Is there a summarized list of changes? My reaction to the closed-beta verges on very negative. 

This feels less like a playtest of 'balance' changes introduced to make the 'exploits/strategies' optimized by the player base from Victor. While I appreciate that you have the tools to 'increase the Difficulty' it feels exceedingly artificial. I may try it on a lower difficulty but I only had one 10k fame game. This was after deliberately over exploiting religion. It is great that you have maths in place to do balance adjustments though. That's a point of reassurance.