Playing for a culture victory, the game crashed at TODO 185 after the first Drengin planet flipped. I had just flipped the last Iridium planet a few turn prior and there had been no glitch with the flips. I tried restarting from an autosave and the crash repeated.
There is also an issue with clicking cancel on a colony ship load. This happened after the UP passed a law against further colonization. I had some colony ships that popped out later and I clicked cancel when the loading option came up instead of just returning the load to the planet. It froze the game on 2 occasions but I had no problem restarting a save game.
There was also a funny Freudian typo on one of the UP decrees but I have forgotten what it was. I know y'all will catch all that stuff sooner or later. If I see it again I will try to remember to post it.
I really enjoyed playing the new beta. It played great until it didn't. Sorry I didn't get to finish, but it was already a sure win. I was looking forward to the culture win victory vignette, but I am not sure you even have it in yet. [e digicons]:')[/e]