I know im terribly late, but I completelly agree with the decison both to make skill tree less constraining and to make dificult enemies less health and armour dependant it was one of the weakest points of both avadon and avernum 6, makes it boring rather than hard. So I full on agree. If you can make it hard please do. I particularly liked geneforge 3's balance. But I welcome harder as long as its not neither tedious nor impossible, I would also like to ask to limit swarming in the game, dont remove it. It has its charm but I skipped through most of the corruption due to it As everyone said, cap was reached too soon. I however wouldnt like the cap to be just delayed, but to be increased. I.liked the option in other games to be able to cast all abilities. Make us work hard for it but dont remove it. Another thing, i'd like to ask, is to limit cheat usage. I remember at one given point some almost 10 years ago I started using cheats, it sort of became addictive and ruimed game play for most games, took me 5 years to get "clean" so im.not sure if I speak for everyone, but, try to give cheats a limit, lets say money, make it so you can only get 20k per gameplay, that way a person wont relly on it. I'd say take the cheats out all together but some are relativly harmless and conviniet, but I think, money, health and vitality/energy cheats can be damaging. on another point, I would also like if your actions in a game had consequences still during the gameplsy, say you took the corruption in you, I think.at one given point, you should feel the effects, like skribane in avernum. Or like the canisters in geneforge. Another good thing would be for seemingly unniportant side quest actually affect the ending, say avadon 1; imagine the quartermaster asked the player to bring said important ore, with not a great reward for it, and in the end the ore was used to make weapons which made the attack on avadon less deadly or deflected all together. As said before implimentation if jokes would be a huge boost. Also some kind of arcade mode so a person can play the game without getting tired of the story. Thanks again for the consideration and asking the gamers for feedback, i'll make sure to get the game as soon as its out.
Owen