For both:

- Change towers model to what can easy understand, easy remember. I have to play with my friends in local, they can't speak english, hard to say about towers with them

- Change towers name to what can easy remember, example Gods name or depend tower model

- Add 1 life mode same in WarCraft 3

- Random some funny events or easter eggs while playing. Example: some goblins run to a tower and push it, if player touch to them then they'll escape run, if not and have enough time then they'll make tower move to other place or steal it

Only Dota 2:

- Add kill streaks in multiplayer like Dota 2. If who have faster wave finish then will show a kill streak on screen for all players. This feature can sell like Dota 2

- Add more music and can custom or random them

Only Mobile

- I know the game have optimize for low end devices can play, but how about with players playing on high end devices? How about with a option allow change graphics to good more than

- Is possible make verus with other players? I have feeling little lonely

- Add short mode, start game at wave 16 same in Dota 2

• Runic Tower currently deals Darkness damage and deals AoE. Its ability lets it shoot all targets within a small AoE for a few seconds, so it super counters clumps of enemies.
• Alternate Runic Tower would deal Light damage and deals Single-Target. Its ability would, for a few seconds, cause additional damage for each creep near the target. Aka, an opposite Laser Tower, but one that theoretically infinitely scales with slowing/clumping like Runic Tower.

To clarify something, you will not be able to have both the original version and the alternate version at the same time. When you select the button to switch to the Alternate, it'll switch all towers of that type over. You can switch from the Alternate back to the Original, but it's going to have a long cooldown time.

In addition to this feature, for this content update, Single-Element Towers will be receiving overhauls with effects that are still pretty basic, but they won't all be overglorified copies of Cannon & Arrow Towers anymore. This feature will also make the game considerably easier due to opening up lots more possible builds; however, to counteract that, we'll also be adding more Creep Types. Those 19 Creep Waves with no abilities in the standard order will probably be cut down to just 5 or 6 Creep Waves with no abilities (first five). This will naturally make the Icefrog Boss Wave harder as well, with more randomized variety to deal with.

In total, there are 15 Dual Element Towers and 20 Triple Element Towers. There will be a total of 7 Creep Types, so excluding the ones we're keeping, we need 2 New Creep Type Ideas. We need enough ideas to cover alternates for all of those. Feel free to suggest designs from previous versions of the game as well. Please post your comments and suggestions below!

FYI, for Random Mode, if you feel yourself getting screwed over often, this feature will not force one version over the other. You would still get the option to switcheroo it over the to Alternate and vice versa (with long cooldown still).

• All points are multiplied by the difficulty. Normal = 1. Hard = 2. Very Hard = 3. Insane = 4.
• Each creep killed gives points equal to the wave number + five. So your base points for wave 5 would be 300 ((5+5) * 30).
• If you don't leak, you get a 25% increase to your base points for the wave.
• If you complete the wave in under 30 seconds, you get a 4% increase per second to your base points for the wave.
• If you complete the wave in over 30 seconds, you get a 2% decrease per second to your base points for the wave. Max -100%.
• You get a networth bonus percentage equal to (ending networth/base networth) to your final score.
• Networth is equal to gold unspent + gold given if you sold all towers. This means Random gives 11% more.

Classic

• Game is considered complete after finishing wave 55.
• If you complete the game in under 40 minutes, you get a 2.5% increase per minute to your base score.
• If you complete the game in over 40 minutes, you get a 2.5% decrease per minute to your base score.
• Base networth is the total bounty of all creeps. Normal =  60805. Hard =  79445. Very Hard = 90861. Insane = 103951.
• Each frog killed gives 200 points. Every subsequent wave of frogs gives 20% more points.

Express

• Game is considered complete after finishing wave 30.
• If you complete the game in under 20 minutes, you get a 5% increase per minute to your base score.
• If you complete the game in over 20 minutes, you get a 5% decrease per minute to your base score.
• Base networth is the total bounty of all creeps. Normal =  69483. Hard =  89142. Very Hard = 102373. Insane = 117564.

I'm kinda guessing this is impossible because of the game engine limitation, but is it really truly impossible for you to define your own shortcut keys like in warcraft and starcraft?

Changing my first skill hotkeys to "L" (because first skill of my builder is Light building) fucks up my tower sell button, because the sell skill hotkey also changes to whatever the first skill button is.

Not to mention, when it comes to dual towers, it becomes kinda strange since you are memorizing their location hotkeys rather than the name of the tower itself (which might be good for some people I guess).

So, all I'm asking is: is there really no way to change the hotkeys to use the tower name like in warcraft 3 era eleTD?

cons:

• confusing for new players
  In my first game my friend told me to build a blitz tower.
  • Checking tower table not there
  • asking friend ->upgrade from haste tower
  • upg Haste tower to Biltz
  • read skill description again(because it has another name) and see only damage increase
• most players don't know the names
  • I wrote a guide and one of the first questions was of course "Where did you get the  Foundry Tower?"
• I think i played the game more then the average player already and still could only guess what a Steam tower or a Wizardry tower is.
• You can't find the tower-names in game when you don't build the towers.
  • you have to play several games until you see all the names once. How should players get familiar with the names?
  • The average player won't study tower names on the website
     

pros:

• some tower names sound cool

If you confuse other players when you use the real names what is the point of having them?

well 1, well 2, well 3 is clean and every player knows what you are talking about after 2 games.

or just add adjectives like you did with single element towers.

Suggestion.

Can creators please allow Host to select mode before game starts? So those who wish to play can stay and load the game together.

Currently if I want to play  "insane + express" but not enough vote I can't play with strangers, only can play alone.

Allow both Voting Mode & Host Mode please.

If this suggestion would increase the file size of the map too much then don't mind me.

Things to consider:

• Start with a choice of 2 (possibly 3) elements similarly to express mode

• As stated, you will kill a composite armour boss at levels 10, 30 and 50 in order to get your elements. The first boss will give you the other 3 or 4 elements you didn't choose at the start of the game, second and third boss will give you +1 all elements.

• Waves are increased to... 40 creeps with 10% more health than their vanilla game mode counter parts? This would just make it somewhat challenging to pass the game while also giving you access to all slows, buffs and amplifications with the extra gold provided. I'm not too good with scaling numbers when it comes to gold x damage x health where you keep it challenging but not impossible.

• Mixed waves? 20 fire and 20 earth creeps or 10 light, 10 dark, 10 water and 10 nature or something would also be possible with the access to all elements while also making sure that basic builds don't get abused.

• With more gold comes more towers! At level 45 and 50 you get 2 pure essence at both these milestones, this will allow you to somewhat man handle the stronger and more densely packed creeps at later levels.

I'm aware the game isn't balanced around how well you can abuse 3x buff towers with 4x amp/slow towers but I'm sure this would be the most volatile leaderboard when tower changes come around which is always something interesting to see.

i think elements/orders/etc, and replays (if theyre even available) should be hidden from the public

everyone is just doing the same build (it goes down for the whole 100 players) and its kind of LAME

Sometimes, you just want some company when you grind those Insane/Chaos/Rush modes.

Picking elements no longer summons elemental bosses that run through your maze. You automatically get the element. That's right folks. You can totally get away with having Level 3 Vapor Towers starting Wave 31. That definitely wasn't remotely possible before even in single-player, not without losing most of your lives anyways. However, single-target towers will be more important than before...

Instead, every time you get an element pick, you also get a Boss resource! Yay! What's it do? Well, you can spend it to send an Elemental Boss at another player! Pretty cool, huh? Here's how it works...

At the Element Summoning Center, you'll be able to pick your elements as usual, but as you pick each one, it empowers your boss. By default, the boss summon scales per five waves, not by what tier it is.

• Pick the boss element
  
  • Let's you pick which element the boss will be.
    
  • Regardless of what elements you have, you can pick Composite.
    
  
  
• Your boss upgrades with each element pick
  
  • Here's a list of the upgrades that get added to your boss, depending on which elements you have.
    
  • Fire:
    
    • ​Healing - When it dies, it will cause a set number of nearby creeps to recover to full health.
      
      • Level 1 - Gives 3 creep full heal version of Healing
        
      • Level 2 - Gives 6 creep full heal version of Healing
        
      • Level 3 - Gives 9 creep full heal version of Healing
        
      
      
    
    
  • Nature:
    
    • ​Regeneration - Every second, the boss will recover a portion of its maximum health.
      
      • Level 1 - Gives 0.5% per second hp regeneration version of Regeneration
        
      • Level 2 - Gives 1% per second hp regeneration version of Regeneration
        
      • Level 3 - Gives 1.5% per second hp regeneration version of Regeneration
        
      
      
    
    
  • Earth:
    
    • ​Undead - After it dies, it will revive to a percentage of its maximum health once. Once it revives, its abilities are removed.
      
      • Level 1 - Gives 25% creep revival version of Undead
        
      • Level 2 - Gives 50% creep revival version of Undead
        
      • Level 3 - Gives 75% creep revival version of Undead
        
      
      
    
    
  • Light:
    
    • ​Speed - At set intervals, the boss will temporarily increase to maximum movement speed, ignoring any slowing debuffs on it.
      
      • Level 1 - Gives 1.5 second max speed boost version of Speed
        
      • Level 2 - Gives 3.0 second max speed boost version of Speed
        
      • Level 3 - Gives 4.5 second max speed boost version of Speed
        
      
      
    
    
  • Dark:
    
    • ​Mechanical - At set intervals, the boss will temporarily become invulnerable, ignoring any debuffs on it as well.
      
      • Level 1 - Gives 1.5 second invulnerability version of Mechanical
        
      • Level 2 - Gives 3.0 second invulnerability version of Mechanical
        
      • Level 3 - Gives 4.5 second invulnerability version of Mechanical
        
      
      
    
    
  • Water:
    
    • ​Image - At set intervals, when the boss is hit, it will disappear for a moment and then reappear with a nearby illusion that lasts for 10 seconds. The position of the boss itself and its illusion are shuffled. Additionally, if the illusion dies, it will not proc Undead or Healing.
      
      • Level 1 - Summons 1 illusion for Image
        
      • Level 2 - Summons 2 illusions for Image
        
      • Level 3 - Summons 3 illusions for Image
        
      
      
    
    
  
  

Up to six different upgrades to the boss (equal to the number of elements you can acquire). Examples of your uber boss at work:

• 6 Elements:
  
  • ​Earth 2, Water 2, Nature 2. Let's pick Nature armor type.
    
  • That gives it 50% Undead, 1% per second Regeneration, and 10-second Image
    
  
  
• 8 Elements:
  
  • Light 3, Fire 3, Earth 1, Dark 1. Let's pick Composite armor type.
    
  • That gives it 4.5 second Speed, 9 creep full heal Healing, 25% revival Undead, and 1.5 second invulnerability Mechanical
    
  
  
• 11 Elements:
  
  • Let's make it a nightmare for AoE. Dark 3, Light 3, Nature 3, and Water 2. Pick any of those for armor type.
    
  • 4.5 second Mechanical, 4.5 second Speed, 1.5% Regeneration, and 2 Image illusions.
    
  
  

The HP of the boss should not scale as high as a Level 3 Elemental Boss currently does. I'm not really sure what scaling should work, but combined with all the abilities, taking one down at the end of the game should be quite difficult, especially with the standard waves coming in.

Bosses do not provide any gold when killed. When it leaks through a maze, the target player loses 3 Lives. In order to balance this for any number of players, no more than 1 Boss can exist in any player zone at any time. That way, multiple players can't gank up on one guy at once. However, whoever's winning should expect lots of bosses to come his way.

You can hoard your Boss Resource the entire game, but using it early will ensure someone can't save money all day long in the beginning. Unlike the elemental picks, you will get a 12th Boss Resource once someone clears Wave 60. The scaling on this last boss summon will increase by much more, allowing you to really screw someone up during the Fruit Round of Death, even if you spent all 11 Boss Resources during the standard wave section.

I think this addition would dramatically change strategies in multiplayer games, making it different from your standard single-player Element TD game. Especially since we're moving to the DOTA 2 platform, which has a naturally competitive userbase. Right now, the strategy is either "camp the entrance to start the waves consecutively for all the others players" or "save and hoard for the end, hoping you don't get screwed by entrance campers". That's it. One answer to other players right now. Whereas this version, for one, you can safely go any element combination, pick who you want to die (to a controlled extent), and try to survive as other players try to kill you with their bosses. There's actual responses between players. It also lets single-target towers shine much more... right now, they're kind of useless in the end-game compared to mass slowing + AoE.

What're thoughts on this idea? And yes, I'd like this as a straight up change to Competitive mode, aka the standard multiplayer mode. If you're in single-player, Competitive would be disabled and you'd get Single-Player Mode, which is the current EleTD mode.

The builder will not be a replacement for the hero. The builder's attack can only be improved (damage, range, speed, splash) with minerals. Each builder will have a unique attack. Variations in element type, range, speed, damage, and splash accomplish this. Yet no builder will be stronger than another.

Thoughts?

So XP currently has two uses - showing that you've played more than someone else and as you level up, more builder models. Well, honestly it isn't particularly rewarding. Other suggestions have gone around like making the periodic tower a rainbow tower, good ol' cosmetic stuff. However, this suggestion would allow more than just cosmetics and give more depth in gameplay. Since EleTD got featured, there's been a lot more new players, learning players, experienced players, and all that sorts, and it's not hard to get an 8-player game going nowadays.

This is going to be a 2-in-1 suggestion simply due to the nature of the primary suggestion.

That said, the Tower Ability Wishlist thread has a lot of tower ideas, good ones at that, submitted by lots of different people. I propose another building or separate UI for allowing alternate towers of all the damage towers. In total, there'd be 12 alternate dual-element towers and 12 alternate triple-element towers for a total of 24 alternates in addition to the existing ones. Essentially, instead of say having Quark Tower (Earth+Light), you could instead have (for example) a Static Tower. It has the same purpose of Quark Tower in that it's supposed to soften the creeps, but its execution is different. Let's say Static Tower is the opposite of Disease Tower (Dark+Light) in that it does more damage the higher the creep's hp is, however it is still single-target and short-ranged. It still has the same purpose as Quark, it won't necessarily kill the creeps, but it'll weaken them for other towers.

Now, new players wouldn't catch on to the alternate towers. In fact, it wouldn't even be available to them until they hit a certain XP amount (say Level 5, whatever that XP amount is), at which point the game will point out that the player has access to researching these alternative towers. These towers may have a higher skill cap than the original towers; that's perfectly fine, they're alternates. They will not be better than the original either though, it simply allows for a different option. It will have the same purpose but function differently.

As for how the UI works, could be a button for a tech tree of sorts (for tech tree ideas, Hive Keeper has a good tech tree UI, check it out). As you gain more XP, you'll be able to use it to gain more alternate towers. This tech tree would also have a design that allows you to choose your tower switches at the start of a match. If it's on normal length, these must be made before wave 5. Short mode and very short mode, before the timer goes off. And this is something that would carry over from game to game, so if you're testing out a build, you wouldn't have to set your towers every single time. I suppose another way is to just have the option on each tower, instant build time and irreversible.

Suggestion number 2, this has been mentioned a few times before (had one thread on it here), but it never fully expanded into what the achievements are, how much they'd give, etc. And the reason I'm incorporating this suggestion in with the alternate tower ideas is.... before, an achievement system only supported getting players more XP and builder models, aka nothing much. If there was something like alternate towers, then an achievement system would work.

First off, all achievements must be done on a minimum of normal difficulty. Unlike the multiplayer XP gain, achievements would be possible to gain in single-player (in fact, some of these might be nearly impossible in multiplayer games just because it's too easy for someone to screw you up towards some of the crazier ones). The following are a bunch of very basic achievements:

• Wave 10 - Beat wave 10 on at least normal difficulty, +10 XP
• Wave 20 - Beat wave 20 on at least normal difficulty, +20 XP
• Wave 30 - Beat wave 30 on at least normal difficulty, +40 XP
• Wave 40 - Beat wave 40 on at least normal difficulty, +70 XP
• Wave 50 - Beat wave 50 on at least normal difficulty, +120 XP
• Wave 60 - Beat wave 60 on at least normal difficulty, +250 XP (arbitrary values are arbitrary)
• Dual Tower - Build a dual-element tower, +20 XP
• Triple Tower - Build a triple-element tower, +30 XP
• Fruit Cake - Get 100 points on the fruit round, +300 XP

Stuff like that. Of course, there’d be some crazy achievements along the lines of Extreme, Very Hard, Chaos, All Random, Normal length, go (lol).

So it’s a very large suggestion, but a good amount of it (the tower ideas, for example) is already there. It would certainly add incentive for replayability and keeping players interested.

*moved*