Well, I love the game, it's what I've come to expect from Stardock. I know the game will get better with time, that's why I haven't regretted buying it even when playing the pre-release version. I can say this, at least it starts up quickly heh. If you don't have faith the game will improve and become an all inclusive masterpiece then you haven't played Gal Civ 2 up to the last patch.

A couple things though, other than the obvious bugs. I get that cons can spawn in foggy areas but wow, the spawn rate is really, really high. If you don't focus on military tech along with a couple of the production ones(mats and gold are super important), you can easily get overrun. I don't mind this at all but a couple of the AIs got roasted by mobs which kind of takes the fun out of it. On the plus side, a nice foggy patch means you can level your heroes insanely quickly.

Rewards...well, I keep getting swords, shields and such, which would be great if I wasn't a caster. Has anyone received a caster staff or something?

I am not really getting how magic and defense or spell level and creature level are related. I have 30 int, and casting spells that keep missing level 5 mobs. Also, it keeps saying missed but I thought the patch notes said it would say the spell failed instead. How do you miss a creature with an AoE spell anyway? I guess this info will come out in time.

Some spells are pretty useless or need increased duration.

Could you please allow heroes with essence to imbue other heroes? Or am I supposed to totally keep ignoring the 18 Int spell casting heroes I see everywhere because I don't have enough essence to imbue them and remain a spell caster myself? I really feel like I should have just rolled a sword and board leader but it's called Rise of Magic....

I can't give my leader any of the creative benefits I find of some of the heroes, like 2x damage on return strikes and such. Oh, and Domination rocks big time. Some of the benefits are a little crazy though as they need essence but are obviously melee related, like the strike won't miss one.

Well, I like the game a lot, the tech trees are fun, the CTDs are not. Running into low on memory errors when running 8 gig of ram and 1 gig of video memory is totally new to me and don't blame it on my video drivers please.

Thanks a lot for the game, I loved MoM and this is terrific successor. Sid Meir better hope you guys don't ever make a game like Civ or you will derail his whole franchise. On that note, please make a successor to Alpha Centauri