FF --- I don't think you were wrong -- everyone thinks that Ygernas was 'my' (dragonknight's) enemy...um. First off, who says I can only have 1? Second, I'm more pissed with Damion -- he destroyed my 1st hamlet 'broken valley'. My hatred for him runs deep. Third, Damion was the one who shoved his foot in my face and it was trying to find the means to defeat him that Ygernas came into the picture. If Damian "had not been", Ygernas never would have existed, i.e. destroying Damian would have removed Ygernas's cause for fighting against me. Damian was the one destroying the world -- it was him that needed destroying over all else.
Remember the wizard more than once said that no one since the Divine had risen in power or had so much power -- indicating that I, potentially was the Divine's successor -- thus putting me in the position of having to defeat darkness. That Ygernas crystalized me was a mere 'annoyance', but not a central reason to change my whole quest to 'effect her end'.
A real major annoyance was my being bound (by bogus game play rules) -- from the time I invoked the daemon -- in the short battle to defeat him, and shorter time to find the dragon crystal (about 10-15 minutes), I am to believe that Damian wiped out all of Broken valley?? NO WAY.... No way would all of Broken valley been wiped out in the time it took me to complete 1 battle.
And what's with the poison gas nonsense? Sure Damian could release some, but it wouldn't stay around forever. It would disperse. Either that, or there would have to be some active gas emitters -- that could be destroyed. Also, there were several places where creatures existed below ground (some of whom were 'undead', that wouldn't have been reached by the poison gas or wouldn't have been affected by the gas.
But the main point -- there wouldn't have been enough time for Damien to wipe out the entire valley while I finished 1 battle. I should have been able to fly back and fight Damian's forces while he was engaging in his bombardment -- its DOUBLE to QUADRUPLY true that Damian wouldn't have been able to construct so many towers and battle emplacements during my ***1 battle***. For him to conquer and build all of those emplacements would have taken weeks, at least -- not the fraction of an hour it took for me to defeat Laiken.
Also, I really felt the dragon form was cheated -- first by all the restrictions -- so many of the restrictions were not realistic:
1) the requirement on the amount of space around me to change: this should have been ZERO -- if there was clear sky above me, since when I change, I'm instantly placed about 3-5 meters above the ground!!! So Nothing on the ground would be an impediment to me changing.
2) There are places where the game forces me into dragon form, but if I am standing in the same place, _I_ cannot change into dragon form due to "there not being enough room". This is an extreme bug -- it's not fair for the game being able to force me into dragon form 'at will', but limit my changing in the same place. The most obvious example being in Zagon's cave.
3) All of the places that have 'anti-dragon' fields -- there has to be something (I *thought* that's what was meant by "generators" at first, until I realized that what some walkthrough's were terming 'generators' were really 'spawning towers').
>> So where are the anti-dragon-field generators? Why can't I destroy them?
Another place I felt cheated -- is the mission to destroy the shaman named Svadilfarier of the red hammer gang. I'm given the mission by Aurelius. He tells me its a hard mission as they have an entire city there -- It is a bit of a slog destroying that whole city, but that was a bit 'fun' (in a perverse sorta way), and I finally track him down and nail him. When I finally get back to Aurelius, less than a day later, -- the entire red-hammer gang city wiped out, he just gives me a 'pat on the back' -- and makes NO COMMENT, on the fact that the entire city was destroyed BY A DRAGON. Now certainly, there would have been some word in all of this that a dragon was seen around these parts doing all of these deeds -- or at least seen flying around -- but everyone is obvlivious, as if the dragon is 'invisible'. It's completely lame -- but Aurelius should have had some inkling of the fact that he me to take out the red-hammer gang, and "magically" a dragon appears out of no where and wipes the whole city off the map. He should have made *some* comment! And I should have been able to tell him *something*, that would change his attitude toward dragons -- like that I have friends in high-places who like to perform in 'drag', OR, that sometimes, I've been known to attend to such matters "in drag"...(*ahem*), or more straight forwardly, telling him that I'm a dragon on the side of righteousness.
Another annoyance along those lines -- was my re-encounter with "Rhode". I would have wanted the option to dual her in non-dragon form, with the option upon hitting her with, what would be a fatal blow, to bring up options -- 1: to kill her, or the BETTER option, with Rhode providing some critical/key help down the line, to offer Rhode her life, to become an ally against the common foes, OR (at least) hold off her need to destroy me until the more dangerous threat(s) are dealt with -- like Damion and whoever else stands between us and peace for Aleroth, as well as a chance to prove to her that it was Damion who was the real Betrayer who mind-controlled the dragon who attacked the Divine, after which, if she still felt a need to slay me, then we could renew the battle.
That would be consistent with 'humanity' in which many enemies put aside their differences for the sake of all, to fight a common evil -- after which, they can renew their feud, though often, after having seen each other fighting the common enemy, they often have new respect and decide to bury their previous fight.
I don't suppose that'd be easy to put into a shortly-arriving patch -- but if you plan on more patches down the line, maybe you could think about that line -- it would make the whole story-line more grand, don't you think?
