I'd like to see the ability to tell your villagers what the fastest route is from one point to another. I'm re-playing VV1, and building huts is painful...the villagers just wander around, circle buildings or backtrack.

Also, the ability to assign experience points would be great. One of your villagers has decided to be a researcher and has "extra" farming points that don't mean anything to him. Take those farming points and re-assign them to a villager who is working toward master farmer.