Ya, you would not want this to be possible. Imagine if the AI could turn all of their lowlife troops into giant armies as soon as they had researched it. I would go play a different game if I wanted to fight against a zergrush.
I would just buy it now, oh wait I did. Start learning the basics, some of which will change some won't. Right now it is a fun little game, next month it will be a fun robust game. Your prerogative.
thanks for all the replies guys! Glad to see that other people out there are as fed up with publishers, EA, the games industry, EA, shoddy products, etc. And Stardock, you better deliver cause I just tied myself to your bandwagon!
Not exactly a fan boy. If Stardock had released Elemental and then moved on to their next project I would be just as mad as possible at them. But they are not doing that, in fact we know that they are hiring people to direct the progress of a game that they already got all of our money for. That is not business as usual. This is a company run by people and not by policy and it shows.
You know it, I know it, shoot even the media is figuring it out. New PC games don't work, they just don't. Here are some examples of this and the different ways the companies responded... Hellgate London: oh man was this one bad at launch. Did they fix it? Sort of, but it was too late for Flagship Empire Total War: this game didn't work on my computer for about six months after launch. About a month after I started playing it again thinking that they were going to focus on it