Just wanted to let you know that there won't be a new beta this week.  We're in progress with quite a few additions that won't be baked in in time for the beta.

Some of this involves the diplomacy area to support new types of treaties as well as some coding to make it easier for us to do faction differentiation (for instance, we can't easily make a tech that is only available for Tarth and we can't exclude a particular race from using a particular weapon easily).

Plus, there's all the generous bug reports we've been getting in from the beta group that just take time to work through and address.

We'll be keeping you up to date with what we're working on.