I'm sorry, I was reviewing my records and I made a mistake.   I got elemental confused with another game.   The reason for the confusion is I contacted support about it and they responded to what I said with a confirmation, even though my statement was wrong.

but its because I expressed a price that was not the price I payed.

(apparently I'm retarded sometimes.)

I went with the magical stapler of destiny, its OP , I know, but I like it!

Well.. hopefully I can get in the action.  I am fairly useful as QA.  Detailed bug reports as well and offer suggestions as to what in game items can be improved.

So now the question is - will the alpha be ready in a week?

Will there be a closed forum for alpha/beta testers? Since there´s no NDA, I´m wondering how the community will talk to the dev team.

No closed forum, it'll all be done over the current Elemental forums.

"All?" People are bound to get busy on #elemental IRC and Scott's playing with Twitter!

Seriously, though, I'd expect a certain amount of background traffic via real email and forum PMs. Or at least I hope not to see too much basic stuff about crashes on the fourms. I want general lay-of-the-land reports and 'bugs' that could well end up resolved By Design.

I can almost assure you there will be many many reports about basic crashes, and many will repeat. Perhaps not in the alpha, but when the betas hit most certainly. Kryo will likely be keeping a running thread or two with non-duplicated bugs/issues and with suggestions which is where most of us will look to keep up to date because the general forums will be swarming with the same topics

I do hope Stardock will enable minidumps very early on, and hopefully eevn the alpha, so we have detailed crash reports to send back to them - in Demigod GPG didn't enable them until very late and instead of having a file to send back with the exact data needed we spent most of the time trying to describe how and why it crashed, not very ideal.

looking forward to it!  game looks awesome, and ive enjoyed the other ones...hope to get in

Any idea if SmartException will get a rev so it works on Vista?

I don't know, but I actually just sent a PM to BoogieBac to see what their plans are as far as Smart Exception and other ways of crash reporting, with a bit of a pitch to not forget them even for the alpha.