I barely played the game yet, aside of an hour at the release. I recall very fondly playing through Rebellion betas back in 2012 and discovering whats new, but IIRC it felt way more more finished already by the first beta with just TEC factions available than current game is. Thats understandable given it was built on top of polished vanilla game, which is not the case now.

Anyway, i realized in need certain level of polish for me to enjoy - i would say i would require mostly finished both TEC factions with complete unit rosters including Titans and their respective tech trees complete as well and then Options, where you could set up some things, mostly regarding visuals and whatnot. Some of the UI elements were jaggy in the first release, so perhaps it was more of an WIP UI than lack of options issue, anyway, it was one of the things that was stopping me play.

So whats the plan, where do you reckon the next update hits and when do you think the game might be in that state as described above? 

BTW i like the change of techtree to the classic Sins look in the tech preview 2, but not sure if its my ultrawide monitor, but it wont fit the screen, unlike before, i need to scroll, even though that seems to be plenty of space on screen to fit everything. If i dont see everything, i still find it difficult to navigate, even if its an upgrade over the initial version. Other thing, the those little tech "icons", which are from older game, are these just placeholders and you intend to keep them with newer icons, perhaps with more stylized look, since the UI overall changed that way, or will these stay as they are? 

EDIT: One more thing regarding surface structures, how about make some sort of animated zoom-in onto the planet surface, when you deal with them, and make them actually visible things, not just abstract icons on planets UI. Like when you build one of these, it will show up on that planet surface detail view, whole thing would be way more visual. If planet gets bombed, this stuff might be burning and whatnot. Similar to many older 4X games, say Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain, MOO2, lately Dawn of Andromeda, etc...