After playing VV1 and loving it but being wholeheartedly disappointed with the anticlimactic end to the game I had to come and post some ideas of mine for the sequel. Feel free to add your own ideas too and hopefully LDOW will answer our desperate pleas for a great sequel.
I personally still love the puzzles you have to complete (more tasks than puzzles) but would be interested to see more of these and maybe not have some of them take so long. The watering of the field was just a bit much (mainly because there was nothing to show it's progress like you get when building huts etc)
I'd love to see interaction with other villages. Maybe some trading or fighting since once the game is complete the tech points and food build up and theres nothing to do with them. How about being able to mine for gold or jewels and make things to trade. Being able to trade food for other materials and favours would be good too.
The research screen is great and I had no problems with it but for a sequel would like to see the trade research or military appear.
I've seen people complain about all the villagers looking the same and I know you can change outfits if you highlite n press F6 but I didn't like that once you got to outfit 10 the cycle didn't start again so you end up with every1 in the same clothes.
I love some1 elses idea for a family tree type thing. The spirituality research could indeed be used to have marriage cerimonies and it would be nice to see our tribes history. I had to resort to naming my villagers BOB, BOB II, BOB III etc to keep track and I agree that the big sex fest seemed a bit much sometimes. We just want a bit more control there please.
There is so much potential for this game and I do respect that game design takes alot and that the improvements cud mean larger files and more disc space, but we love the idea and thirst for more at the end.
I presently have tons of villagers, have lost count of my death toll (since once the graveyard is full you don't get stones anymore) I have millions of tech points and hundreds of thousands in food. Unfortunately, now the game is effectively over they just run around gaining skills, breeding, dying. It's soooo sad.
Please, please, please hear our thoughts and give us the fantastic ongoing sequel we beg for. No doubt if the sequel has the great potential and is received with what we would love to see, I am sure that a third V.V would still go down really well with us hardcore VV fans. Such a wonderful concept, with great simplicity. Not everyone likes the modern SIMS characters, its nice to be tribal sometimes in such a modern world.