Pre-Order Beta access instant?

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Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby Aeveron » Sat May 02, 2015 4:57 pm

Hello, do you get beta access instantly or do you need to wait for date XY. I am asking this because on explorminate they said it's instant but on the pre-order site it just says beta access with no definite time measure.

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Re: Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby Arioch » Sat May 02, 2015 7:16 pm

When you pre-order, you will be given closed beta access almost immediately. It's not exactly "instant," because it's a manual process rather than an automatic one (if you were to pre-order today, you wouldn't get access until Sven processes your order sometimes next week, because he's currently traveling), but there isn't a waiting period or anything like that.

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Re: Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby sven » Tue May 05, 2015 8:23 pm

As a general rule: If you have preordered, and do want to join the closed beta, but you haven't gotten a download link from me within a day or so-- please send me a follow up email and/or forum PM. I'm still tweaking the back-end systems used for beta registration, and if you're waiting on an invite for more than 24 hours -- there's a good chance that I've made a mistake in entering you into the system. Those sorts of mistakes are easy to fix, but, I don't always catch them immediately.

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Re: Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby Ashbery76 » Mon May 18, 2015 8:28 pm

Need to see a lot more of the game and evidence of an A.I before I put more money into indie 4x games.Sorry guys but too many shitty abandoned indie 4x games in recent years,ala Lords of the black sun.

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Re: Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby Ashbery76 » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:53 am

Do you get a steam key?

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Re: Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby sven » Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:59 pm

Ashbery76 wrote:Do you get a steam key?


We're not on steam -- the beta distribution is just a download from our server.

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Re: Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby Ashbery76 » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:41 pm

What about giving steam keys when you're on steam.

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Re: Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby sven » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:48 pm

Ashbery76 wrote:What about giving steam keys when you're on steam.


I'd like to, certainly. But, we've yet to talk to anyone at Valve, and so at this point, I can't promise that the game eventually will be on Steam.

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Re: Pre-Order Beta access instant?

Postby sven » Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:18 pm

Aeveron wrote:Hello, do you get beta access instantly or do you need to wait for date XY. I am asking this because on explorminate they said it's instant but on the pre-order site it just says beta access with no definite time measure.


As of July 6th, the preorder system does include an auto-registration hook. So, assuming all my server code is working as intended, preordering should now instantly get you a beta download link.


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