dude....this game seems to be the "only" game were when a genuine bug is found there is a Developer tryign to probe around to fix it.....plus there is a patch coming out today-friday....that is 3 days after release.....lets see EA even get a patch out under a month......you should be thankful these developers work this fast!

Stupid thread , like the game - play , not like the game - don't play.

As for me the developers responsivness is one of the best so far.

I didn't have any problems with playing Civ 4 without a patch. There must be something wrong with all those who did. Taking what you people are saying about me to heart. I said it was a good game. I've been playing it for the past 48 hours! How many stupid questions does a fan have to ask to become a heritic? Only 1 at the stardock forums apparently.

You mean like a heretic that claims he didn't pay for the game? You're not honestly that stupid are you?

BTW I already mentioned I was blind for all those who are still looking for ways to trash me. All the bug postings I had looked at didn't appear to have any developer comments. Do you want me to post my home address so you can all come over and kill me or something?

"How many stupid questions does a fan have to ask to become a heritic? Only 1 at the stardock forums apparently. "

Nah, you just asked the *wrong* stupid question. Hehe.

Best thing to do is just to let this thread die. No need to have everyone get riled up over something silly...

I didn't pay for the game. I was a beta tester. Stardock said all those who were with Total Gamming.net when it switched to the token way of buying games would get it (Galactic Civilizations 2) for free. I don't get illegal copies of games. I was with stardock when Galactic Civilizations came out. Many people, probably longer. Do you want me to paste the email stardock sent me telling me i'd get GalCiv2 for free?

Thank you for answering. No, I just thought you meant you'd pirated it. Sorry about that. It seemed like a smarmy way of saying it.

Honestly, I'd ignore the fanboys and play the game. Stardock dev posts have red banners. Plus there's a big response on the front page regarding updates. Did you play GC1?

I played Gal Civ 1 but since it was the first space strategy game I played where I couldn't choose my own race or design my own ships I lost some appeal for it.

Some stats:

Between Tuesday and Wednesday I wrote 32 posts and 91 responses.

Other people from Stardock did similar levels of responses. I don't have Thursday's numbers but they were probably the same level.

Today, Friday, nearly everyone was drafted to package and ship out boxes. We have *several thousand* boxes (try to visualize what that would look like) that had to be put in packages and sent out at once.  Everyone, even our in-house attorney, spent the day packing boxes and taking them to the post office.

That is, with the exception of the people working on today's game update.

I wan't trying to say the developers aren't involved. The first question was about working on the bugs because that's what I assumed. The rest was just a way of me saying I'd like to know what's going on. I"m sorry for treating you like crap in the past and I ment no disrespect with this post. I was apparently looking at the wrong bug posts or don't recognize a developer's post. I thought all developer's have the word "Avatar" preceding their name. The bug posts I looked at didn't have that from what I could see. Those were the posts that were started from "cizitens". I was looking for "Avatar" posts in response to those. I do like the game.

One thing to bear in mind is that not everyone people say is a bug is a bug. Sometimes, people claim something is a bug simply because they either don't like a feature or they don't understand a feature.

Case in point: You claimed starbase modules don't work.  Yes they do.  Attack Assist and Defense Assist, for instance, do what they claim they do. They Assist your ships in those areas. But the ships have to have something to be assisted. If the ship has no weapons (or no defenses) then there's nothing to defend.

Now, we can debate whether that's clear enough or whether that' s a good idea, but that doesn't make it a bug.

Also, many times users simply don't read the sticky topics which is where the dev team and support put their time.  Should the people who follow the instructions be penalized so that people who make the zillionth "Game CTDs on my video card with 3 year old drivers" get immediate care?

Anyway, the point is, we read the posts and make notes. We can't always respond and today we've been trying to send out boxes to the people who don't have the game yet.

Mr. frogboy I'd like to point that the topic "download woes" has loads of people waiting for an answer of the devs about why the SDC software doesn't resume downloads or fails to extract the files. Last time a dev answered there was ages ago. People not being able to get the game seems much more serious to me than ingame bugs that will be solved sooner or later.

I requested a refund as you suggested in a recent topic of mine because of this. After some encouragement by some very nice players I tried it some more days but I basically gave up today. By the way I readall the stickys, posts and sugestions to no avail.