Hi HypoThermia, we may have to disagree....
It's a shame it took all the way from the beginning of the Kickstarter until Newsletter #18 on the 1st April to let people know goalposts were going to shift at the last minute.
There is *no doubt* that prior to NL#18, people in alpha & beta thought that 1st round beta people would be joining alphans at the *very beginning* of the beta phase, with 2nd round beta people coming in a short time later.
That is after all what was implicit in all the wording on Kickstarter, in the subsequent stores and indeed on these forums.
There is also *no doubt* why there is an 'exclusive access period':LINK.
People who backed the game to join beta testing should get exactly that, on time, for better or worse, and not modules that have been already tested for two weeks.
Meh. Consider it Alpha 4.1 or Alpha 5 leading to the Beta; Frontier would be well served to just adopt this simple distinction.
This whole discussion is a play on words and a fine dissection of semantics. Alpha supporters get first access rights to every single update, as in the definition of Alpha meaning first.
I am sure Frontier are as bewildered by this thread as I am.
