-Not sure about admin costs, I always assumed it was food/gold upkeep for various buildings though

-Your sons/daughters sometime have +X health and +X mana per combat round, unless it's changed it doesn't actually tell you anywhere just take them into battle and find out

-Your sovereign gets some percentage of the experience for all battles that you are involved in regardless of the units you use.  Can't remember the details but it was something like 5% for every inactive unit and 10% for every active unit (active meaning actually does something in battle other than pass) but I could be very wrong on the percentages

Also, glad to see another person enjoying the game and I agree with your sentiments completely

P.S. your English is better than a lot of anglophones

yes, but this game is horribly flawed. ive never played any stardock game before and im no fanboy. I just payed money expected a good strategy game. I will be patient but I sure as hell won't thank anyone for one of the worst releases i have seen in 20 years.

I think it is lookin good so far.  I'm excited to see where it is going.

At the end of the day, the game still is fun, even with its current quirks.  That's huge!

Just for point of reference, 3 games quickly come to mind that shatter all boundaries when it comes to a terrible release:

1. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown for the PC.  I swear it felt like support left the building 40 minutes after it went live.  After years of enjoying the Tom Clancy series of games, I realized that UBI Soft decided to drop PC gamers hard without a second thought.  I had to take a shower after this one.

2. Soldier of Fortune 3:  Payback.  I don't even think this game ever left pre-alpha status.  Maybe that's why it was only $9.99?  Damn, lost money anyway.  What the hell was I thinking?  Oh that's right, I immensely enjoyed the first 2 games.  What a rip off.

3. Hellgate: London.  Thank god I didn't subscribe and I knew what I was getting into before picking the game up.  I found it on a shelf for like $10, a few months before they shut down - so no sweat off my ass.

This last one was released so badly that it got an urban dictionary entry.  Third definition spells it out in detail:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Flagshipped&defid=2757484

The Elemental release was Heaven sent compared to the above, there is just no comparison.  My opinion, of course.  I shall never forget those failures.

True, Elemental was released sub par and is not something that is hard for the community to understand, especially since we paid for the game (expecting it to be in finished working order) AND we were not watching game development/thought processes from their perspective.

But please note: The fact that Stardock is working (as we speak, you can practically hear it) very hard to resolve issues and get the game on track speaks volumes for the company AND for the community that has seen unforgivable past actions of other software developers/publishers.

Daggerfall ? huh ?

Sorry while Daggerfall had some technical hurdles it was not semi broken like so many other titles, Bethesda also supported that game in spades.

SD has and always will give excellent support for there games and even those they just publish. I love the fact that i know if i got really tired of some of these bugs i will eventually come back to find those Quashed and content added maybe a few months down the road.

Via impulse. No other way.