I concur. It'd be nice to hear some news about what's going on.

Well right now they're working on both Fallen Enchantress and War of Magic 1.2.

The big thing in War of Magic is the memory thing.  Once 1.2 is done, then 1.3 will primarily be about new features, some of which might get put into Fallen Enchantress too depending on the relevance.

For 1.3, we're looking at adding:

1. Random events

2. AI's surrendering when beaten

3. More diplomatic back and forth

4. AI, AI, AI.

5. Map enhancements.

The next beta of 1.2 will have some improvements to the maps, some AI updates and continued work on memory optimization.

Speaking of news, who won the contest? There's nothing up on the page for me. >.> Not that I took today off from work to see if I won a graphic card or anything. But I totally took the day off from work so I could see if I won a graphic card.

Ooh, Random events!  Thanks Brad, that'sawesome, I am excited to hear that.  Surrendering might be cool too, instead of their empire just disappearing, if they surrendered and joined other factions, like in GalCiv, that would up the challenge of the game.

Huzzah!

I can't answer about contests.

However, regarding AI, they showed me where the tactical battle stuff is.  It's looking more and more likely that I'll be taking over all aspects of the AI going forward.  

In War of Magic, I got about 2 weeks to do the AI prior to release and got another 2 weeks since release (which for me is a lot of time). For 1.3 I'll probably get 2 days budgeted for the tactical battles and another 2 days for the general game.

Stardock has some pretty big things about to get completed this Spring and I've given Derek the okay to expand the development time on Fallen Enchantress so that it's tremendously good.

Anyone who bought War of Magic before December 31 is in for a real treat as it's looking like it'll be as different from War of Magic as say Age of Wonders is different from HOMM.  We'll see.

Awesome news here. 

There's never a bad time for No Wine Before Its Time. Except when you have to suffer the crap that comes with your stock being publicly traded...

This is very good news indeed.

Great news Frogboy!   Now all we need to hear is that we will soon find random magic items like a +3 sword of life stealing..........

Any chance of an updated caravan management system?

This would be my first item after the technical issues are resolved.

There are others, but I doubt we will see much done with WoM as it looks like the vast majority of resources are being funneled to FE.

@Frogboy

What kind of map enhancements are we talking about here?
Would be very interested to hear something more specific!

Earth to Jeffa, Earth to Jeffa! They are fixing the game and making a brand new one. Unlike the title, developing PC games does not happen by magic. It takes good old fashioned hard work, capital, and time. Spend some time reading posts on here so you understand what I'm saying.

Earth to Alan, Earth to Alan, they have been "Making" this game for almost 4 years now, Your help in explaining the shortcomings of Stardocks problems is not helping ! I have been testing this game since Mar. 09, I am very aware of the fact that this a Beta, I would also expect that you could read a F-cking post or 2 and realize that this is not my first time around. Yet wisdom from the young is not to be expected!!