Official Multiplayer and 1.0 release? "Beyond Beta"

[JG_Wentworth]

I have to admit I was a little unhappy to read that the plan was to jump from the first "Beta" release right into 1.0 as outlined by Squad in the Beyond Beta post, but I was even more bummed not to hear anything else about official multiplayer. I have to admit that multiplayer would bring me back to this game again. There is far to much to be experienced with friends and I far doing it alone feels so incomplete. I know there is DarkMultiplayer but I had decided I would wait for the official release since HarvesteR made it sound like it would be something that would come out close to 1.0, if not in 1.0 at KerbalCon.

So my question is what is the story? I was giving the impression that Multiplayer would follow as soon as career mode was done, but it seems there has been very little to no news concerning it since that announcement. It is BY FAR the feature I looked forward to the most in KSP, and I have quite a few friends who are waiting for it to come out to actually get the game. The prospect of building and working together on missions, particularly in IVA and on the same ship is freaking amazing.

Have I missed news about this or is it just not on the radar? I really hope it hasn't been shelved, since I was hoping to see maybe even a early feature with 1.0

[Vanamonde]

Quite some time ago, Squad announced that multiplayer would be one of the first things they work on after 1.0. That is why you haven't heard anything about it lately; they are concentrating on other features for inclusion in 1.0 itself.

[Rath]

Also 1.0 is NOT the end of devleopment so they will work on it after

[Chowderpat]

If multiplayer was implemented, I can see people destroying each others KSCs...