Question about Bugstatus and playability of SE5 ?

[Randallw]

I can't really say what bugs there are. The various bugs I hear of are generally fixed by the time I hear they existed. Bugs I've found I only tell the programmer.

The patches seem to come out when they come out. I don't keep much of an eye on that, though Kwok or Fyron probably keeps an eye on progress. Fyron recently gave a link to the list of changes for the latest patch.

As for the cruelest bug, now I'm not one to complain or worry about things being perfect, but common opinion seems to be that the Balance mod fixes the problems the stock game has. It makes the game more like the previous version, which people preferr. I for one only play BM. The problem with stock is stuff like you can't make base space yards until you have 10 levels of shipyard, and the increase in technology is slower. In stock for each new level you get you maybe add 1% to the ability while with BM is goes up maybe 5% a level making it worth researching a new level. I noticed soemone ask about racial abilities recently and Fyron (who is a big wig in the community) said stock racial abilities makes him sad.