Guess I should take my responcibility as Mr Upstream.
First of all,,you have to understand that we are playing a beta game.
That means all experience available is from a rough draft of the final expansion,,and hence not that valuble.
Sure,the ship design now handles templates (meaning you have the base models of your ships constantly available. Just equip with the latest weapons and put in production.)
Also,,you now can chose any improvement you have researched in the past.
No more mandatory Industrial Sectors on your newly colonized planet.
You get a few more improvements too.
Mining asteroid fields? Well,,either I'm just too dumb to see the real usefullness of them,,or they are more of a hype.
So,,why did I buy it?
Because I truly like StarDock,,simple as that.
Started out with a pirate copy of GalCivI,,liked it.
Got my hands on a cracked update patch,,and saw that it was what the StarDock team claimed it to be.
Not merely fixing bugs,,but actually adding to the game.
That alone would have won me over,,but there's more.
If you get a StarDock game,,you don't have to worry about it installing other things supposedly preventing piracy but instead screwing your comp.
(Had to reinstall a comp the other day after SecuROM,,StarForce and NERO got into a serious fight over whom was to control the Sony rootkit lol)
Making a long story short:
From what I've seen so far,,it is not worth 30 dollars.
However,,by the time StarDock is done with it (like 5 years after official release?),,it'll paid it self off by far.
