Thank You For this Great Game

Yes, It is a Great game, I came to trying it because it was showcased by Major Geeks (majorgeeks.com), whom I have trusted for over a Decade to be my source for previously - previewed items ( My First computer was hit by NUKES, so my second one, I searched out safer download sources : there wasn't many back then, but MG was there. )

There is the only real complaint of the self upgrade with every start....as opposed to once a day or such, I can not locate a setting for that...

Other then that, I really like this game & the forum members seem really like a really bad crowd to get mixed up with ..
Just the way I like players to be :)

Ok, I just wanted to say HI
now I got to get Murdered by a Dragon.........

I second the thank you. As an avid TA fan, I didn't think there would be an RTS to rival that old dinosaur, and then, along comes the grandchild of TA to prove me wrong. Devs have done a truly fantastic job on ZK. Kudos, kudos, kudos.

I guess adding an option like: "Do you want to upgrade now? Warning: You won´t be able to play Multiplayer if not!" takes too much time to implement or are there other, technical reasons?

quote: It is necessary to do this in order to ensure you have the newest version (otherwise you wouldn't be able to play with other people). Now the update itself could be a bit faster, but it is what it is.

As my internet can be spotty at times, Chobby's need to check for updates at every launch has sometimes locked me out of playing Zero-K all-together. I have to manually disable my ethernet adapter, so Chobby fails to update completely instead of trying to update at 0.2 KB/s.

quote: I guess adding an option like: "Do you want to upgrade now? Warning: You won´t be able to play Multiplayer if not!" takes too much time to implement or are there other, technical reasons?

I'd go for a launch option, like "$ Mono Chobby.exe --skip-update". No need for GUI-elements, and difficult to use without knowing what you're doing.

So as Google said, a Steam build would ensure you're always up-to-date so it wouldn't need to check on each launch.
Generally I don't think players should be given an easily accessible option because we really want to make sure they have the newest version (otherwise we need to check their version whenever some bug happens, and it can be non-trivial to do that if there is an infra-related issue somehow).

A command line option, or an offline-only mode is a different story, but it would take some work to make Chobby truly offline-only.

wait, would that mean if i don´t have steam, i cant update in such a case?

i do use steam to play. am i a tester? (also, it updates every evening - my subjective impression)