Quote Originally Posted by econ21
...As far as I can make out, the issue is still under consideration.
Well, given the response below that open this thread-

Originally Posted by Caliban (CA)
There are no plans for a patch at the moment.
- I dont really think CA's 'response' to this issue can be considered as under consideration...

Granted, CA was smart enough to add the caveat at the moment but when a game has a laundry list of known issues, for the developers to say 'no plans for a patch' at this relatively early stage, the writing seems to be on the wall- for me at least anyway.