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zone change is a plot device and yes its by design that changes happen

Well, that's completely irrelevant and if anything an aggravating factor.

Because one way to represent it -the one where the two places are put as separate areas- conveys the illusion of that scale, without the need to build an entire landscape to sell it... While the other simply doesn't.

I should have been clearer. I'm fine with lizards looking however Larian would like them to look.

As for elves, they did indeed suffer from a distortion in DOS 2. At least, they never looked like that in the earlier Divinity games. I'd prefer to for their appearance in DOS 2 to go the way of magical and physical armor in that game. That said I think that there is plenty of room for compromise between the appearance of elves in DOS 2 and elves as pointy-eared humans. I also feel much more positive about the way their culture was developed in DOS 2 than about the way they looked.

so I first did the exclusion for one drive, and ran into a autosave. error still persisted. Uninstalled one drive, still getting error
Failed to remove dir:
C:/Users/___/OneDrive/Documents/LarianStudios?divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition/PlayerProfile/charactername/Savegames/AutoSave_2

Also sorry it took me this long to reply, didn't see a reply or get notified in my email that I had a reply or I'd be here sooner

Do not start with the "they are not white" nonsense.

The problem I mentioned has nothing to do with humans of different ethnicies, but for example some influencers started with "Orcs represent black (or asian, as I said they never agreed on which one) people so them being evil is racist!!!!" back when such statements gave lots of clicks and likes.
Thats why orcs are now just humans with a bit of paint and live in multicultural cities now or why there suddenly are udadrow who are all nice (forcing Larian to have Lolthsworn drow as separate race choice to use the classic drow culture) or why in the new version there are no half elves or half orcs anymore as "being half of something" is racist.

And that leads to everyone and everything becoming more and more human.

Me neither.
It's also OBVIOUSLY responsibility of the game designers to model things to work sensibly.

It's fine to be refused the services of a shopkeeper if you visit him in the middle on the night.
It's another thing entirely to have an NPC who's waiting for some life-or-death update about a certain urgent situation to refuse to talk to you because he's a bit sleepy.

Some dialogues are obviously meant to override scheduling/NPC availability in terms of urgency.

Hello Larian Studios team!
First of all, thank you for your amazing games. I really enjoy the depth, freedom, and attention to detail in your RPGs.
I would like to suggest a small quality-of-life improvement related to trading and merchants that could make gameplay more comfortable in future Divinity titles (and similar games).

🔹 Buyback Slot / Separate Buyback Tab for Merchants
In previous games, when the player sells items to a merchant, those items are mixed directly into the merchant’s main inventory. Over time, this causes the inventory to become cluttered with low-value or irrelevant items. As a result, it becomes harder to find the merchant’s original goods or newly refreshed items.

Suggestion:
Add a separate buyback slot or dedicated buyback tab for items sold by the player.

Benefits:
Cleaner and more readable merchant inventories
Easier navigation and less micromanagement
Faster access to merchant stock
Better overall trading experience
This system already exists in some other RPGs and feels very natural from a UX perspective.
Thank you for your time and for continuing to create such high-quality RPG experiences!
Best regards.

what are you doing men yet

I'd love to see more race options in the next divinity game, like the Imps, I thought they were amazing when we came across them in Divinity Original Sin 2. I'd love to see an origin story with an Imp who has a lot more complicated interactions because people expect them to cause trouble. And I just want a tiny race smaller than dwarfs, and a bard like class, something about Jamming out and healing people is just amazing too.

Excited to see what comes! ❤️

My wishlist:

- Return of DOS2 style OST. It was so much more epic and awesome than what BG3 provided. I still get chills when entering Act 2 in DOS2 when you ride in on the ship with the epic music playing.

- Fully voiced MC. Won't happen though because of Larian's commitment to Blank Slate PC's...

- Origin characters for all. Not just the companions of the game turned into Origins where you just play through their story. But unique backgrounds for different races that allows your PC to fit into the game world (You can still keep your Blank Slate character option for those that prefer it). Ideally some of these will have unique prologues and unique interactions with different people/factions.

- Deeper companions. With inter-companion relationships (With some being so hostile towards each other you cannot recruit both). Also, give them some autonomy, don't just make them things you collect and then will happily sit in camp the entire game while you ignore them, despite them having things they want to do...

- Diverse companions. Don't make them all "Pretty" and don't make them all "Nice and likeable". I want variety. I want characters like Astarion that I dislike. I want characters like Beast who's not conventionally "Pretty". But I also want sweethearts like Lohse and beauties like Shadowheart. Having variety makes things more interesting. Especially if the aforementioned depth means they aren't just Pokemans that you collect every run because there's no reason not to.

- Movement and actions to be separated. Much like how BG3 clearly separates Movement, Standard Action, Bonus Action and Reaction. It would be nice if Divinity kept movement and actions separate, meaning that you (Or enemies) can close the distance/reposition and still do something. (Beyond that I'm whatever about it... Going back to AP would be fine as would D&D style combat. I err towards AP as it's more flexible). You can keep "disengaging" competing with actions, but none of that "The best strategy is to stand still and fling ranged attacks at the enemies whom are using all their AP to move closer and so don't fight back" garbage.

- Enemy turn consolidation. If multiple enemies are taking turns in a row between your character actions (Which is common with Larian's love of large numbers of enemies), have them all take their turns simultaneously rather than one-by-one. So that combat can be sped up, especially in large scale fights. (BG3 has hints of this, as multiple enemies just using Dash and moving closer will occur simultaneously)

- Enhanced Surface design. Separate sufaces into dedicated abilities to create and manipulate them. Meaning that someone who chooses not to deal with them, doesn't constantly interact with them. Meanwhile, improving the depth and complexity of surface combinations and interaction. Thus allowing people to build for messing with surfaces or not. Of of the main issues with the system in prior titles is that it is forced upon you (Then of course the whole "Hitting an enemy makes the ground below them into a blood surface... Hence it just devolving into Necromancy abusing Blood surfaces and/or Electrified Water/Blood) which takes any interesting strategy with it and throws it out the window when every battle just becomes one giant electrified blood surface no matter what (With a few exceptions, like that one encounter in DOS2 Act 2 with the blobs of tar where everywhere becomes fire)

IF they would do that, then no lizards please.
The Red Prince was probably one of the reasons I gave up on DOS2 fairly rapidly.
Nor wpuld I want a Jarjar Binks or anything similar forced into the party.