How many systems does CIG intend to have playable by the end of beta?

No idea, man. We're still in alpha. We're still building out the alpha. It's a horse before the cart thing, man. Who knows how big the company is going to be, how many resources we're going to have, how many breakthroughs we're going to have between now and then. We didn't think we'd be this close to procedural planets until well after release. That's what game development is. It's not game construction. You lay out a plan. You have to have some kind of goal and whatnot, but ultimately, there's no predicting inspiration. There's no predicting when somebody on some team somewhere is going to have that breakthrough and some part of the game is going to leap forward, or when the exact opposite is going to happen, some part of the game is going to hit a roadblock and we're just not going to be able to find an answer for this thing for some time, so it has to be deprioritized while we work on the stuff that we do have answers for. So it's just way too early for that kind of thing.

I've been seeing some of it though. Some of the Sean stuff, the procedural stuff. It's getting there. Can't wait.