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Late afternoon, early evening are in the habits of Frontier
better take next day off
It is always a saved day, if you don't work the saturday
In the US, when the devs are located across the world the updates occur late evening/early morning from my experience.
20 more ships and a little fleshed out Milky Way, away. September is not that long into the future. But whatever comes, it will be closer to Gamma if it is not today! Or granted, yesterday. Or right now! Or you if read this after Gamma is out, thus invalidating the reasoning itself!
Okay, that turned out more complicated than it should be...
Edit: To put it in a perspective, we need new ships every week from now on, to make it to September. Time to prep that newsletter gattling gun.
Okay, that turned out more complicated than it should be...
Edit: To put it in a perspective, we need new ships every week from now on, to make it to September. Time to prep that newsletter gattling gun.
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When its ready. (I just had to)
And in its current state i dont expect it to be until october time maybe. A lot of bugs and content to sort out yet and to say premium beta is only a week away, Some serious coding to be done this week
I'd be surprised if we only went gamma in September. I mean, the growth from alpha 3-4 in a month is extraordinary, 4 months I reckon the game could be done (though perhaps not 100% bug free)
20 more ships and a little fleshed out Milky Way, away. September is not that long into the future. But whatever comes, it will be closer to Gamma if it is not today! Or granted, yesterday. Or right now! Or you if read this after Gamma is out, thus invalidating the reasoning itself!
Okay, that turned out more complicated than it should be...
Edit: To put it in a perspective, we need new ships every week from now on, to make it to September. Time to prep that newsletter gattling gun.
FD won't show all ships, only significant ones, till gamma. What's the point of spoiling everything.
Braben said he wont release it with bugs and is under no pressure to do so.
I think they will aim for anniversary for gamma release, 4 months of beta sounds kinda neat.
I really hope FD do release the game "when it's ready" rather than trying to force an arbitrary release date.
I'd rather work was done well rather than rushed as a result of an impending fixed date. I think, at the moment, a lot of games are released to a schedule rather than a quality deadline.
In order to playtest them properly, to find bugs and get performance data? Anyone going in there before the final release, is subjecting themselves to spoilers. IMHO.
With that said, I cannot know their secrets. As long as it is secret.
I think that the gamma will be released for the anniversary of Elite in September and the retail version for Christmas or the first quarter of 2015
Do not forget that during the summer holidays in July / August, the team of Frontier will be reduced. I think the two betas will occupy all summer. And at the beginning of September when the team of Frontier is whole again, they will set up the gamma for the anniversary of Elite
Michael Brookes
Game Director
Meanwhile this thread can continue to live and feed all imaginable speculations
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