There are many tweaks and other ideas that would be great to see but IMHO the following things are essential. For all I know they are already being worked on now...Hopefully.

1. Storage Concerns

a. Storage Capacity is way too low. Need more Slots and higher capacity per slot.
For example: Rock, Wood and Haystacks should have at least 6 slots each able to
hold 50 or even 100 so that one pile or haystack could hold total of 300-600 units. Any
combination of slots and higher capacity per slot resulting in the Pile or Stack able to
hold much more stuff is the Idea.
b. Same principle with Warehouse and Granary. Slots should have have higher capacity
and maybe more slots also. Currently a Warehouse has 24 slots but if they could hold
50 units per slot instead of just 10 a Warehouse could store 1200 units Total. A Very
Good Thing!
C. The Warehouse should have the ability to switch off or select which items can be stored
in it, like the Granary.

2. Walls and Towers are too Weak.

For Example: Wooden Walls and Basic Towers should be 3-5 times stronger,
Stone walls and Reinforced Towers should be 7-10 times stronger. I have more ideas on
the Defense / Battle aspects of the Game, but that's for another post. I do not think this
game should be about warfare but will probably inevitably move in that direction especially
through Mods, or Multiplayer etc. and I'm sure that the community has interest in it and
Ideas about it.

3. Ability to Equip People with weapons/tools that you select for them.

a. They should have 4 permanent slots for weapons or tools and 3-4 slots that are used by
AI to place items temporarily like stuff they pick up or tools for work assignments etc.
b. Once you place an item in a permanent slot it stays there until you remove it or it
breaks.When an item like a tool breaks it is discarded and the slot opens up.
c. The 4 permanent slots stay equipped with what you put there, but the AI is free to place
items as necessary.
d. It should be easy to click on an item in a filled permanent slot and drop it, place it in
storage or delete it and then select from Storage or Ground and place another item in
the empty slot. So, you can equip and re-equip your people how ever you want to.

4. Yield for Straw should be much greater. If it sound silly its not IMHO. It seems
impossible to have enough straw. It is so important for Building, and maintenance of
buildings and for Feeding your animals that I think it is vital. When you harvest a field the
amount of straw you get should be at least 5-10 times as much. Even with large amounts
of grain planted it only produces a pitifully low amount of straw.

OK, I know this has been wordy, but this is the most excited about a new game that I have
been in a long while and want to see it get even better.