He asked the same question on the MOO3 official forum. He also got pretty much the same response from most people (when I stopped reading). That being said, I have found MOO3 for $15 at a used book store here. This was 4 weeks ago when I was debating on which game to get. I think MOO3 would be a good fun for me (on another level of play), but from what I read at each forum and in reviews, $15 was too high (until the patch is released). A couple of mainstream software stores have had
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The enhanced trade system would be nice, I would like to know just what they would be willing to trade for. Trading or gifting starships: When ships are given to another race, the shape of the ship should not change, only the paint scheme should change. This way we can determine just where the I-League are getting all of thier ships. This may not be workable, but I think it would add a twist to the diplomacy if Races can tell that ships are being supplied by a third "nuetral" party.
I had the same bug as dirkdirk and Code Monkey, only it was the Yor troop transport that was invading. The dialog told me that if I choose to invade the Terran Alliance, it would be an act of war... "Do you wish to go to war, N-1". Naturally, I clicked "No" ;) I continued to play and the game has been running fine since.