hmm, that's interesting, but ress only takes 20 seconds, so I don't know if it'd be workable to make it be expensive enough to be a hard decision without being way too expensive to ever be worthwhile. It would be interesting though if you absolutely have to get back to skull cracking.

Yeah what the others said.

But you know, it would be nice to be able to shop for items while dead..  20 seconds i could use buying stuff.

I agree with above:  No buying to ress, but shopping would be great.

I agree with the shopping and skill selection while dead, would be very useful.

Actually I don't like having physical shops on the map at all, I find it a bit fiddly.  I would prefer it to be a page you can bring up like skill selection.  To stop people from just buying use items mid-battle, it should probably only be enabled while dead or while healing.

Yeah i'd just like a shop button myself.  But if they condensed it to 1 store with tabs, that'd be fine too.

I dislike the idea of having to run all the back to the base to shop. Going back for healing makes sense, because it's essentially "death lite", where you get taken out for a little while as opposed to the longer respawn, but buying upgrades doesn't make as much sense. Going back to buy consumibles mkaes sense, because running out of resources is roughly equivalent to running out of health.

if the stores are prexisting structures id prefer one store for everything. if the generals have to build the stores, then it makes sense for them to be seperate.

I agree with SyxxByNyne. The "choose between pressing the attack and buying stuff" dynamic is important, as it limits the power of the winning team. It balances gameplay. The "skill selection while dead" idea is good, because it allows greater time to think about where you want to take your hero. Also, it can sometimes be hard to learn about new skills in the fray.

EDIT: In fact, the winning team isn't hurt as badly in demigod as they are in DoTA, just because of the sheer distances in that game. At least on the map we're playing, heroes can run back to base without missing a lot of the action. I suppose in larger maps it might be good to have a "sheep" item, a small unit that can buy and ferry items between base and hero. Of course, it should be nerfed. How does low hp and single item capacity sound?

Since there is nothing to do while dead, shopping and choosing abilities seems really nice. However buyout when dead seems like a great idea, but only if limited. Perhaps the more times you do it, the drastically more expensive it gets; this means it can be worth it for last-second base saves for a hefty price. 

Just make sure, if implemented, that the price is high enough that it will make even wealthy players think twice about doing it.

Well you can make it like everyone gets 1 insta res per game

I don't like the idea of buyout, even if price is high I still don't like it.

I also don't like shoping while dead, you should have option to check what is availble, but you can buy after you are alive. Why? Because it also take time. And if someone will not die he have to go back to base and make shoping, he is also losing his time. And I think going back and make shoping could also takes let's say 20 seconds which is time for resurect after dead. I don't like it.

I actually think it makes more sense to only be able to purchase the items once you've respawned.  I know earlier I said buying while dead, but that was just my initial gut feeling.

But i'd like to view the shop selection while dead.