Test Server Present Ruleset

[Odball-1]

Not a fan of Copies. It turns the place into a playground for the bored griefers.

Moves on the other hand is ok. If the character is stripped of all non-soulbound gear on them, and in their banks, crafting knowledge wiped,(just recipes), as well as deleting all their coin.

Basically strip them naked take their money and leave them lying on the street with nothing but their levels, and skills like Otis on a bender..

[Vis]

Yeah you guys dont want it, because you want the server to be your own little playground. Only thing thats going to get tested without it, is newbie content and even then, not much of it.
But whatever, if Sigil want numbers on their test server, you know actually testing things, its only a matter of time.

[Lilith]

Good to know, thanks.

So the double XP goes into effect on the 15th at reboot then? Good, gives me time to get work done before I play.

Regarding "We do not plan to wipe any beta 1 server characters presently on test server." though...


Can you guys please, PLEASE consider wiping characters that haven't been played in a while? The lack of names is really going to turn people in this community off from playing on here. At the very least, can you offload them to storage or force namechange them?

I don't know about others, but I don't think most of us want to run around as TestCharacterThree or UberSorcWithoutName

[Gorskaul]

Vis sounds like a EQ test griefer who thinks the only thing that gets tested is high end content, but as in EQ I believe the test server is for testing the everyday normal play (leveling, grouping,and raiding) not just for testing one specific thing.


....does Vis= Sintrash from EQtest? that post just sounds too much like him, those that played eqtest probably know who I am talking about......

[Alarion]

Originally Posted by Gorskaul

Vis sounds like a EQ test griefer who thinks the only thing that gets tested is high end content, but as in EQ I believe the test server is for testing the everyday normal play (leveling, grouping,and raiding) not just for testing one specific thing.


....does Vis= Sintrash from EQtest? that post just sounds too much like him, those that played eqtest probably know who I am talking about......

Why the conspiracy theories?

Some people just don't care for how cliqued up test servers get when run the way Sigil plans to run this server. I tinkered around on Eq's test server, EQ2's test server and I noticed one major thing - while things got /bugged - very little actually got tested.

[Venti]

I actually liked the buffmaster stuff they did when the needed to test one specific area or quest. As long as they stay temporary buff masters wouldn't be a problem. My biggest problem with char copying is the downtime that goes with it, like with DAoC for example they have the server down for 6-8 hours just to copy over the characters in the queue. It could be that there were always a lot in the queue but I some how doubt it.

I agree with Lilith something has to be done about the naem on the server its really hard to get one now with out going totally random and even then I've still had conflicts.

[Alarion]

That's why two test servers would be better :P

Anyhow, they have to bring the servers down to copy characters over? I would think Vanguard wouldn't really require this, as they are using a transactional database (based upon comments made by Brad) so it's not like they load up a data file and never read it again. Live copies, if they allow copies at all, is the way to go. And like I said, there probably should be another test server for copies and (permanent) buffmasters.

[Darkmoore]

Thanks for the info!!!

[Tranao]

Originally Posted by Vis

Allow Character Copy from the release servers, or I, along with 90% of others, wont be using these test servers.

Character copies are a big no no in my book but I see nothing wrong with a one way transfer( as in nothing left of your toon on live) to Test Server as it has worked in the past for other test servers providing more good people for our server. You know those who will do this are serious because there is no going back to live.

Right now we cannot afford to be picky in turning away anyone who would like to make Test Server their home.

[Venti]

Ya one way transfers would be fine. It would cause more insentive to stay on test.