But, at any rate, looking at it in version V I see you with 63k net energy...
NET energy? I was about 30,000 BELOW. Since the penalties have been lifted in V, I do agree that would be recoverable, but with how it was in the version I was playing, I was toast.
Makes sense to me, then. I'm not sure why these are so different in the V version (my brain is a bit fried at the moment), but I'm glad it's better in this version. At 30k below, that's definitely a real bad situation. I'm very glad that it sounds like the new version will essentially be less problematic for people, then! There has been a lot of complaining about U, hopefully V will be better received; but I suppose we shall see tomorrow.