It has been a crazy week for all of us: the Alpha release (always frightening to see someone playing an alpha version of your game), 10k Community members mark reached (and a few server crashes), tons of feedback to read and digest, and ... a game to finish.
As AmpliMath told you we are aiming at reaching one intermediary patch before reaching beta Status. Our main goal in that patch is to fix show-stoppers and add a few selected improvement in (diplomacy AI, galaxy generation, battle cards from start, Tax balance...), but we are still aiming mainly to reach beta, meaning to have all games features complete.
we'll give you more details on the version when we get closer to finalizing it.
Your new G2G vote is a bit light this week, but we hope that you will enjoy it nonetheless and we will look into tougher decisions for the next vote
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