From my experience here on the Forums, LDW is very receptive of their fans' suggestions. Over the time that I've been here, I've seen where they added features to games or the sequel that were suggested here in the forums. Not that every suggestion will eventually be put in place because not all our requests are doable or the programming might mess up something else.

From Virtual Villagers 1 to VV3, you can see from the various threads that LDW added many features that were fan requested. IMHO, LDW seems to be the most responsive game developer.