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Played for a few hours last night, not too seriously, just kinda goofing around and seeing what was different. Most of my UI nitpicks are held over from Dread Lords, not new problems in Dark Avatar. Specifically, when the builds completed screen comes up at the end of each turn, (where it says "Factory completed on Earth, now building nothing"), after you go to a planet and select something for it to build, then go back to this screen, it does not update. It still says "now building

I don't think I've had that problem... but regarding the miners, are you supposed to be able to use them over and over again, or are they supposed to vanish after you improve the asteroid field? As i5 is now, it looks like I can keep using the same miner over and over again indefinately.

Hey everyone, this is a very exciting day... This is the first beta I will have participated in, and I can remember the first time I ever heard about this "beta" concept was when I was twelve or so (I'm 25 now). I remember absolutely dying to play unreleased games before everyone else and get to have a part in bug-squashing, fine-tuning, etc. I think it was right about when Sierra's games started to have lots of bugs (QFG4, SQ5... that era) that would completely screw up my gaming experience,