BTW - About the the information flow:
First and foremost, my apologies. For a variety of reasons we couldn't talk about our game yet, though I can assure you we wanted to. Considering how long we've been working on it, I guess you can imagine that was very frustrating. There's still a lot of stuff we can't talk about yet, but at least we can start communicating about it, which for me personally, is a big relief.
That doesn't mean we haven't taken into account everything you've been writing in these forums in the last years - we recently did an inventory of all the suggestions you made and matched that against our design, and it was refreshing to see that a lot of things matched (not all of course).
We've still got some time before the game will be released, but I think you'll find that from now on we'll be a lot more active in these forums.
Cheers
Lar
