They're still ages away from releasing 1.0

Relax, the dev's know what they're doing.

I'm no expert, but from what i've witnessed they're just fixing bugs with the factions one at a time, and the final balancing will be done before the release. I think they're just balancing 2 factions (Rebels and Loyalists) at a time before moving on with the next main faction. Otherwise they have to do everything in one time.

The release is less than two months away.  They really should work faster since time is at a premium.  At this rate 1.00 will only include the Vasari.

I believe i say May something on Impulse

ok thought so lol

ya know its still a bloody beta. Be happy you can even play it right now, and lets be fair.. vasari are probably nearly finished and cosmetic and bug fixes are what they are doing, no one plays their best hand too early, else what would be the point in a beta? vasari are probably gonna be released late, just because.. and who cares too many people loved vasari due to being op, and as for balancing, its not really an issue since they can easily balance tec and advent, sure the balancing will be an issue with vasari, however instead of needing to change two factions to cater 1, changing vasari will be easier as it will only cause an imbalnce in one direction atleast, not 2 or 3

If you ask me the beta is a gift to the long term fans.  Case example is how those who have been playing Trinity get $10 discounted from the price.  Finished or unfinished the beta is a bargain.

P.S.  The Vasari never struck me as the type to whine.

Actually I wish they had done it in an even better controlled more targeted manner.  Something like:

Phase 1: only TEC

Phase 2: only advent

Phase 3: only vasari

Phase 4.1(shorter phase): TEC & Advent only

Phase 4.2(shorter phase): TEC & Vasari only

Phase 4.3(shorter phase, but a bit longer then 4.1 & 4.2 as this matchup has always been complicated): Advent & Vasari only

Phase 5: All races enabled.

The point is I think the devs had a  good idea: they are essentially doubling the number of factions, so restricting gameplay to less factions at a  time initially allows for better balancing of the rebels against the loyals of each respective faction.  Like I said I wish they had gone even farther to focus on one matchup at a time.  It's really a much more efficient way of balancing as compared to having all races enabled.

As it stands even with 2 races enabled we're already starting to produces a confusing mess of unrelated feedback on the beta feedback forum.  When everyone is talking about a single faction it's easy for the devs to browse the forums to get a general consensus on that faction.  By comparison the current state of things, some threads pertain to the advent, some pertain to the TEC, and some pertain to the advent VS TEC matchup.  Combined with the wide variety of opinions and the inevitable incorrect views some testers will inevitably hold, the congestion caused by having feedback related to multiple races on the forums is likely making it much harder to sort out the good well reasoned feedback on a given topic from the less substantiated feedback.

Actually, in the current state of things it would be great if they'd give us a few subforums for feedback related to the different races.  That would organize feedback a bit.

It's a beta ... their beta, their rules, their method ... we all get what the Dev's give us; simple. Swearing, cursing, and in general 'whining' to them will not make them do what they want to do any faster or slower. Get over it, shut up, and help grind out the bugs with the rest of us with what has been released. This will ensure there is ultimately less work (fixing, patching etc) when the Vasari do get released. Constructive and helpful criticism with get you what you want a heck of a lot faster than simply throwing a temper tantrum like a 2 year old. 

He surely as hell went over the top, but in this case, he has a point, and you do not have to be a rocket scientist nor game-developer to see it, its a common logic, right? If you balance 2 things against each-other and then add third thing into the mix, any following changes may break the balance, you already achieved before.

Obviously the devs use the beta for other purposes than balancing issues, thats why they decided it to do it this way. I reckon next week or the week after we will finally see Vasari and from then up to the final release there will be plenty of time to take care of the faction balance.

Whining that all things are not enabled mid open beta process is rather fail. And it makes a lot of sense for the Vasari to be the last ones enabled as they seem to be the ones undergoing the biggest change, with consuming planets and whatnot.

They only wanted to focus on one thing at a time.

Sorry but how so, going race by race to make sure that their tech was up to snuff, and then releasing them all to see how they faired against each other. You sir are a meanie.

Probably the latter