OK Boys & Girls, for those of you that refused to go through Steam nomore excuses, the Boxed set is now avaliable, here is the link to place your orders...

http://www.egosoft.com/shop/default.asp?lang=44&cat=0

I have been having a ball even with the Steam version, (I use it offline) and I am going by the book, no cheats, it is much slower having to build my Rep and a fleet but I am really enjoying this one.