Well, it's update time!
Yes, the forums are seriously starting to resemble the CoH.com boards. The staff is present, frequently posting responses to players' questions and staying involved. The devs are taking the players' suggestions very seriously and have indicated they're going to be putting in a number of features they hadn't thought of, which were suggested on the forums. It's a heavily symbiotic relationship. This is possible because the game was largely crowdfunded, so the players are being treated as the producer.
If anyone hasn't checked out Star Citizen yet, PLEASE do so. It's going to be a sandbox game with no character levels and open-ended game play. Players will be able to do almost anything they want, from being miners, to merchants, to pirates to business tycoons to military (mercenary/paramilitary) pilots. They're even having a RACING league ingame, where pilots in souped up hot rod spaceships will be competing for The Murray Cup Championship in both unarmed and armed (seriously!) divisions.
See you in the black!