own up - who was it that said B2 was much worse than beta 1?!"

I'm one of the ones who selected it because I haven't been able to play since it went to Beta 2. The program keeps booting me out and after a complete remove and reinstall abd going to Beta 2B it no longer gives an error message for Stardock to find the problem - so I've wasted weeks and MULTIPLE redownloads of both the music and game to no avail. - Is this sufficient reason to satisfy your curiosity?

it is. Sorry to here about the problems no doubt they will get sorted. I was curious as the question asks abouth whether the game is improved or not - which is slightly different from your problem (you don't know whether it is or isnt - and it is therefore not improved from your perspective!.

I had a situation where I could not download the game at all for a week or so after I deleted a corupted installation, so I know how frustrating it feels. Hope the guys at Stardock are on your case.

I think I have a lead in your problem, Delmiko!

After uploading the newest code to my home computer, I got a game crash right after the "alien setup" screen. Upon further searching, It appears the issue may lye with the anomalies. THe game was trying to make them, but not finding any "types", so it would crash.

I'll see what I can do, and hopefully we can resolve the bug before the next build!

Beta 2 seems to crash more often,
and I am lazy. When I set a game to moron
levels I expect too win.

I can not win by trading technology for planets.

They fixed it so you can't win by trading tech for planets anymore. Game's not too difficult, I've been playing the AI on Genius lately. You just have to expand quickly in the early game.

I wish I had your confidence - a message I sent 9 days ago asked me if certain files existed in my directory - they did not so I did a reinstall - but no further assistance on that one! the last thread is more concerned about OS (which is less likely to be the issue, in my limited opinion).

To Technician:

So, try to colonize plenty of planetclass 1 planets and you can trade them for technology (if loosing technologically), or for better planets.

Does it help

ANyway, I think and hope this will be adressed later...

The AI won't take class 1s for other planets. You could trade them for techs though, and the AI's economy will suffer when they take control of that class 1.

I have not tried trading for planets - techs and ships were enough to make life easy

Remember to trade for the AI flagships as early as possible. Gives you a major bonus when you have the only anomaly exploring ships!

Paul.

I won with this build a few times now.

I would give it a higher score now that I won.

Still lots of thing missing though.

'Remember to trade for the AI flagships as early as possible. Gives you a major bonus when you have the only anomaly exploring ships!'

The AI will occasionally build Starhawks once they get them. That does give you a while, though, if you aquire or destroy the AI's flagship(s).

This build seems awfully stable for me, actually, though I haven't tried everything yet.