I'm just started playing the game and reading about it in the forum and had a similar thought which I already shared on welcome to the colony board but though I'll share here as well for continuity...
Luckily for me, I am also a huge fan of Dungeon Keeper (mostly played 2) and can already see the positive influence on this game. One of my favourite DK spells was the possession spell, which allowed you to take over the mind and control any of your creatures directly and see the world from their eyes. This is pretty much what you did all the time in SimAnt by controlling an individual ant and I loved e.g. the ability to get other ants to follow you by laying a pheromone trail or to get another ant to regurgitate food to feed you. Anyways, that won't be necessary for this game to make it an success but it would certainly be a really exciting addition if something similar can be incorporated. This also opens up the possibility to have game modes / scenarios where you control a Bullet ant, massive 2cm ants found in the Amazon that although they live in small colonies, often move around by themselves and are ferocious hunters with a serious sting.
