So i tried out this new patch that was supposed to fix a few issues :

- black market : exploit fixed, but it now unbalances trade ports, once you mass trade ports you can simply buy infinite resources and build/rebuild your fleet easily;
- multiplayer issues : client crashes still reported. out of the 10 people in the lobby in ico, half report client crashes (but there are no client crashes. It's just our imagination);
- migrating still not working. either completely bugged or for some reason always tries to migrate to that one player who can't host (highly unlikely);
- ai does not surrender at all. we just had a 2vs2, the host left, game went migrating, everyone dropped but my friend who was designed server (he of course cannot host due to router issues, i instead could host). He just killed all planets of the last ai in game, and this ai doesn't surrender. We don't know if it's just bugged or if the ai is running somewhere with a colony ship. Ok here's the result : one AI seemingly surrendered but my friend had to kill all his planets too.
-disappearing sound still in, sometimes the game has no sound. Happens randomly.
-difficult to find any games, not talking about good games at all. Low population being the main cause, people stop playing mp because of all these bugs.

The reason people don't play MP is not that they like single player more, it's that it's impossible to play. Please for the next games, do some beta testing. Just a little is enough.