Since the new AI update.. the status of the game??

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I was reading Draginol's journal entry that there was a major update rather recently. I was just wondering from those of you that are playing the beta if the changes have helped the game come closer to a releaseable game?
Is it ALOT better now or just passable ?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
There haven't been any new releases since that point (and even if there were, I believe there's a hush-order on the private betas).
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The updated AI will be in the gamma release and that hasn't been released outside of Stardock yet.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
The last beta build was I think on the 17th of December. Everything you see Brad and crew talk about being put into the game from that point forward is either going into the gamma releases (limited testing group) or being held back until the retail release of the game.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Ohh ok.. thanks for clearifying that for me. We'll all be surprised then wont we
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
and hopefully it will be good surprises

but witht the ppl working on this game i think that we can be pretty confindent that any surprises that come will be good ones
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
stardock really knows how to test games. designers shold do this more often. im gonna feel left out when gamma releases. oh well just have to bug the diplomats and ambassodors (the only ones testing the gamma) about how its gonna be
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
The AI is already better than what I have seen in other Space 4X games. I find the dev jounal posts regarding AI improvements very encouraging. I hope they also will address the large memory footprint. I'm running on a P4 with 512MB running WinXP SP2 and find GalCiv2 gets up to 600MB (half of which is swapped out of course). So unless you are running on a box with 1GB of memory, swapping is an issue.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
"unless you are running on a box with 1GB of memory, swapping is an issue."

Maybe, maybe not... I find that WinXP often mirrors the RAM in the swapfile, so that an application using 15 MB of RAM has a 30 MB footprint (15 real + 15 virtual); and sometimes it doesn't mirror anything, but just "swaps" as expected. It's impossible to guess how much memory an application really uses, better than a factor of 2 error margin, unless you know something I don't. Do you actually hear and see (HDD LED) it swapping?