Don't know if anyone has bothered to look into the developers area, but things are coming along very nicely.
The first version of the app will allow people to move units and attack worlds, and the battle summaries will be posted to the planet's thread. So essentially, you'll have to manually handle your finances yet and build units, but then deploying them into combat is automated.
Once it's all done I'll write up some documentation about how it works - there is some tactical nuance to how to use units and form fleets for attack/defense, which I think people should appreciate.
I am going to need help creating unit specs. Anyone with gaming experience (especially CIVILIZATIONS III) that's interested in helping out, please let me know.
I am thinking that we might be able to be testing the application in February.
The next stage is putting construction, resource harvesting, and all that fun stuff into the game so EVERYTHING is in the app/game. The forum would be only for storylines and chat, I guess.
Anyway, hope there will be people around to use it when it is ready...