Why Early Access?

“ATTENTION PLEASE. DO NOT BUY THE GAME IF YOU EXPECTING THE FULLY PLAYABLE GAME RIGHT NOW.
But you should buy it if you want to support us and participate with development progress. If you're interested, please continue to read this message.

So, sorry for slightly noisy greeting, we noticed that many people have have no very good opinion about Early Access games, because some of those games is "taken money and runs" and we don't want to get a bad reputation from the community.

Right now it's pre-alpha, very early access, but we decide to open "Early Access" so early because we want to work with community. Imagine the game where you can express any yours idea and developer really listen you, gives answer and really can implement it in the game. This is exactly this game.

Please make note, this is very early access which is not very playable for now and it don't have any game goals, but due weekly updates it will quickly come to a playable version.

There is two reason why we decide to open Early Access

1. We're really like to work with community. We read every feedback which you send to us and we already got many great ideas from the discussion thread in the Greenlight. Some ideas already implemented, others will be implemented soon.
But those ideas based only on information from our development blog, but now we want to give you the opportunity to participate in the testing and to make more specific suggestions about what exactly you want to see in the game.

2. Unfortunately we develop the game without any start-up budget, so we really need some support. The Kickstarter is not available for us, besides, we don't really like pre orders, but even now Celestial Command can provide some amount of fun and due weekly updates it will become better very fast. In addition, we make a significant discount during whole early access.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We plan to finish phase of active development before Summer 2015. This should be enough to implement all planed features.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“We plan to implement multiplayer, procedural generated missions, trade between stations, relationships between factions and gathering resources from planets.

It is unlikely that interstellar traveling will be implemented, instead of that we want to fill entire star system with life.

There is a possibility that crew or planetary battles will be implemented, but we still not sure how exactly it will looks. This question probably will be discussed with community on the late phase of the development.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“ATTENTION: Now it is a very early access and the game is not very playable for now. It is more than tech-demo but less than stable, playable version. Let's call it pre-alpha.
So, buy it only if you want to support us and participate in testing and development process.

This is list of important things which is still not implemented:
Save Load
Multiplayer
Craft System
Missions

But here is a list of things you can do:
Build various ships and switch manual control between them
Fly around star system with realistic orbital mechanics
Mine asteroids for fuel and power
Encounter with random enemies and turn their ships into space garbage
Clean the orbit of debris until it don't crashed with something
Enjoy the beautiful celestial movings and tell us what exactly do you want in the next weekly update.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The full price of finished game is 16$, but during early access, the game will have 50% discount, so now its cost 8$. The price will be risen only when game will have more amazing features and it will worth its price.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“As we said above. We're consider any ideas from community and your ideas really can be implemented. You shouldn't thinking "I have a so cool idea which will make the game so great! But probably developers are to busy to listen me". Don't be afraid, we will find time to answer you. If ideas will be so many so we want be able to read them all, we will inform you, but until then, we glad to any ideas which will help us to make the game better together!”