I've updated to the latest version of the beta and started out playing the Korx... who are great by the way.
One thing that seemed odd to me was the Space Miner. It would go mine asteroids for awhile like it should and then move on to another set to mine. However after completing only one in a new group it would say that there were no more asteroids to mine... even though there were about three more sets of 3-4 around it. The remaining asteroids were unclaimed by any other civ and not matter what I did it would not mine even when clicking on the ship and then right-clicking the asteroid. I forgot about it when some civ declared war on me and shortly after the game crashed... I hadn't save yet and lost it.
Anyone else experience this?