At first I was impressed but some of these changes aren't thought out.
Some good changes and some bad changes.

My main worry is increased lag and computer requirements. The sparse beta island sound nice but the new alpha and new buildings I can only see causing more lag. If this isn't addressed before the patch is released I can see a lot of complaints "I can't go there my FPS drops to 2!"

These modules are not required. I disagree with them. They will destabilise balance further.
Zergs of smaller robots are less effective now apart from solo ganking.

The enemy of mechs isn't light or assault robots (Unless in a gank force and these modules won't help that situation). Fitting a hit dispersion lowering modules in most cases with most weapons will not increase damage output against targets of higher threat which won't change the tides of battle.

M2S is pretty cool. I make my own NIC which is completely useless in a corporation that has everything.

It's awesome. I have a ton of NIC but they won't support me or give me robots because I am not a team player. That's totally racist or something. They say that if I contribute to the corporation that I'll get what I need when I need it and never have to worry about NIC. After all the value of NIC fluctuates more than the Norhoop kill to loss ratio. But I just want NIC! I don't care about playing the game. I am just happy to have a fraction of the NIC the corporation has because I am awesome like that. Who cares if I could get a PVP fit robot every time I need one.. Not me. Do you?

The end.

The combat log doesn't log the same message multiple times. It's annoying. The same thing happens for each time you miss a target.

It would be nice if the combat log would just log all events and not check to see if the event is already the last entry in the log.

A killboard only works when the system is automatic.
Any non-official kill-board will always be worth less than the time it took to make.

I just tried this and I can run away from and still shoot at enemies. If you want to be able to turn the camera while moving select a distant reachable tile and approach it. This frees up the camera.

Not sure why you'd want to do this when you could just press the S key and have spacial awareness or zoom out.

Personal corporation standings is a +1.

That is all we need. To be able to set our own standings not just person to person and corp to corp.