Changes all sound pretty good, especially the magic love! However, i'm still waiting for the 64bit version, i know its going to take a while, but it would be nice! Otherwise, stability is still the major bugbear, especially the ATI Windows 7 crashes and Out of Memory errors that plague the game...
my only concern is the relience on cheats for the ai to make it a challenge for the player. I'm tired of games where the only way to up the difficulty is to give the ai more resources. i would much rather the ai started on the same level, but was actually good at using the resources it has more ffectively. I'm sure you will do all you can to limit ai cheating, and i am confident that the ai will be good for the task, but with the focus of the game being single player i would hate for the ai t
will there be additional content alongside expansions? a la Egosoft's community bonus packs? so this would be where the creme de la creme of the community mods and additions would be made into official packs? this wouldn't be paid for, because they're community made, but bundling the very best ones into official packs where stardock would iron out any issues would be an excellant way of promoting the modding community, and would certainly inspire more people to contribute.