For me at least, the connectivity is perfectly fine pre-game. Ive heard some people saying this patch made things worse. Not for me, but they didnt exactly make things better. I still get dropped from games halfway through them. It will be a unlaggy game, everythings going well, and then boom, disconnected. Stardock said that this was going to be addressedi nthe 1.01 patch, but it's still happening to me. The only difference is that instead of counting up to 30 seconds with the disconnect window it only goes to about 8 or 9 seconds this time. Just thought this is something you should know and look into. BTW the AI is improved massively so I salute you on that.