I hope the wait-10/15seconds-for-audio bug will indeed be fixed. It is such an odd bug though. I suffer from it when selecting Paris (in my current UP game), and some of my naval units (especially if they are in port), but not with most other stacks & cities.

As for the post above that: Hopefully the colonial rivalries will show up with naval invasions bug being fixed. I agree that the European 1-region minors need to be nerfed. They get a huge bonus for both economy & research, making their armies deadly to the so-called "major" powers. Larger "minor" powers, such as Denmark and Persia, aren't that bad. They seem to behave just like the "major" powers.

As I said before, I don't mind minors growing into majors if a power vacuum exists. But the way Austria, Spain, France, Sweeden, Prussia, Poland, Russia & the Ottoman AIs are, there are far too many power vacuums in Europe.