I'll remind everyone that the 2.0 Million goal of the FIG campaign promised there would be a simple AI scripting in the form of a series of simple IF THEN conditional statements or something similiar.

 

Either I'm missing how to access this in the beta, or it comes later, or the concept has been canned. I seriously hope it's one of the first two, since this was one of the major features that would vastly improve the first game. Any (official) feedback on this?

They said it wasn't ready to include in the beta yet.

They said there was features to come.

Beta isn't feature complete. Quite a few mechanics are missing.

I've watched the video, but I can't recall any explicit mention of the AI system.

I'll be cautiously optimistic that they meant the customizable AI, but they could have referred to anything, really. My impression is that they've been refering to the customizable ship and corresponding mechanics instead when they talked about a cool feature to come (not that I'd think that's cooler than customizable AI, but I'd reckon most folks would).

 

Anyway, thanks for confirming I didn't miss it.

This post (at the very bottom) has a better list for the features not in the beta currently.

Thanks; I actually read the article when it came out, but somehow missed this.

All is well then!