The Multiplayer is STILL fouled up beyond actual recognition as I had to have the download before I played some multiplayer tonight (see Seilores -Multiplayer is not ready thread for details)

Thank you Frogboy, I will actually write up a thread about my overall experience but yeah its been a hell of a ride.

Good luck on Opening Day!

Great work so far Stardock. Looking forward to what the future brings to Galciv.

(But I am concerned that you are going to have a repeat of Elemental with a too early a release)

Hey Frogboy and co

Congrats on the release. I won't comment on MP because I've never tried playing an MP game but I'll second charon2112's comment: There is no such thing as perfect.

It must make everyone a bit nervous before they press the metaphorical Send button: IE You all sign off on a Beta/Patch/Release...2 Minutes later does anyone think "Oh CRAP!! I meant to finesse the AI reaction on that starbase thing and the math on the productivity calculation when an AI planet's upgrading it's Manufacturing is all wrong and....and....AND...oh Gawd they're all gonna hate it!! !!DANG IT STOP THE RELEASE!!!"

All I expect as that you acknowledge errors/bugs/ommissions. As I've posted previously, how you deal with them is up to you, I just hope I - and all the other Founders - have some kind of impact on that dealing...

Thanks guys!

thins look pretty solid at this point. mP is still problematic but it's not a deep seated issue, just syncing issues. 

Re the AI, they had made it so that it tries to build a shipyard first on a give. Planet which is non ideal. I've started to look into that code and made some improvements there.

also, re elemental, don't make me get the taser out. As a practical matter, having shipped a lot of games over the past 20. Years, beta 6 could have been the shipping game and we'd been fine.  Elemental was a whole different case, something that wouldn't happen today since we would have just moved the date back a month or two.