Hello there,
I'm new here and just want to voice my opinion on the topic of: to release or not to release.
I know (since I am kind of myself) that programmers by themselves just never think their software is 'finished', as they know it could be much better with just a little more effort - and they know it's littered with bugs (since every piece of software more or less is). And if it wasn't for pressure from the marketing-department, some software would literally never have seen daylight.
In the case of Aurora, I'd say, if it's only about diplomacy - I could live with some bugs there and thus have the game (call it alpha) sooner in times of curfew and all. Really running out of stuff to do here . . .
regards, Tyrell