I agree, my guess is that the second expansion should be out by September-ish.

Will take atleast 6 months to iron out the kinks in entrnehcment and the balance issues that will come up. After that it will take 1-2 months for them to start talkign about the next expansion. / more months before beta starts and 2-3 months of beta testing. So 9-11 months. Just under a year. Unlest someone from IC coem and say they hope to be bale to do it faster.

They said the next expansion was the diplomacy expansion. And that their will be ways to veiw standign of different people with each other. Give them missions, forge better alliances including temporary alliances. Being able to accept or decline missions. And lots of otehr things I froget.

One thing i realy want the to put int he expansion is a: "Give unit to player" option. Someting the game si currently lacking.

6 months to support entrenchment? that sounds way too much. don't forget that one of the big issues in post-vanilla-support was the development of the new networking code which is now in place and working. and so far, there have not surfaced very many problems with entrenchment. maybe after a month of playing, some balance corrections will be made, but those involve less work than rewriting stuff. I really don't know how you arrive at such a huge number.

I'd join anny in thinking of something around summer for beta and late summer/ early authumn for release of 2nd xpack.

That's what I'm thinking.........

Yeah it's a curious thing in Sins that no matter how powerful you are, you always feel like someone's bitch

GIVE ME THIS

or

ATTACK THAT

It's like...wait a second...have you seen the size of my empire?  I should be asking you for these things!  Now get out of my face before I Nova Cannon you!

but thats half the fun of sins your all sinning

Oh I didn't know that they were going to work on the Diplomacy part of the game in the next expansion.

It is seriously terrible right now.  It's like chimpspanner said, they'll be requesting stuff from you ("Give me 1000 Credits") when you have a fleet 3 times the size of theirs.  I'm ready to just destroy you and you're demanding credits from me!?

And the AI is stupid when it comes allying.  I guess it only depends on your current % with them and nothing else. 

I was destroying a computer (he had a few planets left, no real fleet to defend anything) and I offered a cease fire just to see what he would do.  He refused...  I mean he was in no position to refuse a cease fire when I was about to finish him off but I guess since I was at 0% friendliness with him he just refused.

You never get a kill mission if the target empire is not within 2 jumps from one of your planets.

Do they ever ask you to target specific capital ships?  That'd make a cool mission.

Nope, it's "ships", "tactical structures" and "logistics structures" for the attack missions.

Nah! Just a curtain number of ships or deffencive structures.

I'd like to think that IC. and Stardocks involving the community in beta testing is pretty good at the moment, and that there is'nt that much to fix with Entrenchment. There is no doubt a few things, but maybee alot less than with vanilla. Hope so anyway. Still, I think the Dev's deserve some time to kick back for a while after all thier hard work. 

Just so you and everyone else on here knows...

Blair has already stated that they have begun development on the 2nd expansion.  It will most likely be in beta by the end of spring/early summer

And, oh by the way, IC is also working on the next big project coming after SINS...it will be an RPG, if not mistaken and Blair said in a podcast on GWJ that the gist of the new game was heavily influenced by some of the board games that they are really into...1 specific mention was the game, "War of the Ring."

Just an FYI.