@anasfract there are quite some games that tell you that you can make real money in them, but I think that in the end that concept will ruin the idea of gaming, since people will only do content to gather in game money and try to sell for real life money, generating inflation and pulling people away from fun content and towards reward-only content.
All in all I'd say no to that.
@drfate786 if a specific date existed, they would have told us, the fact that they don't tell us depends on the fact that it doesn't exist.
That said, the Alpha should have started in February, and the team already apologized for being late, and also stated that they could not provide a specific date as yet.
So far alpha phase specific dates have been posted with a couple week advance, so if no date is out yet you can expect no alpha in the next 14 days, likely.
Again that said, inconveniences are always around the corner when developing a game with a small team, and it's sadly easy to be unable to deliver the wanted content in the wanted time, so while it can be annoying for us waiting, we cannot enforce dates from the team, because they just don't have any.
That said, Amazon delayed New World for like an year now, and further delayed alpha phases and releases every time they got close, and they are BIG, so imagine what can happen when you're not big.
The compromise is between not anticipating alpha periods, so that you won't break any promise, and trying to estimate delivery times, ending up with some failures here and there.
@anasfract taming is already planned, as far as I know, not sure it will work after a fight, and not sure it will encompass every creature existant.
Such a mechanic needs fine tuning, otherwise it could become too strong and require everybody to play the tamer to stay in par.
@Rife you rise a very good point here, and the solution is not bad.
I would extend that even more maybe, making the governor able to evict people even after city capture, maybe at higher cost the longer the person has been living there, so that if the guild grows more room can be made for new guildies, always at a cost, a rising cost.
The refugee status system is not bad actually, but something in the back of my mind calls out "exploitable!", but I just can't figure out how right now.
All in all nice job, a good point to start from! 
@Logain on that I agree, communication is fundamental everytime you need you player base to be compact and supportive.
People can endure hard times if there is good communication, Steam reviews on a lot of early access games prove how good a feeling is for players to be dealing with active and open devs, and on the contrary how damaging silence can be.
@SirAlbion the only thing I agree on is the fact that jail actually puts you out of the game completely, techincally banning you, unless you're willing to play an alt while you wait for your sentence.
It would be nice if you could do something while in jail, like forced labor, mining resources for the community, or something like that to keep you busy somehow.
That said, it's necessary to have harsh punishment on a balanced world for PvP against unwilling targets.
You can PvP as much as you can steal in RL, but if you get catched you pay for it and it is just fair.
About the invested time, when ganking you're probably "destroying" days of work for the average PvEr you kill, so it's not like days in jail would be unfair, again given the fact that you can play something somehow.
@Auromyst welcome on the forum and welcome back to the game, when next alpha will kick in...
I agree with Farlander, Steam community can be unforgiven and being plagued by a lot of bad games it can become hostile to a good one which is not polished yet.
Recovering for a bad start on Steam can be hard, better wait for better times and do a better job at being better...
@blassther hello and welcome to the forum!
I'll give you an advice that I should follow myself and I rarely do, so you can do better than I do in testing phase.
The advice is: try a lot of different stuff!
You're testing, all will be reset, it doesn't matter what you build up, what you store, what you gain, nothing of that will remain but the knowledge you gained and the trial and errors you made.
Experiment, try out stuff, start over again and again, do that thing that looks like it will end wrong and see how wrong it goes.
Assault that pro PvP player, kill people in a good environment too se how harsh the reaction is.
Try to solo that boss, and so on, the more you test on the more personal and direct knowledge you'll have for the next phase.
Jokes aside, I think the true bug lies in the fact that when you flag evil you should instantly go down to 0 karma, so you can't have positive karma while evil, so you can't be jailed with positive karma.
@anasfract I think there is a whole forum category where people are already discussing builds.
@Colt welcome to the forum!
I think this is the game for you, and for me, and for everybody actually!
As for Steam release, considering we're still in alpha and Steam community is harsh with early access games, I don't think it will happen soon.
@Ostaff some houses also have gatherable plants in them, which respawn!
@HBlaise welcome to the forum!
I'm thinking about playing some more Albion while waiting for Fractured, since the control system are similar, but I for one will not bounce much once Fractured will be released for real... 
@CoachFubar as a colorblind myself I agree on the risks of putting certain shades of red on certain shades of green.
(To a lesser extent females too can be coloblind 
)
For those of you not on Discord, I'm reporting last Jacopo's message here:
"@everyone the launch date of the Spring Alpha (formerly Winter Alpha 
) is going to be revealed in the next spotlight video premiering in 5.30h from now - i.e. 10.30pm CET! See you soon, I'll be live in the chat! Link -->
@KylarS welcome to the forum!
And in 16 days, welcome to the Spring Alpha!
