Boards for The Corporate Machine and Stellar Frontier?

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I upgraded to drengin.net and was wondering if there was a forum for discussing The Corporate Machine and Stellar Frontier.

For The Corporate Machine: I was wondering if there were any more maps or markets out there? Also, some of the direct action cards are too unbalancing. There also seems to be an AI bug where AIs sometimes go broke in the first game year or two.

For Stellar Frontier: Are there any more maps out there? Any plans to improve the AI for playing "human vs. computer"? There is one nearly fatal bug I keep running into: If there are too many ships on the map, I can't get a colony ship, even if the planet has enough population. I have to wait for a ship to die somewhere, and hope I can grab a colony ship before the AI does. The human player should always get top priority for colony ships. Plus, for setting the colonization target, the human player should again always outrank an AI for setting the target.

I guess that Stardock doesn't have the resources to fix bugs in either game. It would be nice if they made more information available in case someone wanted to volunteer to fix them.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Stellar frontier homepage here
http://www.stardock.com/products/sf/
no forum but newsgroups available here.
http://www.stardock.com/products/sf/newsgroups.html

Corporate machine home page here (annoyingly noisy)
http://www.stardock.com/products/machine/
also a news group from that page

About the best i've found to date.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Are those newsgroups only available through the Stardock server? They don't seem to be generally available?

Why doesn't Stardock create a forum like this one for each of its games, for consistency?
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Whoa...the CM page IS annoying. What's the deal with the bubbling noise? :notsure:
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
fsk:
I'm not sure, but I think that the problem with the AI going broke in CM is caused by the various AI strategies. I've seen all of them go bankrupt at different times based on what territories they get, what other AI they go up again, my actions, etc.

I also would like some sort of forums for all of the drengin games, esp. the ones that hav'nt been released yet(GC:Expansion, GC2, PM, etc.)
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Has anyone out there tried B.U.G.S. 2002? It only shows up when you ask for "show pre-release versions".