I see arriving the alpha 4.0 in a few days. The players of the alpha 4.0 will make of videos on Youtube and this will bring some additional buyers interested by the version 4.0, the pre premium beta, and also the insurance to 50%
Alpha 4 to be released in May?
- Thread starter Astraeus
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I really hope Alpha 4 is soon. Bear in mind how much still needs to be added to the game to make it 'feature complete' on top of what we know about Alpha 4:
Minning
Missions
Galaxy Simulation
Communication
Escape pods/death mechanic
Ratings/Reputation
Ship maintenance
Bounty hunting and criminality are kind of in, but very placeholder right now.
Will all this be added between alpha 4 and the 16th of May?
Minning
Missions
Galaxy Simulation
Communication
Escape pods/death mechanic
Ratings/Reputation
Ship maintenance
Bounty hunting and criminality are kind of in, but very placeholder right now.
Will all this be added between alpha 4 and the 16th of May?
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I do not think so. The Alpha and the betas, mainly concern the essential functions of the game, and the different modules of the game will be added gradually during the alpha 4 and two betas and gamma (with updates). Because everything can not be shown before the retail release of the game. In my opinion.
If I was to guess, the second beta and gamma will be all about balancing the game and adjusting the 'flow' of the game and the first beta will be about fleshing out the mechanics (which should ideally already be in at that point)
They may have decided to start beta before all the mechanics are in place or they may have very rudimentary versions of those mechanics already ready to go in.
Possibly
My impression was that there was specifically 1more alpha stage to go it could be that after testing that becomes beta 1. They are terminating alpha purchasing on the 25 th they may waive 1 more carrot out there with an early alpha 4 release. Then again they may have thought that looked bad so have alpha 4 release after 25 th. Im expecting something earlier myself.
My impression was that there was specifically 1more alpha stage to go it could be that after testing that becomes beta 1. They are terminating alpha purchasing on the 25 th they may waive 1 more carrot out there with an early alpha 4 release. Then again they may have thought that looked bad so have alpha 4 release after 25 th. Im expecting something earlier myself.
Yes I hope they don't let us wander the entire galaxy until Gamma after a hard reset of all stats. Just give us a few stars to test around til then
That was how I interpreted it to be honest. I can't see it being a cube only 5.8 ly per side. That would be a really tiny amount of space to fly around in, and unless it was situated somewhere near the galactic core, or another denser part of the galaxy, you wouldn't be able to fit many stars into that volume.
117,000-120,000 star systems according to DB during the Scot Manley interview....
not in a 200yl cube there ain't
Probably for variety and testing scalability...
Probably for a viable trading game loop. It would be good to have a variety of goods to trade and a small group of systems to support this. Just having two systems and some simple milk run between them wouldn't be very exciting. Functional perhaps but not fun and certainly wouldn't be a good test of the trading mechanic.
It's definitely 6x6x6 light years - I asked David on twitter and here's his reply:
https://twitter.com/DavidBraben/status/455445223876087808
https://twitter.com/DavidBraben/status/455445223876087808
