Hi Angus, I have completed or tried to complete every mission in SS06, SS08 & New horizons and many of the missions in the creators forum, I bet you have not managed to get the stranded ship going in mission 115 on SS06, I gave up conecting to the internet a long time ago and only briefly connected when I experienced problems after installing SS NH on my new computer but found that it was a waste of time as most of the posts (like mine) do not offer any help but just pass the buck, ie computer probs, dodgy graphics etc, are you trying to state that the people who purchased SS through Amazon are not using the software properly, THE ACTIVATION CODES DO NOT WORK, how can such a BIG error such as this be allowed, NO excuse can be found for an oversight like this, a simple fact is that if this software performed as it should then people would not complain and there would be no use for this type of post, members who dont have any problems with SS are lucky, instead of checking my (non existent) upload record check Amazon and see how many disgruntled people there are on thier review site, are they wrong or do they have a valid point, the facts dont lie, do a Google search and see the many listings for SS problems, you mention the problems on Extreme being sorted out, they should have been sorted out before the program was released, do you think that it is acceptible to purchase an item then find it needs "repairing", would you buy a tv knowing that it would need updating before you can use it properly?, I think not, also Trading Standards will be getting plenty of calls about this program as it "does not do what it says on the box" to state an old adage, it simply does not perform as it should. Kind regards, Steve.