Is this game patched enough to enjoy yet?

Been playing it (feverishly) for about a week, and have had zero problems. Consequently, I tend to leave it up running over night and had no crashes, and things seem to work as designed.

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The game works fine for me. I only play multiplayer though with the Balance Mod. I seem to remember that Dizzy does not believe in Mods.

lol I wonmt be happy till an AI beats me...

I even gave the AI alltech cheat by playing it for one turn, It almost wiped me out but it sucks at designs...

Hi:
I am still finding that even when a planet is gained through Intel, I still do not receive control of the planet. Why? Is this a bug or does the controlling planet able to somehow take it back? Also I have never had any race surrender to me yet.
John

In stock, the planet is not given to the player responsible for the intel attack. I believe that is changed as of the next beta patch as a fix for a end of turn hang bug, but I haven't actually looked at the intel script to see if that was the change.

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What often bugs me about patch lists is how elementary some of the items are. Or, in other words, items that anyone playing through a few games (or a beta tester) could easily find. Why wait? On the other hand, the large numbers of patch lists (and the items therein) show that support is very responsive to the community. Some of my own input and feedback to MM were incorporated in past lists.

The problem is not finding the bugs - the problem is convincing Aaron (the only developer at Malfador) that they're more important than the 8,472 billion other bugs that people have reported that he's so busy fixing

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None that I have seen. If you use the BM 1.11 or now 1.12, it will give you a real run for your money. At this point I think the game is "mature" and will only get better.

ekolis wrote:

The problem is not finding the bugs - the problem is convincing Aaron (the only developer at Malfador) that they're more important than the 8,472 billion other bugs that people have reported that he's so busy fixing

The problem is also out of 8,472 billion only a few dozen get fixed at a time.
(Not to mention coding in that many bugs in the first place )

You try writing such a massive project without all sorts of bugs, and get back to us on how easy it was...

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It's perhaps a too big project for one man.

Still, I think it's the design phase that has gone wrong, not the programming phase. There were just too many problems with many of his design choices that he failed to anticipate or compensate for.

The poor UI is the obvious example. More obscure examples include how he had not programmed the AI to cope with the new Fog of War feature. There's smaller details like how we weren't able to select a fleet leader, or unarmed ships fleeing automatically in combat regardless of tactics, even if they're the taskforce/fleet leader( thus taking the entire fleet with them out of combat ), etc.

One might deduce that he's spending all his time in the code, not playing the game enough to get a real sense of how it plays.

Mind, we did have to wait quite a while to get that feature patched in. But that's in the past now - poor design decision yes, in that it wasn't there from the start. No longer a consideration given it's there now.

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