[jowe01]

Same opinion as gbraley. Even on hardest setting and role-playing that my people do not allow me to use mines (but accept their use by others), with the Darloks, the new Sergetti and the Earth alliance... the AIs are still a walkover. I admit that if they attack me in the very beginning and I am unlucky, they sometimes kill me, but never if I survive the first 20 turns. Their fragmented fleet tactics and their failure to follow through on attacks just makes it impossible for them to create a challenge.

So I find the question when the next patch will approximately be out and especially what issues it will address absolutely valid. If MM, Shrapnell or any of the beta testers regularly (once a week or so) informed us on the status of the next patch(es), people who are interested would be very grateful.