Testing for the next version of Empires is now open

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  1. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    ..how bout sending a PM to trickster?
     
  2. Señor_Awesome

    Señor_Awesome Member

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    Why stop there? Send a pm to everybody.
     
  3. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    Do it several times so it gets the attetion.
     
  4. Grantrithor

    Grantrithor Member

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    Report the thread for good measure.
     
  5. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    Can you actually do that as opposed to just reporting posts?
     
  6. Grantrithor

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    I don't know, I just meant reporting. Reporting the OP would be reporting the thread in a way.
     
  7. McGyver

    McGyver Experimental Pedagogue

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    Reporting the thread means reporting every single fucking post in that thread, obviously. Only real men have the balls to do it.
     
  8. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    43 pages of posts? Fuck that.


    But i have to say, after the idea was planted into my head, I had to struggle not to report tricksters 3 year old OP just to piss everyone off. I guess it wouldnt be as bad as ,say, reporting krenzos post about releasing 2.0.
     
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  9. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    I just ask anyone who wants tester access to make a post in here, it makes life easier for me.
     
  10. 101010

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    Why not just do open testing???
     
  11. Lazybum

    Lazybum :D Staff Member Moderator

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    Because you might end up with something that happened during the last test, where half the people wanted to test out stuff and figure out what could be causing bugs, while the other team tried to win. Nothing terrible about wanting to win, but the changes that were getting tested really didn't have much to do with generic gameplay stuff, so it kinda interfered with people testing out stuff.
     
  12. 101010

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    Lock testing server but unlock beta. So only set people(testers) can join. But any one can try the beta. Might get more feedback.
     
  13. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    It's closed in that you have to ask for the password. It's not even hard to get the password; you just post in this thread. Assuming that we did just make it open (and I'm uncertain if it's even possible to remove the password from it), people still wouldn't know about it unless they came to the forums. To top it all off, we've have better showing with this "closed" testing than with open testing.
     
  14. McGyver

    McGyver Experimental Pedagogue

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    Yeah, that was the reason I stopped caring about the tests years ago, they always lacked a supervising adult.
     
  15. Z100000M

    Z100000M Vithered Weteran

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    We dont want anyone to discover the extremely unpredictable passwords.



    Reminds me of one time i just barged into a pug because I guessed correctly that password as pugpugpug. It was a good day.
     
  16. Metruption

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    One day when I create a league style pug series and then reveal that you've all secretly been in a quadruple elimination bracket I'll make the passwords actually somewhat random.
     

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