@Cheweymeister, as I have already said in pms to you, I still plan to have a public alpha, which is a long long way off. Dont expect it anytime soon.
If I was to release the mod in its current state now, you would be playing on natives map, with every town and castle being exactly the same as natives, only half of the village/PoI scenes are done - so you would only be able to harvest resources on one side of the map. Natives armours, swords, bows and shields would still be in shops, looters & bandits ect are still identical to how they look in native. The sarranids and vaegir factions are still in the game. Not one single lord has been renamed (apart from faction leaders) or reequipped, the troop upgrade trees are a bit of a mess, and thats before I even start on the dialogue - every single person will talk to you like it is the medieval times before I edit it. When i release the alpha, half of these things will most probably be fixed but let me make it clear you will not enjoy playing the alpha that much, you might find the first 20 - 30 minutes or so fun but then you will find out that this and that doesnt work properly, this has still got to be finished, these troops are very unbalanced.... and the list goes on