NEW IDEA

hello.i want to tell my idea about test server...

1) All Q open
2) Invertory full open
3) Open drop
4) Give us stone and ander
5) All character 50 level
6) After 3 hours on line on test server DSO close (if they make the the 4 step all player play on test and not on real server)


This is the good idea because now we help you on test server with noob character... enable us to play better and to help better. After our connection start counting down and after 2.3 hours close the game in any single player

 

Your idea isn't new mate...

Click on each word and see for yourself how much of a "good idea" it is

 

Also, we've seen what happens when BP gives out freebies on test server. Not this past weekend, but the weekend before, they were selling the uniques from this upcoming event on the test server for 5 silver so that people could easily acquire the sets for testing purposes and then offer feedback. It was a total fail. Instead of testing, people were buying the items for 5 silver and then selling them back for several gold. They then bought more and sold them too. Then they bought tons and melted them for 30k glyphs each. Then they gambled the thousands of gold that they made to get gems and andermant. Even worse, because the test server lets very few people online at a time, these "buy/sell/melt/gamble" testers clogged up the test server for the duration of the test. Then, they needed to reset everyone's stuff because they didn't want the test server to be a playground and in the process destroyed a character that I've spend almost 3.5 years cultivating on the test server. Basically, people's greed interfered with proper testing and made more problems than it was worth since almost no feedback came out of the testing. I'm fine with the way test server is now because it means that the ones that actually care are the ones that are actually testing. Plus, if everyone was LVL 50 with everything unlocked, then you wouldn't find bugs along the way.

 

And that is exactly why the test server should remain the way it is, just a small oportunity and people showed how interested they were in "testing".

 

I wouldn't mind if they made a system similar to a certain icy storm company's game that is very similar to this game. In that well known game, where there is something to test, they let you clone your character to the "Public Test Realm" and when the test is over, the server is offline. That way, people are able to test with a developed and familiar character, and the knowledge that it will all be deleted when the testing is over means that no one is going to spend too much time working on it beyond testing the content. Also, each time there is a test, your testing account is a little better since you've been improving it with your main account.

 

i got better idea when we can play with our life server character in test server like copy and paste and the minimum pvp rank is marshal..its like a visa to visit test server and the condition is marshal for that visit(only serious players to pass that condition)

 

In a game i played, before any major expansion, there would be meetings with the devs in the test server. You would copy your character there (you could do that every time you wanted), so the test could be done with all levels of characters. There, the devs made server announcements about what is going on, and what they added and asked for live feedback, you just PMed them if you saw problems etc. PMs that was not related to the topic (like whiners, "didn't drop X unique after X times" people etc.), got you booted from the test server, so only people that actually want to test and give feedback stayed.

Why do you consider PvP rank to be a factor in testing PvE events?
And why from Marshal? <sarcasm>only Grand master should do that (they are more serious then marshals)</sarcasm>

 

What single player ? There is no single player or saving option in MMO.
Or you are talking about closing the server for all players ... if so ... how can you test when something slips away or when new patch comes at TS?

You are right ... player's PVP rank at live servers is prerequisite for testing.

 

Maybe forum rank should be the cut off so that we know that it will be someone who actually offers feedback and not just go on to make videos that only have "testing" and not quality testing where they are looking for bugs, exploits, crashes, features, etc.

And for those of you who's sarcasm detector is broken, that was a joke.

 

Or maybe the shoe size?

 

Yeah, shoe... or something else , why the heck not xD ?

 

Was thinking it, but wasn't going to type it.

 

^ Ultimate tester https://board-en.drakensang.com/threads/show-what-you-have.7899/page-70#post-656633