That's excellent news! I haven't been playing long enough to encounter this bug, but am very encouraged by the developers' engagement with the issues here.

Kay, that's real nice to hear.
But, does this imply we may also get some of the "Please slam my game!" numerous suggestions added in? If we're lucky!
And if so, which ones get a priority or not (MCC, Constructors?!)?
Assuming lots more would be worked on for the v1.92 release also.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.... whew. Much appreciated Stardock. I hope you know we Gal Civ fans truly appreciate the love. I've always been a loyal fan and always will be in hopes that Stardock won't forget it's roots. Gal Civ is easily one of my fave games of all times. Thanks again guys.

What?
Because they decide to release a patch for a game that tweaks it slightly to make the end-game smoother you deside that it's the end of the world and star-dock is to blame.

The "bug" is not a game breaker in any scene of the word.

Ether justify what you have said (for there is very little that I can see in your post) or leave this community a better place, i.e. without you.

P.S.
Flame for a flame I always say

I don't think that inflation is the right way. Why should a simple tech require much more time to research after several years?
I think it would me more efective to just put in an even slower research speed to choose from. (Isn't much work, is it?)

Seriously, Fluxx? Seriously?   

After the hellish crunch to get PM2008 done (multiple all nighters - which we've posted about) we decide to spend our first free weekends on 3 months on GC2 bug fixing (bugs that, may I add, can't be that game breaking, with TotA rating an average score of 95%) and you come up with that post?

Enough of that brand of trolling will certainly kill our drive to make the game better. Go away before you ruin it for players that appreciate hard work.

O yeah! Keep the updates coming!

I'll be honest. You guys did use up some of the goodwill you've built up over the years. However, you guys were in a tough spot- you had to get PM out, but your flagship title was hurting.

You did explain such, which is why I could remain patient- usually gamers will steam a bit, but as long as there is communication, and the support delivers in the end, gamers can be forgiving. You got a lot more benefit of the doubt then most companies would, which is largely thanks to the efforts of the past, which have been appreciated. Those actions should be looked at by other game companies on how to handle things in a similar situation- you saved yourself a ton of trouble.

The one suggestion I'd make in the future- is I would have used a few man-hours to offer a back-patch to the last known version without the bug. Assuming you archive your previous patches- which I know you do- you would have been able to put that out pretty quickly. The one thing I'd like to see feedback on in this post is why this didn't happen- I'm sure there's a good reason, I'd just like to know why.

This is where your history and policy of true support and legitimate communication has probably paid the most dividends for you guys. Despite a near-critical bug, people have mostly remained calm, except for a few trolls, and have even been willing to give you time to get your business that needs to be done handled first. If this has been some other company, this forum would have turned hostile- look at the Total War forums for an example of how doing the opposite leads to mass hostility. That said, I got some time to enjoy EU3:IN, which is fun game from a good company as well.
(Paradox is really your rival in the games industry- you two are so similar in many ways)

In all honosty the only one to blame is your teamleader since you had to rush PM2008 and got no free weekends.

If you just step back 1 second and look at it objectively, you will see it is quite awkward to plan the production of another game immediately after the launch of another game without any staff to support the former mentioned.

It is bad directing to put your entire staff to 1 project. Your guys working your ass off, is ofcourse apreciated but doesnt in any way justify the way this went. If I try hard I can find some other posts of devs 3 weeks ago who said you would hotfix it immediately after the launch of PM.

Oh and to the people claiming it isnt a gamebreaking bug. Except that half the tech tree is useless. You can easily win by researching a defense against the type of weapons your computer uses. And you win the game. Since the computer never ever researches anything anymore.

So yes, you might have done alot in the past, and you have shown a great support. However now Stardock is growing "big" and there is apparently this kind of mentality, shows me this support will go down fast and with that the strength of your company.

I quess I must be stupid. For hundreds of thousands of years, technology sat stagnant in the galaxy. Nobody designed anything new. Then fifty or so years ago, the Arceans give the Terrans the blueprints for a Stargate. After fifty years of research the Terrans come up with the Hyperdrive. Now people are bitching because it takes them more than two years to research their entire tech tree. The only bug I see here are the ants in yer pants. Good research takes time and money. If you need the high tech crap that bad, just edit all the prerequisites to Hyperdrive and get it all at the start, (just tell yourself Janeway came back through time and gave it to you).
The only problem I have with research is that I can't have more than one project going at a time, thus I accept the accellerated rate that it has now to compensate for that.

Also note that frogboy didn't call it a bug. He called it an annoying behavior that needed to be tweaked. Bugs are game crashers, or video anomolies or crap like that. This is just a change that wasn't well accepted by the muttering masses, just like most of the tech tree issues people are complaining about. The rest of the idiot races couldn't research their way out of a paper bag for hundreds of thousands of years. The fact that they are given any advancements in their tech trees is amazing, that is why I like the individual tech trees, it gave Stardock a way to put them back into their state of arrested development.

And here we go again with this , "You can't talk to a customer like that" crap. Yes they can, and do . They do it alot. It is good for idiots to be told to pipe down. The customer is not always right. These folk seemingly bend over backwards to get us something fun to play and when problems crop up they do their damndest to correct it as quick as possible. Since I updated to TA, I've had not one crash or video anomoly. This leads me to believe that they have a done a good job. Whan I updated to DA there were crashes and video anomolies, I waited , they fixed, I was happy (no bitching was necessary). Just like research, things take time. Strangely enuff, it takes research to find the giltch so you can fix it. So if Boogiebac or Frogboy or any other Stardock employee wants to cut loose on a bitcher, let them, and don't try to reprimand them, you aren't their parents or teachers, they are big boys and girls now, and they get to snap back at their protaganists. Alas I have ranted long enuff myself. Good-day.

I just dont get it.

Lets say you would buy a washing machine with a manufacturing problem, and you go back to the shop the next day to use your garanty. When you come there you get the message, yeah sorry we know there is a problem, but we are busy creating a new washing machine. This will take about 7 weeks, but after that we will surely fix yours.

What would you say? "Oh ok guys, no problem. As long as you are working hard and you will make a nice washing machine in the meantime".

If we were "big", then we'd have more than nine people to develop two games (that's including Brad and an intern who just started this past month). There's no big "new mentality", just a small group of people working as hard as they can in a difficult situation. PM08 has been scheduled longer than TA, and unlike TA it couldn't be delayed.

It's been just over five weeks (I don't know where the seven weeks mentioned by one came from) since TA launched, and Brad said *at that time* that we wouldn't be able to get a patch out until now. So it's hard to see how some people can take such grave offense at something which was already planned and announced some time ago. We've been nothing but open about exactly what's going on.