Oops, In Philip I get "the following units are homeless" every time I complete an objectives instead of the objective reward list.

Yay, now beta time :D
I like the new way serial codes are handled. :)

Oops, In Philip I get "the following units are homeless" every time I complete an objectives instead of the objective reward list.

This happens in mine, as well. It doesn't make reference to a specific unit, though, and when clicking on the units I have, the home cities are already selected. Are the ghost units still haunting the game? :D

Another couple of things I noticed:

I captured Pella's farms and the city, but the flame icon is still over the farms, even though they are not on fire anymore, and are producing food. I have tried both slaves and armies right click, but 'extinguish fire' is greyed out.

When paused there is a small 'space' icon on the screen, at 1280x800 it's a little too low down the screen, and for new players, they may be confused as to why it is there.

I really don't mean any disrespect (I love you guys!) but as a web developer I find the fonts on the main menu and sub menus a little messy. When starting a new game the green hover over for selections is too low and some of the upper pixels of the text don't have the green hover over them.

Can we go back to Alpha? ;)
The general icon on the unit (next to his name) is a low morale symbol on ships (blue wave). On one reload another general's icon (the golden star at the botton ot the unit's drawing) was missing but the general was still there.

Sounds good. I registered my copy of PoM. Will the Beta key be emailed to me?

Thanks! Look forward to trying it out!

@Gord
Go to the Download Centre [shouldn't be hard to find ;)] and your beta key for Hegemony Gold will be under "Reg. Info" next to Hegemony Gold.

"This is a limited time offer,..." Does that mean the time we can get the code is limited or the time the code works is limited?

Is anyone else having trouble getting the new gold beta or is it just me? This game is damn addicting :)

EDIT: Nevermind! Skipped a step, all is fine

Correct link : "click here to download the latest beta, "

I am DLing now, is there a FAQ on how/what to report, or is it just working in the background and logging errors?

is it possible to have the beta installed, alongside the alpha on the same computer if I put them in different folders? I have a good campaign going on in alpha that I am not ready to part with, while at the same time i want to check out the beta.

Thanks!

I am DLing now, is there a FAQ on how/what to report, or is it just working in the background and logging errors?

There's no FAQ on how to report, simply play and enjoy the game and report on anything you think or see is wrong. :)

is it possible to have the beta installed, alongside the alpha on the same computer if I put them in different folders? I have a good campaign going on in alpha that I am not ready to part with, while at the same time i want to check out the beta.

Thanks!

Yes, it should be. Remember to rename the savegame if it is an autosave so it is not automatically overridden.

The burning icon remains about the farms after you extinguish them but will no longer flash. This just indicates the farm is still partially damaged and only producing a percentage of it's normal output.

Ahh, thank you for that, I had not thought of it like that. Maybe as a minor change you could give workers/slaves the ability to repair it to full health?

I agree, it's definitely sloppy and it's been my plan to fix that for ages. The only reason I haven't gotten to it yet is you might be surprised how much time it can take to polish those little gui details when you're working with custom code and i've got a ton of gameplay issues that always seem more pressing. I will probably move it up on my list as there is the danger I will forget if I keep pushing it off. Thanks for reminding me :)

I fully understand the pressures! I used to custom code e-commerce software and sites, and know how even little changes can sometimes take an hour or more to code, so even a few changes can suck an entire day. Very good work so far, every step Hegemony takes is interesting to watch. :)

During kingdom selection, would be nice to have a little map as well to identify where in Greece your selected kingdom are from.

Ahh, thank you for that, I had not thought of it like that. Maybe as a minor change you could give workers/slaves the ability to repair it to full health?

I disagree with that. Now its more important to secure your farms. It would be too easy when slaves could easily repair farms.

Is the homeless problem the only thing different between 8 and 9?

Also, I'm liking the Ionian Campaign a lot. Are there plans on making it any longer? I've only played 2 and some odd hours and I'm on the last objective.
I plan on going into more detail in a different thread so others can give their feedback.