I am guessing the Advent will be added first, because the Vasari faction still needs a lot of work, I can play all factions already cause I modded a few files, so I know what I'm talking about.

Besides that, I think the list looks kind of like the process we should expect.

I can back up Teun-A-Roonius on this. The Vasari, especially the Loyalists, are not done. They are still missing a few things; for example, when one wants to research corvettes, you will see that when you research them, you do not see a picture of the corresponding corvette, you see "Vasari Rebel Corv" or "Vasari Loyalists Corv."

The Advent are the most polished at the moment.

I can see what you are saying. Maybe I should clarify - out of all of the factions, the Vasari are the least polished. For example, the planet bombardment animation for the Vasari Rebel Titan belongs to the TEC. The Vasari Loyalist Titan has only TEC weaponry and TEC strike craft, while using Advent particle effects.

These are a great majority of all the issues that need to be addressed before the Vasari are as polished as the rest of the other factions.

that does sound interesting=] I havent modded any files in the beta...yet=p but how are the advent voices and effects looking at this point for those that have played as them?

I know that Stardock is working on others things too....like Elemental: Fallen Enchantress... but any guesses as to when the advent will be added? (I didnt know vasari were that unpolished...I only went by what was already in the stock playable beta=p)

Yea the effects for the Advent weapons are really great. An excellent improvement over the old Trinity effects. I also like the improved phase missiles for the Vasari, though I'm not too fond of their new wave weapon effects. They need a shinier color!

I think I forgot something important related to the vasari tho....like when they are playable with some modding....why would the effects be purposely wrong? (like Yottsu said in reply 5)....i remember something about a 'hint' from the devs about something chasing the vasari in another post.....perhaps the vasari are more done in actuality than we know?=p

But I do agree with the wave effect looking not so great....the trinity one was fine, but nothing that some time and effort couldnt have improved=]

Just as a curiosity tho, has the game crashed much at all for those who have unlocked the other factions? And if so, when?

well....we got the files for all the races with the beta download....oh well

but i do think vasari having tec and advent effects is suspicious tho....since the advent, although not released yet, still retain their correct weapon effects....

....but how quickly does it crash with vasari Yottsu? 

I' pretty sure the gtreen wave effects are just recoloured vershions of the titan scale wave FX. I'm guessing they don't have the Capital ship and Cruiser scale wave FX done yet so they're using the titan scale ones as temp stand ins. The Corvette pic isn't the only issue with them eithier, they're currentlly using a scaled down enforcer model.

Also i'd bet the stand in FX and Strikcraft on the vassari loyalist is a result of early rigging test. For that kind of "can we get it in game, get it to move, and get it to shoot specific weapons from specific points" testing the FX and the like don't matter, and i'd guess at that stage only the TEC faction and FX was usable, with everything else still being converted/updated from dimplomacy. Fairly standard testing procedure AFAIK.

Yarlen said he would try to fix the repetition time on sounds when you build a massive amount of ships of a single ship type. This especially concerns the corvettes from the TEC (and Advent). Would be nice not to hear that annoying sound every few seconds...

I think there would be more fixes. Let alone balancing. There are several features no doubt will be added and some will be dropped. Is the beta timeline fair, somewhat, but I think there most definitely be either 6.5 or even the 6.1's the 7.1s. Even then I think there will also be more tests.

yeah, i think so too Ice=] I was merely guessing a general timeline and not an exact one........ tho im sure there will be .62s and .75s....only in general terms, and from the looks of it, the people want advent at the .7 mark instead of vasari=p

Mastermidge...I was thinking the same thing=p tho i dont know where any would be at the moment....=[...if you find one, let us know=]

This is Vasari Loyalists Vorastra class Titan. Taken from older "Titan Color Comparison" thread, not uploaded by me. Just for the reference,  the Ankylon is about the same size as the central part  of this vessel, from the front "maw" to that tail.

that looks amazing!!!