Hi Ceg, and everyone,

I've been playing 1.5 - playing far too much. I started with the Early campaign, which looked great, but sometimes got "culture ID" errors with a number like "16" or something and some CTDs which might have been connected to those error messages, so I switched to the middle campaign and completed an entire (well, 60% of lands) victory as the English. Loved it - with a couple of comments:

1) Do AI nations only use "War Contribution" for a couple of years just like you tell us human players? I noticed sometimes after taking a territory that an AI player had already established it. If the AI isn't controlled perhaps you should consider scrapping this feature, IMHO.

2) I liked the Med being made effectively separate, but as the English I couldn't even later build ships in the Med, so could only get islands by bribing (yet one or two Turk ships came out to the North Sea!). It would be nice to be able to build ships in the Med if poss......

I went on to play the late campaign which also looked great! But it keeps CTD-ing in 1687 for some reason I can't even begin to guess.

That's all, back to the game........