Wrong subforum, AFAIK we share this pc gaming forum with other stardock game boards
Anyway, basically I was sitting on the can reading PC Powerplay (I find games journalism helps me go), and saw a preview for it that mentioned a lot of the team came from Ensemble and Robot and they were making an RTS again. Later I googled up the site and saw Bruce Shelley was working on it too. Asked around to see if I could get some concrete info on it and when I couldn't I decided 20 bux was a small price to pay to see if it is any good.
Don't regret buying it and have played a lot of it, especially since early access beta started.