I'm sure there's been a lot of wishlists for the SP patch, but here's a few simple ones that would help gameplay a lot:

-a key to toggle what sea provinces are currently blockaded. (You know, like the loyalty key for provinces.) Trying to figure out how the hell your trade routes are blocked is very frustrating when there are oodles of ships on the map. The little pop up window saying that a sea area is blockaded is FAR TOO SLOW in coming up.

-when training units in a specific province, it should tell you what mods the unit will have. You know, pluses in morale, etc. Like in MTW. And once the unit is trained, it should say on the unit what these mods are.

-a hotkey for the save game screen. Like control-s, and it brings up the savegame dialogue box with out having to go through menu choices. (p.s. you should really take a cue from Blizzard and get rid of your splash screens on game startup once you've played the game more than once. And get rid of the slow crossfade when you hit the escape key to go to the game menu. The crossfade and splash screen is nice to look at once. Maybe twice. Now I hate it.)


THese things are simple to implement (I think) and would improve the flow of the game tremendously.

Fixing the screen resolution on the strategy map - it resets itself after every time you hit "end year" - would be nice, too.