I really enjoy playing beta 4 despite bugs, balance issues and some features that need further development (all mentioned in other threads already). Surely this will be a great game! Very stable on my computer also, not a single crash.

One thing I especially like is that different quite serious problems can arise: Trying to manage without an important resource, difficulty finding a spouse, roaming creatures suddenly appear, an opponent blocking your way to expansion early in the game, and so on. I hope these "problems" will be in the final game, and not balanced away or tuned down too much. Such "imbalance" challenges could of course be part of the difficulty setting, if some players don't want them.