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				 Re: Swarm 2.5 - uploaded 
 No.  The old scale-loss bug was intermittent.  The recent patch fixed it--and introduced a new one: now, a province's scales change depending on its neighbours' scales, regardless of dominion.  So if you have Order-3 and Growth-3, but your opponent has Turmoil-3 and Death-1 for example, and he owns some of your province's neighbours, you can kiss your good scales goodbye.
 Still, I...think...KO has recently indicated that this is indeed a bug, although he's being annoyingly murky about it, possibly due to ESL.  If it is a bug that is going to be fixed soon, then my initial start will be rather severely weakened by a loss of roughly 25% of my wealth--but then a start could be hampered by poor positioning too, for example.  If I get my scales back in another patch soon, I'll keep playing. ; )
 
 --Oh, and changing the IP fixed things for me.
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