Since this is the uh, the 1st of October.....

sayith to thou devoted followers what day thous torment shall endith?

I was kinda  hoping for tomorrow, I am a spoiled, self absorbed entity from California after all.........

When will the next update be released?

When it is finished!

Are you asking me?

Do you happen to know...?

I can't say the estimate date, but it's not going to be this week.  Sorry.

asking????  sounds more like pleading, begging and some outright crying to me.

I'd imagine Paul will talk about in the next dev stream, but we'll see.

"Look at the swinging watch...

Only listen to my voice...

Your eyes are getting heavy...

You want to reveal the secret...

TELL me when will the next beta be released!"

"Bark"

"Bark?"

"Grrrrrr..."

Thecw runs aw..., eh, makes a tactical retreat.

Island Dog smiles and laughs: "Fool, hypnosis does not work on us superior AI's"

Best to practice it on ones self like I do, it can work wonders on the mind. (self hypnotism that is.)

If diplomacy isn't in by this week my Empire will abandon diplomacy and just start conquering everyone like a drengin playing a strategy game!

DARCA.

Stardock has another big announcement tomorrow, so this week was unlikely.

Howling hordes of Drengi invaders drooling for fresh meat and cheap slaves race to the spaceports. Only to arrive there to realize there are no transporters because it is still the Age of Expansion.

Screaming for blood and someone to blame for this blatant oversight, they are pointed - by a kindly thecw - toward Mormegil and his cohorts at Stardock .

Well actually the lack of information is information. 

I actually figured it will be next week. I look forward to the stream this Friday!

my guess is that there would be a opt in release late next week.  Followed by a full release later.

People have been waiting for a while. I would venture that EVERY founder and nearly EVERY beta would immediately opt in if the developers did this. 

Yep. We all stand (sit?) here waiting with great anticipation and much impatience.

BUT

Please give them the time they need to, as they keep saying, "get it right".