You are not alone. I have had the same problem, but even more frequently than you. I play for 20 minutes then i get a total Lockup. 1 time i got an automatic reboot. Well just have to hope they patch this up soon.

I also have the same problems, it's realy shame. Kills a lot of the joy when it freezes like that.

It also forces my to stand up from the couch. ;-)

Hey Tim,

Yes, this does happen with challenges; for me it happens with every online game. In Challenges it happens quite often, but not with every game. Last night I deleted the game and the save file and downloaded it again. No problems so far but I only played the first two Challenges and not online yet.

Lockups seem to occur randomly, but I have a feeling that it was occuring when enough resources were gathered to allow both a town and ship upgrade at the same time.

After deleting the game and save file and reinstalling the crashes remain. I had three while playing last night, one multiplayer (a 4 player match) and two on challenges, level 3 medium and hard. These lockups were towards the end of each game and there was always an alert on-screen, either town upgrade available, ship upgrade available, one town to go etc. Pity, I really like this game, but this type of frustration is too much :) 

Hello, folks.

I have seen this problem on 2 separte PS3s.  Over thanksgiving I visited a friend who owned the game and the system froze on us many times through the course of the evening.  We were playing Local Multiplayer matches and it was just as likely to happen in course of a level as it was in the menu screen.  We played many different maps and had anywhere from 6 to 2 computer players in the game with us.  After that, I bought the game myself and I have been playing the challenge levels.  Luckily, the game has only frozen on me once so far, and it was as I was entering into the challenge.

I have also seen issues connecting online on the two machines as well.  We tried to join some online games over thanks giving and the system would search for the game endlessly.  Every once in a while it would find a game, connect us and drop us all in the course of about 3 seconds.  I've seen the same thing happen on my own PS3.  Also, when my friend invites me to a private game or vice versa, we are quickly told that the connection to the server has been lost.  I know there is another thread where people are talking about this problem, too.

I've been looking forward to this game since I first heard about it, and sitting down to a local game was fantastic, but not always possible.  I sincerely hope this problem is fixable.