Looks neat

No prob frogboy.  Just happy to see more info.

Wow, just noticed a minimap in the upper left.  I didn't think it need it, but for those who have it, they are at the very least giving it a try.

Very cool, thanks Frogboy.  This makes a much deeper game

Edit: Do I see a giant tower of light at the top of the citadel? 

A lot of the focus and internal debate has been on how to further increase strategic depth of the game but without making the game too complex.

Demigod's real strength, IMO, is that normal people can sit down and understand it very quickly.  I think a lot of you know what I mean by that -- you get some friends together to play X and you spend the first hour trying to show them how the game is played.  We want Demigod to be a game that people can figure out without a tutorial or needing to read the manual.

In fact, the game will NOT have a tutorial (it'll have a user manual of course that I'll be writing) we explicitly want to force ourselves to make sure the game is so intuitive that users don't have to mess with an in-game tutorial.  

The biggest thing I've been noticing in recent builds is how good the AI is.  As an AI developer, I have to say that the GPG team has really done something special here.  I'm going to come out and be blatant here: Demigod doesn't just have the best AI of any RTS style game ever.  It has the best AI of any RTS ever by a significant margin.  When you see Beta 2, I think you'll agree. (Beta 1's AI was largely  non-functional so there's not much there to look at).

Wow, more info, can't wait to see beta 2.  When is that by the way?

(was that smooth or what?)

Soooo smooth Trige. Like butter.

Not true. I can still see the portals. They are just placed differently.

I said moved, not removed.

Fun news!

First I am glad to see the upgrades in the cathedral this will be a great asset to general. However I see that the assassin has this ability as well. I understand that the code to upgrade affects the cathedral but what this does is make the assassin overpowered and unbeatable 1 on 1 against a general. What I see here is the assassin framing the general creeps both portal and spawned level up and killing the general over and over again. This is why the general should build a barracks that the assassin does not get because to balance the creeps of the general should always be more powerful than the assassin.

Yeah, making assumptions like that about balance is just stupid.  Unbeatable?  Overpowered?  Have you considered that maybe Generals' unique units are awesomely unbalanced and will crush the portal creeps, or might just be balanced?  Obviously not.  Consider both sides of the argument next time plzkthx.

Thanks for the info keep it up frogboy.