4/3/13, Game is 70.172% complete.

As I suspected, there's an awful lot of content generation left.
It looks like they've got a lot made that has yet to be deployed.

Biggest tasks (with uniform weighting):
-Server functions
-Creature Generation
-Quests

Individual categories beyond those also require additional attention (Dungeon Protection, Vehicles), but those seem to be the big three.

Given the breadth of work remaining, I'd estimate June is going to be a big month for announcements; with a lot of dead air in the middle.

 

Looks like there' still a lot of major work that needs to be done, judging from the roadmap progress. Quests, NPC functions & dialogue, vehicles, plus ironing out all the various bugs.

I'd guess the release would be late Q3 or early Q4 this year.

 

I'm also guessing later this year.. It's better for the game anyway.

 

It would be cool if you could post your calculations in a spoiler

 

You should have assumed it existed, because Why not Zoidberg? Im simply hoping for a summer release though. That seems like a rather feasible release.

 

Sooooo.....

*grabs calculator, punches in a bunch of numbers*

With the current amount of time the game has been in development, the game will launch approx. 4 months from now. More or less depending on the amount of groundwork done.

 

If I don't have tame-able mobs I will grow a black hole on my body and suck everyone in the forums into it. I wanna be the very best, Like no one ever was. To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause! Interstellar Pokemon trainer here PLUS, I give about 2-3 months for a release of the beta. The core aspects should be released about them I think.

 

Beta should be on its way pretty soon.

 

Of course, the devs still have plenty of work to do.
I'm thinking that maybe, it's in its late Alpha stage around now?

 

Good to know, but sadly this number doesn't help too much. Much of the stuff that's left is pretty complex and has a wide array of gameplay effects, like the questing system and so on. It will take alot of time to complete this.

 

However, I do believe that it will be released before 2013 goes down the drain, into the history books.
They have gotten most of the more "unique" and the gameplay and items itself completed, I'm sure you'll find that it'll progress more faster than you think...

 

I thought this too. But think about it. They give the timeline "2013". That's about 9 months. He also has said he will release a beta consisting of just sandbox, no quest or story or npc village quests. Taking a look at the roadmap, you can see alot of the core sandbox features are done. SO given that, the best estimate would the game coming out 2-4 months BEFORE the end of 2013. Leaving roughly 6 months down time. So it's my belief that the beta will be released in about 2-3 months. To give plenty of time to test and play it before the game officially comes out with the rest of the content to give Tiy time to tweak before the original release. Atleast that's what I think is most logical.

 

I want to say around 60% but that's just me

 

Alpha - Playing with features with little regard for bugs.
Beta - Fixing the bugs (polishing), adding or removing features.
Gamma - Initial release.
Delta - Patching discovered bugs on release, development of additional content.

 

Basically, they are somewhere in the twilight zone between Alpha and Beta.
They still need to add plenty of new features (which have been mocked up, and are probably being implemented right now)
And they are fixing bugs.

 

Judging by the numbers, the fact that it's rougher than a gravel road, and my crossed fingers, I can easily see it coming in the next three months or so. I wonder if it'll come around the same time as the new Civ V expansion.

 

At the what? MY GOD AT THE WHAT?!?!

 

The heck happened to the post? I'll edit it
EDIT: You shall never find out what I was going to say.

 

I was awaiting with bated breath for you to fix it. And now you ruin it.

This is worse than finding out Starbound is fake...