or they are working very hard at giving us a quality expansion and need more time to work on it

enjoy the game as it is I do

and there are plenty of mods for everyone

like this one

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/335474

That mod does nothing for me. Flacid.

I want systems instead of planets!

*dig dig dig dig*

Seriously, no previews or anything?  Nothing to keep me enticed? 

I really think they should scrap the 3rd expansion and just move into a sequel.

MO MONEY! LESS PROBLEMS!

Tkins, you have a point. Posts by fans, mods by fans; no updates from Ironclad on what they are doing, if anything.

If no one is talking then its probably waiting on some kind of joint agreement between IC and SD.

Personally I'd love to know how the sales stats from Entrenchment compared to SoaSE when you factor in development time.

Craig (or might have been Blair) said last week that they were working on a new preview, but it got delayed.

And now the downside of game development shows itself.

Maybe they are quiet because they don't have much to say other then they are working on it. That gets boring to hear after a while so we may just have to show a little patience.

You have to look at stardock as a whole if you want better insight into what projects are in the works.

Just a couple of recap of  (somewhat) recent events.

Demigod was released early (VERY BAD for a new game) only to not have the online gamplay available. Stardock then had to do damage control in order to avoid losing a gaming comunity before it was even formed. It took weeks if not months to hammer out all the bugs involved with it.

Frogboy himself posted (in detail) the events and made an effort to explain what happened.

Several devs took some much needed vacations (Frogboy included).

Work on Elemental for a summer 2009 release.

Thats just 3 things I could rattle off the top of my head. There is much more of course but I havent been active in the forums as much as others.

If the devs say they are working on it then they are working on it.

As for previews, what are you expecting to see?

Thats a very good question for the devs, they don't want to put in crap you allready know about or a screenshot that can't do justice to thier work. they could give you a vid of gameplay, but if it is unfinished or unpolished it will only make them look like jackasses. They could also have had something in the works only to have it dropped for unbalancing issues or whatever reason and don't want it to show in previews only to not be there when the content is released.

Game devs can have hard and almost thankless jobs. And right now I bet they are feeling it. 

It's not Stardock who are actually working on Sins. It's ironclad.

To make everyone happy, IC should update the SOASE homepage with a new visual. It should say ALLIANCES (my name for the 2nd expansion focusing on diplomacy). Even if we're not going to get right it away, it would still reignite interest, showing fans new and old that this game is still very much alive.

What we know:

Stardock released Demigod full of bugs, then called the IC boys to help debug it. They delayed working on anything related to Sins to help out. They helped get Demigod up and running smoothly then turned their attention on Sins: Diplomacy... and we havent heard anything since, except for 2 months ago when they released 1.03 and 1.17, not much was said in the way of updates, just the change log, and Blair rebooting and upgrading ICO a few days earlier than the patch at the communities request (and a lot of JJ griping) to cut down on the disconnects. We still haven't heard anything recently. Nothing, and thats a lot of what has the community worried and a little panicky, that and the fact that the game is still a bit off and we're tired of it. Even a few sentences about why they havent released any information about anything would be better than just nothing.

Hehe...Diplomacy IS in the works, but for many reasons we cannot always release information early.

Yay, nice to know you guys didnt fall off a cliff and die suddenly.

well, we heard basically the same a month ago (actually a bit more), plus the hint of a dev blog or preview or whatever going up soon. yeah. right. we saw what came of that. yes, we get a lifesign, but it's really nothing more and for such a long period this rather sparse. I'll resevre further verdict until the plans are finally revealed, maybe then a reason for secrecy will be obvious. otherwise I will certainly feel free to criticse the information policy here. of course it's their business how they do things, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.

bottom line: that did not impress or satisfy me. yet.