You obviously didn't look very hard. The MO Beta forums have been up for 2 months now. If you'd read the stickes, you would have seen that all you need to do is link your game and forum accounts to get access. No wonder you didn't see anything regarding what to do during the testing, you couldn't even find the beta forum.

Initially, the beta wasn't handled very well, but once the forums went up with a built in bug tracker on the MO forums, things have been running a lot more smoothly. The initial few months of the beta were very bumpy, but in the last couple months things have been coming along very nicely imo.

I don't think the game will be fully "complete" on release, but for anyone who is interested in a good sandbox game like UO, I think there will be enough there by release for you to have a bit of fun while waiting for other very promising features. I only hope Star Vault can get enough subs to get the revenue they need to continue development.

I think the game is a lot of fun, but that could be because I'm a jaded fanboi who's been waiting for a sandbox MMO with that UO "feel" for years now... but this is by far the closest thing I've seen yet.