature spawning building in or near your zone of control, you should get into trouble and that should be the same for the AI. It's rare, but there do seem to be some attacks on outposts (haven't seen cities yet) of the AI. But they shouldn't be building outposts, let alone cities, more or less on top of those sites. That's what irks most people in this thread.

But some monsters do actually seek out targets; I've dealt with the wandering Ignis and the Earth Elemental Spawn (I forgot their name except their relatively high stats 13A/18D), which require you to be vigilant when putting settlements near them. That's the game element that should be kept in, although I don't know how to write an AI to handle this properly (as in putting some guarding units near such a place that spews out annoying wandering units from time to time). On the other hand, if the monsters become too aggressive, you use that tactic to loot their sites, which was done in earlier versions.

The champions thing is somewhat annoying, but they have very limited hit points after having been killed previously, and by that time I usually roll over my enemies anyway. What I would like to suggest to compensate, is that you get to pick off some of their possessions, that would reward you for taking them out better. That would even save them in some cases, since I saw Magnar cast Berserk on himself, even while having already equipped a Berserk item, with which he killed himself, because of his low remaining number of Hit Points.

The thing that makes the game work for me, is that you have to think of new ways to get the most out of your situation each time. That is, items you pick up, the location you start off with, the abilities you get, the heroes you get and so on. These variations keep you on your toes and make adapting very important. The only problem I guess, is that the AI simply cannot keep up with a smart human player.

This has little impact on them. And is lame to begin with. I like that they can get injuries the lame part is that they are immortal which is one of the worst concepts in the current game. I know some people will say "But I put too much work into the champs for them to die" I'm not sure what "work" they are talking about besides this is a really stupid argument for having a unit that is immortal in a Stratagy game without having to bring that dead unit back through a high level expensive to cast spell or the like. 

It boils down to people just don't want the game to be too challanging to them. They don't want to loose. But what can one expect from the generation where score is not kept in little league Soccer or baseball games. And where it takes an act of congress just to give a kid a D or F in school for poor performance, after all thier feelings may get hurt.

It pays to see the world as if the glass was half empty. Because when something positive does happen your pleasantly surprise and it feels better.  And your also more prepared when something does not go your way. If you a "glass is half full" sort of person then your more inclined to be disappointed when things don't go your way because you had a higher expectation.

Besides the Dark Side has better cookies

And yes I did show my frustration in games these days to be too damn easy.

You can be positive and realistic at the same time.  In other words, looking forward to good stuff but not getting too upset if it doesn't happen all the time.

Gets very tedious!
I cant wait to the next expansion where I just grab the opponents outposts

Sincerely
~ Kongdej