Closed alpha

The starbase closed alpha(often just called CA) is the first alpha testing of Starbase and it will be the first time non-developers will get access to the game. The closed alpha will be free and will start in waves. The first wave of 100 players will be hand-picked from active and helpful community members. Further waves will be chosen randomly from all interested people. (See survey link below.) Closed alpha will scale up from the first hundred players in the beginning to hopefully thousands of players by the end.

It is still unknown when the closed alpha will start though according to Frozenbyte it continues to be soon. The community is tracking open tasks that need to get done before the closed alpha can start. (as regularly reported by Lauri) The latest number for the tasks left for closed alpha can be found on the second page of the community vvfaq document(link below). Even though a large portion of the community will gain access to the closed alpha it will still not be available to all. The first public release of the game will happen shortly after the closed alpha when the games launches on steam in early access.

The main purpose of the closed alpha is to test the game with a large amounts of people and see how it runs, while adding features for the early access phase. There will certainly be a lot of issues and bugs in the beginning which is to be expected from a closed alpha.

Discord Link:

https://discord.gg/kf2pbbv

Starbase Survey Link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1A09u3huSRkRxoA6IqcdyOi3yH7YBiybJEsHVceWbUmY