We have some good news..and some bad news.  The good news is that Galactic Civilizations II beta 2 will have more features than originally discussed.  The bad news is that it won't be available until the second week of June.  The reason for this is that Stardock is in the process of moving to a brand-new building.  Originally, this move was to take place in April as to not affect our release schedule.  But the building construction has taken longer than expected and now is going to occur right smack-dab in the middle of when we were planning on making beta 2 available.

Since the point of the beta is to get feedback and interact with the user base, we don't want to put out a beta and not be fully available to receive feedback.  Moreover, there is likely going to be some down-time as we migrate network equipment and such.  So the new beta 2 date is second week of June.  But it will be a bit further along too so there is a silver lining.

We will also be ending the open beta until Fall shortly after Beta 2's release.  So if you want to get Beta 2, now is the time to pre-order the game.