the new patch should solve most of your connection problems, if not try to contact the devs, they are tracking the remaining connection bugs.

For your crash, it must be a tricky bug, the game is pretty stable for almost everyone.

well i have said for almost everyone^^, it is pretty shitty for some people but they do not seem to be so many (but it is almost impossible to evaluate). The game in itself is a real gem, but all of what is around seems to need one more month of devtime (the ui, the favor system, obviously the connection system, even the scores have problems).

Stick it out guys. In 2-3 months you will have to rebuy otherwise, this game will be really awesome by then.

Getting those problems too.

Strangely it was very good in BETA and right after release, for me. Then patch after patch it got worse. After patch 2 i even started to get CTDs.

Its quite a let down. And thats coming form a huge Stardock fanboy.

I appriciate the hard work that Stardock put into it the last weeks, but it doesnt solve the problem that i have a game i love to play, but cant.

Um yeah, my computer is well maintained, latest drivers and the works on XP.  No problems for other games (Fallout 3 crashed often but that was definitely their fault there considering they've fixed it in the mean time), but I get on average one crash a night (whether by fatal exception (most common), lockup or some other random problem) which is 3-5 games.

The fatal exception when it does occur is nearly always upon joining a game, and I think it's when you join a game that has fewer slots open than people trying to fill them, which happens a lot.

Maybe it's worth sending some of your details to support?

would you like a refund tiny?

If the game crashes during the game its gas powered. They are working on a patch 1.01v that fixes alot of these issues.

SD fixed the connection issues on thursday for the most part. Yes there are a few that still have issues but the vast majority does not have problems starten the game. We all have to realize after the game starts and shit happens that is gas powered area.

Name 1 company that keeps its customers in the loop as frog has. Name 1 company that hands out 50% coupons to rebuy the game or give it to a friend.Name 1 company that gives out 20% off any impulse game and alreeady stated more will come to loyal customers.

You all really need to call support now if your still havn the same problems you had 3weeks or more ago.

Well, I wouldn't be complaining about the occassional lag or drop or whatever. But 90% of all games not even going to completion is pretty harsh. Basically, most of the games I have tried now, somebody 30-secs. out in the first minute, and then people rapidly follow. And if somebody of your team gets kicked you have lost anyways because the AI just can't hold up. Some games don't even go up because of "connecting to players".

If you are telling me this is supposed to get better soon, I guess I will wait a week and if things are still that bad I'll try to get a refund.

Not necessarily GPG. If the data they are getting from SD's infrastructure are outside of expected values, they really can't be blamed for that. However, if the changes that caused such things were necessary, then it will fall to GPG to update their code to handle those changes. I am guessing most of the problems this game has been having are netcode related as the only problem I've had has been the quad-sound slowdown, and I've played the hell out of single-player mode and only once played multiplayer (over LAN at that).

/reported

more to the topic, the latest patch should allow you to play at least 8 games out of 10 (there will always be problems that noone can solve, like people thinking that the netcode updates will miraculously change the fact fact that their connection is crap). the netcode mess seems to be over at least, gratz to the devs, and lets start playing.