Finally I had the time to try out the ALPHA 11.
Guys... that was cool!
I did not yet finished the game, it's only 1242AD or nearby, but I can already see a lot of differences compared to previous versions, especially in the way AI expands.
I'm playing with Hungary, got my game right and pretty early Germany voluntary vassalised to me.
Clearly, as soon as Austria came into they got crashed and absorbed in my empire.
Germany controls all the land between the Rhine and Poland, and from the north sea to Salisburg and Prague.
South of Germany there is the mighty kingdom of Hungary.
I have all the historical territory of Hungary and I conquered Belgrade (or whatever is it's hungarian name) and Raguza on the Adriatic sea.
Bulgaria is still alive and controls Thessaloníki.
France is a superpower, after hundreds years of war finally kicked-out the English from the continent, they control all their historical territory, and they have a very big footprint in Italy with Milan.
The Burgundians are vassals of France and controls a 1-tile strip of territory all along the border between France and Germany.
The Byzantines got it rough.
They are still alive but dying a slow death.
The first lost Thessaloníki to the Bulgarians.
Then they lost Patras (or Patrasso) to the Venetians.
Then they lost almost all of Anatolia due to Seljuk invasion.
Now, with Turkey spawning, they are loosing even more in west Anatolia.
Arabia collapsed long time ago and re-spawned a little after the year 1000AD ... just a couple of turns before the Venetian's crusaders landed in the holy land!
All middle-east was extremely weak, almost undefended, and the Venetians conquered it all!
From Cairo up to East Anatolia (Mus) all the map is colored with the red of Venice!
They even conquered Sinop (and gifted it to the Byzantines it seems).
Venice was soooooooo lucky to get the control of a crusade at the very moment of maximum weakness of the region.
In any other case they may not have done it (they also got very good units, not the usual crap).
The Venetians are a superpower right now:
They control all mid-east with it's valuable special resources
They colonised Durres/Durazzo, Corfu, Lemno, and conquered Patras/Patrasso and Rhodes.
Just last turn one of their ships with a settler on board approached Cyprus!
If they can found a town it's game-over: UHV for them.
I've to say that I did not do anything to block Venice.
I had open borders with them all the time and good relations.
However I also did send a settler to claim Cyprus much before them... just to be on the same side and prevent Venice from winning.
In conclusion all the recent changes are simply great, and bring a lot of interesting dynamic that was previously missing.
However it also shows the inconsistency, or better, the easiness of several UHVs.
Venice is a good case: no-one have really any interest to stop them and their targets are too easy.
Weak Byzantines makes easy for Venice to get one town in Greece, and nobody really has any interest to challenge them (they just fit in between the gaps of others).
Having at least Genoa with overlapping territorial targets as Venice may help.
Spain is rather slow in taking initiative.
The Cordovans collapsed pretty early but Spain really turtled to get any town there.
So I had all colonies. 
