Blue-screen crashes have scared the heck out of me.  After the last one, it took me well over an hour to reboot, and I'm still experiencing difficulties.  So, I'm all for fixing the stability issues, because I can't play with the game in the state it is.

Ive had trouble with the buildings stability, i research something and its never made available which brings me to for UI the building userface, should have all the buildings listed at all times to i can more easily understand why cant i build something for instance only 1 garden per town

Can't wait! Even though I am unable to stop fiddling with v3 dispite the crashes. 

Unrelated, The scene loading a save game is nice I finally got the complete run of it. 

I 100% agree with stability improvements.  While I love that Stardock releases early betas, currently the game doesn't last more than 40-50 turns before crashing.  Reloading auto-saves works 10% of the time and once the game crashes it tends to crash again very quickly thereafter.  In other words, testing anything other than the early expansion phase is currently impossible.

This is on Windows 7, your mileage may vary.

Hey Brad, can you trick the Pioneer's into starting to autoexplore seeking a special resource, or going to a special resource that was found, tagging it for the city to be aware of in the future, and then add in a requirement of a minimum distance away from the home city, and then require that they then have to build a city next to a resource?

I have other questions too. Is it easier to build beaches with raise land, and also set harbors into place? And will the Sages be turned on for the Empire as they currently aren't available even after researching. Also will the Empire tech tree essentially work now? And were the costs of command posts both across the board dropped down in cost to about 25gp because they are considered vital to city development.

Cause from what I can see, so far the comparison between the two is, that the Kingdom stuff all works right now. And functions in ways we would expect. Where as the correlation over on the Empires is that they seem to have similar corresponding techs, and buildings, but it seems lighter and tighter but without a corollary analog to the Kingdom. With the Kingdom there are a ton of buildings that you can choose from to enhance your city. The Empire is missing a ton of things that would allow you to increase your prestige, and so on. 

Also, it should go without saying, I'm psyched and really looking forward to this new upcoming version. Those land maps looked great. As has been done before, I'm really excited to see the new changes, cause with my testing method, I can feel when I've hit a saturation point with a build, and for this one I really felt I have. As I've mentally extrapolated that building up as an Empire again when things just don't seem to be turned on yet.

Also with Factions those options to choose as traits. Some of them don't seem to be working correctly, like the civilized one. Or the Learning and Sage one, the one that will give us people who can train research and spell points. 

I'm really looking forward to the changes in this upcoming version. 

One more thing...Gorstagg keep those videos coming they are great!

Point of Order! er, I mean Pedantry.... (Comes from trying get Sages for the Empire. I obviously spent too much time researching)

Anyways is most certainly a word that does exist.    Cited in the OED as well.

"anyways." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010
  Main Entry: any·ways

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompletelyMissingThePoint

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitle0t9r68ih?from=Main.DontExplainTheJoke

Explaining the joke: 

You said in your original post: 

Gahh! There is no "s" on the end of anyway. Someone please tell Brad about this (sorry, but my English teacher taught be well)

notice "be" should be "me". 

Someone makes fun of you for it: You do know that every time you criticize someone's grammar on the internet, you make at least as many mistakes in your own post. 

Then you go on a long tirade about anyway and anyways. Hence, completely missing the point. 

Not bad, not bad. I´ve been keeping an eye on this since the first concept art went live. Thanks to everyone who is participating in shaping the game, I got a lot of hope riding on this.

Btw, I haven´t found much on mounts. I take it that our heroes and adventurers can chose to ride to battle? It wouldn´t be a bad thing if a mount would impact the movment on the world/cloth map. As well as prowess in tactical battle.  Spending coin on a strong breed would be an interesting extra when it comes to deepening the experience, more so if that mount would be targetable.

Great! I would be more than happy, if I am able to pass further than the initial Beta 3 screen to see at least the intro. Every beta I can go less and less further.

IIRC AoW and Dominions don't use the 3d hardware on the card at all. If Space Empires is the same way, you've got the difference. As someone else mentioned, Elemental is likely causing the card to overheat by actually taxing it, but that's still a hardware problem. Video cards with proper cooling shouldn't overheat during normal use.