You see one of the new things that our testers will be able to enjoy soon. The testing builds of Empires will be pushed over Steam. The rest has to wait a little longer. More updates: The vehicle customization menu was improved a bit, so new players will have it easier to customize their tanks. The warping issue with players in jeeps has been fixed. A whole bunch of beautiful particle effects was included (Thanks Empty). I'm working on extending the server side Lua support. It will both hopefully enable community scripters and the dev team to make changes and try out new stuff a lot faster. Source
I like this part of the news best. Maybe the class selection menu can also get a little polish, like making it more obvious that there are class specific skills.
SVN and Steam are quite similar. You need to put steam.cfg into Steam folder and content server has to be on when you're logging on to Steam. Bug KaneTW to set content server faster.
" The vehicle customization menu was improved a bit, so new players will have it easier to customize their tanks. The warping issue with players in jeeps has been fixed." Watch it devs, if you keep this up people might start thinking you guys actually listen to the community...