Chris Roberts of Cloud Imperium Games has <a href+"https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15603-Letter-From-The-Chairman">written an open letter</a> detailing the internal plans for Star Citizen for the community, revealing that the game's open development is about to get a whole lot more open. This is what he had to say:
"What if we didn't give you just an estimated date, but instead shared our internal schedule? No filter, no hedging. You see what we see."
"Whether or not to share this kind of information has been a long running debate among the team here at Cloud Imperium Games. Target dates are not release dates, and everything you see will shift at some point, sometimes slightly and sometimes wildly. The danger in doing this has always been that casual observers will not understand this, that there will be an outcry about delays every time we update the page."
"We've taken stock, thought through everything and decided that, while that is a risk, above all we trust the community that has given us so much support. The community that has let us focus our passions on this incredible project. You have allowed us to take this journey, you have tracked and followed so much of how game development works... and now we think it is right to further part the curtain and share with you our production process."
"So for Star Citizen Alpha 2.6 we're going to share our internal schedule and its breakouts on a weekly basis. These are the very same schedules we update daily and are circulated internally on our intra-studio hand-offs with a few exceptions: the individual developer names assigned to the tasks will be omitted (for obvious reasons), we'll remove the JIRA details and we'll modify the technical wording to make it readable for a wider audience, but otherwise, when something changes, slips or is completed, you will know."
So if you're excited for Star Citizen, rest assured you'll be kept up to date. What do you think of these plans?