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Arinn posted a blog thingie Saturday about it by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2011, 9:36am PDT
Here.

From what I can gather, the studio has been hemorrhaging money and staff in the past 3-4 months, meaning they weren't going to be able to make their release date. If they had pushed back the release date, they would have basically been broke and Paradox wasn't going to give them an extension. So they said fuck it, and launched anyways with features missing and the game in a not quite unplayable, but certainly boring-as-shit state (features such as independent worlds & space terrain are missing, random encounters/grand menaces are broke, the research system says it's gonna take 20 turns to research something, battles are a joke as it takes you 5 minutes to cross the map, etc.).

Unlike MOO3, which was working as intended for all I knew, SOTS2 is just hilariously broken. You can see that it might be a fun game, and maybe if there was a battle skirmish simulation mode you could play it as a cooler version of "Gratuitous Space Battles" without any strategic mode. But none of that matters because all the parts aren't working in tandem, and there is ZERO documentation explaining a goddamn thing.
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Between Stronghold 3 and Sword of the Stars II, I have set fire to 100$ this wk by WITTGENSTEIN 10/29/2011, 8:55am PDT NEW
    Sword of the Stars 2 might be a fuck-up of Masters of Orion 3 proportions by WITTGENSTEIN 10/29/2011, 7:19pm PDT NEW
        Don't rule out plain technical incompetence by Mischief Maker 10/30/2011, 9:29am PDT NEW
            Arinn posted a blog thingie Saturday about it by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2011, 9:36am PDT NEW
                yeah it turns out 4x is hard by jeep 10/30/2011, 3:59pm PDT NEW
                    Mecron sez: WE FUCKED UP, SORRY. IT'LL BE FIXED BY NOVEMBER 31ST by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2011, 4:47pm PDT NEW
                        Haegemonia Gold by Mischief Maker 11/01/2011, 12:17pm PDT NEW
                            Haegamonia Legions of Iron was pretty awful by WITTGENSTEIN 11/01/2011, 12:28pm PDT NEW
                            Re: Haegemonia Gold by fabio 12/13/2011, 5:05am PST NEW
                                Nope. Better looking? NT by Mischief Maker 12/15/2011, 12:16am PST NEW
                                    When zoomed in by fabio 12/15/2011, 12:01pm PST NEW
                                        Isn't that basically what GalCiv 2 was? by Mischief Maker 12/15/2011, 2:06pm PST NEW
                                            Re: Isn't that basically what GalCiv 2 was? by laudablepuss 12/15/2011, 3:30pm PST NEW
                                                Build a ship shaped like a gun made of smaller guns NT by fabio 12/15/2011, 6:58pm PST NEW
                                            I missed this post. :( Basically: the HW:C team split in two by WITTGENSTEIN 07/13/2013, 4:49pm PDT NEW
                    SOTS2 is appearing more GalCiv II than SOTS1 by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2011, 4:59pm PDT NEW
                        Re: SOTS2 is appearing more GalCiv II than SOTS1 by Mischief Shmup Enthusiast 10/30/2011, 5:32pm PDT NEW
                    There is the opposite extreme. by Mischief Shmup Enthusiast 10/30/2011, 6:01pm PDT NEW
                        freeware by fabio 10/31/2011, 10:22am PDT NEW
                        Re: There is the opposite extreme. by Fullofkittens 07/13/2013, 2:07pm PDT NEW
                        Pay 99$ to get in the alpha! NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/13/2013, 4:39pm PDT NEW
                            I think you're mixing it up with that TA game. Overgrowth is still $30 preorder. NT by MM 07/13/2013, 9:47pm PDT NEW
                                Well, yes, that was the sarcastic point. I've been railing against these types by WITTGENSTEIN 07/14/2013, 8:04am PDT NEW
    Sword of the Stars 2: 2 weeks after launch by WITTGENSTEIN 11/09/2011, 3:42pm PST NEW
        How 'bout now? NT by Mischief Maker 01/28/2012, 6:34pm PST NEW
            The problems are endemic to the design by WITTGENSTEIN 03/25/2012, 10:01am PDT NEW
                Patch notes Highlights Reel (thanks SA) by WITTGENSTEIN 03/25/2012, 10:23am PDT NEW
                    Wait, is that real or from a SA joke article? by fabio 03/25/2012, 10:40am PDT NEW
                        It's real. NT by WITTGENSTEIN 03/25/2012, 2:00pm PDT NEW
                            :( by Mischief Maker 03/25/2012, 3:51pm PDT NEW
    6 months later: by WITTGENSTEIN 05/29/2012, 1:04pm PDT NEW
    The enhanced edition's out. Playable yet? by United Nations Maker 12/01/2012, 6:13am PST NEW
        ssssssssssssssssssystem update! NT by SOTS patch department 12/01/2012, 3:36pm PST NEW
    Stronghold 3 on sale for $7.50 ^_^ NT by fabio 07/04/2013, 1:10pm PDT NEW
        Fuck these games. Anyone remember that old SSI dos game Stronghold? by Eurotrash 07/04/2013, 11:53pm PDT NEW
            I still wish they'd remake Siege by fabio 07/13/2013, 1:04pm PDT NEW
                That sounds goddamn awesome. Your best chance might be an M&B mod :( NT by fucking newbie 07/13/2013, 5:12pm PDT NEW
        Archers still OP. And there are missions where you don't have access to them by WITTGENSTEIN 07/13/2013, 4:36pm PDT NEW
            I couldn't get too far into Stronghold or Crusaders by fabio 07/13/2013, 8:49pm PDT NEW
 
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