The title already says it: I think we should get out "Alpha" asap.
Why?
Imho, the overall state of the game is far beyond "pre-alpha", but the outside world might not see the progress we're making. Upgrading version helps us showing that things are mature enough for sandboxing. We can even set up a permanent server (with auto-save, yay!) for nice gameplay.
Lots of things are not ready / finished, but once they are - many other items will appear on the ToDo-List. If we wait until all issues are cleared, we will never release anything. Surely, it would be nice to have some serious gameplay like L&S, but that might still take a while and can still be done for "Beta".
Why not?
I don't see any reason. Do you?
Why?
Imho, the overall state of the game is far beyond "pre-alpha", but the outside world might not see the progress we're making. Upgrading version helps us showing that things are mature enough for sandboxing. We can even set up a permanent server (with auto-save, yay!) for nice gameplay.
Lots of things are not ready / finished, but once they are - many other items will appear on the ToDo-List. If we wait until all issues are cleared, we will never release anything. Surely, it would be nice to have some serious gameplay like L&S, but that might still take a while and can still be done for "Beta".
Why not?
I don't see any reason. Do you?