We've got a ton of new features, tweaks, and enhancements in store for v1.1. For casual players, the AI plays easier on lower levels. For expert strategists, the AI has gotten a significant overhaul in tactics across the board.
We've made a ton of tweaks both large and small based on player feedback. Little things like the selected ship showing the auto pilot path it's on to bigger changes like no tech trading options, fleet managers, tons of "glitch fixes", an enhanced ship design option, and much more.
The Beta will be on Stardock Central so you'll need to grab that if you haven't already from the Downloads section.
I think people will be surprised at how significant some of the improvements are, especially for how short of a time the game has been out. We'll have a full development log put together soon. It's going to be long - longer than originally planned.
The beta won't be the full feature set we mentioned previously as we added other things along the way (streamlined economic engine, no social wastage, bunch of other things). Stay tuned! 
