Another thing I would point out is a pseudo-bug is all of hte secondary races popping out of nowhere with 5000 credits each and no technology.

Would you have preffered when secondary popups with ALL your technologies like it was the case few version ago?

BTW, when you start a game, you have also 5000 BC and few techs. Why should it be different with others players

And like in GC1, minor are here to be exploited. Not to mention that they appears on previously PQ 0 planet

Alright, well from what people have been saying, it sounds like the issues were logged but not resolved, so it sounds like a problem with meeting the release date rather than beta-testing.

I'm sorry but that comment about the console is completely off. There are some technical bugs, sure, but what is really annoying is the huge number of game mechanics bugs. Math on a whole lot of bonuses not working (be it civ-wide or star base dependant), same with morale, excessive AI tech trading (yes, I call it a bug, it's completely destroying the whole system, especially the 3 attack types one), and so on and so forth. Those have absolutely nothing to do with the amount of systems you have to develop it for.

I thought and still think it's a great game but due to the excessive number of those kinds of bugs, it's no fun anymore... you get the distinct feeling that nothing is working as it should and that's very frustrating. Due to this I haven't played for three days now and I don't know if I will again anytime soon. Probably not until a lot of this stuff is fixed.