Consider whether Stardock cares about the quality of their products, and then think what is the financial net worth of the Sins franchise.

And yeah, reputable sources claim Entr still needs a bit of work to make it just right.

I'm gonna put my money on March, actually, but I have no real reason for doing so. 

And for what it's worth...Sins, and Entrenchment, are Ironclad's, not Stardock's.

Can't they just program in the words placeholder or TBA in the place of the date instead of issueing fake placeholder dates? Better yet if they couldn't program it put the date as Feburary 31st. But then again maybe its a marketing ploy to get the unknowing public into pre-ordering.

Bleh according to google I misspelled it too... its February 31'st and I do know its a date that doesn't exist thats what makes the idea so funny.

Then they could just give you a negative charge on your CC, so you end up paying only once. Would be a bit of a mess, though

There are still some major problems with the multiplayer game - mainly the constant dsynching (and inability to brin the game back into synch) and also the silly bug where you end up with negative values in your cash, crystal and metal funds.

Will be great once they've sorted it all out though

Well, Happy New Years everybody, I just purchased Entrenchment (because the release date was today) and got the beta.  Great.  Word of advice, if your looking for the final product, it doesn't look like it's coming out today, despite what it says.

I guess I'm playing the beta then, version 0.91.002 on a 64 bit version of Vista.

We should have a new channel for entrenchment.

Here are some observations: Vasari are way overpowered with movable starbases, and (primarily) endless mine deployment. I played Hyperions Gates as a Vasari and by the time I had conquored my section of the galaxy, only Vasari factions were still alive. I had to jump in to planet Porta with all ships in Hold Position mode, and send a backup fleet of five hold positioned scouts to clear the mines. It took about 2 hours game time to clear all the enemy mines. It took longer (and an entire fleet) to discover this strategy.

I think all starbases should be able to move about the gravity well, and something needs to be done about Vasari mine deployment (although I'm not sure what). It's still fun, though.

Some other errors are that sometimes the fleet leader (alone) jumps when you tell the fleet to jump. Also, the "jump as group" and "go ahead and jump already" arrow toggle doesn't seem to do anything?!? The way I found around this was to zoom out to planet view, right click the planet to go to, wait for the audio confirmation, and right click again. It seems telling the fleet twice to jump generally gets it in their little Vasari brains....

The other major problem is the game crashes when trying to load a saved game. The solution is to close the program, run the program again, and load the saved game from scratch. It's a minor anoyance that can greatly escalate if you're trying to jump into a gravity well and not loose 966 ship points worth of ships to Vasari mines.

That's it for my initial observations. All in all, grat expantion. Thanks.

With all the sugestions people are making mabey they are actually going to put them into account. And make entrenchment extactly what the generally census wants it to be. that and fix all bugs and unbalances will take some time   

Thanks Sole Soul

I have just completed implosion as a Advent and it wasn't too bad. Still, some mine-ridden planets, but Advent mines aren't as fast as Vasari mines. For some reason my "random" opponents consisted of 6 Advent, 2 Vasari, 0 TEC. The Vasarri I wiped out early. I think the biggest unbalanced gameplay issue at this point is that "militaristic" AI's build mines, and trader AI's get wiped out early. Just a preliminary observation.

Now I'm going to try playing TEC again. this time on a big map like Arolen Sector.

Might as well wait the add on is bugged all to hell.   Why release it now if it is crap?  Just played about 3 hours of it and my god a monkey could probably code it better....Im about to ask for a refund...O wait nvm maybe Ill just tell visa I didnt get the product I asked for and ax the charge...I was too busy counting the crap bugs in it to actually enjoy the game.

Now on Impulse it says 4th February.