There are still lots of bug reports in the support section.  I think the beta a day process has been very fruitful.  I don't think you should rush 1.1.

Yes, I have a CTD everytime I play. Never make it over 50 turns.

And every thing is updated on my computer... I have confidence it will be taken care of.

ive played 2-3 hours no crashes so far.... however fps seems very poor, starcraft 2 for example on medium settings i average 40-60 fps Elemental medium to low settings I average 15-30 fps. My laptop far exceeds minium specs, yet performance is still quite bad.

hmm its very very stable now

i had some out of memory and alt tab makes my game crash and in the 600+ turns  the game is very slow

but thats all first time i can enjoy the game

I for one cannot remember the last crash I had in Elemental, which is quite something as they used to be an indication that I need to button things up and go to bed.   Suffice to say, my sleep schedule has suffered considerably.

As far as that goes, I think 1.1's ready, but there are still some balancing issues that need to be resolved (overly anemic and badly scaling tactical magic, a little bit more emphasis on specialists though just a little bit, as it's almost just right) and polishing, polishing, polishing.   Updated tooltips, loading screen hints, presentation bugs; that kind of thing.   As this weekend we'll have a version that's going to remain stable for a few days (the patching's been awesome and my friends are shocked when I say how quick and responsive you guys have been), it'll be an excellent time to get in some serious playtesting on the current version.   I'll be making a feedback thread tomorrow based on a variety of games played with a number of different factions, to get a feel of the current state of the game from different angles.

But, as I said in the last patch thread, I think we're close.  Very close.    Remember though, that Elemental 1.1 is going to basically be a large number of people's second impression of the game--a second chance at regaining reputation that most games and software companies don't get.   So it needs to be right, the first time.

Elemental has been very stable for me now for quite a while. Even alt-tabbing from traditional 'danger spots' like tactical battles has been fine. I'm not sure if it occurred in 1.0.9.t but the only crashes I've been having are if I play one game then start a new game without closing down.

Monsters still stop spawning half way through the game for me. I have made several threads on it but have never gotten a response.

We've looked into this.  What I think happens i that there is a world population level for monsters that if exceeded won't increase.

Great works you've all done Frogboy!  Thank you for your dedication to our game, and for exceeding my post release expectations by a long margin!  It makes me feel good in a world of cheap swag that some guys still care about product and the end user.

Is anything happening in the sausage factory as relates to resource spawns?  A number of us have commented on a fun drain caused by the lack of resources + the proximity of opponents.

Recently I have noticed a tactical battle performance boost when I purge my Race file (might also be the units file).  I've just had time to test 2 cycles (purge vs non-purge).  After deleting custom factions, I am able to play every single tactical battle I enter (note:  I create and play a new custom faction).  If I do not delete the old custom factions, then most of the tactical battles cause a crash.   I am playing on an under spec'd machine.  But I find this occurance interesting, and perhaps it is of use to you?  Does this indicate a memory leak occuring here, or some other buggy behaivor? I intend to run a total of 12 test cycles (12 purge, 12 non-purge), but I must do some work first.  Will check back later and continue the testing unless you tell me there is no need.

Trojasmic said:

4) Notification window pile up... We can't release 1.1 with windows that say "You've just finished researched, what would you like to research next?" so you click on it and get buried by another window that says "You've just finished researching a spell, what would you like to research next?" so you click on it and get "Capital City is now idle" so you click on BUILD and another window pops up saying "Your Sovereign is being attacked" so you go to the tactical battle and when the tactical battle is over that is it.  You're left with all this undone research, spellbook, city idle stuff that you have to manually go back and take care of.

If nothing else, i think i would address this gui issue as it is a great distraction and shows a lack of polish to the game. It's like playing a game of memory where everything is presented to you in 15 seconds and you have to remember everything you need to do this turn to keep the game economy churning forward. I'd like to say more but Christmas activities call and i risk being shot by my wife. Have a great weekend guys.

Sorry if that sounds rude, but i think the QA issues were not the only reason why Elemental was rated very low. Your improvements of the game and your customer support are great, but i think you should take the time to complete important parts of Elemental (tactical combat with initiative system, magic system with many options, diplomacy system) first.

I do experience crashes with 1.09t

Here's debug

I thought it is erased with every start but this one is 59MB (?)

With this patch the CTD's are not that often but the hang-ups are. The 1.09 p was much more stable for me.

" is v1.09t sufficiently superior to v1.09 (public release from October) to safely release to the general public?"

IMHO No! It still has many things that need to be fixed. Crazy pop-up order, daring stike children, funny working idle units finder, no autopilot's lines (that's my favourite) or some really visible indication that the unit isn't idle, skip tile in tactical.

Lots of thing are better right now. But this is still WIP. It may be enjoyable for people that bought it at release but nor for 'general public'

Gamplay is lightyears ahead of where it was

However I crashed last night about to enter into tactical combat - sovereign, 1 peasant, 1 familiar and 1 champion against what looked like about 7 spiders and 1 bandit. Hard to say as about half a second after entering the tactical combat screen it CTD'd.

Only crasht though in about 7 hours of gameplay across s and t.