When the update is available (next week), will I be able to update directly from v1.02, with a single download ? 

The thing is, I never got around to downloading that intermediate fix (v1.12 ?), because I didn't want to lose  "Curgen's Volcano" (which became prohibitively "expensive" - mana-wise), without the chance of being able to use it, in a couple of games.

Thanks for the Info, and all your other good work!          

And what bugs would that be in your opinion?

First time here after a long time of absence. Will check...

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Well, I'm not a fanboi of some sort, though I appreciate the game and SD's effort to make up for E:WoM. But most of what you have reported are nuisances. Major ones at best. But no real show stoppers. At least in MY book.

The issue of AI settling on ressources or other "forbidden" tiles and execution of planned moves upon loading a savegame are major bugs that should easily be fixed. I give you that...

Kewlness glad to know more SINGLE SOLO Player content is coming soon. Love this game! Love Stardock! Keep up the good work. Stay the cause and all that stuff.

I very much hope that you are correct, but generally, I agree with Baddl.  Why not spend a week fixing the 'easy' stuff?  Then it would be done & over with.  In my experience with 'games under development,' it is often the simple things that cause users the most consternation.  And there's always the problem that, if you don't fix the 'easy' things expeditiously, they eventually get forgotten, and never get fixed.

This said, I'll freely acknowledge that things that seem like 'easy fixes' to users are actually vastly more complicated to correct.  Path-finding is probably a good example of this.  How frustrating it is to click to have a unit move west and have it abruptly start heading east - the opposite direction!     The path-finding is probably trying to find a 'safe' path to the destination.  I've learned that, if I have a mounted unit that wants to move through another faction's outpost territory along a road (which it can do easily - just 9 squares), I first have to manually move the unit into the outpost territory and then click a path to the other side - and the path-finding has no problem with this.

The trick is, you have to create a 'condition'in the path-finding algorithm that will allow entry into another faction's terrain as long as you can get out of it on the same turn - no harm, no foul.  How many additional conditions like this would have to be created to have the path-finding work 'properly?'

I'm in the too many bugs and UI issues camp too. Not to mention the AI could still do with a significant amount of work so that it is playing by vaguely the same rules and presents a good challenge.

I agree that pathing can be worked around but it slows gameplay down significantly to do it. The same goes for another of other similar bugs where you can't trust the shortcut behaviour (eg auto resolve for a start). This makes playing FE more of a chore than it should be, you spend too much time babysitting everything. FE is already a fairly slow paced game, it needs to have lots of reliable streamlining of such things.

Not even close. There are so many glitchy areas on the map where it's nearly impossible to select the right tile for unit movement and accidentally clicking on the wrong pixel somehow sends a unit on a long path in the opposite direction. It's like the gaps between the hills is the abyss and clicking on it makes your units run away in terror.

If you are worried about a video game wasting your time, you should probably stop playing and get some work done. Or, you should just play a shooter, get your catharsis out on some quick killing, then move on. PC strategy gaming, as a genre, relies on a certain amount of patience and time investment, no? FE is clearly not designed with quick, in and out play time in mind.

Hard to sympathize with those having a scorned attitude about this. Plenty of companies will take more than $40 of your money and not listen at all. Plenty of high-budget and polished games have bugs that are never fixed, and players naturally find workarounds.

Don't play any Elder Scrolls games. You'll waste a lot of time on corrupt saves and bugged out quests. You'll also miss some of the best games ever made, but who wants to waste time?

Shooters are great, not for dummies. They just require less time commitment than strategy games, generally.

I've logged between 150 - 200 hours in the same game you have. I've seen the bugs over and over. Here's my own post on suggested AI improvements, for the record:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/439017

 FE is frustrating at times, and has lots of typos, but nontheless is functionally finished and not at all broken, at least by modern gaming standards (again, Elder Scrolls games, or how about face imports not working on Mass Effect3 launch?). It certainly has many bugs, but it is playable and fun, and I have played many seminal strategy games.

No one is knocking bug reports here. To whoever logged bugs and is helping to make the game I play better, I respect your efforts and thank you for it.

But whining on the forums that the developers aren't doing what you want, soon enough, is petty and doesn't deserve respect from the developers. 

Creating great games takes massive effort. Whining takes little. This game was released at $40, I got it on Steam for $26. Skyrim went for $60 and had MORE bugs at release. Skyrim is one of the best games ever made despite its bugs - you got a great game with bugs for even less money, more than likely.

Appreciate a company that is still trying to improve this game. 

"We ask for better because we have played and enjoyed games in the genre and therefore know that FE is capable of being so much more.  "

It's not as polished as other strategy games. Fair enough. I think the game is great right now, on its own merits as a semi-unique (outside Master Of Magic) genre blend. Not all will agree with me.

There's making suggestions to receptive developers about improving a game. And then, there's being an entitled princess about the next update not fulfilling your wishes. I'm only criticizing one. Small developers like Stardock, despite their flaws, deserve better.

Go on the 2k forums a couple of times and see what unresponsive really is.

As I've told my kids a billion times, hyperbole erases believability, but they are by far the most unresponsive and buggiest kids I know.

Post actual bug reports, or it didn't happen.

You can't expect Stardock to fix things unless you are a lot more specific then "it's buggy". Many issues are hardware specific so you have to bring up your specific issues if you want them fixed.