Starbound Private Beta Going On Now, Let's Get Excited!

They already were doing beta with very trusted friends some time ago...

Tiy had to mean something, since we already knew that they were doing beta with trusted friends some time ago.

I think they will pm the ones who they like and trust in the forum/irc/where they wat to do it.

 

Probably just some trusted, real life, responsible and very close friends. Or I'm just terrible at my assumptions.

 

Testing is not synonymous with beta.

 

But then the question arises:
Why bother telling us?

 

Yeah. If they were picking people off the forums they would have made an announcement thread.

 

They're not even picking people... Tiy explained a while ago he already has a small private group that has been testing for them. It's just those guys. Don't get your hopes up at all...

 

He wasn't "telling us".

It's IRC. You talk. About things. It doesn't have to be platform for PR.

 

That's true.

If they already did some testing with trusted friends, they'll probably have the same people, so there is no point.
But there could be...

 

Maybe they're just hosting a server and giving permissions to join it. That would be the most logical solution, I think.
I mean, they don't have to give the entire game to the testers for them to be able to play in this case, perhaps just a connection thingy. Correct?

 

...You need a client to play the game.

 

Well of course you need to have the game to play it, all the core files and whatnot.
But they could recieve a special version that ONLY allows them to play on said server.

 

Eh, ah well. I was thinking that perhaps they could just give you a connecting platform that didn't include all the stuff. I suppose it is difficult to constantly send all the game info while they're playing. If it's even possible.
Don't mind me, I'm not learned in the ways of this stuff I just like thinking about it. Thanks for the correction.

 

Because that is what they want to believe. They believe it so hard that they wont stop pestering Tiy now for an invite likely, even if he got a tire iron and the rest of the devs showed up as Prohibition Gangsters with choppers.

 

I'm pretty sure I would start caring if the entire dev team showed up at my front door with tommy guns....

 

House party?

 

Other than Omni obviously.
Omni's a monkey. And we all know that monkeys can't shoot guns.

 

He can still fling poop.

 

Yes but can we weaponize that? Would that be classified as chemical warfare? Hmmm, perhaps "Fecal Warfare"

 

Biological warfare, definitely. You'll never know what potent mix of matter might be in there...

 

A gun that fires feces as a projectile?
Disgusting, but hilarious.
Eventually someone will mod this into the game, along with toilets......