I feel your pain. My frickin toaster only toasts when it's plugged in to the electrical grid. Dualit are ony doing this for their poxy profit motive. ThiS MuST bE FixED !!!!
Actually I was thinking of putting up a post how great the system uptime has been over the holiday period. I've had no issues at all while I've racked up a few mil, and it feels radically different from the Gamma where you could never be sure you were going to complete a mission before the system died, so +rep to the team.
Online/offline is such a sensitive issue amogst gameplayers that FD seem to stay well out of the debate, but I'm pretty sure the product is *designed* to work online, it's not a licence control issue. It's a bit like saying you want an offline version of World of Warcraft - theoretically feasible but would require a huge amount of development that could more usefully be spent adding multipayer features.