I've looked thru a few posts but didnt see these problems mentioned. If they were, then ooops.
Have been doing some multiplayer with Entrenchment and have notice sever desynch problems. You can only get so far into a new game before people become desynch and end up playing different games at the same time. It's funny at first....then becomes frustrating since you cant play multiplayer. An example is: Player A owns tantulas. Player B says that he shows that he owns tantulas. Player A makes ships in his universe at tantulas and Player B gets the ships in his.
Additionally. Dont know if it's part of the desynch bug or not...but after a while, when purchasing things, items will start being charged 2-3x as much. Often making you go negative. Sometimes, while negative, you can keep buying research items, but not physical items such as ships.
Hopefully you already know about these problems and their already fixed or will be by the 1 Jan release date. We so wanted to get a game of multiplayer in before the end of the holidays.
Astyria.