Hi guys,
I've been reading on forums of people saying that we're overstating how horrible the Elemental beta is. While we appreciate that support, we don't want anyone coming into the beta that isn't fully prepared for what a real beta is like.
Most (nearly all) people are better off waiting until the final game.
The beta program is really for people who loved games like MOM, XCOM, HOMM, CIV (AND) (emphasis on AND) want to make sure that elements from those games make it into this game and that there's enough time for that to actually happen.
For example, someone already posted the idea of the first player to get one of the tech milestones get a bonus. We like that idea.
We're been combing through the forums looking at ideas and such and hope to follow up with some journal entries discussing this. But first we want to get beta 1A out (October 1) the door since there's a lot of changes there.