The next phase of Alpha is: 3.01, docking and outfitting.
A phase where people actually get to test Alpha 3.0!!! He he.
But yes, in all seriousness it's trading and travelling, Wait time, who knows, standard eta seems to be 4-6 weeks per phase.
Alpha 3 is seriously broken.
Taking this approach, FD should ask all our Beta testers to load test the Elite servers / networking / p2p before the main alpha game play tests are finished. Should help speed things along I hope. You wouldn't give then any in game content but would help then feel included ahead of the Beta release.
I just feel sorry for the Star Citizen developers. They will have all these problems but with 300,000 people trying to connect at the same time! Will be interesting to see if their alpha process goes any different.
These systems almost need pre-alphas where they just load test the servers and ask eveyone to connect at the same time and then report if they can successfully get to a holding screen. There's no point trying to test game play if you haven't tested the networking.
Although with a small number of alpha testers I guess it doesn't hurt to do both at the same time for those who do get in ok.
Taking this approach, FD should ask all our Beta testers to load test the Elite servers / networking / p2p before the main alpha game play tests are finished. Should help speed things along I hope. You wouldn't give then any in game content but would help then feel included ahead of the Beta release.
Taking this approach, FD should ask all our Beta testers to load test the Elite servers / networking / p2p before the main alpha game play tests are finished. Should help speed things along I hope. You wouldn't give then any in game content but would help then feel included ahead of the Beta release.
I just feel sorry for the Star Citizen developers. They will have all these problems but with 300,000 people trying to connect at the same time! Will be interesting to see if their alpha process goes any different.
These systems almost need pre-alphas where they just load test the servers and ask eveyone to connect at the same time and then report if they can successfully get to a holding screen. There's no point trying to test game play if you haven't tested the networking.
Although with a small number of alpha testers I guess it doesn't hurt to do both at the same time for those who do get in ok.
Taking this approach, FD should ask all our Beta testers to load test the Elite servers / networking / p2p before the main alpha game play tests are finished. Should help speed things along I hope. You wouldn't give then any in game content but would help then feel included ahead of the Beta release.