Yeah they do, they're just in the kitchen.

Advent have a caste system based on psionics.

Better psionics = better position in society. Advent females tend to be stronger psionically and so it's rare for an Advent male to have a powerful position like ship captain for instance.

"Not this again" - I should be saying that to you.

Their philosophy was that if you actually paid and pre-ordered the game. You would actually care about the final release and condition not just for the playing on enjoyment. And also you never actually PAID for the game yet. You can still cancel your pre-order and get all the money back if you so desired. The final cash in comes at release if anything.

Sure a large number of us pre-ordered for beta but some for different reasons other than enjoyment primarily

See, yo pre ordene el juego para disfrutar la version beta, es muy bueno, si te gusta el juego, te gusta jugar la version bete, jugar con los titan y descubrir los nuevos efectos y graficos.

Yeah i pre order the game for enjoy the beta version, is very good, if you like the game, like play the version beta and play with titan´s, and discoverd the new effects and graphics.

Yo no tengo problemas en ser un beta tester, porque yo ayudo al balance del juego y en la version final, yo puedo jugar este juego como me gustaría jugarlo

I have no problems on be a beta tester, because i help for the balance of the game and in the release, I can play this game as you would like to play.

This is'nt the thread for it, but game companies used to have a hired staff for this.

Yes I understand the + and - of beta testers and the company involved.

Fact is your paying for early access, and they are using your access to test their game on a wide range of machines.

This is a nasty April Fools joke. I missed the Advent entirely!

So did i, which was mostly why i pre-ordered. That, and getting early access to the beta. And if happen to run into bugs that i can report and get fixed, all the better.

The strange thing is that the TEC part of Rebellion crashes on me every hour or so almost like clockwork, the Advent update didn't crash once and I played it all of yesterday till about 9.30pm (maybe 12 hours total running time!). I have gone back to the TEC (no choice really) and it still crashes just like before.

I cannot launch the game today. Anybody else?

My god people,  stop whining.  The people expressing disappointment,  thats one thing.  I get that,  totally understandable.  The people demanding it be returned,  and crying out for blood over this injustice? Need to cool it.  Accidents happen.  The Advent weren't ready for release.  Some one hit a button they shouldn't have.  Be happy you got that sneak peak at the advent,  and calm yourselves.  They'll be back in due time.

Yeah. The only bugs I saw in the Advent were very minor.  And some stuff is even better than before.  For example, on the empire tree, the Titan appears as first on the fleet.  With the TEC, The Titan comes after the cap ships.  Also the movement bug eas fixed with the advent.

I think i have to go with the calm down and take it with a grain of salt crowd here. Id love to have a "I already paid for this game, i want what i want (which is advent and Vasari)" hissy fit, but its kinda misplaced. Its thier game, and we are lucky enough to be in the beta. No one made you preorder it, and as much as i want more, i can apreciate them wanting to get THIER game right. I hope advent is re released soon, but of all of you who got the early taste, feel lucky, not robbed. I missed out on that breif mistake.

Oh waaaah.  I paid for access to a game I want to play, but it's still in beta.  Rather than simply holding my money, waaah, like most companies do, waaah, they let me play the beta before release.  Waaah.

Waaah, betas are buggy, and waaah, betas are prone to have weird and unexpected things happen.  Waaah.  So I'm going to do my best newborn with a soggy diaper impression, waaah, because they took back a version that wasn't ready for release.  Waaah.

Simply put:  If this bothers you, wait until the game is actually released.  Duh.