As an FYI, most banks will be a temporary hold on the amount of a pre-order.  Depending on your bank, this clears within a few days. 

Got it.

Lovely. 

Do the system requirements remain the same as previous versions? If yes, I'd pre-order in a heartbeat. 

When I click the upgrade button, it brings me to buying rebellion+diplomacy for $40, instead of rebellion only for $30... or something.

Existing registered Sins players can upgrade to Rebellion for $29.95 > Where is that button?

https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/upgraderebellion.aspx

release date Q4 2011

OUCH

I love that there's already 2 posts asking how to get the discount, when it tells you where to go on the page.

Anyways, pre-ordered and saved an extra 81 cents on the exchange rate, take that American dollar!

ya... that link says buy for $40.

pre-order went up kinda fast no? Isn't there usually a period of screenshots and videos and interviews and such beforehand?

well whatever, im not complaining.

also pre-ordered

harpo

Do you not own Diplomacy? It may be that the upgrade is only for owners of Sins + Entrenchment + Diplomacy, not just owners of Sins in general (I'd assume as much anyway).

FYI, the SURVEY2010 coupon code is still active (or it was for me a minute ago anyway), so you can use that to get 10% off your order (cost me $26.95 with the upgrade discount!).

Indeed Pbhea that seems to be your problem. Exsentialy looking at teh price your need to get diplomacy to get teh discount on Rebelion. The price you ahve there is the one that was listed for rebelion alone so one could say your gettign diplo for free.

hmm 30 bucks is a steap hike from the 10 dollar expansions before it

Keey word here. Stand alone and this update is gonan alot bigger then the expansions we have. If they have 2 factions per race with each faction havign their own varian of the vanila stuff then they need to make 2 new sins games onto the existign one.