Jeremy (aka Gaffer) here, with a new Beta Update for y'all.

In a nutshell: We're still frenetically adding stuff into the game; we have a (self-imposed) deadline of the end of January to get all the latest features and content in. The pace of additions has been a) great and b) painful - great because there are new toys literally every day, but painful because with huge content additions comes little enough time for our QA folks to test everything before it goes live to the beta folks.