We thought we might propose the possibility of more reasoned behavior, that's all. We ease off a bit in exchange for stardock giving us a reasonable explanation of the metaverse server failure. So far, the have not. Rather than pick apart the apparent flaws in the explanation we have received, I am more than willing to wait and give them a chance to provide more information. After all (hint hint), we do not have a complete picture. Significant data is missing. I would also like to point out that it does not cost any of us money to sit here and type out complaints all day. It does, however, cost stardock to pay Kryo to answer these complaints rather than working on demigod. Therefore, there is a tangible benefit to stardock if they provide the requested information. In fact, I would not be at all suprised if one of the forum members were to come up with a brilliant solution that the sleep-deprived stardock employees may not have thought of. Another tangible benefit.

Ah, but by bugging Pat, Kryo learns about the problems and how to fix them, instantly doubling the number of people who know how the repair the MV server.

Grass is OK, sunlight tends to make my flesh disintegrate and blow away in the wind.

While in theory that is good to pad one's resume and overall usefullness, sometimes people prefer to not how to do something so that they can enjoy a weekend off.

I went fishing. It was a beautiful day here. Didn't catch anything but had a lovely day anyway.

Kryo.....thanks for your candor.

I'm sure Pat is dealing with code he didn't write, that has been patched and repatched and at this point has taken on the apperance of a dish of Chinese noodles.  However, if the logic behind the management decision not to have him working on this full-time is GC2 can be played without the MV, I ask SD to rethink this.  Without the MV feature I would not have made a recent second purchase of GC2 (UE).

On the other hand, if Pat is crucial to the stabilization of Demigod, in the words of Emily Litella, never mind.

I just bought the Uber Edition of GalCivII after pirating and absolutly loving Dark Avatar. I was kind of expecting to have fun with Metaverse only to realise it was down . Of course I became pissed, nearly sending in a angry email before seeing this post.

With majority of publishers (I'm looking to you EA!) brushing off the fan's pleas for anwsers and getting to a fix eventually, I consider SD a god-send. Although that might be overstated a bit, SD has given a (somewhat) clear explaination of why the MV is down and what is happening to fix it. When SD gives us a little hint of an excuse, others would most likely give us the cold shoulder or a generic "STFU we are working on it!". I have seen MANY games like Demi-God where expectations are misjudged and things go wrong, SD is not the only one here people. Though I agree that problems with Demi-God should not drain into other games, I realise that SD is not like other developers who have an infinite amount of people to throw at oncoming issues as soon as they arise. I'm stuck living with Campaign and Free-Play for now, I feel kind of ripped off but I know SD will not let me down and will hopefully get MV fixed.

Then again I am also someone who plays STALKER and has no problems with the occasional crash so maybe I am just use to bugs and dissapointments by now -.-.

AArgh!! Pirates hijacked me meta, raped and pillaged me characters and now terrorizing ye ole Galactic Map.

Metaverse should be working now.

w00t! Thank you!

Thx, Kryo...Just posted a game and it took...looks like we're good to go!

Thank you Pat & Kryo!!  You've both earned all the free man-flowers (beer) you can swill in the Twilight Pub!

On a Sunday morning no less, Wow! Thank you Metaguru Pat, and thanks to Kryo for putting up with all our bitching