Stardock Guys - Please read this

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I've been playing GalCiv 2 for a month now, and I really love the game. I want to say that so far I think you all have done a good job in addressing issues and creating the beta patches to keep the game updated. I have had very few problems as far as bugs go. By bugs I mean crashes, hardware conflicts, memory issues, etc. After downloading final ver. 1.1, I must say my new concern is for the gameplay issues or conflicts (galactic achievements that don't seem to work, strange economic issues, techs not giving you what they should. Obviously, the posts in this forum go into greater detail than I can here.) Some of these issues seriously affect the gameplay and the strategies you may use to win.
I guess what I want to say is that I hope you take these problems to heart and don't dismiss them as "minor gripes" or that you won't be focusing on patch development as much now that 1.1 has been released. It wouldn't take a whole lot more for this game to be damn near perfect (as far as I'm concerened), and I've seen a lot of great user recommendations that should be implented into the game.
This post wasn't made so much to gripe about what you're not doing as to say that you need to keep doing what you are and don't stop now. I hope that the next patch(es) will focus on these gameplay issues and user suggestions.
Thanks again for a really fun game, and keep up the good work.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
They said they're working on 1.2 for May and then 1.3 for June. That seems like pretty good support for a game that is pretty trouble free for most people.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmm...
Isn't one month for release patch a bit too soon.
I mean you can't really fix all documented issues that quickly and prevent other form appearing.

I mean, if internal betatesters get incremental builds once per week, that's just 4 builds, a bit too little for enough feedback.

Just my simple observation.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, I think it's still great that they are putting out the effort to correct these issues as quickly as they can. The point of my post was just to ask them to continue what they are doing. As I learn more about the game (and read more of the posts here), I have become more aware of the gameplay issues (or errors) that the game has. I was just hoping that they wouldn't slow down now that 1.1 is out.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Isn't one month for release patch a bit too soon.


Depends on who you talk to. You'll come across one camp that demands bugfixes once a week, and then another camp that likes monthly patches, lastly you'll come across another camp that demands everything be tested six months prior to releasing it as a patch.