Before I type anything in this thread let me just make one thing perfectly clear: DO NOT POST ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS!
I started playing the BG3 EA about 2 weeks ago and only started checking the forums about 1 week ago. I was disgusted to find what appeared to be 85-90% of the forums covered in political/religious/social BULL****. The whole point of RPGs is to be an escape from reality. So, can we please agree to leave the real-world issues, bull**** or otherwise, in reality and just play the god damned game?
Moving on now, I wanted to leave some suggestions for the game developers to be a, as Auntie Ethel would say, "wiggler swimming around in your brain juice".
1. Autosave---Autosave needs to trigger WAY more often than it does. There are two situations in particular that I believe that autosave should trigger: (1)Fast Travel. Autosave really should trigger after using Fast Travel. (2) When you successively manage to subdue Auntie Ethel, before the conversation triggers. The reason is the ridiculously high dice roll needed to succeed (20) in threatening/persuading her. It would be one thing if we could have more than just 4 Inspirations at any given time, but we cannot, so this is why I believe players would benefit from an autosave in this situation.
2. Party Management---Please give us a way to manage our party without having to return to the camp EVERY FREAKING TIME we need to adjust our party's make up.
3. GOLD---We need more of it. Either reduce the prices of merchants or make every enemy, regardless of what it is, drop gold and more of it. Or, you know, maybe both?
I've only had 1 coffee this morning, so this is all I've got for now, but I'll probably be adding to this list later on.
Regarding point 3, I find myself having a different thought. I found the management of gold and merchants very similar to the experience in DOS2. In practice, you accumulate mountains of gold, but merchants hardly ever sell anything better than what you find in loot or as a reward for a quest. Moreover, the ease of robbing merchants allows you to have an enormous amount of gold right from the beginning. Add Astarion to the party, maybe you can cast Guide on him to facilitate it even further, and you're good to go.
