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[Propman]

Plans for military vehicles you say? These news fills my heart with great joy and happiness! Here, have a picture of an obscure Mexican landship from the Great War!

[Citizen Daniel]

That is a ridiculous, amazing vehicle.

[Citizen Daniel]

Added the first small piece of actual occult behavior yesterday, testing it today.  Sufficiently mad characters who are members of cults will now perform rituals to become fish people.  Might add some warning signs so players can react before it's too late...

[dennislp3]

sweet...will you ever expand the occult/magic stuff to be able to be beneficially harnessed by the player in any way? or is it purely a bad/challenge aspect?

[Culise]

Plans for military vehicles you say? These news fills my heart with great joy and happiness! Here, have a picture of an obscure Mexican landship from the Great War!

That's beautiful; it looks like it took a lot of inspiration from the contemporary British Marks.  I thus respond with this fine example from Russia Novyrus, the Tsar Tank.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

^{((And now, however belatedly, am watching this thread as well. ^_^))}

[Citizen Daniel]

It's very much still the plan to have cult behavior be potentially rewarding, essentially increasing the overall risk and benefit to the player. 

At the moment, they're a good opportunity to build out the core gameplay loops.  As of this point, they're food production, a loose sense of military supply and management (making guns etc), and needing to keep the characters happy (currently through beer).  This falls into the latter currently, but we won't stop there.

[dennislp3]

Can't wait til tomorrow! Already bought my early access...and I am excited to play your game...hopefully it works for at least an hour before the bugs take it over

[inteuniso]

Is it cool to put up LPs of the earliest access? Haven't purchased yet, probably will as soon as I secure funds.

[Citizen Daniel]

It would be kind of ridiculous for us to tell you that you couldn't.  Yes of course you can.  We're working to increase the variability of the events in the game currently, but there's already some interesting stuff going on. 

Some basic LP functionality still needs a bit of work.  Characters can't be renamed yet for example

[lordcooper]

Yes, but not to start.  As I think i wrote in the status page, the random terrain generation is currently locked on "lowlands with some highlands and some sea".  We're going to be blowing this out a lot, but it's not our immediate focus.

Glad to hear it'll be coming at some point

Is there an approximate time that we'll be able to get our hands on the game?

E: And how do you prefer to receive bug reports?

[Citizen Daniel]

We just posted about this on the blog

https://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/07/17/clockwork-empires-earliest-access-faq/

[Kaje]

I'm not sure if you're able to, but could you give me a run down of exactly what we'll be able to do in the game as of tomorrow?

I definitely want to pick it up, but not sure if it's worth waiting another couple of months. If there's some level of playability, though, I'll throw money your way!

[Darkmere]

If you're really unsure, wait a day or two and see, I think. They won't run out of copies and I'm sure there's at least a couple people here who can't wait to dive in and talk about it. I'll be posting... something... as soon as I'm able post-access launch.

[Citizen Daniel]

We talked about it in the blog post last week here:

https://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/07/09/the-state-of-the-empire-summer-2014/

(there's a summary at the bottom)

We have no known crash bugs right now that aren't *extremely* pathological (aka you have to do something extremely weird to cause them)

I've added just a little bit of cult stuff since then.

Our save game system is largely in flux at the moment and IF it ships for Friday it'll have a big "WARNING" on it.  (We are in the process of reducing its memory footprint which is prohibitively large.)

The UI take some getting used to, and can be initially a little frustrating (we're going to focus on that after we resolve any big issues that come up tomorrow), but I'm sure our forums (or these ones) will be able to help with questions about that. 

Other than that, you should be able to make a nice little town that grows its own food, makes some stuff, and has people that can go mad, eat each other, summon fish people, and shoot monsters and animals and each other.

The OP changed yesterday I think to include our roadmap.  That has a lot more detail on what the status is exactly.  You can find it here:

http://clockworkempires.com/development.html

[Karkov]

The UI take some getting used to, and can be initially a little frustrating (we're going to focus on that after we resolve any big issues that come up tomorrow), but I'm sure our forums (or these ones) will be able to help with questions about that. 

I don't think that will be too much of a problem for the people of this forum.   We sort of have a history of strange and Eldritch UI interaction.