We're about one-week away from the first BETA. It's going to mainly be about figuring out what % of systems currently out there blow up on loading it (don't worry, we don't really mean blow up, it's more of an explosion type scenario <g>).  But it'll give players a chance to check out what we're doing and let us know what works and doesn't work and what direction they'd like to go.

Anyone who has an active TotalGaming.net subscription OR has pre-ordered Galactic Civilizations II will get the beta.  However, the day AFTER the beta, new peole joining will go back to pre-ordering until Beta 2.

Incidentally, DesktopX 3 was released today which is what we used to design the UI. It doesn't just let people change the look of the UI, you can move everything around, resize, etc. with it. So if you don't like the way we've done the graphics, you can change them yourself.