:sighs: Oh ... very well. I suppose this does sound about as reasonable as could be expected, although I do wonder if the lack of "Devastating bug! Gah!" threads is due to the short time the game has been out. I don't like wondering that at all, but there we go. I don't expect terribly much, but that does make it hard to be disappointed at least.

But I do hope Sega has started a new era; as publishers go they are in my better books because they seem to support niche titles, give developers time to finish their games, and support those games when they are done. The standalone 1.3 patch for RTW is perhaps a signal of what to expect. I certainly hope so.

It's £14.99 on Amazon.uk, so I chucked a book in with it for free delivery. I still couldn't muster the enthusiasm to go shopping in my lunchbreak and pay more to have BI now. £14.99; that's two or three fiction books or one big fat history book at Amazon prices.

The Shogun called people whiners while busily denying the existence of the save/load issue. Anyone who thought there might be a problem was a whiner, regardless of whether they were whining or not, or even posting anything at all.

Mods aren’t an option for me, regardless of the mod and the contents, until the 1.3 patch is available for download. No matter what the mod changes it can’t fix the save/load thingy, so I’m still left playing against an AI which admires the view and does very little else. However, once that issue is fixed the frog can try a load of mods without trouble

Turin: Eleanor isn't fanfic, it's original fiction. It's entirely my own creation. Glad you like it Hehe, BI will pose precisely no threat to the story; nothing manages to be more appealing to me than writing it. Rather, the story threatens to steal my BI playing time, even if it’s the game I was hoping for with RTW 1.0!