I laugh every time I get the mod it reply. You can't just add more turns per year and not jack up most everything else in the game. When the game is designed ground up on 1ypt the only way you fix that is for CA to release DLCs designed around more turns per year, just as they in fact have done repeatedly. And all of which are as I said above, orders of magnitude more enjoyable.

And while CA will never admit how wrong they were about R2, the more I see of Attila the more it looks to me like they have owned up to many of the mistakes made and are attempting to fix them. I'll take that as an unspoken admission.

I still won't buy it at launch and sure as hell won't pre-order it. But I do look forward to hearing what others have to say who are buying it in spite of the R2 launch train-wreck, and I will get it, once it's 20 bucks and patched.