[raynor]

Don't you think you're being a tad misleading. ...But you don't seem to be acknowledging that this problem came because we added the dynamic AI yay/nay status to that dialog Last week based on user requests.

I specifically said that you recently added the trading feature. That was in the same post where I said you are trying to provide daily updates to the game.

No one has to use 1.02.42. They could stick with 1.0 (the retail Version) or 1.01 (the bonus pak) where this probem doesn't occur.

I installed the latest Version in order to resolve two other issues. The first was the Draginol event in which an UBER race takes over one of your systems and starts producing more than THREE times all other races in the galaxy combined. This event can occur in an absolutely lowest level beginner game. The second was the bug whereby you are still bound by the policy of the UP after sacrificing all your trading and leaving it.
Because I installed the latest Version to resolve these two problems, I don't think it is fair to tell me that I could have just stuck with the base Version of the game. If you want to make that kind of argument, then the best way is to release the trading feature as a downloadable module that can be installed separately from Versions that include bug fixes. (Sure, I know this is impossible.)

Your Posts seem to imply that out of the box that the game is some sort of beta.

Right below the sentence where I mentioned beta-testing, I said this:
"Of course, I'm only saying that because the game has crashed 30 times in the Last hour."
In that same post, I explained the exact conditions that produce the crash. In a later post, I explained that you don't need to use that feature at lower levels of difficulty. I also said that it was my opinion that you needed to use that feature at higher levels of difficulty.