Looked like a cheer for the top post, announcing the start of alpha.  That's how I read it.

A lot of the names I was shure were shoe in's for the Alpha have stated that they are not in it.  I wonder who DID get invites.

Sammual

Re: MOM bugs: My most memorable bug was the one where, once you finished playing, if you ran any DOS commands afterwards, your hard drive FAT would be scrambled due to them messing with the COMMAND.COM.  I ended up creating a new partition just for SimTex games, named "SIMTEX_SUX".  (Still, I did buy all their games!)

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, please, but didn't MOM run in 320x200?

320x240, I think, along with XCOM.  Certainly not 640x480.  When I first played it on a 19" monitor, I thought it was Tetris for a second.

Am I the only one who was excited to see an email from stardock for the split second it took me to realize it was just the weekend impulse buys? Oh well I have never gotten into any kind of closed alpha/beta so I was not expecting my luck to change this time.

I will be going to PAX again this year and I am very excited. Last year I was too nervous to actually talk to anyone at the Stardock booth, I just watched some games of Demigod from a distance. This year I will at least be sure to actually play Elemental, and I might even try to talk to someone!

So all of you Alpha testers get busy tracking down those bugs and gameplay issues, you only have a few weeks before those of us in the Beta will be breathing down your neck!

I have played MOM on my 30" dell. It looks like a fingerpainting - hilarious

Also hilarious is that even with gigantic pixels and ancient technology, it competes handily gameplay wise with a lot of modern stuff.

And while I'm here... I didn't make it into the alpha either it seems. Disappointing, but not very. My input is likely to be most useful (if at all) when Tactical combat is in and we can see how the strategic and tactical layers of the game interact.

Yeah, I got that mail too and was very disappoited that it didn't have to do with the alpha... ah well... all will be good when beta starts.

I'm sort of glad I did not get into the Alpha, since I'm pretty busy with other stuff and would prefer more dedicated testers than me.  It would have been cool, but I can wait for Beta.

Why not have alpha invites sent to everyone who pre-ordered?

Boo-urns Brad.

Congratulations tho the choosen ones.

Just a reminder to everyone to be checking all email sources....  that's all I can say.            

I would consider that unwise wandering into NDA breachness...if indeed you are under NDA....which I don't want to know.

Didn't they already confirm that all e-mails went out last week?