I think this is worthy of my first post, DOWNLOADING ENTRENCHMENT

Passing 70% as I type this

Wait, why does it take serveral hours to process the pre-orders into beta-keys?  Are they being done by hand or something?

bug report:  When I try to purchase the game through the impulse program, it rings up as 13.xx 

when I buy it through the impulse website, it's the norma 9.95.. strange.

Well I'm guessing its becauses this process is dependent on a large number of external parties such as banks, paypal, and credit card companies (visa). If it were a matter of sending out emails to everyone it would be done in a few minutes, but in this case it requires individual confirmations of payment.

Downloading now, so I'm happy for the moment.

If it makes you feel better, I'm at work and can't download anything for nearly 3 more hours.

That's why I'm slapping him around with a clownfish. I won't be home for about 3.5 hours

*recovers from Annatar's usual brute force and meanness* 

Word of warning to folks with installed mods.  If it's not in one of these countless Entrenchment threads, make sure you remove the mod before trying to launch Entrenchment.  The auto-load settings for mods were causing me to go to a permanent black screen when running it.  I deleted the data inside the Mods folder and removed the modname line from my user settings file and it opened right up.

Just figured it might save some people some swearing time if they didn't make the same mistake I did.

Edit:  Ahahahaha!  I can't wait to see the reaction to some of these defense tech research options.  As usual, I've only seen TEC, but my jaw dropped at some of them.

thanks for the warning. but as long as auto load is off it should be fine, no?

and flame! for the teaser. you're almost as bad as the devs.

I don't think anyone will mind and in fact I'm sure the worker drones would love to be able to hear more details about what others are experiencing as they toil away watching the clock move so slowly as to almost start ticking backwards.

I mainly just didn't post details about it as I've only played a few minutes and am at a loss as to what exactly to even comment on, heh.

Surely.  I just wasn't that smart in my eagerness to commence.

That is quite correct. If you have purchased the beta you have not actually been charged for it yet. Once they process your order you are then charged for the game and the email goes out with your account information. Then it is just a matter of downloading the beta through Impulse. Even at the time of this writing orders are still being processed.