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It's current version is "0 A.D. Alpha 19 Syllepsis". Is it done and playable? Maybe it's better to wait for some "real" release?

By the way, it seems to me that open source games don't have visible milestones. So one cannot notice when there's a good moment to download and play bug free game. Do you have same impression?

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I downloaded today and played a couple rounds on my c2007 MacBook Pro. I did notice occasional lag in 2 player mode but nothing horrific. I didn't see anything that felt like a bug. Very nice!

It's very playable. There is only one ruining problem, as the game progress and number of objects on the map increases, game becomes ultra slow. Like one frame in 10 seconds.

That's almost entirely fixed with this release.

Since I help develop the game, I'm rather biased, but I think that it's as stable or more so than most triple-A titles released today.

What I observed is that from time to time it slows down to almost unplayable but this lasts some 30 seconds and then it get backs to normal. This happens once every 15-20 mins. Hope it helps.

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