My first post too - long time lurker and admirer.
I think the team has done some really spectacular work, here, and I'm eternally grateful for all the efforts.
I'm going to download the next 2.3 Windows build once it's out (Destructavator is sorting out some glitches with compiling), very excited for it.
May I make a suggestion? Perhaps a sticky in this forum that lists the things in dev which are the gap between a "finishable" game and where it is now. It seems that most people here understand that the development builds (not releases) are going to be buggy, and there's no promises of anything working at any point in time.. but it's difficult to determine from the Wiki "Todos" and things exactly what items are currently missing from 2.3.
It'll save the crap from that other thread, too, with tones like "should I just keep going around shooting down aliens" - I'm sure it wasn't meant that harshly, but I'd be pretty annoyed with it if I was a dev.
I guess, to say it another way - I played the current 2.2 release up until I got the scrolling messages, and was kind of bummed out because it wasn't "expected" on my end - I don't mean that to be negative, as I'm sure I missed that documented somewhere, I'm just saying. If we had a sticky on the forum that says "here are the things which aren't yet included which will prevent the game being played to completion", then at least clueful people (ie. most who are downloading the dev builds) will know.
Just a suggestion, though.
Thanks again for the really great work, everyone. It has been impressive to say the least!