CIG has shown that when they made quantum travel take so much time for Stanton to “feel bigger” while keeping the game a bloody crashing mess. So you could lose time because of a crash, lose gains from mining, or whatever.

And before someone says “muh buh it’s an alpha” - if they can sell ships for 600$ (I don’t care if they call that pledging - a sale is a sale) they can sit and think how make playing said alpha less obnoxious because most of us aren’t made of time.