Another little update and suggestions....
1) Manual. I realise that the manual is one of the last things that gets done for a new game so that it accurately reflects the game, but please don't ignore this vital little game accessory. Since everything is electronic nowadays and the pleasure of buying a game and getting a box full of manuals, info sheets and maps is a thing of the past, it is now no longer possible to play the game and have a book of instructions in your lap to work through. THE MANUAL SHOULD BE AVAILABLE INGAME FROM ALL SCREENS IN THE GAME. Please 
2) The last thing I want to do is put people off this fine game with lots of bug reports and moans. I also don't want to mislead the developers with inaccurate incomplete or out of date information. I would like a little guidance from the developers about what they NEED when a bug is reported.
3) Further to previos posts....
A game running on a PC is just the top top level of loads off stuff - hardware, OS, drivers, network interactions, (just what is STEAM doing and is it breaking the game ever?), other concurrent applications, other concurrent system utilities and so on. When people including me make a post that the game is broken what we are really saying, of course, is that this whole mess of stuff has gone wrong while playing the game. The game may be innocent but may be revealing other issues deeper down. With this in mind I have been trying to get a more stable play experience.
I still get crashes to desktops.
I am running catalyst driver 12.8 - I missed 12.10 and 13.1 is now out 13.2 shouldn't be long. From a bit of research around the web 12.8 and 13.1 have reports of problems along the lines of some of the errors I am reporting but people who have gone up to and downgraded to 12.10 report that 12.10 is much better. I will go to 12.10 and stay there a while till reports on 13.2 start to come out.
The game IS more stable when I get rid of stuff from the system tray. One particular app - Edimax's RALINK utility - seems to be particulalry naughty - takin 25,000+ file handles. This is 5-10 time higher than the next few highest and about 100 times higher than the average. I am not running with the latest version of the Edimax drivers and RaLink utility and will try that - it can't hurt and may do some good. Perhaps this explains some funnies like the game grinding to a halt and locking up, going into save game and not seeing all the save games I know are there. crashing out with file handles error (bit of a clue there).
4) If I exit the game I DO seem to need to reboot and restart the game every time - seems the game doesn't shut itself down properly.
5) All in all though, after a clean boot, with version 0.51, and shutting down all unwanted tray items ESPECIALLy RaLink, and not alt tabbing or running concurrent "serious" applications I can have a really good long game experience - until it all goes tits up. I rarely get to close the game down normally.
6) I used to love Masters of Magic way back when dinosaurs used computers. I have been waiting for years for a successor. This could be it!
Thank you.
