Is their documentation for things like Civilization Abilities? 

The Certain ability states: "Believes their philosophy should be universal, increased influence, special planet improvements." What are those improvements? How can I decide whether or not to select Certain without knowing that?

There are MANY other examples like this. The idea of a strategy game, what makes it enjoyable, is having the ability to make strategic decisions. Instead, I'm stuck making GUESS after GUESS after GUESS because NOTHING is documented.

And before you mod-monkeys chime in, I should be able to access this simple, most basic information WITHOUT having to pour over endless text files!

I'm a GalCiv3 Founder, and I am REALLY disappointed in how the consequences and implications of basic decisions are so UNCLEAR.

There are a lot of great games out there I can play. I'm going to go play some that don't make me WORK and FIGHT with them, and I'll be back to check on Crusade in a few weeks. Hopefully the game will be out of Beta by then.