Some significant progress this week! Daymar and Levski have been removed as "testing has been completed". They will go to their home in the unreleased Pyro system that is unlikely to land any time soon, if ever.
Further great progress has occurred where the server population cap has been increased by -10 to 40 from 50! The hard work they have been putting in to performance is really paying off!
Word is they wanted to run their "Xenothreat" live event but found that the servers shat themselves, who could have foreseen it! Removing content and dropping the pop is the only way they can run the event.
Why they are running live events in an early days pre-alpha is beyond me. Oh yeah, it's because CIG now consider it to be a released and playable game.