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Might be a Beta Patch but we are not BETA TESTERS.

I am not shy regarding criticism of the design team as I am sure Doom can attest, but I just got to say this, Its a beta patch (not a release) you downloaded it so ...you are a Beta tester (you volunteered.) A game this complex with the limited resources they have is going to need 'volunteer' debugging. The Beta patches are usually pretty good by the time they are released to the playing community, but if you want something more you need to wait for the release I usually try to avoid starting a serious PBEM game using a beta, but overall they tend to be 'better' than what they replace.

Yes it might be smart if Matrix offered all patches available for all programs just in case someone waned to dumb down the program. I was thankful I downloaded and saved the 1.03 beta patch so that I could reinstall the program and then upgrade to 1.03 after finding the problems with the 1.03b beta.

I save all patches (and keep copies of the old game folders for reasons listed below) so I agree it is a good idea. Even better is the idea that Wastelands post or otherwise make available previous versions. Rolling back to a working version after an unfortunate experience with an upgrade sounds like a win win, and it should be pretty easy to post links to old patches, that said you may need to do a re install if you 'downgrade' as I it is likely some of the patches overwrite files which previous patches may not have touched.