The patch worked for me, and also fixed the time/date issue. Thanks! 
8 hours later and Iām still blocked 
By the time I get this game running all the bugs will have been discovered. So much for boldly going where no gamer has gone before.
Both of you try again, it should be unblocked. Cheers.
Excellent got the new link, now working. And here I was thinking you were all asleep about now.
Many thanks, getting better service, and ideas, from the one man band than from the bigger concerns.
Running under Windows 7 x64 the whole process was beautiful, game loaded, bar moved, UAC dialog appeared, patch installed. Nice. Only suggestion might be to tell people what the bar is doing āAn update has been detected, please wait while we download. 5% done. 512KB/sā
In the future, if at all possible, can we get a change list for patches? What issues are addressed, features added, et cetera?
That too, in addition to launching the game there should be a checkbox for opening the changelog.
Still got the blocked pass errorā¦ used the clock/date fix for now but still no auto update
Iāve tried all 3 download possibilities from BMT Micro, an hour to download 55mb. This is a little slow considering that should normally take 5 to 10 minutes on my connection.
Thereās one in the support forum.
Patch download worked as it should, from 1.01.
Same here. Still downloading, but it doesnāt get faster than 25KB/s, averaging 15KB/s most of the time. I have a 2Mbps connection, and other sites are working fine.
Both patches worked perfectly. Thank you very much for your quick release of version 1.02, the game was unplayable there for a while without formation and escort commands working. Everything works great now and I can get back to beating the later stage formationsā¦ ok losing against them.
mine wouldnāt patch until I entered my online key, which is fair enough, but it didnāt tell me there was a patch available were I to do that either
Hmmā¦ it downloaded and installed patch 1.02 but the main menu still shows 1.01.
Did you forget to update the version number there or did the patch not install correctly?
nm, I just checked for the newly introduced option for mouse wheel zoom invert and itās not there, so I guess my patching went wrong.
gogo reinstall!!
hello,
I too am having my download password blocked 
btw: first post here, hello! Good luck for the remaining development time !
UPDATE: contacted BMT directly and theyāve reset my link
I installed it yesterday and it worked perfectly (except for the sound bug, of course). Lost to the first fleet 5 times, but had fun all the while, playing with the orders and ship placement.
Well done, cliffskiā¦ GSB is already a great game, even as Beta. Thanks!
Haha, yeah, that first fleet opened my eyes a bit. I started on the lowest difficulty and assumed it would be a cakewalk ā boy was I surprised. It seemed like some of the larger enemy ships were invulnerable!
Once I added some Ion-cannon-shield-roaster-badass ships in there, things went much better. I laughed at their shields and burned their tentacles right off of their squishy, round bodies. Gratuitous bloodbath! (And again I have to admit Iām really impressed with the weapon and damage effects. Awesome job on those, Cliff, totally awesome.)
Edit: Oh yeah, my 1.01 game did indeed autopatch to 1.02, although the patch installer wanted to put the updated files in the default directory, whereas all of my games are installed in the L:\Games directory. Easy to fix here in userspace, but might be confusing if anyone just clicks through and could cause support headaches down the road.
For me personally, 1.03 fixed sound errors, ship vanishing, and bouncing. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much Cliff! Now it looks like people can āenjoyā* my challenges. :3
*Be utterly ANNIHILATED BY.