Four things that I would like to see:
- The ability of "Ctrl+TAB" overlayed dialog boxes. Sometimes we're writing a message about some information we saw in a previous dialog box, we start to type but because we forgot a little detail about the subject we have copy the whole text, close the current box, check the previous one, reopen, paste before continue typing.
- A better way to distinguish buildings that can be polished/motivated. Sometimes it's hard to find that little 3x3 building hidden in the bottom of GB with the availability star hidden behind the GB sprite. Or, when it's not hidden, a gray star in the middle of a concrete jungle.
- Shortcut keys. Not saying I would like to transform FoE in Age of Empires, but you know, press ESC to close current dialog box, SHIFT+ENTER to post a message...
- Make the game not take control of my browser window focus. In past, if I was doing anything in FoE and something else called me in a different browser tab, I could simply press Ctrl+TAB and navigate as usual. One day, all of sudden, the game started to grab my window focus for itself and "forcing" me to manually click in a different browser tab.
Sometimes this is even worse. If the browser tab I want to open has a textbox with autofocus (like Google's Search box) by activating the tab itself don't let me type right away, so I have to click the tab and then click the box. Sometimes I type without look to the screen and it has happened that I typed a big text for site X, in a different language, and the text appeared in FoE message center.