Most of us now shouldn't expect a lot... If you have know other Inno's beta, you might knows that at the very beginning nothing is implemented smoothly, it's just a raw version without all functions.
I will give you an Idea of what should be done in short time.
Innogames usualy make the closed beta up for 2 or 3 months so it will lead us to probably middle/end of March for a Open Beta Realese.
The main Partof a closed beta is often a corrective position about all sort of bugs, and test the stability of servors only.
After a while they release the Open beta, usualy the first Upgrade, doest not include chat system, to avoid messy opinion or negative comment.
Firstly they will implement the guild and friend system to interract more in term of helping and ressouces.
Secondly a Research Players funtion will come on the map , to locate people you are from same Guild as you.
After a While, they might start to create something you have to use your Knowlegde point for... something like Bonus Buildings or something else.
When we will be in Open beta , At that time we will have to test first Elvenar Event, but that mean so far from a Country realease, and if it's same as FOE all the beta phase is without Chat, no communication at All.
Everything will take longs no a matter of days but more months, you should be tolerant, i feel also it's boring and very asceptic at the moment but our feedback and constructive critics make developers focus to make this game better in future.
Keep in mind that between now and the final version that's often a huge difference...
Beta players knows that ^_^ and are comprehensive.
I Do hope Elevenar will become a good game, for the moment it need to be improve in many ways ^_^