i was going to post on steam forums for a reply to this, its a steam issue not a Hegemony issue, but i figured i might try here first just on the offchance that someone knows a fix.

I had some issues with Hegemony crashing and ever since the "Hours Played" has been stuck on 2 hours and never changed. Its no big deal but its kinda irritating. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thankyou.

yeah i tried that but no differance. even when a game is uninstalled its still listed by steam with the "hours played" intact, only differance is u get a "install" button instead of a "play" button, but i tried it anyway.
ive been with Steam from its first implementation and ive never had this problem before although from a search i saw other ppl have had it with a variety of games (no solutions tho).
as i originaly suspected i will have to pursue it with Steam but thnx for taking the trouble to reply :)

for anyone thats interested, i fixed this.

i un-installed Steam, unfortunately that means i have to re-install something like 90 Gigs of games but... it fixed this problem and half the games i rarely play anyway. i can just install-on-demand as and when i want to play each one. Hegemony was first on the list, of course!

I also had it register incorrect time played. It showed 6 MINUTES when in fact I had played over 70 hours. I did a game cache check and steam sponsored defrag which resulted in steam replacing damaged files. It now seems to be working.