I did some reading of what is planned for Beta and I must say it will be exciting to see it all come together.

Missions
Colony rewards
Legacy rewards
Achievements
Weekly and Seasonal rewards

Then the release of Beta cards and contracts is also quite exciting. New factions and enhancements to existing factions. New Art!!!

There are many game play features still needing implementation and testing. As stated by Elindos, there are many weeks of testing to be done yet. I agree with this and when we bring in more players, we want things to be as stable as possible. Quality does make a difference for initial acceptance. The really unique thing about Exode development, which some may not realize, it is very open to the player base. The current player base are the testers and "user feed-back" which is also unique to this project. We are having direct effect on the development process. The bugs we find are cool, but the usage feed-back is gold. Many dev teams have testers, but they are not like us, we are more random, which is exactly the best way to test things. This process alone makes the future of beta even more exciting for me because I know we helped the quality process.

I feel optimistic that things will come together and that beta will be successful in attracting some avid players.